Most of my day is spent sitting before a computer, typing out words or running mathematical models, and that’s just my day job. It’s good work, and I can’t complain about not having to perform back-breaking labor that ages me prematurely day in and day out. Nonetheless, with so much time spent sitting, particularly when including my more stationary ways to pass the time like reading or writing or video games or tv or movies or … you get the gist …, I unsurprisingly find the need for movement. And not just movement of the sport kind (which I love), where movement is in the purpose of getting from point A to point B in a fun fashion while often incorporating a ball of some sort, but also movement of the creative kind. To that end, I’ve been taking a class at the local Colorado School of Lutherie to build my own acoustic guitar. It has been immensely satisfying to say the least. Seeing a guitar form from bits and bobs of wood shaped by my own amateurish hand into something that could fit in on a store rack is great stuff. Highly recommend. The shop and all its instructors are fantastic. I’ve posted a picture from this past week’s class below. Now I wonder if I could someday make a lute. Would be very appropriate to the fantasy world I’m writing for my next novel.
That’s all for today. Looking to increase my frequency of posts by including shorter ramblings. Most will still be directly about whatever science fiction or fantasy story I’ve consumed of late. But others will be like this. Taking a cue from John Scalzi’s Whatever blog I suppose.
All the best,
M. Weald
P.S. At about 20k words on my fantasy novel!
M. Weald 