For the children's book project, I worked several threads today: I refined the layout for double page spreads, which was simple. More importantly, I contacted an artist. I'm not sure her style will mix well with what I have in mind. Her samples were cute. I'm looking for beautiful. I haven't actually spoken to her yet. I also got the name of the president of the local art guild. I've seen some of her paintings, I think.
Another thread was the technical part. I discovered that the sound recorder chips are readily available on the net, and it will be fairly simple to put together a prototype. I also requested my elder son to write down the musical notations for me. That doesn't mean I'm any closer to done with these projects, but I'm confident that we have started.
I also gave some thought to the first sentence for my "real" book. I want to draw the reader in, convey a sense of internal division - balancing between solitude and isolation. The first is voluntary, self imposed, a quiet moment watching a sunset, for example. The second, for my character, is not so much chosen as accepted. The events isolate the character, and she internalizes that as being separated from those around her in a fundamental or even spiritual way. The contrast is the crowded small house, and the empty wider world, and the house being the more lonely of the two.
Not exactly a "sentence" there, is it? I'm still playing with it, but I will put words on paper before I go to bed tonight.
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