money flows to the creator

I’ve had a couple of people trying to get me to enter music/songwriting contests that have entry fees. Maybe it’s just my fiction and nonfiction writing background that’s saying “these are always bullshit” – and that’s because in writing, they are always bullshit – but that’s the reaction I’m having.

Still, this is music, where everything is worse for the creator than in writing. And so what do I know, anyway?

The two contests that people are trying to get me to enter are The Akademia Music Awards and International Songwriting Competition 2015. The Akademia people want $10 for a song entry or $20 for an album entry, and the ISC people want like $35. I’d never heard of either of these before people started trying to get me to enter both of them.

Like I said, in writing? Entry fees stink of scam and bullshit. But it’s music and songwriting, so I don’t even know. I have a number of musician followers – anybody out there have a more informed opinion?

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not even pretending anymore

Remember when GamerGaters at least pretended it wasn't all about a visceral loathing of women? Enjoy - if that's the word for it - "GPS and the Turn-By-Turn War on Men," wherein GamerGater Milo Yiannopoulos uses his first "tech" column on Breitbart to praise Saudi Arabia for barring women from driving, and writes about how GPS systems are emasculating, particularly "nagging and whinging" "female voice" GPSes.