Whilst I was looking through my creative writing notes on my reMarkable, looking for something to write about, I came across my initial scribblings for the poem "Angel" and the fact that I'd highlighted 4 lines in the poem as being (like) a chorus. This got me thinking about when does a poem stop being a poem and start being a lyric for a song? Maybe the threshold isn't clear; maybe it's about rhythm or change of voice, or something else. I wrote about it in the latest Ode Map post, which is a look at the poem and what it is about it that makes it feel like there's a song in there somewhere - "Poem: Angel"

On the more professional side, I wrote a piece about generalists (and specialists) in the world of business, and how it's important to recognise the need for the former, as well as identifying who those people are in your organisation and nurturing them. See "The Case for Generalists"

On Thursday, I jumped on a call with a client and a potential marketing partner. Very interesting. Can't say much (NDAs abound), but I was impressed with the offering. We have a debrief next week to review follow-up documents / case studies.

On Friday I did a bit of creative discovery - trying to come up with a band name.

Rather than stare at a blank page, I looked through the lyric ideas in my knowledge base, along with thinking about the musical genre, the type of atmosphere I want provoke, the kind of images I want to provoke. With that in mind, I then came up with words & phrases and plotted ideas, mood-board-like, in my reMarkable tablet.

I spent a lot of time discovering that almost every name I liked is already either a band name or a song name or an album name. And whilst there is a history of bands taking their names from the song lyrics or song titles of previous artists, I didn't particularly want to be associated with Rush (doesn't align with my music), which was one of the links for one of my initial band name ideas ("Clockwork Angels").

Other names that didn't make the cut include:

• Petrichor
• The Space Between
• Void State
• Digital Liminality (bit of a mouthful), and
• Liminal Zone

Anyway, I have decided on the name (for now - who knows how I'll feel about it after a few days). And, no, I'm not disclosing it here. I want some anonymity with my musical output. Or maybe I just want to distance myself from my (possibly unwarranted) fear of bad feedback.