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Kraichgauer
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26 Dec 2013, 1:14 pm

bryanmaloney wrote:
I have to keep my songwriting secret. When I tried to share it with my wife, she got angry at me and denounced me as "egotistical", and similar terms. She made it quite clear that my songs were "crap", "repetitive", "boring", and "nothing special". Thus, I now hide it from her and from everyone else.


Really? When my wife reads my stories, I'm always afraid she's being too generous because she doesn't want to offend me out of wifely duty. :?


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29 Dec 2013, 8:24 am

I was able to write in family company, but I've had to secretly publish it through Createspace, sience i couldn't get my parents to get an editor

I'm waiting for somebody to purchase it. It's currently on Amazon. The title is "The Truth Hurts" and the author's name is Bettie Mills.
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12 Jan 2014, 3:37 am

i don't generally tell people at work, or in the "mundane" world about my interests in music, partly because there are so many negative stereotypes of people that play certain types of music, i got called "emo" at work for admitting to liking rock tracks that my friends label as "screamo". it's gotten to the point where i post my music online solely under my screen name.

it's like my world is bifurcated into mundane and arts people... and the arts people don't grok my mundane life either (there's a general hatred of finance among local arts scenes especially where i am). so i totally get it. definitely.