On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:41 PM, armando baeza wrote:
I don't think Michael has the desire to become a classical composer.
A little melody with some variation would probably do with him.
I think you're missing my point.
I really don't want to learn how to compose music or write stories.
I'm just intrigued by how people who can do that do that.
I know when I paint or do graphic design, how to approach the blank
sheet, how to start, but more important, how to conceive the whole and
see how the parts can--and then do--fit together. How do others do it?
For me, to expand this discussion, anxiety in many things comes, not
so much in not knowing how to start, but in not knowing how to make
the transit to the ending. I remember taking a trip several years ago,
going to a place I knew but by a different route across poorly marked
country on dirt roads, and getting very apprehensive and anxiety
ridden because I really didn't know where I was and how I would come
out of the wilderness. I did get there, and I did know that eventually
if I kept driving in one direction, I would again get to a paved road
on the map, but that was a long 10 miles in completely unmarked terrain.
I remember a time when I was putting the grandchildren to bed and I
didn't have a book to read, so I tried to tell a story out of pure
invention ... and I couldn't think of anything. Nothing came, and I
felt very stranded, sort of like the trip across the unmarked terrain.
I didn't know how to get across the gulf of unknowing.
Weird.
So, I was asking how others get an idea and then take it to a larger,
more elaborate completion--especially writing a story or musical
composition.
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