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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the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 39 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 27 New Submissions: 14 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 A weirdly parallel month, with the same number of pieces out at the beginning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By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 46 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 32 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 39 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 Despite all of the shenanigans of July, my submission numbers went up a little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 […]

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

| July 10, 2024

Reading: Mostly books to review. Watching: There hasn’t been a whole lot of watching lately, with family visits and a lot of other stuff on our calendar, but we watched the entirety of Hazbin Hotel on the Fourth of July, and I’m a fan! Super irreverent musical cartoon? Yeah, I’m in! Listening To: As an additional […]

June 2024 Recap

| July 4, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 82 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 63 (+9; +1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 46 June continued my slow submitting trend, though I did submit more stories and poems than in May. But […]

May 2024 Recap!

| June 4, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 93 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 33 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 22 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 82 May was on the slower side for my writing and submitting, but also on the acceptance and rejection sides. […]

April 2024 Recap

| May 7, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 91 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 67 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 62 New Submissions: 9 Stories out at the end of the month: 93 April was a pretty good month in terms of submissions, with a couple more out at the end of the […]

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 […]