ideas. projects. inpirations.

AHH.
I have so many ideas that I want to see come into affect.
I'll elaborate on two.

First and foremost.
I have this idea for a piano method book for beginners that I think is kinda fun. It is a method book and children's story book mixed together. So the characters venture into this music world, and meet a bunch of characters who in turn teach them early beginner music concepts through story. It's really interesting and fun coming up with ideas, conflicts, solutions, all the while trying to pack as much theory, and creative music concepts in a long the way. It's a huge project. Slightly overwhelming as I have no idea how to get from idea to manuscript to self publishing, to marketing etc.

Right now I figure getting it all outlined, seeing if I've added every concept I want to add in the first book, making revision after revision seems like enough. Once I've outlined the whole book that way, I'll look into how I want to illustrate it and publish it.

If I look at it all at once idea-manuscript-illustration-publication it's like Mt.Everest. I just have to think small little steps. So today I outlined the "pre-reading" section. What is going to happen concept wise...as well as story wise. It's really fun when I look at it in small sections. Then I can accomplish small things.

I even wrote out a syllabus out for myself ex. what I have to finish by December 10th, broken down into three sections (now till December 10) and the sections broke down into weeks, so I can keep on track.

It's hard working from home and not getting lazy. I don't want all my ideas to go to waste, I have to do something or they will just sit there.



Anyways, that's idea number one.

Number two is more of a hobby.
I want to start my own podcast. It's sort of frustrating when you have no idea how to do that technically. I want to podcast interesting music in play lists that have different emotions and genres. I want them to be around an hour in length, and put out a new one once a week. I want to put it on to itunes.

I've been reading tons of blogs on how to upload your podcast onto blogs and itunes and such, and now it actually comes down to creating one, editing it and clicking upload. So we'll see where this goes.

ONE more idea for good measure.
Photography. I want to photograph Mission B.C in it's best light and create a series. I left Mission a couple of months ago thinking it was the worst place to live in the world for an artist, and now I'm back and I love it. It's a perfect place for an artist. So now I want the series to be a sort of, "I'm sorry," to Mission and let it know that I still like him/her and that I recognize it's beauty.