Three hours. Three hours without stopping to drink water, to go to the bathroom or even to stretch. Just writing. Chasing the ideas as fast as I could get them from my head into the computer, wanting to stop, forcing myself to stay with the inspiration for as long as it lasted. It lasted much longer than I expected, My brain feels numb now. But it felt like I wrote a symphony for a second when the ideas finally slowed.... .... Then I look at what I wrote (on the computer) and I see that it's just over one minute in duration. -----what? wait..... really? Three hours of concentrating as hard as I can equals one minute of results? ... Well, using that equation, I guess I'll have a finished tune after another 15 hours of writing or so. Give or take an hour. Problem is and always has been that I have no idea when the inspiration will come again and if I'll be near my computer when it strikes. I'm happy and grateful that I was able to write music, but I'm feeling daunted by the process now. I feel like I need a new way to think about it so that I don't get discouraged by how long it takes me to write music. .... . First though. Sleep.