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Hey Dets, I’m in a bit of a pickle and need some advice on continuing a story that burned out, especially if the original idea for the story had me like “Yes, THIS” Is there anything I can do while including “taking a break before continuing” because honestly, that advice doesn’t work for me.

As always, my advice should be taken with a huge dollop of salt on top, because I suck at advice, Nonnie. I will try my best. Here we go.

Read your own earlier work. Don’t edit. Just read it.

That’s what I do, every so often, and it DOES help me to keep on chugging. 

I go right, RIGHT back – sometimes from the beginning, sometimes from one of the earlier chapters in which no ‘big important’ event happens (like ch9, or 13 or something). On occasion it sparks more ideas for where I’m going next. It definitely helps me find more consistent character journeys by tracing them all the way from the beginning.

And it never fails to bring back the feeling of what it was like, back at the start, when I was full of tumbling ideas and words, all fighting for a chance to get out and onto the page. That’s a good feeling, and not a bad one to recapture.

the broadbeam cradle song made me too goddamn sad in a minor key, so i was thinking about transposing it to major. then i realized how much of an undertaking that would be, and i’m not really sure where to start. do you have any advice? (i know the dwarves probably sing in minor most of the time because they have sad songs, and for the heartbreaking moment it was for the cradlesong should be in minor, but i feel like lullabies can be in major? idk)

Hey Nonnie! Yes absolutely lullabies can be in a major key! Tons of the most famous ones are, after all! This tune came to me in a minor key, is all 🙂

Yeah, sure! Here we go, a long answer/ramble on turning the main tune of the Cradle-Song from D Minor to D major. Not sure how much notation you can read, so I’m gonna go with pictures, and solfa, and sorry in advance if I am wordy and a bit of a drag.

The original key was D minor. It has just the one flat, right there in the key signature. The scale goes like this.

D  E  F  G  A  Bflat  C  D

The flat means that the note has been lowered by a step (a semitone).

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D Major, however, has two sharps. F# and C#. 

D  E  F#  G  A  B  C#  D

A sharp means that the note is RAISED by one step (a semitone). 

IDK if Solfa helps you more, but here’s another way of looking at it for you. In Solfa, these two notes would be here, in D Major (the ones that are bolded):

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

(We’d also have to raise ‘La’ a step, jsyk – it was the previously-flattened b-flat in the Dmin scale, but that’s not applicable to this tune bc I don’t use it!!)

So, if you raise ALL the ‘Mi’s and ‘Ti’s in the song by one step, you end up with something that looks like this:

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(yes yes, musos, I know I could have put them in the key sig instead, but this is more visual I guess. I dunno. It’s easier to see the sharps!)

Now, lets throw the words back on top of that. 

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And that sounds like this:

Broadbeam Cradle-Song – D Major (mp3)

Ta-raaaaaah!

Sansûkh

seemseamingly:

Sansûkh
by determamfidd  

Lord of the Rings~The Hobbit/Incomplete/Chapters: 46  Words: 518,318  

The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors.
The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youngest kinsman, a Dwarf of Durin’s line with bright red hair.
(Follows the story of the War of the Ring).

(Bagginshield, Gimli/Legolas) In which recovery takes time, the dead members of the Company take to watching Gimli as though he’s a soap opera, the living struggle with being left behind, Legolas is confused, Khuzdul is abused, and Thorin is four feet and ten inches of guilt and anger.
//  
Oh, where to even begin with this one. An epic retelling of the Lord of the Rings, beautiful writing, in depth exploration of middle earth culture, ships everywhere. It’s no wonder this is one of the most well known fics in the Lotr fandom.

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thank you so so much!

Sansûkh

(your music is so lovely and wonderful and every time i am just destroyed by feelings. this has been/will be a doozy of a quarter for me, and sansûkh and your songs give me hope, and strength. thank you.)

*hugs you tight* So damned sorry to hear it’s a hard time for you at the moment, Nonnie. You’re pretty hecking amazing to be slogging through that rough stuff. You’re in my thoughts, okay? I hope you get the chance to do something kind and gentle for yourself every so often. 

Glad you like the music! And doubly glad that it helps. It’s my thing 😉