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Aug. 26th, 2023 08:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI am getting quite good at the piano and I'm not sure if it's because:
a) I am no longer required to practice it
b) I have abandoned the neurotypical notion of practicing in one long bloc of a couple of songs over and over, which was what I hated about practicing as a kid
c) I am playing more personally interesting things (early 20thc popular songs and Mozart)
d) My brain and fingers are inherently smarter because I'm older
e) I have cumulatively acquired enough piano knowledge that the learning curve has gotten steeper, like it's an exponential curve
Probably a combination of all of the above. Although I'm still a dunce at my Romantics book, which is just ... very very difficult. Tempted to get a Classical or maybe Baroque Schirmer book, though.
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Hoping to finish my short story for the Pull of the Tides anthology this weekend! It is only a few steps away from OFMD ... So you have my initial Sweet Damsels genderbend concept, which is about two steps away from canon (due to the gender changes requiring a lot of implied backstory changes), and then my AU where Stede leaves home on her own without getting the Revenge is another step or two away. Then this is like an AU on that with a) a bit of magic and b) more tweaked characterization. I have no regrets, unless the story gets turned down for the anthology, in which case I will have several regrets, but maybe someone else will take it.
a) I am no longer required to practice it
b) I have abandoned the neurotypical notion of practicing in one long bloc of a couple of songs over and over, which was what I hated about practicing as a kid
c) I am playing more personally interesting things (early 20thc popular songs and Mozart)
d) My brain and fingers are inherently smarter because I'm older
e) I have cumulatively acquired enough piano knowledge that the learning curve has gotten steeper, like it's an exponential curve
Probably a combination of all of the above. Although I'm still a dunce at my Romantics book, which is just ... very very difficult. Tempted to get a Classical or maybe Baroque Schirmer book, though.
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Hoping to finish my short story for the Pull of the Tides anthology this weekend! It is only a few steps away from OFMD ... So you have my initial Sweet Damsels genderbend concept, which is about two steps away from canon (due to the gender changes requiring a lot of implied backstory changes), and then my AU where Stede leaves home on her own without getting the Revenge is another step or two away. Then this is like an AU on that with a) a bit of magic and b) more tweaked characterization. I have no regrets, unless the story gets turned down for the anthology, in which case I will have several regrets, but maybe someone else will take it.
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