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Advice for writing about music.
IronOxide:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 04 Mar 2009, 17:09 ---Fuck, two hours ago I went into this thread with the exact opposite intent: Do what Mark Prindle does.
In retrospect I am glad I didn't do it after all because it's a terrible idea for anyone that isn't Mark Prindle.
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After wading through that insufferable shit, I would not recommend that style for anyone, Mark Prindle or otherwise.
Fishboy:
--- Quote from: Rez on 03 Mar 2009, 17:30 ---I'm doing an English degree at Oxford, so it'll be fucking fantastic to escape from the intellectual wankery I have to encounter on a day to day basis. Would anybody recmmend trying to keep to a specific word limit when I'm writing? Is this a good discipline to stop me going into "write everything I know" mode, or should I start doing this when I've got a taste for it?
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A wee bit off topic, but have you ever tried screenwriting? I am not sure about the community where you are but the whole attitude of screenwriters here in Australia (S.A. specifically) is so much less pretentious than most others types of writers (in my experience), they are also a lot more supportive of each other than novelists and the like. For television writing at least there are many opportunities for young screenwriters, provided you go to a producer rather than a network with your screenplay. But yeah, try writing a short screenplay to see if you can abide the style required, there are a lot of very intelligent, surprisingly humble, magnificent bastards in that industry.
Johnny C:
mark prindle's style is good for anyone comfortable with the knowledge that they don't get a lot of things and will be wrong all the time
Johnny C:
Practice 300-word reviews. When you get good at those, start relaxing your word counts. Get longer as you get better at it.
The most important thing in a review is saying what you want to say about the album. Begin by learning how to do that well and move on from there.
Thrillho:
Actually Johnny, I'd suggest going the opposite direction. Most publications and websites seem to have mostly 100-odd word reviews. I'd say learn to write 300 and work backwards.
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