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I play guitar in a gigging band and know quite a few professional musicians and… well, I’m sorry but if I was you, I would rather be a successful writer than in the music biz, especially as a performer. I know a guy who plays bass in a touring pro band and he once told me it’s a shit business. Really. I don’t have kids but I’m married and even that is enough for me to put my biggest effort into writing because the lifestyle required of the gigging musician is just something I wouldn’t feel comfortable with while in a serious relationship (not to mention kids) because of everything about the music biz NOT related to performing music: the need to promote oneself, performing in sleazy bars and clubs for drunken people who couldn’t give a damn who’s playing for them, the endless setting up and tearing down your gear (although singers don’t need to carry heavy instruments but both vocalists in my band do help set up the PA and lug around other gear), and the hours upon hours spent waiting for a soundcheck that sometimes never comes, waiting for the gig to start, waiting for the performers before you to finish their already late and too long sets etc. etc.
Writers, on the other hand, do book signing tours, yes, but they work from home. That’s the single most important difference between being a writer and a musican that will always tilt the scales towards writing.
Then again, I know some people love the musician lifestyle. If you are one of them, go for it, follow your heart, wherever it may take you. I just know what I would prefer. And I do understand the desire to perform music in front of an audience. As you may have noticed, I loathe all the non-music-related crap that comes with being a gigging musician but to me the 30-60 minutes onstage make it all worthwile. As long as I keep it at a level of 1-2 gigs a month, max. More than that and it would require too much sacrifices, take too much of the time I could spend at home with my wife (time we don’t have in abundance anyway).
For what it’s worth, good luck regardless of which career you choose
Ah, right, that I know how to do. Thanks for explaining it though
I’m looking forward to the class.Thanks for the tip though I already read through all topics there. I’m sorry, I may be a little dense or alternatively it may be a language barrier thing as English is my second language but even a second read through the threads in the BtS room didn’t reveal to me how to subscribe to a class. Or is it nothing more official than posting here that, yes, I would like to participate? Sorry for the hassle
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I’m new here and didn’t find an answer to my questions from the BtS section: how could I subscribe to the class? How does participation work, i.e. will it be a series of posts in a topic posted on BtS or will it be a “real time” class held in a chat room?
Also, me and K.Trian have an almost ready story about a civilian enlisting and joining a military force (granted, in a sci-fi-esque setting) so all of the stuff has already been written. Can we adapt the existing writing to the given assignments or do we need to improv something totally new? We do have a lot of questions though since neither of us has been in the military and while we’ve talked to a few professional soldiers about the things we’ve written into our story, new perspectives are always more than welcome and we’d really like to participate in this class as the subject matter interests us a great deal and would undoubtedly help our story.
Hey all, I’m the uglier half of T.K.Trian, thought I’d post in the same thread since we only write as a couple anyway, not as separate authors.
We’re just in the final stages of proofreading one of our finished novels (so far we’ve finished about a dozen, each around 100 000 – 150 000 words) that we feel is among our better works. Because of the length (this is the first book of a trilogy or possibly a tetralogy, so far we’ve finished the first two books and about half of the third), we’re leaning towards publishing it as an e-book since that way it doesn’t matter as much whether it’s 60 000 or 160 000 words (we’ve found many publishers/agents are wary of long first novels).
Anyway, I’m looking forward to browsing the forums because this looks like a very nice, professional community. Catch ya on the boards!
-T.Trian
