I've been rejected yet again by DSF in the second round. I've been hoping for so long to get that third professional sale so I can join SFWA... and.... It turns out I don't need three to join after all. I need three sales to join as an 'Active' level membership, but I can join …
Week seven
This week my prompt was Sheer Heart-attack by Queen, I took the line 'turn on the TV let it drip down in your eyes' as inspiration. The story ended up being about a society obsessed with VR, and one man who's DNA made him incompatible, and unable to join in the virtual world. It turned …
week 6 and Jane Eyre
This week I again paused from my regular song prompts to do something for a contest among friends. I was required to write a story about a picture of a creepy looking swing set, which didn't much appeal to me. So I took it literally and wrote about an actual picture of a swing set …
Week 4
Done! I took a break from the regularly scheduled prompts to do something different--I was challenged to write a story in someone else's style, using their characters. It was difficult, but I think I pulled it off! Next week I'll continue with the song prompts as usual. In other news, I'm in the second round …
Just the way you are?
I was in the supermarket and heard this song playing, with the lyric "you're amazing, just the way you are," and I suppose it's meant to be a romantic love song but it just struck me as a condescending, backhanded sort of complement. Is it not enough to say "you're amazing" without adding the qualifier …
Jonas David 