Hello everyone,

Thank you to the fifteen new registrations for my website last month.  I look forward to connecting with everyone.  I thought I would share a little more on my writing process. I often like to write while listening to classical music on vinyl.  Yes – there is the ritual or putting the album on the turntable or flipping it over to discover the “B” side.  And specifically with classical music, there isn’t the tempting distraction of the spoken (or sung) word.

I was lucky enough to find a copy of Curtain Raisers: The World’s Favorite Overtures at my local record store recently.  It’s a rousing mix of overtures ranging from the whimsical – Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the rousing – Rossain: Will Tell, to the dark – Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld.

Now – these are the great composers.  Without a word, they are able to bring the listener into the heart, mood and tone of the piece.  Fast cadences and light notes build into towering crescendos.  Slow, heavy notes talk of an ominous future. Slowing paces tell us that something is about to change.

I think many writers, myself included, aspire to such artistry.  To be able to capture, in just a few words, the imagination of the audience.  To be able to transport our reader “somewhere else.” At the very least, there is lot we can learn from these Masters.

Time to go.  I have to flip the record.

With gratitude

David.