As I'm sure some of you noticed, I did not post anything today. I wrestled with it all morning, I certainly had the time, but not the drive. With that, I have to put The Klepto's Guide To Awesome Music on temporary hiatus, at least compared with how it is currently handled.
I do not do this lightly, but as of late The Guide has become homework, which is not what I want at all. I used to look forward to listening to brand new and obscure albums, writing about what I heard, and generally spreading the good word. I used to be able to bang out half a dozen articles in a full day, key word - used to. Currently, I am writing articles hours before they post, that and a full work load is running me ragged. I have to change something and The Guide is the easiest.
I'm not going away totally, I'll still post time to time; bringing this website back to what it was for the first year or two, I post when I feel strongly about and album or act, not because I feel I have too. I think that my articles have been watered down and pretty shitty overall recently. I have been self-imposing deadlines that require quantity over quality, going back to writing whenever I feel like it will hopefully bring back some of the quality that I think The Guide has been lacking.
Also, I am talking with a couple of friends (once again) about writing here part time. This group actually seems into it, so if we can figure something out, something substantial and meaningful, then I will bring back the daily posts. But for now, for at least the week (and another because I am going on vacation for 8 days), I am effectively putting this blog on hold, focusing on other things, listening to music I actually want to listen to, not bands that I feel I have to listen to.
If you want to keep submitting albums, I am a whore for new music, so I will keep taking them. Also if you would like to be brought in on the new and improved Guide, whenever I get around to restarting it, please drop me a line, more the merrier.
For now, I bid you all adieu (that's French for goodbye).
1 comment:
It happens to everybody, dude. That Devil Music was pretty much a chronic hiatus case in it's first two and half years of existence because I didn't want to make it a job. But yeah, getting more writers on board definitely helps. Even one person that can put in nearly as much time and to bounce things off of is a huge relief.
You also have to decide on how big you want the site to be. Do you want tens of thousands of people a day and the added pressure of that or a few hundred people that check in once in awhile? the first example is more for the people like Metalsucks who make money off their site to live. Where the second example is more of a hobbiest.
Goo dluck and don't be a stranger over at TDM:)
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