I'm reading Perfume: The story of a murderer, by Patrick Suskind, and am impressed with the amount of detail he's put into describing smells. It is an underused sense, in writing, and maybe that is part of why it seems so amazing, but I'm really being drawn into the strange way this character perceives the …
Losing momentum
Cause I haven't been writing every day, I feel the write is just draining out of me. So this is me trying to fill it back up again. Reading: I finished listening to Heart of Darkness and found it a bit disturbing, and also very well written. It was referenced in Rings of Saturn by …
Dinosaur Tail
Scientists found one preserved in amber.  And as expected, it has feathers. Things like this from the impossibly distant past always give me a strange feeling. This is a piece of what was once a living, thinking, feeling being. It lived and thought and felt differently than us to be sure, in ways we can't rightly …
Thoughts on… Finding Inspiration [by Jonas David]
Check out this post I wrote for Lucent Dreaming on how to get inspired This post can now be found here: https://lucentdreaming.com/thoughts-on-finding-inspiration-by-jonas-david/
Thoughts on… Dealing with Rejection [by Jonas David]
A post I wrote for Lucent Dreaming on dealing with rejections (I’m a pro at that by now!)
Every active writer will be rejected many times in their life. Keeping these few things in mind can help make this painful process pass easier.
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1. Your story being rejected doesn’t mean it’s a bad story.
It means that the editor of the magazine you submitted it to didn’t like it or they liked it but didn’t think it was the right fit for their magazine. Don’t lose hope. The first thing you should do when you see that rejection email is reread the story. It may have been a few weeks since you submitted it. Now you have fresh eyes, you’ll notice ways to improve it, so improve it then send the story elsewhere! There are hundreds of magazines to choose from, all searching for stories to publish. I don’t think I’ve ever sold a story that was accepted at the first place I submitted. If you don’t…
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