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February 2024 Publications

| March 7, 2024

I had three pieces come out in February, all flash fiction! Small Wonders reprinted my story “Grandmother Firebird,” which is a sweet and cozy multigenerational tale of daughter, mother, and grandmother. My story “The Glass Cauldron Shattered” appeared in 99 Fleeting Fantasies, an anthology of flash fiction pieces. This one takes a look at magical […]

February 2024 Recap

| March 5, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 116 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 41 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 4 Resubmissions: 41 New Submissions: 8 Stories out at the end of the month: 115 February has continued January’s trend of being a good time to finish pieces. One of my new submissions this […]

Fun for Friday: February 2024 Prompts!

| January 26, 2024

It’s time for the February 2024 writing prompts! As per the usual, I’ve pulled these in from other sources, though I had to do some digging since this year is a leap year! The first column is from a 2023 Kick in the Creatives February “Faces” prompt list. I added the word for the last […]

February 2023 Recap

| March 2, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 71 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 58 (+1) (+5) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 88 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 98 My submissions numbers are back up to closer to normal again, after a long while of struggling with […]

Fun for Friday: February 2023 Writing Prompts

| January 27, 2023

It’s time for the February 2023 writing prompts, and yet again, I’m borrowing my lists from other sources. It’s the combination of the three, I think, that will lead to interesting things. Words in the first column are from the Kick in the Creatives February 2023 art prompts. They’ve got the most variety! Words in […]

February 2022 Recap

| March 3, 2022

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 129 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 67 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 2 Resubmissions: 60 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 119 February is a short month, but it feels like this February flew by. There weren’t a ton of rejections, […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, February 2022

| February 2, 2022

Reading: I’ve got a few new books I’m reading for reviews these days–one anthology and one novel. Reviews for those will be popping up next month! Watching: We cruised through The Witcher season 2, though we wish we hadn’t finished it quite so quickly, knowing how much of a wait there will be before we get […]

Fun for Friday: February 2022 Writing Prompts

| January 28, 2022

It’s nearly February, so it’s time for some new writing prompts! This month, I’ve separated out each column to be a person, a place, and a thing, as inspired by a recent “Poetry Thunderdome” event I took place in, where those categories were sourced from the audience, and then we wrote poems very quickly based […]

February 2021 Recap

| March 4, 2021

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 192 Acceptances received: 4 Rejections received: 73 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 7 Resubmissions: 102 New Submissions: 5 Stories out at the end of the month: 213 Pretty happy with my numbers for February, as I continue to sell pieces and get new pieces done, and […]

Fun for Friday: February 2021 Prompts

| January 29, 2021

For February’s writing prompts, I’ve got a collection of randomly generated words, put into a random order. Don’t feel like you need to use the specific word I’ve listed in your piece (though you can if you like). Feel free to play around with word association, or just use these words as a jumping off […]