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The works of Jen and Michael Coolwood

Adventures with music part 2

The reason music and how it connects to writing is on my mind is it’s submission season. I say season. Unless things go spectacularly well, this ‘season’ is going to last maybe 18 months. So it’s a season of American television. A loosely connected series of episodes with enormous gaps placed at random depending on the whims of arcane forces beyond mortal understanding.

Anyway.

This song was on my mind when I made a recent submission:

Isn’t it interesting how some art can be both empowering and extremely depressing? To balance it out, here’s a song from Tanja Daub, which is on a similar topic but has a different tone to it:

Tl;dr - it hurts to have work rejected but it’s better than not putting the work out there in the first place