I started the month off well -- my plan was to write a draft of about one song a day for the first two weeks, and then clean up each two-week old draft for the next two weeks. It went faster than I thought. By the time I went to work on the first day of February, I'd finished my first draft. This would eventually become "Patience," track 6. On the second, I wrote "Regret," track 2. I took a break for the weekend, and wrote another draft on the fifth. Each draft that I completed was uploaded to RPM's Sample Engine, so other groups in the challenge could take a listen and give me some feedback. An RPMer by the name of Mr. Glide noted that this third piece was "achingly wistful," which sounded like a great title to me, so I used it. At this point, I was thinking about a theme for the album. I had the album artwork; my own photos taken of Gasworks Park would do well for the cover and lining. I already had a title for one song (track 3, Achingly Wistful), and I was thinking a lot about mapping emotions to colors. * WARNING: Technical thinking below. * You see, colors have a hue, a saturation, and a brightness. (Google for HSV if you want to see where that comes from.) Hue is the shade of color (is it red or blue?), saturation is the amount of color (fire engine red or gray-red?), and brightness is where it stands on the line from black to white. I thought that hue could represent the type of emotion, saturation could represent the strength, and brightness could represent the g