Lyric
Lyric
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Just a punk who probably shouldn't be taken too seriously. 
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In the US, today (Sept 25) is National Comic Book Day! Make it a good one!
Because I 
concept albums I wrote an emo, rock opera: MOZART meets MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
In art nothing is off limits.
I had to Google this. Whoa!
Alcest: French black-gaze
I did a quick read and here was the "big thing" that jumped out at me... You're writing in 1st person POV (I, we) and that POV is a close-up and intimate perspective that writers use to get into a character's head and show her interior thoughts and emotions on the page. However, your MC is doing …
Inspiration is moot without the hard work necessary to transform it into something.
One "big picture" thing that jumped out to me is that you make extensive use of exposition to tell what's happening instead of showing through scenes of action and reaction. A second area to focus is your choice of words. Aim for stronger nouns and verbs and use of figurative language. Reading & …
I'm glad you posted this for the wider audience of "art" beyond comics because I feel like every creature on the planet is currently attempting to pen the next "great novel". It's unbelievably competitive and hard to garner attention, not to mention we are creating in an age when the format for stor…
Do you have common themes, tropes, or characteristics across all (or most of) your stories? What are they? Why do you think you do this?
I also recommend taking a formal hiatus. Babies bring unanticipated changes to life's schedule. If you can jump back into your writing quickly, that's great, but if you can't (for whatever reason) you haven't made promises to readers (or yourself) that you can't keep. Wishing you well!
I think Lana's Doin' Time is haunting when you reflect on Bradley Nowell's demise from heroin. I should probably mention my WIP (not yet on Tapas) is a coming-of-age story about a hellish descent into opioid addiction. Art inspiring art.
I get the "make some money" lure, I just hate when bands abandon that "something unique" they had going for "something ubiquitous". I'm trying to listen to the new album by Being As An Ocean (who used to do emo hardcore/spoken word), but they've veered heavily into indistinguishable alternative/el…
I love(!) some of the original metalcore bands and albums (AA, BMTH, Attila, TDWP), but sadly many of them have morphed into pop-radio whores. (Can I say that or is a flag coming my way?) I suppose these dudes could only scream for so long before their vocal chords shred.
I think my writing style is unique, but when I've pitched my work to agents, writing mentorship programs, etc. they want me to site COMPS! (shorthand for published, comparison works that are similar to yours in style or content) Setting fan-fiction aside, isn't the whole point of creating stories to…
Somebody knows their thrash and death metal bands.
Lana's cover of Sublime's Doin' Time is a knockout!
Not speaking for anyone else, but for me writer's block is 100% fear. It took me a long time to realize this, but it's me freaked out about how much work it MIGHT take to produce or re-write a scene or chapter. I don't know what it is that I fear (failure?), but when I push through it (that's my ins…
I'm writing an entire novel (not the one I'm currently posting on Tapas) on my phone. The small screen forces me to write in an abbreviated style that works for this new story. When I tried writing it on my larger, laptop screen, the style morphed into something that wasn't working.
A coming-of-age 
emo 
rock 
opera 
about chasing dreams.
Happy to sub for sub. 
MOZART meets MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE in a coming-of-age, emo, ROCK OPERA -- featuring and narrated by a preppy, classical singer who's left emotionally wounded by the death of her stage-parent father and a control-freak, lead-guitarist whose own father attempts to beat the musical dream out of him.…
For you hardcore punks out there... I give you VEIN
They sound similar to Tennger Cavalry (also Mongolian), but sadly their lead singer killed himself so their future is uncertain. Some recs: MOL (Danish metal band), Alcest (French blackgaze), Batushka (Polish black metal similar to the controversial Mgla), Vein (Boston hardcore punk).
Yes! I'd love to practice guitar all day, perform every night on tour, and say "screw it" to the responsibilities of my real life. I don't care if I'd be living out of a tiny touring van with the occasional, 1-night upgrade to Motel 6. Life is short and clean underwear is overrated.
This is so true, but we live in the age of hyper-sensitivity where the authoritarian response/reaction borders on censorship. I'm probably gonna get flagged for posting this.
Anyone post more "literary" (as opposed to "genre") novels on Tapas? I know "a story is a story" no matter the genre or form, but I'm wondering if this would be a good community to post something that has less plot/action and more time in the head of an addled, teen addict (my mature, young adult …
Thanks for the props, my friend!!! And send new metal-band favs my way. I'm looking for stuff to listen to in a decade where Tool (god bless them!) are back on top after 13 years. I'm finding interesting metal mostly from artists outside the US.
Adult Favs The Stranger by Albert Camus (for it's simplicity of style) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (for it's theme) Less Than Zero & Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (for their plotlessness) Play It As It Lays by Join Didion (for it's subtext layers) YA The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sali…
I LOVE!! mini-plot and anti-plot stories. Basically stories where nothing really happens and it's a whole lot of experiencing what's going on in the character's (usually messed up) head as they encounter life. My WIP (which isn't posted on Tapas yet) is an attempt to write like this: it's a story …