As I mentioned below, the book is flowing again. A very different form emerged, seemingly out of nowhere, and its working well. The creative process is like that. You wrestle and wrestle with something, give up, and then, when you least expect it, the idea appears.
Many people talk and write about the [...]
I have always had difficulties bringing projects to completion. I get blocked by perfectionism and fear of rejection and ridicule. How many CD projects have I started and not completed? I get to a certain point and my mind just won’t focus on it anymore.
I’ve decided to be as open as possible [...]
To pull together all the material I’ve written here and elsewhere on improvisation, I need to have a clear audience in mind. One thing that’s had me stuck is not knowing for whom I want to write. In the blog version, I’ve been writing primarily to myself and a variety of real and [...]
I am totally blocked! Or I just can’t get into it. Perhaps there’s still some end-of-semester, start-of-summer-concert-series burnout going on.
Oh well, it will start to flow. Meanwhile, I watched a Bobby McFerrin DVD yesterday (how wonderfully inspiring), started Christopher Small’s book Music, Society, Education (I’ve become quite a Small fan over the [...]
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