So I've let six months go by since my last post. There's a reason why I wasn't a section editor with editorial deadlines for very long. No, I never missed one of those deadlines, but I don't think I'm cut out for editorializing on a regular, frequent basis. At least, not in print.

The three women script is temporarily on hiatus while I work out some things in my head with the storyline. Meanwhile, I've been playing music, doing a little traveling (which was a tremendous help to one of the other scripts I'm writing - nothing like actually visiting a place you've written a scene about), and now writing some music.

My partner decided to write song lyrics and asked me to write the music. I have almost no experience with this: years of piano lessons in elementary school, self-taught guitar in high school plus two unfinished songs written during that same time, one semester of music theory in college and a piece of jazz music I wrote on a lark about ten years ago.

I gave myself a refresher on music theory courtesy of several websites on the Internet, have done basic chording for the four sets of lyrics I've been given, and fired up the Notation software I purchased about ten years ago when writing that piece of jazz music. I was grateful it ran on Windows Vista but had to order a cable that to covert MIDI to USB since the midi to serial/parallel (can't remember which) cable that came with my keyboard years ago won't connect to my laptop.

Next, to put the chords I've written into the Notation software, flesh out the melody and add whatever embellishments it needs. I promised to have at least one song done by this Wednesday. Well, done in the sense of a first draft. I promise to post on my progress.