What is the process?

Again in 1 and 2 syllables words, here is my latest update:

Grouping things into suites. A few of them, if time will allow. Maybe up to 3 but I think at least 2 will be ready for the concert. I have been liking going back to playing violin as the main way to get ideas which I had not been doing as often when writing for groups. Only problem now is that I end up with a lot of voice memo brainstorms so at this point I still need to make some real choices as to what is what. But really I am getting there with a 2nd suite, I think, and hope to knock out the one that was going in my head last night and again early this morning. The first suite is from deep Covid, but today I am working on a second which also tries to follow a storyline from my life. One thing I like about music is that we can tell a story but it is still abstract. The notes may seem to outline something but they also are just themselves. They sort of stand for something and play in your mind against and around a story (if it is revealed) but the music also has its own logic. I am having fun with how the music leads me somewhere. Sometimes I have to steer it back on course if the mood is lost, but I have a feeling I may be doing more with this concept, which really started, I think, with the last big writing project I did— that is, trying to capture something about my parents’ parents lives in a piece for orchestra. Anyway, I am now trying to make choices and get a little more “planfull” with the music. I may need to start writing down some of the phrases if not more.