From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I find it absolutely impossible to count hours spent composing, especially since, as has been pointed out somewhere, so much of the composing process looks like goofing off.
Funny remark, but true. There is a lot of thinking, tinkering, doing, RE-doing, walking away from it, diverting to a computer game to clear the head...oh wait, I'm giving away the magician's secrets.....
And how do you account for the progress you make as you sleep, when you wake up in the middle of the night to see the perfect way through some difficulty that had been resistant? I realize that bill-by-the-hour professionals like lawyers have midnight epiphanies, too. I bet they don't infrequently tack
on another 15 minutes at least!
And then there's the "walking through the mall with your piece running through your head" random breakthrough, and so on...
One could argue that EVERY hour from the time you start a piece to the time you end it is somehow spent musing over it. Sure, it may only be taking up 15% of your brainpower at any given point, but (at least for me) composing is more like *living* with a piece than paying it a visit every now and then.
------------- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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