The front of the book, the back of the book, the computer and writing. I wrote only recently that I used to write creative stuff at the front of my notebook and work and business at the back. Then I found I was writing mostly at the back to transfer the completed, creative work to the front, until I stopped writing at the front altogether. Wondering out loud how this change took place, K.K. advised me that I was putting off finishing things so writing from the back to the front was a kind of displacement. I have a feeling she may be right because the stuff that does get completed ends up here (see picture) on the computer, typed up. And I find that typing up scraps and notes and ideas forces me to confront what I am doing so I can at least get a complete draft of pieces I am thinking about. So the new part of my writing discipline is not to sit with notebook and pencil but to take the notebook and pencil to the computer to type. Sounds very simple, I know, but blow me down, it works and I have already completed two pieces I had lying around in scraps and pencil drafts, one of which is called, Help Me Carry This Load (to the other side of the road) - a song I began in Majorca, fully worked out with tune, bridge, middle eight and chorus but no complete lyric, well now... I now go back to Iche-go-Iche-e which I explored last week; (9) Express usefulness through simplicity. And the idea that, 'Often we complicate the simple to impress and we fail to simplify the complex out of fear that others may know what we know.' I love this piece of music, I stumbled upon it when I bought a CD of Trumpet Concertos in a charity shop (just out of curiosity):
