On the other hand, my big dream is to play prog rock at science fiction and fantasy (SFF) conventions (talk about a niche market!) and creating a character and back-story just might be the ticket. It’s worked well for Abney Park, who have now played at DragonCon, arguably the biggest SFF convention in North America. Talk about a dream gig…

Mainly because that probably doesn’t appeal to Lee the character and there’s a very slim chance it would appeal to the real Lee (even if it did, the real Lee has no time for a heated debate about smoked Haddock unless it’s 3am and we’re drunk in my apartment).

/inigm/

• noun a mysterious or puzzling person or thing.

— DERIVATIVES enigmatic adjective enigmatical adjective enigmatically adverb.

— ORIGIN Greek ainigma ‘riddle’.

I think any person who isnt shallow can remain an enigma even to their closest friends and family.

The only time i ever feel like i’ve truely expressed my inner pain or most difficult emotional feelings is through my lyrics when i song write.

I just cannot verbally express in conversation my feelings/anxieties/fears, i get frustrated because the words just arent there to convey whats in my head.

when i write/compose there is no pressure of time, i can dissapear into my own head while strumming chords and leet my mind form the words in its own time.

When i converse with my partner or friends or family members, a conversation requires a constant flows of words, there is a pressure of time. Feelings dont care for time, and when time forces me to try and find words for my feelings, my feelings get pissed off and frustrated!

Blogging is currently hit or miss for me, I dont read many, and I still havent found my own ryhtym and subject matter for my own, so its currently disjointed.

Like all things in life its a learning process, but just like real life, you’ll only give as much away in a blog as you would to people you just met in a pub (unless you create a genuine alter ego and remain anonymous)

I am me, this text is me, text can be more widely misinterpreted than talking face to face but that is beyond my control, i write as me, not as anything else.

I got to this place years ago through gigging – through people ‘knowing’ me through my songs – irrespective of the artistic license I take in composition. Peeps will think they ‘know’ an artist if they have heard them sing and listened to their stage banter. I do keep those stage stories much more controversial and ‘interesting’ than I like to keep my personal life…………..these days.

Re – blogging – I don’t have enough opinions that I feel really certain about to let them loose anywhere but in song form – so I have made a blog page at http://www.karenhunter.com and uploading tunes from recent gigs and photos as blog offerings. I record all my gigs on a cool digital recorder and love being able to upload new tracks.

I’m fine about commenting on other peoples blogs ( in case you haven’t noticed ) – but the ‘karen hunter’ creative creature is definitely exploring non-textual self expression in her own world.

On the blog I have been keeping for several months now my main focus was filling it with media content (audio & video) and “useful links” in the side bar. The actual posts were very random and I consider it to be my learning and development phase. Thankfully readership is minimal and i don’t exactly promote it currently because it is kind of a testing ground.

Now that I have begun to get direction and focus I am presently setting up a WordPress blog to try and implement what I have learned. I plan to stick with one main artist name and make the blog posts personal up to a point. I have never been good at trying to be guarded so I anticipate the posts will be a mix of information about my music and general information about my life outside of music.

I guess the story I will be telling will have me as the main character with my peers and family as a supporting cast. It will be the story of an isolated composer trying to make some kind of living from creating music he loves. All the while trying to balance raising a family, turning 40 in the music environment, etc. etc.

Hey, it just might be compelling? Maybe? I will work on it.

Cheers,
Milton

I get it.. but it also depends on the kind of blog you’re doing. I think what DARREN LANDRUM is great! That definitely works for him. Hell, just reading about it in his post has me hooked, it just that for what I’m trying to do.. it won’t.

I absolutely agree with that. Don’t be a boring list of facts! The point is to spin a good tale. Whether yours is a work of fiction or based in fact is entirely up to you.