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Advice for writing about music.
Caspian:
A few simple rules:
No song by song reviews.
Avoid pretentiousness (has been mentioned, needs to be repeated).
"Elitist", "Open Minded" <-- words of that ilk automatically make a review horrible.
Keep your articles/reviews between, say, 200 and 1200 words. No one likes stuff that's short unless if it's really clever, no one likes stuff that's long unless if you're really good. If you've only just started writing chances are you're neither.. so, keep it relatively brief.
If you find that you're decent at writing, whore yourself out to a few lower level webzines. You'll get free promos and a tiny bit of e-fame. Cheap, easy, and sometimes fun.
If you're an indie kid, please don't write about metal. Please.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 07 Mar 2009, 03:19 ---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.
--- End quote ---
What online publication has a word limit?
Thrillho:
The ones I've written for, and most websites have a kind of non-official limit of 800 words max, but a lot of other places have shorter limits. Most I've written for have been 300-500 depending on what you're writing about who.
Caspian:
The ones I write for have no word count, at all. I've never heard of one with one, actually.
Thrillho:
A lot of websites could use one. Or a shorter one.
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