Looking forward to April

I know for a fact that I just want to keep making myself and my works better. I want to go beyond what I've been doing. In music, maybe that will be more complex and richer harmonies. In poetry, I could envision myself utilizing weirder imagery and 'interesting' words. In physics, I already know that I will be doing something with some complicated mathematics that's beyond my understanding. With the new month coming up, I want to gather my thoughts into something concrete and tangible. Hopefully in this way, I actually could do something.

Music: I want to definitely try something new. But at the same time I want to complete my already existing projects. I am still very drawn to Bakunawa and I'm sure I'll come around to finishing Odi et Amo if I feel like it. I could see myself writing an original piece to be played for strings, or some other interesting instrument. I've been playing around with the pentatonic scales, and I'm absolutely still enthralled with the Chinese pentatonic scales. Perhaps I should write about that...

I also love the idea of seeing my work being performed live by a chamber or an orchestra. Maybe even a choir. Am I ambitious? Yes. But that's only going to drive me further into my goals. I'm likely not going to achieve that in one month, but last I checked, it doesn't hurt to dream.

Poetry: The goal would be to find my name in the content list of Starling's upcoming issue. That has always been the dream since probably 2022. Maybe the two year wait is the charm... Oh, I want to try and submit to Mayhem again. And try Overcommunicate for the first time. But in saying all this, I haven't even begun to write or compile a set of poems for my submission. I really have to get on top of that before April 10. Besides Starling, I want to see more of my work in Tarot. I would love to be a regular contributor to the very first magazine that accepted me.

Physics: If things go well, I will be doing an academic poster for gravitational microlensing, which I will be presenting at the end of the year. This is really exciting for me because I've always wanted to work with or in the realm of astronomy and astrophysics. But if I were to work in that field, I'd definitely need some working knowledge on Einstein's theory of general relativity (which is notoriously hard). I've downloaded pdfs to introduce myself to gravitational microlensing, but dear God, the mathematics in this is atrocious. I think I'd need to download other pdfs to introduce me to the mathematics used in this subject. If I end up self-studying for general relativity, I might kill myself...

They say that the best measure of understanding content is when you can explain it to someone else in basic terms. Perhaps I should try that out in this new month. Post a little more regularly what I'm learning and try and break it down. That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea.

Literature: At some point, I'm going to move out of the 30th chapter mark, right? My draft has been sitting in the depths of my folders, waiting to be written on but I pretend that I'm too busy to bother. The story is still so fresh in my mind that I'm both driven and weary to continue on. I've been reading some tips and advice that Instagram offers for first-time writers, and I'm just eating everything I could read. This coming mid-semester break, I'm going to bounce between writing poetry and fiction and studying for both physics and mathematics. This is going to be fun...

I'd also try and track my progress by making posts about it. But before I do that, I should start by bringing it to the public's attention. It looks like I'll be dabbling with TikTok soon. That will be an interesting course of action.

Miscellaneous: I want to drive more traffic into the website, so I'm going to be more active here and on Instagram. I'll be posting more content for anything that I can think about. This will include poetry, music, physics and my upcoming novel (which he says pretentiously). I think I should repurpose this website into something multi-faceted, just to include all my interests and works.

Also, I bought A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I would like to finish that and see what the hype is all about. Oh, and if I finish that, I could do a book review? That sounds truly exciting!

I also wouldn't mind dabbling in prose. I've always been interested in writing in other mediums - why should I limit myself to just poetry? Writing in prose could open up a whole bunch of opportunities for me. I cannot say what, I myself have no idea. But still, the possibilities are interesting to me. Watch this exciting space!

Ok, so it seems writing it all down makes sense, but there's so much to do! I really thought there'd be nothing to write, much less a whole bunch of paragraphs. I don't know how much of all these I could achieve in a month, but trying them all out is doable enough. Just like the Aprils of the other hemisphere, this could be the month when I plant seeds, watch them grow and harvest the results at the end of the year.