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May 2026 Recap
By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 29 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 33 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 My May numbers are a little late, because I had thyroid surgery at the end of May and have
The Big Pink Book Prompt 4: Magical Books
The next prompt in the Big Pink Book is a simple page with a single, larger sticker that depicts books (four stacked, one open, some plant clippings, and a purple liquid in a corked bottle. Of the books in the stack, only two have titles showing. The higher one is The Hymn of Transformation, while the
Fun for Friday: The Big Pink Book of Prompts, “It’s Funny …”
Time to share what I did with prompt 3 from the Big Pink Book! I’m not much of a puns person, so I took the “It’s funny” prompt and came up with some first sentences connected to that. Even though there were 20 dots on the page, I only wrote 10 sentences, since some took
The Big Pink Book Prompt 3: It’s Funny …
The third prompt in the Big Pink Book is another list-making prompt, this time themed around some puns and an intro of “It’s funny.” The puns, in the stickers to the right, are: “You are deer to me,” “Love you a latte!,” “That’s bananas” (with the bananas as an image), “No Prob-llama,” and “Donut worry.
Fun for Friday: June 2026 Writing Prompts!
We’re already to the last weekend of May, which means it’s time for the June 2026 writing prompts! This month, the first column comes from Doodlewash’s June 2017 World Watercolor Group prompt list. This list is very themed toward summertime and very normal. But it could be interesting to think about what this modern world

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