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This morning I feel a bit like Eric Morcambe in the seminal Morcambe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn:

"I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order."

It's like I've just been shifting words around, moving things from my notes to the main text, trying to make them flow but getting it all wrong. But that's not what this stage is about – I should be just getting it all down, editing is for later.

Considering the chapter/lesson I'm working on had some of the most comprehensive notes I'm finding it the hardest, so far, to actually work on. Maybe that's the problem, maybe I'm feeling like I have to stick closely to them and it's making things feel a bit rigid while, elsewhere, it's been more free-flowing.

Ursula K. LE Guin:

"But I know that to me words are things, almost immaterial but actual and real things, and that I like them.

I like their most material aspect: the sound of them, heard in the mind or spoken by the voice.

And right along with that, inseparably, I like the dances of meaning words do with one another, the endless changes and complexities of their interrelationships in sentence or text, by which imaginary worlds are built and shared."

Listening to the "Release Radar" playlist on Spotify a piano cover of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene, Pt. 4 came on and I sat transfixed. Much of Jarre's music is truly iconic but this version spoke to me in a way the original doesn't.

Check it out here if you've got Spotify, or on YouTube.

Wonderful.