I'm bad at math

Even though I originally told Mr. C that it would only take about three months to get first drafts of all the major songs in the show, I just remembered that it took me about NINE months to do the same for "Tragedy!" so I'm not too surprised that I'm five songs and two weeks behind schedule.

I tend to work in bursts of creativity- in the last burst, I finished four of the songs to be sung by Roderick and/or William. I'm hoping that the next burst hammers out the female songs, which are turning out to be the hardest by far, mostly because I think I've wasted all of the prettiest melodies in my head on satirical songs.

Every now and then I'll listen to what I consider to be a beautiful song: the "Moonlight Sonata," "Memory," "On My Own," "Falling Slowly," and many others... and my reaction is much like the listener's reaction at the start of this musical. It just seems so simple. Frustratingly simple. Part of me feels like if I keep trying out combinations of three to five notes at a time in random intervals I'll eventually hit on the next effortlessly gorgeous tune. I doubt that's actually true.

Ahh well. Like Edison, I'm finding the 999 ways that something doesn't work before the light-bulb turns on. And as always, nothing beautiful is simple.