I started out yesterday and I edited the first 25 pages of Stof en Schitteringen while sitting in the garden and in the train on the way to Amsterdam for a night of booze with friends. And I just finished page 25. I’m completely in the zone at the moment.
There’s no page that goes without scratchings and scribblings from my red pen so far.
I’ve just printed page 26-50. Onwards and onwards.
Let’s be brutal. Let’s kill my darlings.
So instead of editing, I’ve been plotting tonight. Not for a new story, because I have one of those in the workings of my mind as well (still need to write that out somewhere, I have this whole prequel thing in the Crystal world with grandpa and grandma Lentan scribbled in my notebook) but for a complete overhaul/re-write of Shards. It’s fucking terrifying to flush 50K through the toilet, but I REALLY need to work on the gaping plotholes the size of Texas before that story goes anywhere.
So I thought up a new concept tonight, I worked out what I wanted to keep (a couple of plot points) and what to burn (the fucking rest of it). It still needs a crapload of work and I’m sure that at some point I’ll look back on what I’ve written down in my writing journal tonight and laugh my ass off on how everything deviated spectacularly, but that’s okay. That’s how writing goes (and that’s why writers drink, by the way).
Anyway, I’m off to bed because, Ascension Day tomorrow or not, I’m starting to get very incoherent.
Sweet dreams everyone!
Band: If These Trees Could Talk
Song: “Left To Rust And Rot”
Album: “Red Forest” (highly recommended anyway! It is brilliant)
Genre: post-rock
Why: …if this is the sound of rusting and rotting, then the whole world can rust and rot for all I care.
I’ve been listening quite a lot to If These Trees Could Talk’s latest album, “Red Forest”. And I love it to bits. I’ve already recced “The Barren Lands Of The Modern Dinosaur”, but that’s just one of the three songs (out of nine) that aren’t just awesome, but brilliant. This is one of the others. ITTCT rocks my world both from a listener and a wannabe musician’s point of view. Because yeah, the guitars, of course. Yeah, the melodies. But did you also have a good listen to the drums? These guys aren’t afraid of some double bass to prove a point. And the bassist? Is also far from idle. Even though I play a (tiny) bit of bass, it doesn’t happen very often that I pay close attention to the bass in a song. With this band, I definitely do. These guys don’t take the easy way out and I love it. It’s a bit heavier than the usual post-rock, but not in an off-putting way (as if it ever could for me, metalhead as I am). Even MetalSucks loves the snot out of them. They call it post-metal, haha. “They walk a blurry line between post-metal, shoegaze and space rock, creating dreamy atmospheres punctuated by shimmery distorted guitars and pocket-driven, laid back yet powerful groove. This band is fantastic, and anyone with an open mind is going to love them.” – that sounds just about right, I think.
If you want to download their stuff, or give them money for it, (I’d go for both– they fucking deserve it), then you can check out their stuff HERE.
Anyway, sorry about all the music stuff lately. It’s all music and writing on my mind the past couple of weeks. But you know…? I love it. It’s full of awesome and I just adore losing myself in it. Not as an escape, because I’m pretty happy in general these days, but as an outlet. Of awesomeness.
So there. 
Filed under: Journal, Music, music recommendation
