PW NEWS

Weekly News and Updates #8

For Nov 22nd —30th & End of Nov Stats

Ravyne Hawke

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Promptly Written

12 min readDec 1, 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 during the month of November. Remember, 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. 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 month. 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🩸🩸🩸

I have surgery coming up on December 6th, but I will be out of contact with PW from the 5th-7th if everything fairs well. Alyse Rowe & Katrina D. will be on duty, but please remember that they both have their own lives to live and only help here part-time. So please be patient as you await your stories to be published. If all goes well, I should be back on duty on the morning of the 8th.
I am still having difficulties with Medium’s notification bell. If you have written something using a PW prompt and have NOT published it here on PW, please send me an email so that I do not miss it for upcoming newsletters. If you need to leave me an urgent message, email me. If you have questions about anything, email me. Some email programs allow you to mark your email as ‘Urgent’ or ‘Important’ so you may want to utilize those functions.

❗❗❗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 18 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 the following: Noticing Recent Changes in My Area, House of Gucci Movie Review, History Behind Rosemary’s Baby Movie, and Astroworld Festival 2021 Exposed. 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’ve also featured the November Gratitude Journals. The last week of these journals will be left up for another week, so stop by and check them out. They can be found right after the Fiction section and right before the Personal Essays 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 22nd-30th & End of November AT PW🟤

11,960 minutes spent reading YOUR stories

16,669 views of YOUR stories

220 unique viewers visiting PW

199 total writers (10 new since Nov 22nd)

399 stories published ( 123 new since Nov 22nd)

Congratulations on these wonderful stats. You all have made this happen!

🟣🟣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.

💥STORIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN NOV 22nd-30th 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 22nd — 30th, 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

PW WRITERS

NEW WRITERS FOR WEEK OF NOV 22nd-30th

PW NEWS

Weekly News and Updates #8

For Nov 22nd —30th & End of Nov Stats

Written by Ravyne Hawke