Interesting find..I could just have kept this as just a draft, but I don't follow any huge motivation to have this for safe-keeping if my intetrest to write a book does come back. I can always republish/rewrite it in said (fictional) book.
composed 7/2/2019 12:29AM
I came to love music as a kid, but when I was in High School I developed a larger passion for it that matched and then soon after passed my level of Passion for things like Sports.
I have a lot of words to add about the music I love, which the Internet became an obvious platform to use. At first it was just using email lists/groups and Forums/Message Boards.
Not long after, I started a LiveJournal account which I would often talk about in cryptic or poorly scripted ways, the music I was getting into and enjoying.
But from a literary standpoint, it wasn't an incredibly tangible, useful resource other than giving names and albums/songs, etc.
So in late 2006 I found someone who was looking to keep a Media Blog with other writers. I knew this person through a largely music-based forum, and so naturally it was music I was going to write a lot about.
That blog is the blog I still actively maintain today some 12+ years and 1.1 million hits later:
http;//allmediareviews.blogspot.com
But after keeping it for so long and seeing modest levels of traffic, I concluded I would like to try something else. So I set 2 milestones, 1 being a 10-year anniversary which I reached in December 2016. I then went on to post an extensive personal Questions and Answers to myself or also what could be considered Frequently Asked Questions.
The 2nd Goal to was to reach 1 million page views/hits, which finally occurred in March of 2019.
So, now that those 2 goals were met, the next thing to strive for was something more. And that being, to try and Write a Book. Why? I think partly due to my frequent question about after seeing some others do it, why can't I? And so if/when this ever does become a reality and is in physical three-dimensional form on paper of some kind, than that question will be answered.
What is the Book about? After thinking about it off and on literally for months or even more than a year, I guess maybe one-of if not my biggest passions is for what I refer to as "progressive college rock" (also "progressive alternative rock" or "progressive indie rock").
It seems within the rock and progressive rock/metal/jazz etc styles, there are not many if any works that solely has focused on this relatively new hybrid genre of progressive rock. Especially in English, however the fellow who keeps the blog, http://altprogcore.blogspot.com has published some books about this kind of progressive rock, but in Italian-only. But I certainly am using inspiration from those books, to write this book.
