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I filled in a form for an online screenplay agency, and they requested a copy of Mindgames! They say their turnaround time is 7-10 days, so soon I'll actually know what a professional thinks of it. I've also entered it into three contests (with several more to come through the year), but it'll be many months before I'll hear anything back on any of those. Still, I've made the point to myself that I can, y'know, act like a real screenwriter and try to get the damn things to the screen.

Meanwhile, I'm 46 pages into Never After, knee-deep in the third song. After the first freakin' twelve-page opus, "The Christening," the rest are thankfully of more typical length. "Les is More," the first of Les's three self-defining solos, was really satisfying to write, on many levels. It says something to me that I find the song running through my mind, now. Still don't hear music in my head, and yet I'm concocting songs that afterwards, I find myself...being aware of. For the 90% of you who hear internal music and get earworms and all that, there's no way to describe how this is weird for me.

I'm working on "Very Merry Men," which is more of a silly throwaway song, but has ten parts, so, uh, not incredibly simple. And actually, huh, kind of challenging, writing for a bunch of gay men (not being one myself) who are trying to describe themselves without actually having any concept that they're gay, it being a fairytale universe. Overall, I'd say the songwriting is simultaneously challenging and remarkably easy. I'm experiencing the creative process so vividly, feeling so unencumbered in writing, discovering instead of forcing things as I go.