Art that asks to be created
When the inspiration comes, you know the time has come. If excitement follows easily, then you just follow it.
If it doesn’t, quiet your mind and ask what would make you feel just 2% better than you feel right now.
Kee doing that until things feel good. Do what feels good so long as it’s done with good intention and the ability to look honestly at yourself and the world and the results of your actions.
Life should feel good.
I don’t know why I haven’t made an audiobook version of “Confessions of the Damaged” yet (text version avaiable here with HBD). An audiobook didn’t excite me for a long time. It felt like a lot of extra work and I didn’t know if anyone would be interested. I had already done the exciting part, writing the novel.
Eventually I felt pulled to make these short music videos with excerpts from the book. They serve as a kind of trailer for the book:
Confessions of the Damaged 1.1 TRAILER - The Breeze 1
Confessions of the Damaged 1.1 - Ebook TRAILER - The Breeze 2
Confessions of the Damaged 1.1 Ebook TRAILER - The Voice of the city
At this point I thought about making an entire art video version of the novel slowly slowly one chapter at a time, but after a fee videos the excitement faded and so I put thr idea to rest and focused on a Japanese translation, but I ran out of money to pay a translator and GPT didn’t do a good enough job so I put that idea aside as well and went back to focusing on music.
Now the possibility to translate it has opened again and for no reason it all it got me excited to record an audiobook version of it. I’m not sure where people get their audiobooks, but I will try to put it up anywhere requested and offer it on my own for download.
Today I started recording. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Part 1 of the story is 6 chapters long and should take another 7 or 8 hours to record. I plan to do 1 Chapter a day and upload it sometime in about 2 weeks. Books 2 and 3 will take a lot longer, at least 20 hours in total but if I slowly record it I can upload one book a month.
It would be nice to have a Japanese e-book and an English audiobook available by August!
This will be great progress for the yearalong with my first music EP being released a few months ago, getting back to playing live shows and getting @tentententen’s yarn shop up and running.
Still music is the priority now, mostly live music. I also plan to book a show for next month in addition to the two flea markets we have booked to sell yarn.
Even though the monthly income is still lacking I’m starting to feel that I can spend as much time with music, writing and other art as I spend on what is typically considered my job.
If I can continue like this and travel more I won’t be the least bit dissatisfied.
I’ll continue to let my excitement guide me! At times it feels things might get a bit dangerous, with fewer and few safety nets, and more and more uncertainty in the world, but I played it safe for far too long, and have almost nothing to show for it.
Meanwhile, everything else in my life seems to be coming together. Every year is better than the last. What more could anyone really ask for?
I’m walking my path without regrets.
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