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Advice for writing about music.
Rez:
I'm starting this thread under the assumption that some of the people on here have some experience of writing about music, whether it be for personal blogs, or whatever. I'm considering some kind of music journalism as a career, and want to start writing reviews etc to see if I'll be any good at it. So, before I make time to start doing this, is there any advice that any of you could give me? Any pitfalls that you yourselves have fallen in to that I'd do best to avoid? Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated.
Dazed:
Avoid being a pretentious twat. And don't use "(band)-esque" too much.
Rez:
Done. The "esque" thing is already a pet peeve in mine. As is "(something)-goodness".
Scandanavian War Machine:
avoid over-wrought, verbose descriptions about minute things unless it's really really necessary and you have the literary chops to back it up and not sound like a jackass.
"the cymbal crash two minutes fourteen seconds into track three resonates off into the distant, rocky alps of your mind while your ear shoots ejaculate all over the Dhali Lama as he pounds a drum made of unicorn hide. also, Loud Reed is there and he tells you about the time he rode on the back of giant bald eagle to the bottom of the sea, because obviously he can breathe underwater."
^don't do that, basically.
Catacombs:
--- Quote from: Dazed on 03 Mar 2009, 16:09 ---Avoid being a pretentious twat.
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Pretty much this alone will get you far.
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