Although I started my career at Time Warner (working for CNN’s websites), and later served as an “director of content management” for an upstart website during the dot-com boom, I consider my first real writing experience to be with the Miami New Times in 2002. Something seemed very cool, romantic and indie cred-worthy about getting free CDs from record labels, churning out 100-word reviews and getting paid $40 a pop. Digging around for new releases was fun as well: I got great stuff from indie labels like Sub Pop, Merge, Astralwerks, and Jade Tree, and got turned onto great bands and musicians including Iron and Wine, Doves, and Pedro the Lion. I didn’t make much coin from it, but I was writing for a well-known company (New Times has alterna-newsweeklies in many cities nationwide), and the reviews became the first building blocks in my portfolio, which I leveraged into better gigs. Which is the key to freelance journalism: like a snowball, it gets bigger and bigger the more you push it along. Stop pushing. Stop working.
Reading those reviews now, I find myself being mighty critical. Too wordy. Metaphors that take days to read. Run-on sentences. Comparisons that border on schizophrenic. But they are the first bricks in a house that’s still going up. For all interested parties, here’s my collection of music reviews for the Miami New Times.
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