It's been a minute...

This blog thing is hard to keep up sometimes...but it's only my third post. I think I'm okay. In four days I will officially be the blogger for audibledope.com, a website which aims to promote talented new musicians without the pay-as-you-go mentality. I'm pretty excited, but a bit nervous too. It makes me think about writing and how one finds their own voice through this stuff. It's not as though I'm writing a sensory-overload style of appropriate for a novel. Ultimately I suppose the goal is to captivate an audience within a couple of paragraphs without boring them, but when it comes to music this seems to be a difficult task. Reading XXL and Complex online publications has shown me that they, like me, write their articles after a couple of beers late at night and forget to spell check. They don't use the "exciting" language one might find in a TMZ article, but simply state what's going on in the world of hip-hop with the help of some well timed photographs. RollingStone takes on a much more journalistic approach but with the intent of longer form writing.

With anything in life, a middle ground must be found. The problem is actually finding it. I think I will conduct interviews with artists featured on the website, a seemingly easy source of material as well as a way to connect the readership with the website (and an excuse to travel), but after that, I will need inspiration.

AudibleDope isn't exclusively about hip-hop or beat centered but instead will try to reach across all genres. I'm a hip-hop head so it will definitely be a challenge to move across genres. When it comes down to it I will need to tap into what brings all music together: those moments where any given song hits an emotional chord that speaks to one's soul (on a non-religious level) and captures exactly what one feels in terms of what they're going through in life, who they love, or even something as simple as whether their roommate or the end of a good dream woke them up that morning.

Where do you fellow bloggers find inspiration in writing? Do you write in the voice that naturally comes into your head or do you have to constantly edit the way the letters flow from your fingers?

I'll be back soon, don't give up on me.