Mandy’s essay pretty much sums up my experiences with building my own website (in my case with the help of the Kirby CMS – the details of which I can unfold on another occasion). And so the process for how that writing comes together, and the tools I use to build it, are as important to me as the rhythm of any particular sentence. Writing here was never just about sharing my writing but also about building systems for that writing: systems that could enable a particular kind of writing, which may even be unique to me (or as unique as anything gets, anyway). Routines and tools do matter-not only for writers but for any skill or trade. “Questions about writers’ tools are both fascinating and repulsive”, she says, recognising the danger of fetishizing tools and in so doing procrastinating getting down to the writing itself.īut assuming we recognize that risk and take pains to avoid it, talking about our tools can be instructive. Mandy Brown has written a fine blog post outlining her relation to writing, technology and independent publishing. I thought that it might be worthwhile to write a little more about my own experiences with getting started with Lilypond in the hope that this might be useful to others interested in following a similar path. 19, 2014 18 min read Diving into the LilypondĪ few months ago I wrote a blog post enthusing over my newfound plain text/ markdown workflows and touched on a musical counterpart with a description of my first encounters with Lilypond notation software.
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