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Fun for Friday: Weird November History

| November 8, 2024

Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! This month, check out “Not Just Turkey: 12 Surprising Things & Weird Holidays That Have Happened in November“! While only half of the entries are historic events, there are still some interesting things included among them! This History Extra article […]

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 […]

Fun for Friday: November 2024 Writing Prompts

| November 1, 2024

It’s time for the November writing prompts! The lists I looked at for this month were definitely thinking autumn, so I changed it up a little bit with one very non-autumn list! Column 1 is from the Doodlewash November 2024 Art Challenge. It’s got a number of autumnal words, but it’s also got a nice […]

My November 2023 Publications!

| December 7, 2023

I had four new pieces out in November of this year! My flash fiction piece, “The Train Station That Knows What You Need,” came out in Cafe Irreal. This story is super special to me because while we were in Japan back in May, we came VERY near to the train station in question. Sadly, […]

November 2023 Recap

| December 5, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 100 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 55 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 44 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 86 November was a busy month with NaNoWriMo, and unsurprisingly, my submissions suffered a bit. I only wrote two new […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, November 2023 Edition

| November 8, 2023

Reading: Bunches of books to review. I’ve gotten a lot of short story collections, either as anthologies or single-author collections, which are some of my favorite things to read, for the length and the variety! Watching: Not quite as much as usual, though we caught up on season 2 AND 3 of Reservation Dogs. Now […]

Fun for Friday: November 2023 Writing Prompts

| October 27, 2023

November is nearly here! While for many writers, that means National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), sometimes prompts can still be a vital part of the process. If you get stuck on any given day, you can pop over here to see the three words for the day and see if any of them give you […]

New Pieces out in November 2022

| December 8, 2022

This past month saw publication of a short story, a couple of pieces of flash fiction, and a poem! “Chrysopoeia,” a flash fiction piece about a charlatan and the person who reveals him for what he really is, appeared in The Dire Dark, which is an anthology of dark fantasy pieces. My short story “Easy […]

November 2022 Recap

| December 6, 2022

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 65 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 63 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 2 Resubmissions: 76 New Submissions: 8 Stories out at the end of the month: 74 This month looks pretty similar to last month on most fronts, though I had a lot more resubmissions (getting […]

Fun for Friday: Thirty Writing Prompts

| November 18, 2022

November may be halfway over, but I recently found this list of November writing prompts and really liked what they included! You could get started on them now, save them for another month with 30 days, or just randomly choose a prompt to use (through a random number generator or just picking a favorite number) […]