Random Music Talk LXXIV: No witty reference, but at least it's not Cobbler?

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Rather downbeat for the first new music in 10 years, but it does pick up nicely.

Certainly not going to help sales.

Younger people aren't going to give a shit.
 
lazarus said:
Rather downbeat for the first new music in 10 years, but it does pick up nicely.

Certainly not going to help sales.

Younger people aren't going to give a shit.
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I don't think the 65 year old man was going to come out with some big Ziggy-style guitar rocker, right?

This works.
 
Oh, sorry guys, I didn't stop in Random first, didn't realize you'd already been talking about it :reject:
 
His voice sounds so rich. Perfect for the song. Spiders from Mars type shit, yeah, probably not so much.
 
Finally got around to reading the 2012 Pitchfork readers poll. It's a trainwreck, as one could imagine, but the Best New Artist section was the low point. It's stunning how ignorant their readership is. Frank Ocean? Tame Impala? As bad as the fucking Grammys.
 
My novel is complete! 390 pages, 102,000 words. I don't think I've ever spent more time on a single project, but it feels good to have it finished. Now to take a break from it from a month or two and come back to find that it sucks so I can edit it properly.
 
Congrats, LeMel! That's super fantastic whoa. I've got so many projects right now that I can't imagine any one of them being finished, so I'm very impressed with that. You sought out anything with publishers yet?
 
Thanks Bonster, Cobblepot. I'm taking my last day before the semester starts up to read up on where to go from here. Whether to seek out an agent or not, if self-publishing is worth a look, that sort of thing. The advice I've found most consistently is to start on another book in the meantime because it could be a long wait. That's cool. My goal is to get this thing to a fully-edited, publishable nature by June. Hopefully the people reading it will find some crazy plot holes and inconsistent characterizations in the meantime so I know what to fix. 6 months from now, I don't want to be thinking "oh yeah my first book, the one I wrote in one go with hardly any editing is totally perfect as is lololol," only for a publisher to respond with "wtf is this?"
 
LemonMelon said:
The advice I've found most consistently is to start on another book in the meantime because it could be a long wait.
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Precisely. Once you start querying agents (and you should, when the first book is as polished as it can be) it's good to have a second book nearly complete as well. They may like your writing but feel they can't sell the first book, for example, for whatever reason (maybe they just don't like part of the story, or a character, or whatever) so it's good to have something else you can show. And it's just good to keep writing.

How awesome that you finished it. :up:
 
LemonMelon said:
My novel is complete! 390 pages, 102,000 words. I don't think I've ever spent more time on a single project, but it feels good to have it finished. Now to take a break from it from a month or two and come back to find that it sucks so I can edit it properly.
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A grand achievement.

Congrats, sir.
 
Hopefully the other songs are better than the lead single, or I will do a "sleeper" while listening. :wink:

Dropped my dog at the vet's to be neutered this morning. Felt horrible leaving him there. Since he has no idea what was coming, he was excitedly jumping around with the vet techs thinking he was there to play. I'm sure he'll have a far different attitude when I pick him up...
 
LemonMelon said:
Thanks Bonster, Cobblepot. I'm taking my last day before the semester starts up to read up on where to go from here. Whether to seek out an agent or not, if self-publishing is worth a look, that sort of thing. The advice I've found most consistently is to start on another book in the meantime because it could be a long wait. That's cool. My goal is to get this thing to a fully-edited, publishable nature by June. Hopefully the people reading it will find some crazy plot holes and inconsistent characterizations in the meantime so I know what to fix. 6 months from now, I don't want to be thinking "oh yeah my first book, the one I wrote in one go with hardly any editing is totally perfect as is lololol," only for a publisher to respond with "wtf is this?"
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No matter what happens down the road, this is a big deal. Congrats.
 
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