My Music Blogging is Not Going Well

I hope no one is taking me up on my offer to hold me accountable for my music blog, because you will find no new posts. It's not that I didn't start one, but it didn't go well. And that's supposed to be the first of maybe four or five (before the end of the year, at that, and the clock is ticking).

Because I'm not a journalist, I can only write about topics from my personal perspective. I'm not into providing origin stories of artists or rehashing their discographies. That's what Wikipedia is for (such as it is). I do consult Wikipedia to jog my memory about hits I may have forgotten, and since my blog is big on music videos, that much is helpful. But I fail to see the point of just slapping YouTube videos on a post and proclaiming, "Done!"

My current in-progress post has the exact same problem I encountered with one way back in mid-summer; one I ultimately abandoned. The fact is, my heart's just not in it. It's not that I don't care about the artists I'm writing about--far from it--but my writing has to be interesting, and I can't seem to make it so. 

I'm not giving up. Unless something is completely beyond rescuing, I always finish what I start. 

On a more positive note, I did load my sophomore manuscript into my Kindle Previewer, and I think I've been too hard on myself. It does, in fact, help to read a manuscript in a different format. Not to pat myself on the back, but for only a third novel, the writing is quite good. I must have edited it thoroughly the first time around (no recollection of that).

Regardless of whether or how much I rework it, the book won't be commercially viable. Luckily, that's not what I'm going for anyway. Nope, it doesn't start with action. It starts slow, with the first couple of chapters revealing the personalities of the characters involved and hinting at their potential motivations for the forthcoming inciting incident. (In my defense, there are at least five potential suspects.) Nobody likes books like that anymore. "I want something light; something that doesn't make me think."

Once I do publish it (and I will), I won't have to worry about reviews, because nobody will even know about the book....as it slowly sinks into oblivion on Amazon's pages. That won't make me sad in the least. I'm used to it.

Part of my overall issue lately is that I'm trying to do too many things at once, and my focus is scattered. I have many, many posts to do for my computer illiterate husband's blog (I mean many, as in fifty); then I've got this novel and I've got my music blog, in addition to pesky everyday issues. I'm also going to need to do something about the awful book cover I "designed". 

So, here I sit, writing this post instead of working on any of those things.

I think I need to set a goal of doing one thing each day. Just one thing. And not flipping between my various projects. 

Ehh, time will tell.