: This is my dumping ground, a mishmash of writing, music, art, and programming. It's also my online "diary" that I'll abuse to vent my sadness/anger. Enjoy.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Made one of them tumblrs at the behest of a couple friends. Still gonna use this though, cause it's like an electronic diary that no one will read so I'm probably more likely to be freer here. Even on tumblr I'm shy :','( But I did find out that tumblr's pretty cool for aggregating various interests of mine into one site. I can follow science stuff, maths stuff, writers and their stuff, just cool stuff in general. Like today I found a music journalism kickstarter thing called Uncool where they're hoping to publish one long-ass article a week, no ads, no lists and arbitrary number reviews of 30 albums/week. Sounds pretty cool to me. Donated $38 so I get a snazzy shirt eventually maybe, and I'm thinking about writing a really nice article and sending it to them, maybe they'll be able to see past my inexperience in the writing biz and, if the article's good enough, actually publish it. And if they did that they'd pay me several hundred dollars, which would just be a nice bonus. Every so often I listen to an album or several albums from an artist and I just want to write a book about it all, point out some clever things they did, research the album/artists' background, etc. I already research basically every album I listen to, sometimes even researching each individual song. It's just really, really fun for me cause I get to find out what the music's all about and it helps me appreciate it more, and if I could write about that and help others appreciate an album, that'd be cool. Also gonna be trying to finish my short story for this writing contest, 1st place gets $800, and I could use some money. Even if I don't get 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, each entry gets a little critique sent back, which will be nice in helping me become a better writer. That's worth the $19 entry fee, I think. Oh, and I had a little thought about tumblr in general and why it's so popular, but I'll write about that somewhere else. Just some psychological explanation that popped into my head and made sense. Might be obvious, but sometimes obvious things need pointing out. Despite my lethargy today and slight depression yesterday and the day before, things seem to be rolling again.
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