Friday, July 26, 2002
This land is your land.
This blog is about writing about music in the hope that such a place can be helpful to people who want to write about music.
Hopefully, this blog can become a tool of sorts for burgeoning writers.
"Editorial" comments are purposefully minimal because this editor wants you to read the linked article and think about it. Then you go off and write your own article.
Someday, if there are enough good articles on here, perhaps with a brief explication as to why this piece works or is a good writing sample, then people will understand how that writing works, will strive towards that and so raise the bar on their own writing about music. That way, the whole world benefits (especially if you can find a place to publish).
I was just trying to dream up a place that had good samples of writing about music (what this says, why that works, isn't this a swell descriptive passage, writing about music might have a purpose even beyond selling a record, etc.) where aspiring and ready for primetime writers can stop in for inspirational fill-ups.
I've set this up because reading good writing about music (or anything else) is always very inspiring to me. Therefore, I'll probably benefit the most even if I can't rise to the occasion creatively myself.
¶ 7/26/2002 12:43:00 PM
This blog is about writing about music in the hope that such a place can be helpful to people who want to write about music.
Hopefully, this blog can become a tool of sorts for burgeoning writers.
"Editorial" comments are purposefully minimal because this editor wants you to read the linked article and think about it. Then you go off and write your own article.
Someday, if there are enough good articles on here, perhaps with a brief explication as to why this piece works or is a good writing sample, then people will understand how that writing works, will strive towards that and so raise the bar on their own writing about music. That way, the whole world benefits (especially if you can find a place to publish).
I was just trying to dream up a place that had good samples of writing about music (what this says, why that works, isn't this a swell descriptive passage, writing about music might have a purpose even beyond selling a record, etc.) where aspiring and ready for primetime writers can stop in for inspirational fill-ups.
I've set this up because reading good writing about music (or anything else) is always very inspiring to me. Therefore, I'll probably benefit the most even if I can't rise to the occasion creatively myself.
¶ 7/26/2002 12:43:00 PM
