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Write Now: Don’t Change Your Writing Process If It Works For You

I have written before about the writing process. The writing process has five components: brainstorming, rough draft, editing, revising, and publishing. Some writers follow it with their own tweaks, and some writers don’t follow it and make up their own process and plan. Whatever way you get your words to the page is the best for you. Unless you are stuck, don’t change your process. It works for you. But if you are stuck, then you can change what you want. Unless you have already published your words, there is no rule that dictates that you have to keep what you have ...

In Review: The Struts, Glorious Sons Perform In Buffalo

BUFFALO — If you take David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and maybe a bit of Elton John together, That’s what you’d have in the person of Luke Spiller for The Struts. The Struts arrival on the main stage of music has announced the resurgence of what may be termed as the best of ...

‘A Dog’s Journey’ To Be Shown At Opera House

FREDONIA – The next feature film in the Opera House Cinema Series is the family film, “A Dog’s Journey,” starring Dennis Quaid. It will be screened on Saturday and Tues., Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m. The screening is rescheduled from this past week when technical issues at the Opera House ...

‘West Side Story’ Auditions Set At JCC

Jamestown Community College will hold auditions from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 27 and 28 for its fall musical, “West Side Story.” Auditions will be held in Scharmann Theatre, located in Sheldon Center. Those auditioning must be able to perform a song from the musical and should wear comfortable clothing for the dance portion of the audition. Performances will be held Nov. 7-10 and 14-17. Julie Costantini will direct JCC’s production, which is based on a book by Arthur Laurents and featuring music by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. West Side Story, inspired by William ...

Exception To The Rule

Longevity is the goal for any band. Many bands make it to perform with only a handful of original members, if that. There’s a band out of Boston, Mass. that is the exception to the rule. After 27 years, Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, and Brian Rosenworcel are still together, with a fourth, ...

Write Now: Don’t Worry About How Your Tone Is Different; Just Embrace The Fact

Have you watched your favorite musician shred on guitar, bass, keyboards, or drums and thought what a great tone he has? Me too. And then you play that musician’s simplest of licks (patterns or phrases) and find out you played the correct notes, but sound nothing like him — his tone. Me too. Then you wonder why your tone doesn’t sound like his tone. The answer is because it’s his tone or timbre, which means quality. What I mean is it is his tone that he creates with his whole body. Guitar companies will create artist signature editions of instruments, and usually ...