I have been FAWMing

[wyld_dandelyon]

Which is to say, participating in a fun online challenge to write songs. The long covid is better than it was, though after a week of active participation, I hit that brain fog wall. I spent my fogged-up time yesterday well, at least, reading the new Penric and Desdemona story, Demon Daughter. I love those stories!

So far I have 11 songs, though a couple are musical improvisations, and one is just lyrics (and after sleeping on it, I want to extensively rewrite it). The site lists me as having 12 songs, because I'm participating in a "comments first" challenge, so I opened an empty song up for comments and then made it private after the first five comments were more than a sufficient-enough challenge. I'm still working on that one.

I also did a drawing using the lovely inktense colored pencils my daughter sent me a few years back to be a "postcard" prompt for another fawmer. She is sending me a postcard too, and since she was bragging that she obtained postcards meant for watercolors, I'm betting that's what I will get as my prompt. I have no idea what her image and text will be. Anyway, here's a photo of mine:

[img]https://imgur.com/a/YvGsa7y [/img] (color pencil drawing of three female musicians, playing autoharp, guitar, and (short scale bass or some smaller four-stringed instrument) )

Most of my rough demos for FAWM are hosted on the FAWM site this year, but one ended up on Soundcloud, so you can go have a listen if you care to. Be warned, it is rough, this was a skirmish song, so there was no time for practicing or redos. The instruments are autoharp and rainstick.

My living room is dedicated almost solely to music these days, which makes me happy.

Edit: Either I can't remember how to add a picture, or it changed. Again. Ugh.

Comments

[msstacy13]

Sorry, I keep seeing Elmer Fudd with a hoe over his shoulder...

[wyld_dandelyon]

Fawming, fawming, all through the month we go
Making music inside and hiding from the snow!

[pyraxis]

Ooh, Penric and Desdemona. I discovered those recently too. Actually there are a couple of them as library books sitting on my side table right now. I've ended up reading them out of order, though, because the library doesn't have the first one. I need to track that down somewhere.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I've been reading them all along, having read and loved the Chalion books before Bujold even started the Penric and Desdemona books. So I was delighted to find new stories in the world of five gods. I can imagine reading them out of order, but not reading any of the rest before the first one. Wow.

[pyraxis]

Yeah, Curse of Chalion is amazing and so is Paladin of Souls. I just didn't realize until recently that she was publishing other books in the same setting and that it was an ongoing thing. Looking it up now, there seem to be more of the Penric books than I'd previously seen as well. Which is excellent, more to read.