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Fun for Friday: Weird April History

| April 4, 2025

Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! This month, I’ve got the daily historical events from The History Place, which include the normal mix of several events and birthdays for each day of the month. In addition, Rest Less has a list of 28 events that took place […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, April 2025

| April 2, 2025

Reading: Primarily books to review, along with the appendices in Wonderbook. I’ve also just gotten my copy of C. D. Covington‘s Filling Your Worlds with Words, about linguistic worldbuilding, which I’m looking forward to tackling! Watching: We watched Skeleton Crew somewhere along the line, and I forgot to mention it here. Definitely recommended if you love the […]

Fun for Friday: April 2025 Writing Prompts

| March 28, 2025

April is just around the corner, so it’s time for the April 2025 writing prompts! This month, I ran across a lot of weirdly similar lists from different sources, so I had to approach things a little differently. The first column is The Petite Planner’s April Doodle Challenge from 2024. The second column is primarily […]

My April 2024 Publications!

| May 9, 2024

I had a couple of new pieces come out in April My flash fiction piece, “Mutualism by Any Other Name,” appeared in the April issue of Factor Four Magazine. They’ve published me before, but I was pleased to find this story a home, as it’s an odd one, told from the perspective of a grove of […]

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By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 91 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 67 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 62 New Submissions: 9 Stories out at the end of the month: 93 April was a pretty good month in terms of submissions, with a couple more out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

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

| April 10, 2024

Reading: Books for review and occasional game books, as I realize I need to learn more about some of the games we’re playing now or in the future! Watching: Not a whole heck of a lot, because most of our TV time has been spent on watching K-pop things. We did watch Spin Me Round for […]

Fun for Friday: April 2024 Writing Prompts

| March 29, 2024

Here we are at the end of March, so it’s time for the April 2024 writing prompts! This month, all of the words come from art challenges. The first column is from Doodlewash’s Spring Things challenge, and all of the words there are spring themed. The second column is from the Kick in the Creatives’ […]

April 2023 Recap!

| May 2, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 83 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 56 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 54 New Submissions: 11 Stories out at the end of the month: 88 Pretty decent numbers for this month, especially on the acceptances and writing new stuff fronts! I’ve signed the contracts […]

Fun for Friday: April 2023 Writing Prompts

| March 31, 2023

It’s almost April, so time for the April writing prompts! This month, I did all random prompts. The first column is nouns, and the second column is verbs, except because English is how it is, some of those words can be either nouns or verbs. The third column is much more random, pulled from lists […]

April 2022 Publications!

| May 5, 2022

I’ve got several new publications out this past month! My poem, “Here, I Rule,” appears in the April Not One of Us. This is a small printed zine, which you can order directly from the publisher. The poem is a look at a child’s adventure to another world. My drabble, “Consequence,” appeared in Martian: The […]