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March 2024 Recap

| April 2, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 115 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 61 (+10) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 44 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 91 March was a little slow on many fronts. I finished six new pieces (all flash), and while I submitted […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To: March 2024

| March 6, 2024

Reading: Books to review, including some anthologies and some stand-alone books. Watching: Not much recently other than K-pop related things. Listening To: Recent additions to my list have been Boy Story (which is actually a Chinese group, trained in the K-pop system, and now making a Korean debut) and Just B. The latter is because […]

Fun for Friday: March 2024 Writing Prompts!

| March 1, 2024

We got an extra day in February, but now it’s time for the March 2024 writing prompts! All three columns this month come from art challenges, which I always love to convert into part of my writing prompts. After all, we’re painting with words when we write, right? Column 1 is from Kick in the […]

March 2023 Recap!

| April 4, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 98 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 58 Stories withdrawn: 2 Resubmissions: 37 New Submissions: 9 Stories out at the end of the month: 83 Slightly slower month for the submissions, but also not a ton of rejections compared to some other months. This is […]

Fun for Friday: March 2023 Writing Prompts!

| February 24, 2023

The March 2023 writing prompts feel like they’re falling a little early, but with February being a short month, now is the time! This month, the first column comes from Kick in the Creatives, which always has great word lists for each month (I sometimes shorten their prompts for my list). Column 2 comes from […]

March 2022 Publications

| April 7, 2022

I’ve had a bunch of publications in March, and all of them are smaller pieces! “The Fall of Ocrone” was published in Martian last year, but recently, the Superfast Stories YouTube Channel produced an audio and video version of my story! It’s a quick sci-fi listen/watch (it’s only 100 words), and I love how it […]

March 2022 Recap

| April 5, 2022

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 119 Acceptances received: 4 Rejections received: 72 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 87 New Submissions: 10 Stories out at the end of the month: 137 Things picked up a bit in March, both in terms of what I got done and how many submissions I […]

Fun for Friday: March 2022 Writing Prompts

| February 25, 2022

We’re reaching the end of February; as the shortest month, it almost always seems to fly past. In the Northern Hemisphere, it also means we’re gradually escaping the cold and gloom of the winter months, as we approach the beginning of spring in late March. March is also exciting to me because it’s my birthday […]

March 2021 Recap

| April 8, 2021

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 213 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 125 (+22) Stories withdrawn: 4 Resubmissions: 85 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 154 The numbers are a little lower than normal in some places this month. Lots of rejections, along with a […]

Fun for Friday: March 2021 Prompts

| February 26, 2021

It’s nearly the beginning of March, so it’s time for another month’s prompts. The words this month are all pretty random, though I suspect you could get some March or spring-inspired pieces out of what I’ve included here. There’s also a photograph of a marching band that you could work in with the other prompts […]