The Music Banter Members' Journals Monthly Update Thread

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

Thanks for the mention as always. I think my days of earning "workhorse of the month" are over. I'm not even sure I'll ever do another journal entry at all. If I ask myself why I should, I can't come up with any answer.

I'm going to just continue finding new music and listening music - but without writing about it.

Writing my journals helps keep me connected to the music I listen to.

It challenges me to keep exploring and to listen closely.

It helps me to keep my thoughts about music kind of organized. I spend a lot of time on it because it’s fun and it’s worth sharing. I’m proud to say my journals are worth reading. It’s something.

[Trollheart]

Originally Posted by MicShazam

Thanks for the mention as always. I think my days of earning "workhorse of the month" are over. I'm not even sure I'll ever do another journal entry at all. If I ask myself why I should, I can't come up with any answer.

I'm going to just continue finding new music and listening music - but without writing about it.

Yeah I know how you feel. This, along with concentrating on my actual writing, is one of the reasons I stopped my journals. Way too much work for way too little reward.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Writing my journals helps keep me connected to the music I listen to.

It challenges me to keep exploring and to listen closely.

It helps me to keep my thoughts about music kind of organized. I spend a lot of time on it because it’s fun and it’s worth sharing. I’m proud to say my journals are worth reading. It’s something.

They/it are/is - don't you only have the one? You certainly put a lot of work into it, and your passion and commitment and interest shine through.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Yeah I know how you feel. This, along with concentrating on my actual writing, is one of the reasons I stopped my journals. Way too much work for way too little reward.


They/it are/is - don't you only have the one? You certainly put a lot of work into it, and your passion and commitment and interest shine through.

I consider 2018 drone and ambient and 2018 free jazz journals as well. The free jazz of 2018 is in my opinion the best thing I ever started on here in terms of you the you heard it here first factor. A lot of it beats the free jazz collective blog.

And the southern states is like, seriously- I’m proud of it-

It’s all a team effort but yeah those are my babies

[Key]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Yeah I know how you feel. This, along with concentrating on my actual writing, is one of the reasons I stopped my journals. Way too much work for way too little reward.


They/it are/is - don't you only have the one? You certainly put a lot of work into it, and your passion and commitment and interest shine through.

Well, when you have 10+ journals, the reward will never exceed the work. Just saying. I rarely get people posting in my journal and that hasn't stopped me from putting 100% of my effort into it. I never made a journal expecting replies because the point of the journal is for your personal interests and personal thoughts about things we don't talk about in the actual forum. At least not in depth. Getting replies and views is just a plus. That's my thought on it anyway. But again, I use my journal as more of a personal project so anything I put in there will usually get more involvement and effort than my usual posts on the forum.

Maybe other people see journals another way but that's how I use mine.