#scribesandmakers Jan 31. Share something about your creative work this month. A few things. I wrote a poem which came fourth out of fifteen and made me realise that my writing will never be attractive to the masses, no matter how good it may be. I received two rejection responses from literary agents for my story ‘The Old Couple’. I rewrote the synopsis and my submission letter for ‘The Old Couple’ and submitted to a couple of different literary agents. I realised ‘The Old Couple’ might not be the right title for the story for which many of you here helped shape which blurb I might use. I don’t know what else to call it though. Maybe ‘Sometimes, it’s just Life’? Or ‘Just life, sometimes’? Or not. It is a weird feeling, that arrogant one, when you are confident your writing is good, better than some of the stuff that is one bookshelves, yet simultaneously you are so very far away from being anywhere near the quality that the gatekeepers seek. I have written some snippets of lyrics. I bought a Vox Amplug3, which means I can play my electric guitar with an amplifier and reverb and delay, with headphones, without the need for a bigger amplifier. I have some structures that might be worthy of elaboration.