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Fun for Friday: Weird March History

| March 7, 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. I’ve also got History UK’s March historical events, with one event on […]

February 2025 Recap

| March 6, 2025

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 42 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 13 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 10 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 40 February was slow on the submissions front, and while I’d like to blame the shorter month, the reality is that […]

Fun for Friday: March 2025 Writing Prompts!

| February 28, 2025

It’s almost March, which means it’s time for the March 2025 writing prompts! This month, I went with three themed art challenges for the prompts. Column 1 is the Mutation March prompts from Teresa Galusaurus, in which you’re encouraged to draw animals, but make them weird. Column 2 is the 2020 Magical March prompts from […]

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numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 115 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 61 (+10) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 44 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 91 March was a little slow on many fronts.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By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 98 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 58 Stories withdrawn: 2 Resubmissions: 37 New Submissions: 9 Stories out at the end of the month: 83 Slightly slower month for the submissions, but also not a ton of rejections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 […]