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Dec. 2nd, 2013 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretI hit 50K in NaNoWriMo on Friday, shortly before sundown. I was not really racing the clock, since I had Saturday evening as my backup, but it was nice to have that secondary deadline as a safekeeping. I am unlikely to ever touch This Novel Takes Place Entirely in the Kitchen again, but I am glad for the writing exercise. On to Yuletide, which is a lot of fun.
I spent Saturday night at a last minute NaNo marathon, watching several people fight their way over 50K, which was a lot of fun. I started doing NaNo because of the writing exercise, because I wanted an excuse to force myself to write a lot of words and to tell stories that I'd been keeping inside. But I keep doing NaNo because of my local community of amateur writers. It is so much fun to hang out at write-ins, and to anyone who has ever considered doing NaNo, I want to make you aware of the support network available to help push you off the fence. They've kept me laughing and smiling through the month of November.
I also want to make people aware of this, because Amazon sent me a promo about it and I literally ordered it thirty seconds after I got the promo: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NBS5NE
It's the complete Haydn symphonies for less than 25 dollars. That is a mindboggling deal. I once paid fifty bucks for a box set with about thirty of the Haydn symphonies, recorded by Neville Marriner and his Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra, and accounted myself as having gotten a bargain. Even though I ordered the set a couple days ago, I keep going back to the page and pinching myself to make sure I didn't make a decimal place error. Reviews of the performances on amazon are a little mixed, but the opportunity to hear symphonies I'm not familiar with and just get a sense of the parts of Haydn's catalog that I have overlooked is exciting even if these are not the finest interpretations of these pieces.
Haydn wrote more than a hundred symphonies, and I count at least a dozen of them among my favorite pieces of classical music to return to again and again. The variety, the humor, the emotional feeling, and above the power of an orchestra to sing together in a Haydn symphony is rivaled by only a very few things in the classical canon.
(Other music purchases taking advantage of amazon discounting for the holiday weekend included Kanye's newest album and a Norah Jones album I'd missed. Sometimes I look at my music collection and wonder how all of it ended up in the same collection)
I spent Saturday night at a last minute NaNo marathon, watching several people fight their way over 50K, which was a lot of fun. I started doing NaNo because of the writing exercise, because I wanted an excuse to force myself to write a lot of words and to tell stories that I'd been keeping inside. But I keep doing NaNo because of my local community of amateur writers. It is so much fun to hang out at write-ins, and to anyone who has ever considered doing NaNo, I want to make you aware of the support network available to help push you off the fence. They've kept me laughing and smiling through the month of November.
I also want to make people aware of this, because Amazon sent me a promo about it and I literally ordered it thirty seconds after I got the promo: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NBS5NE
It's the complete Haydn symphonies for less than 25 dollars. That is a mindboggling deal. I once paid fifty bucks for a box set with about thirty of the Haydn symphonies, recorded by Neville Marriner and his Academy of St. Martin in the Fields orchestra, and accounted myself as having gotten a bargain. Even though I ordered the set a couple days ago, I keep going back to the page and pinching myself to make sure I didn't make a decimal place error. Reviews of the performances on amazon are a little mixed, but the opportunity to hear symphonies I'm not familiar with and just get a sense of the parts of Haydn's catalog that I have overlooked is exciting even if these are not the finest interpretations of these pieces.
Haydn wrote more than a hundred symphonies, and I count at least a dozen of them among my favorite pieces of classical music to return to again and again. The variety, the humor, the emotional feeling, and above the power of an orchestra to sing together in a Haydn symphony is rivaled by only a very few things in the classical canon.
(Other music purchases taking advantage of amazon discounting for the holiday weekend included Kanye's newest album and a Norah Jones album I'd missed. Sometimes I look at my music collection and wonder how all of it ended up in the same collection)
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