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    • 3. Abortive Attempts
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  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
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    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
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June 10, 2026

Ugh, another shinyperfect.

June 10, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Ugh, another shinyperfect.

In which I expose the false promises of the ‘shinyperfect,’ that bane of creative minds throughout the universe…

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& Zine
shinyperfect, Abortive Attempts
June 08, 2026

FAME!

June 08, 2026/ Dale Lyles
FAME!

In which I muse upon fame, and my lack of it…

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Audience
June 05, 2026

Fun Friday Resources

June 05, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Fun Friday Resources

In which I offer you some resources that are too totally useful…

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Resources
Steal from the Best
June 01, 2026

More about that Dorico

June 01, 2026/ Dale Lyles
More about that Dorico

In which I vent further frustrations with Dorico’s “percussion” “map” and the ways it is even more confusing than the multiverse’s usual concept of a “percussion” “map”…

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Composing
Abortive Attempts
May 28, 2026

Task Avoidance Update

May 28, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Task Avoidance Update

In which I list all the projects on which I am accomplishing nothing…

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Proposed Efforts
Task Avoidance, Steal from the Best
May 26, 2026

About that Dorico

May 26, 2026/ Dale Lyles
About that Dorico

In which I give feedback to Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH about their flagship software, Dorico…

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Composing
Abortive Attempts, Steal from the Best
May 20, 2026

Perfection

May 20, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Perfection

In which I invite you to think about humans…

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Creative Spirit
May 18, 2026

A long-lost piece resurfaces.

May 18, 2026/ Dale Lyles
A long-lost piece resurfaces.

In which I discover a piece for band that I honestly had not listened to in over 30 years…

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Composing
Steal from the Best
May 11, 2026

About that terrible, horrible, no-good musical...

May 11, 2026/ Dale Lyles
About that terrible, horrible, no-good musical...

In which I celebrate one of the worst, most beloved pieces of art ever to come my way…

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Cecil Project, Composing, Failure
Abortive Attempts, Steal from the Best
April 13, 2026

Excited? Sure.

April 13, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Excited? Sure.

In which I prepare to move to the next project…

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April 13, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ 1 Comment
Composing
Abortive Attempts
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  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

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