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Fun for Friday: May 2024 Writing Prompts

| April 26, 2024

Time for another month worth of writing prompts! It’s my favorite time of year, MerMay, so the first column is the MerMay 2024 prompts! MerMay is a mermaid-related art challenge, so all of these words are meant to be combined with merfolk of some sort. There are a couple of named individuals in this year’s […]

May 2023 Recap!

| June 6, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 88 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 44 (1 + 6) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 4 Stories out at the end of the month: 76 The numbers for May are unsurprisingly on the lower side, unsurprisingly because I took half the month […]

Fun for Friday: May 2023 Writing Prompts

| April 28, 2023

In the not-entirely-accurate words of Justin Timberlake, “It’s gonna be May!” Okay, yeah, that’s a horrible joke but I love it anyway. And it is nearly May, which means it’s time for one of my favorite monthly challenges, MerMay! And MerMay is the source of the first column of words/phrases. There are a couple on […]

Fun for Friday: Merfolk Inspired Images

| May 13, 2022

For this week’s Fun for Friday, it’s image prompts, all on a merfolk-related theme without being just about merfolk! The first image is a forest scene with a lightbulb-shaped vessel holding water and a very small merfolk, along with a ladybug perched atop the bulb and an ant to the left. The second image is […]

April 2022 Recap!

| May 3, 2022

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 137 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 71 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 44 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 107 My submission numbers are a little on the low side this month, which is partially a result of retiring […]

Fun for Friday: (Mer)May 2022 Prompts!

| April 29, 2022

It’s almost May (or, in the words of the meme, “It’s gonna be May”), and that means it’s time for MerMay! If you’re not familiar with MerMay, it’s an art challenge started by Tom Bancroft. Every day in May, artists are encouraged to use the prompts for a sketch, which they then post using hashtags […]

May 2021 Recap

| June 3, 2021

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 169 Acceptances received: 4 Rejections received: 102 (+4) Stories withdrawn: 11 Resubmissions: 92 New Submissions: 11 Stories out at the end of the month: 150 This month has been a very good one in terms of acceptances: I sold poems to Songs of Eretz and just […]

Fun for Friday: May 2021 Prompts

| April 30, 2021

May is Mermay in the art community, and I like to turn a lot of art prompts into writing prompts. So the first column of this month’s prompts are from the Mermay 2021 list. And while these words are geared toward inspiring artists to draw mermaids, you may come up with different ideas for your […]