Writing music is hard. I love doing it but I have yet to write a piece where I did not have significant writer's block. What I often do is wakeup early and spend an hour or so working on a piece before starting work. I have been writing and playing music for a few years and it is still hard each time. It really is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration. Enough so that I stopped and wrote a blog entry about it.

So there's been a little bit of interest in the music I wrote for Zendcon in '09. Some people liked it, some didn't. I remember reading some of the Twitter posts on the wall and feeling a little nervous. The sound guys played it more up-front than I was expecting. I had no idea that they were going to turn it up the way they did. It wasn't that loud (according to Kevin's reckoning ) but I was expecting it to be background music. So the fact that I wasn't chased out of there with pitchforks made me glad.