I haven’t been able to carry my laptop to work this week cos I pulled a muscle in my lower back on Sunday and it’s only just getting better, but I was feeling really frustrated today and so had a stab at pushing forward with the new psalm regardless – and guess what?! It’s not too horrible! About to pull it into Finale and maybe I’ll continue on tomorrow a bit too. Had a couple of replies to my question on the spnm forum today too, one of which suggested that I try a bit of melodic dictation to improve my aural skills. Not a bad idea, that.

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Interesting article on publication/self-promotion. Just have to follow that up with reading the full version online now, and then to participate in the forum discussion. Very very interesting and relevant. Also identified a couple of competitions I could potentially enter with pieces I already have…

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