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October and November 2025 Recap and Publications

| December 4, 2025

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 43 Acceptances received: 4 Rejections received: 15 (+6) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 11 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 30 October and November wound up being very chaotic for me, with a lot of traveling, K-pop events, a wedding, […]

Fun for Friday: November 2025 Writing Prompts

| October 31, 2025

I’m not entirely sure where October went, but here we are at the end of the month, ready for the November 2025 writing prompts! This month, the first column comes from Kick in the Creatives. The second column is from Doodlewash. The third column is a new-to-me art challenge, Gouachevember. There’s a very small amount […]

November 2024 Recap

| December 5, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 60 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 25 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 16 New Submissions: 10 Stories out at the end of the month: 57 November was a little slow on the submissions front, in large part because I spent almost the entire first […]

My November 2024 Publications

| December 3, 2024

I had two new pieces out in November this year: a flash fiction story and a poem. My flash fiction piece was “We Dream in Color,” a post-apocalyptic story with queer characters, in Toad Shade Zine. This one came out of a one-hour flash fiction writing challenge and was inspired by an image of a […]

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 […]