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October 2024 Recap

| November 7, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 66 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 30 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 27 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 60 October was a pretty balanced month in terms of submissions. I ended the month with a few less pieces […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening to, November 2024 Edition

| November 6, 2024

Reading: Still working through Millions of Suns, along with doing some anthropology reading for a character I’m playing in a new game. Watching: We watched the entirety of Dead Boy Detectives, and I’m a little bummed that it didn’t do well enough to warrant a second season, because I adored it. We’ve also been watching Agatha All Along […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 1

| October 7, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this post just covers the Friday (day 1) […]

September 2024 Recap

| October 3, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 30 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 41 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 66 Got the submissions numbers up a bit this month, with more going out than normal! I didn’t have any […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, Early October 2024

| October 2, 2024

Reading: Books to review, along with my current craft book, Millions of Suns by M.C. Benner Dixon and Sharon Fagan McDermott. Each of the two authors has an essay before the exercise for each chapter, and they’re all wonderful essays combined with stories from their lives, thus far! Watching: While we were sick, we finished season […]

August 2024 Recap

| September 10, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 39 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 27 New Submissions: 14 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 A weirdly parallel month, with the same number of pieces out at the beginning and end of the month! […]

Completing The Wayward Writer!

| September 9, 2024

Throughout 2023 and most of 2024, I worked through the entirety of Ariel Gore’s The Wayward Writer. I took a few weeks off here and there for vacations, but I basically spent 78 weeks working through one exercise a week. I talked a little bit about hitting the halfway point here. Overall, I found the entire […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, September 2024

| September 4, 2024

I’ve been on vacation, so my normal reading, watching, and listening to habits are a little off right now! Reading: Still books for review, and I’m going to be starting in on another writing craft book next week that has more reading portions, though not as many sections as The Wayward Writer. (I’ll be doing a […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, August 2024

| August 14, 2024

Reading: Books to review. On the craft side of things, I’m finishing up The Wayward Writer by Ariel Gore, and once that’s done, I’ve got a couple of other similar books to work my way through. I might take a short break, though, as I’ve been working through The Wayward Writer for more than a year […]

July 2024 Recap

| August 6, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 46 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 32 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 39 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 Despite all of the shenanigans of July, my submission numbers went up a little bit this month. Not quite where […]