Thursday, December 31, 2015

Changes for 2016

I'm bringing this blog out of hibernation because I'll be doing Collection Audit again in 2016 (I've been doing it every other year since 2008).  I'm really glad I started writing posts about things I noticed while listening to my entire collection (even if some of those posts are now rather embarrassing and seem ignorant) because it's started something that I consistently do on my regular music blog.  Throughout 2015, I wrote at least a post a week about something musical.

Hopefully, through writing about music so much, I've gotten better at it, and there are a few things that I'm going to change about this project:
  • I'm not going to mention alliteration, parallelism, et cetera unless it's significant.  It's tedious if I point them out just for the sake of pointing them out, but if they add to the lyrics in some way, then I'll be sure to mention it.
  • I'm going to make individual posts for individual songs.  When I did this project last year, there were a few times where I had things to say about two songs on an album, and even though what I had to say about one song wasn't related to the other, I put them both in the same post.  It's not such a big deal on the tumblr version (because I didn't include titles there), but on the Blogger version, the titles could be misconstrued as a comparison of the two songs.  Essentially, I'm splitting up my posts so that the titles are easier to understand.
I might not have to do this, but I've come up with a plan of what to do if I don't make it through my entire collection (of which there's a greater possibility every year because I keep getting more music).  I'll still try to get as far as I can, but when the year ends, I'll end the project and then just continue where I left off the next time the project starts again.