- Slept: 00.30
- Woke: 09.00
- Screenplay pages: 9
- Coding practice: 1 hour
- Piano practice: 1 hour
Writing
I’m astounded at nine pages today. I knew I was on a role, and I was bashing through several short, sharp scenes, but when I finally opened my spreadsheet1 to note down my progress I genuinely couldn’t believe it. Again, though, I’ve not gone back over the last couple of days’ work, so I’ll probably write less tomorrow and focus on re-reading/re-writing.
Coding
I managed an hour this afternoon, making a little bit of progress, but the final exercise I stopped on today drove me potty. I couldn’t get a simple, six-line piece of code to work and when I carried on and watched the solution through it appeared to be exactly the same as mine. Once I adjusted a few of the semantics to match the example, it magically worked. I don’t mind getting things wrong, but it does drive me a bit nuts when I can’t work out why.
Music
I watched a couple of awesome YouTube videos from Pianote today, tutorials on Great Balls of Fire (waaaaaaay too advanced for me, but I enjoyed listening to some of the principles and I may try them out) and Mad World. The latter is one of my all time favourite songs that I’m going to try to learn properly now using a little bit of this tutorial and the sheet music on Musescore.
- Yes, I’m a nerd. But it helps me visualise progress and entering a value every day that I write helps me see where the gaps in my productivity were etc. ↩︎