Another One Bites the Dust

I got a rejection back for my story "Personal Demons" this morning, and I think that might be it. It's not a great story--I wrote it specifically for a market to try to fit into a shared world of theirs. Didn't work out, so I changed characters' names and reworked the premise just a bit. Still doesn't really work. So...I think that story might be going out to pasture.

If anyone's keeping count, that's 1 acceptance, 3 rejections on the year. $0 writing income.

I've had a concept in mind for a story for the Triangulation: Dark Glass anthology for quite a few months, and I finally started on that last night around midnight. I like to try to come up with odd ways of interpreting themes. I hope this one will be as unique as some of my others.

Just as a side note, I read a study recently that said that night time people are more creative (I just thought of this because I was up late writing). I don't think I qualify for what they were talking about in the article--they said that your creative peak tends to be close to dawn. I've noticed that I do some of my better writing late at night, and I often get ideas while I'm lying in bed waiting to fall asleep. Last night I finally got an idea for the Devil's Food Anthology. I thought about it, planned some scenes out, then fell asleep. I checked the Devil's Food guidelines this morning, and it turns out my idea probably doesn't qualify. It was a little more humorous than they want. But I might be able to salvage it yet. We'll see.