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On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:01:09 -0800, Neeum Zawan wrote:
>>> Because with ebooks, it's easier to self publish than it is for
>>> musicians to do so.
>>
>> It is easier to write a book than to record a demo or album, but the
>> publishing is just as easy.
>
> True - I meant the whole process.
Anybody can write a crap book (or song). Writing a good one? I'd argue
that writing a book and writing a song are about equally the same. I did
music theory and composition once upon a time, and I've published at
least a couple books (not self-published, but through a publisher), and I
can tell you that the process of writing a book is not any harder or
easier than writing a song.
To do so well, you have to know the proper syntaxes and structures to
use. Write a book using incomprehensible language or grammar, and it'll
be crap. Write a song that doesn't at least in some fundamental way
follow basic musical structure, and it'll be nothing more than noise.
Jim
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