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Music Notes

by Amethyst Angel 🌼

Rated: 13+ · Book · Music · #2313403

A blog about music from my unique perspective (also a spot for some poetry I’ve written)

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

This is the poem which earned my blog its first ribbon, courtesy Brian K Compton ~ 30 years ~

"Renewal"

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Given by ripglaedr3

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Date Awarded: June 25, 2024

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

ⱲєbⱲitϚћ is 18

Jul 7, 2025 at 3:20pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 9"

I like background music. I'm one who works well with something going on in the background. If not music, then a radio talk show is playing. It takes the boredom out of washing dishes at least. I even write with some "noise" in the background. It helps me to concentrate.

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StephBee

Jul 3, 2025 at 10:28pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 10"

Wow, I got exhausted just reading your post. On a more serious side, I feel much like you do. I'd say: "It's the 16th, I'm almost out of time!" It sounds like you've accomplishment a lot - my Kudos to you! Thank you for blogging with Webbie and I for the Bard's Hall Blogging Contest!

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Amethyst Angel 🌼

Jul 3, 2025 at 6:56pm
In response to "Bubbles popping"

Ninja's United!

Nah… I’ll need to get used to juggling an iPad and possibly actually learning to type. It’s sheer laziness mostly, and it’s easier to hold a phone in bed than a tablet

I’m fortunate that wasn’t my “calling” phone, just my “scribbling“ one. Hope I didn’t sound overdramatic

Ninja's United!

Jul 3, 2025 at 6:27pm
In response to "Bubbles popping"

Sorry about your phone. would you like one of us to steal borrow another one for you

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🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

Jul 3, 2025 at 3:48pm
In response to "Bubbles popping"

Hope your phone issues can be resolved!

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ⱲєbⱲitϚћ is 18

Jun 28, 2025 at 4:20pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 10"

Wow! Look at all the work you've done this month! Congratulations on all your writing projects throughout June. Especially joining in on the "The Bard's Hall Contest"

Blogging month!

Good job!

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Jeff

Jun 28, 2025 at 11:02am
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 10"

Congrats on finishing "Musicology Anthology"

(and so many other writing projects)!

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AmyJo-Moving day's soon here

Jun 28, 2025 at 7:50am
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 10"

Wow!!!

What a busy bee you are! I am exhausted just reading your achievements. Good for you! You are an inspiration~ Whereas I've to deal with the perspiration of checking stuff out. Keep up the good work, and enjoy a few days off before the next adventure begins...

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ⱲєbⱲitϚћ is 18

Jun 26, 2025 at 2:31pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 8"

It's too bad your boss at the Christian charity workshop, turned so nasty when you were able to return after a month out due to the Covid rules. I guess it made him so angry that it happened, he took it out on the employees.

It's always a good idea to keep up with cursive writing. These days the youth don't even bother anymore. I like the fact that they probably need translations for handwritten notes!

I'm guilty of not hand writing much. But, years of overworked fingers and hands led to arthritis in those joints which makes it difficult.

Great music themes to get your creativity up.

Thanks for sharing!

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ⱲєbⱲitϚћ is 18

Jun 25, 2025 at 1:20pm
In response to "The Bard's Hall, June 2025, Entry 7"

How cool having a Raggedy Ann and And MB commissioned. I can't wait to see it.

Also, wonderful that you placed in the Shadows & Light contest.

I don't know how you keep up with all these writing activities and contests.

Fantastic!

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July 29, 2025 at 6:42am

#1094309

Looking for Positives

Over at my friend's forum, "Jack's Hideout"

, I mentioned that I should write an update to the top of my blog, since I left off on a frustrated and negative note. So, a quick rundown of what I've been up to...

I spent the first few days of July in a panic, because my old LG phone stopped responding to touch properly. It was my constant companion, the device I wrote nearly everything on for the last three years or so: journaling, blogs, poetry, stories. Using my "active" phone for writing is out of the question because of battery and data concerns. Which leaves me with... An iPad. An iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard, no less.

One might wonder why I hadn't already been using such a seemingly luxurious tool for my writing. Well, I don't know how to type. I can't drag an iPad everywhere with me to write in my spare time, and it's harder to prop up and poke at in bed at night. Plus, the larger screen is harder on my eyes, even with all the optimization features activated. Also, I'm afraid the more I use the iPad, the more likely I'll drop it or damage it or it'll stop working somehow. I've had it since 2020, when I won it in a sweepstakes connected to a research study on greeting cards. I daresay I haven't used it nearly to its full potential over the years.

With all that being said, I managed pretty well this month after all. I transferred Google Docs and Google Keep to my iPad and started using it regularly, eventually establishing new writing habits and learning how best to focus my screen time. By the end of the month, I'd written about 3400 words of stories, five Promptly Poetry entries, a 700 word prose poem, and seven private Google Keep notes, which each have some unknown character limit. Not bad for finger jabbing at a horizontal tablet screen, more often than not when I should be sleeping. Plus, I was able to ship out dozens of my exclusive MB when it dropped, a delightful experience I wasn't expecting. I even celebrated my second WdC anniversary.

So, knowing that I can accomplish my writing goals reasonably well with an iPad, even under a dismal pall of heat induced brain melt and a decided lack of inspiration, is a comfort. I pressure myself to meet or exceed deadlines, and the Rhythms and Writing story took me so long to get a first draft done, I was getting rather dispirited. Now, having all my writing goals out of the way, I can look back and realize the month went better than it felt like it did. I still plan to squeeze out an edit, rewrite, or second draft of the R&W story, because someone left me an insightful review that pointed out what I already knew instinctively about the plodding tone and flat dialogue. I've challenged myself to fix the issues before Max Griffin gets to reviewing it, so he can't point out the same things!

All in all, this was quite a month, and I'm glad it's nearly over, but I'm also satisfied with what I accomplished under some rather trying circumstances. I started the month of July, 2025, on a negative note; I can now say I'm ending it on a positive one

Words: 560.

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