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Weekly News and Updates #7

For Nov 15th — 21st

Ravyne Hawke

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Promptly Written

11 min readNov 22, 2021

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Greetings PW Writers and Readers. The pub is open! Come on in for a drink and snacks. This is a bit of a long newsletter, so get yourselves settled in.

I want to thank all of you for your contributions, read time, and responses. Clapping and commenting on one another’s work is what makes PW a community. Let’s continue to encourage one another by visiting each others’ stories and supporting one another. I would hate to lose writers because they don’t feel like their work is being appreciated here on PW. Remember, your interactions here continue to make PW a success!

A big THANK YOU to my Editors, Alyse Rowe and Katrina D. for all your hard work this week. Thanks for lightening my load!

If you have any issues or questions about anything dealing with Promptly Written, feel free to contact me — Email: ravynehawke@gmail.com

🩸🩸🩸PERSONAL FYI🩸🩸🩸

All the recent doctor visits have reset my internal clock to more daytime hours *Ughs* It will probably take me another few days to get back to my normal sleep-all-day and up-all-night routines. I am truly sorry if this is affecting the publication of your stories. We, your editors, are still trying to get everyone published within a 24–48 hour window, or less.
Most things at PW should be back to ‘normal’ this week. I do not have any doctor or therapists appointments again until Nov. 30th.
As I mentioned in last week’s newsletter, I am still having issues with Medium’s Response Bell. Sometimes, I get all of my messages. Sometimes, I only get part of them. And every now and again, I don’t get any of them. Many days, I sit here watching it spin and singing “You spin me round, round, like a record, baby. Round, round.” — The glorious song by the 80s group Dead or Alive. So if you’ve written a response to me and I have not answered it, this is why. If you have something urgent or super important to let me know, please use my email address above and send me an email. Thanks!

❗❗❗EXCITING NEWS❗❗❗

Did you know that PW has FOUR Features? Well, we do! Check out the HOUSEKEEPING section below to find out how you can get a Featured spot on PW.

Marc Barham continues to delight us with his supernatural horror series The Noise. You can catch up on all parts (there are 15 parts now!) of it by following this link to the first part of the series. Each part is linked at the bottom of the page so you can move freely from one section to the next. If you like Vampires, Werewolves, and other supernatural beings, you will love this! Please stop by, read, clap, comment, and support Marc!
NIDAA has begun a series of flash fiction stories based on the theme “The Dots” and each story is unique and fascinating to read. So far, she has written five— A Never-Ending Love Story, The Healer, The Fallen Hour, The 1 Hour Call, Samuel’s Three-Time Dimensions. Please stop by, have a read, give a clap and leave Nidaa a supportive comment.
Our very own Fifi Leigh is writing reviews! This week Fifi has written reviews for three Alfred Hitchcock movies (The Birds, Vertigo, and Psycho) and a review on the new movie, Spencer, about Princess Diana. You can find all of her reviews after the Personal Essays section on the PW publication page. Please go have a read, clap, comment, and support her work.
We are also featuring the November Gratitude Journals. If you’d like to be a part of this feature, just journal about what you are grateful for during the month of November, and be sure to note somewhere in your essay or poem that this is part of the Grateful Heart prompt or Gratitude Journal. Please use the #essay or #poem tags for your piece. You can find the last two weeks of the gratitude journals on the PW publication page after the Fiction section.

I’ve started a new publication called Not For Bedtime Stories — Serials for Breakfast. Please visit the Submission Guidelines if you are interested in writing a Serial Fiction with an edge. Suma Narayan has begun her serial All My Sisters and I have begun my serial Revenge of the Ravens. Come check them out and get in on them at the beginning!

⚫⚫A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPING⚫⚫

New-To-Medium and PW Writers

You must adhere to Medium’s Terms of Service and Medium Rules. Read them. Memorize them. Do not violate them.
I’ve put up a better explanation on how to submit stories to a publication. You can view it here — Submitting Drafts and Citing Images
Please review the articles at Medium Help for the following:

Writing and publishing your first story
Create, edit, or delete a story
Using the story editor
Using images
Using embeds
Using tags
Custom titles & subtitles
Editor keyboard shortcuts
How to Mention someone in your story (called tagging)
How can I make a single-spaced line break? To make a single-spaced line break (as in poetry) go to the end of your line and press Shift + Enter at the same time. This is available only on desktop.
Emoji Cheat Sheet

4. ❗❗Please polish your stories.❗❗ Check for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. ❗❗Make sure your images are cited❗❗ Make sure you are using the appropriate tags :

#poetry for poetry
#fiction for fiction
#articles for articles and opinions/rants
#essay for personal essays, shortform, or creative non-fiction

5. To All Bi/Multilingual Writers — Yes you can write in your native language if you also translate it into English within the same story.

6. ❗Please only submit DRAFTS to PW❗. Do not publish on your page and then submit to PW. Submit to PW and I will publish the piece on my end. I’ve let this slide until now but moving forward, I will only publish your work if it is in DRAFT form.

7. How can you get a Featured section on PW? It’s quite simple. If you have a fiction series, fiction based on a single theme, poetry series, poetry based on a single theme, write reviews or articles on a single theme, you too can get a featured section on PW. Just email me with your idea and we will set you up with your own section. My email address is at the top of this newsletter.

🟤🟤STAT NEWS FOR NOV 15th-21st AT PW🟤🟤

14 new writers (191 total writers)

79 stories published

🟣🟣PUB NEWS🟣🟣

You can find all of the current prompts under PROMPTILICIOUSNESS. Feel free to browse the prompts past and present. You do not have to just use a prompt from the current day. Browse them all and find the ones that interest you.

When tagging your stories, please do NOT use the #PWprompt tag. That is for me to use for the daily, weekly, and monthly prompts. You may use #prompt or #writingprompts

If you are publishing your piece anywhere besides PW, please remember to Mention (tag) me (@ + Ravyne Hawke) in the BODY of your story so I can find your work. Do not tag me under the tag section for a publication. I will likely NOT find you that way.

If you are writing from one of the prompts, please leave a link to the prompt in the BODY of your story. Preferably at the end. Check out other writers’ formatting if you aren’t sure.

💥UPDATE💥: Shagufta figured out a way to submit to publications via her Smartphone. She tells you how here.

🙏HONOURABLE MENTION🙏

Back in July, our very own Nivetha krishnan wrote a beautiful article on the miracle of water. It is an excellent reminder to all of us to count our blessings for this wonderful, life-saving substance. Please stop by, have a read, clap, and comment. Show Nivetha some support!

Miracle of Molecules

Have you ever heard this riddle?

nivethakrishnan72.medium.com

💥STORIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN NOV 15th-21st At PW💥

POETRY

PERSONAL ESSAYS | CREATIVE NONFICTION | ARTICLES

💥💥STORIES PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE 💥💥

This is a list of stories writers published in other publications using PW Prompts!

NOTE: If you wrote a story using a PW Prompt during the week of Nov 15th — 21st, published it somewhere other than PW and I missed it, please leave a comment with the URL to your story so that I can read it and recognize your contribution in the next newsletter! I don’t always receive all of my notifications.

Thanks again everyone for contributing to PW this past week. Please take the time to read your fellow writers’ work. Claps and Comments are always appreciated. I look forward to more of your stories in the upcoming weeks.

Ravyne Hawke, EIC

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NEW WRITERS FOR WEEK OF NOV 15th-21st

PW NEWS

Weekly News and Updates #7

For Nov 15th — 21st

Miracle of Molecules

Have you ever heard this riddle?

Written by Ravyne Hawke