I took a break from everything for the last couple of weeks. Didn’t touch the instrument (violin) until the last couple of days, let myself rest after the mad rush to get the revision of Mancunian Waltz finished. (It was only a mad rush because I wanted to keep the momentum going. I feared that once I let it slacken, I’d stall again.) It felt good to take some time off.
Play Ethic rehearsals begin again this week. Today, in fact. Our new program is Scandinavian music, and the performance is on March 3rd at a new venue for us. We are playing:
- Grieg, 2 Nordic Melodies, op.63
- Nielsen, Little Suite, op.1
- Sibelius, Kuolema: Canzonetta, op.62a
- Svendsen, 2 Icelandic Melodies
- Svendsen, I fjol gjaett’e gjeitinn (variations on a Norwegian folksong), op.31 (I can’t find a YouTube for this one.)
I’ve also been feeling the itch to write again, and since I really wasn’t wanting to dive right back into a massive project again (like Friends and Lovers, my 2009 NaNo novel that needs a complete rewrite, much like Mancunian Waltz did), I decided to work on a revision of my second 2010 novel, Of Love and Coffee. That was my 50k word novel that I wrote in nine days, that I thought I hated, but on re-reading I think it’s not so bad. I have it on my Kindle (I bought myself a new graphite Kindle Keyboard) and am going through and making notes. I’m resisting the temptation to expand and throw more into the story. I want to keep it short and simple, mostly just to prove that I can. So I hope to have it finished by the end of March. And then I’ll delve into the rewrite of Friends and Lovers and hope to have that finished by the end of the summer. Then I can come up with something new for November this year! I really hate that I have nothing new to add to my W.I.P. list after last November. I don’t want to do that again! 
