Spencer, Wren, and Bruce hunt a necromancer. From my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer

#Smutcember 5 Like others have said, I love to incorporate banter and YEARNing. Little accidental touches and the effect they have on the characters. All of that is integral. But I also think it's crucial to think about WHY these people are attracted 🧵 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

TIL today is #nationalcookie day (thanks, @carska36.bsky.social !) so here's a snip from RETURN TO BLUDEYE BEACH, where MC Edie is reminiscing on the power of generational recipes ❤️🍪 #writesky #writingcommunity

#Smutcember 5: So I LOVE writing banter, flirting, teasing, just characters talking to each other. My first edit pass I usually have to cut big swaths of conversation where I got carried away having a good time. But what stays often contributes significantly to building chemistry. (1/3)

You know, #smutcember, I think about this a lot, especially as I read other people's works where even simple eye contact is simmeringly erotic (how many times am I going to tag @austinsgrace.bsky.social in these posts 😅). I feel like I have room to grow in that direction. But on to what I do >>>

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I finally managed to draw a new version of Spencer I like as much as my new version of Wren. They look so cute together. ❤️😚❤️ #Wrencer #Art #OC #CharacterArt

#AwesomeCharacters So, for the crew: Archer - rents rooms in a decent area of the city Sabbat - lives in a garret on the top floor of a tavern/thieves' kitchen/brothel Viola - has a room in her employers' house Fest - lives in halls at the uni Mortimer - rents a room in a poorer area of the city

#AwesomeCharacters #ChroniclesOfTheRealms Nitara spends a lot of time aboard the Vermilion Star alongside her crew, which includes her daughter, Askaly. In Orasan, she lives in House Coliary's mansion alongside Askaly and her mother, Kazomira. Both her and Askaly want to move out but haven't (1/5)

#AwesomeCharacters Spencer lives in a rectory beside his chapel. It belongs to the church, but he's lived there all his life because his grandfather was the priest before him. He lives with his acolyte, Elton, who inherited Spencer's childhood bedroom. 1/2 #Wrencer #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips | city Towards the end of Silver in the Ashes, and Sabbat having a conversation that... might not be happening? Or, at the very least, isn't happening where and how he thinks it is. (Yes, I'm being deliberately cryptic here. Spoilers :P ) ( saranadosfiction.com/2025/01/18/s... )

City → village | To struggle and to fail, is there any greater disappointment? Vashad finds himself in the last place he wanted to be... #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #bvm #bipoc #amwriting #Fantasy #SFF

December 4th – city #AnthropomorphicNovel, today! We check back in with Ray and Tom trying to catfish a serial killer (of sorts). But Ray also likes to have a backup plan. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips 4. "City" We all know where Askaly ends up and where that leads her, but where would *you* go?! #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #BattlemageAskaly #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

A short snip from the end of the book, subbing in “town” for “city.” Is there anything better in this world than a true friend? ❤️ #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying 📚💙

If it's not cringey sounding I don't want it, Mana's being dramatic to open this whole thing up. (I'm gonna hold onto these lines no matter what future changes hold, idc.) #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips

#Smutcember 4: Boring answer today, but it's pretty much a circle. 😆 What can I say, I like what I like!

#smutcember it's mostly a circle, most of the time, but I will read wider. I don't write mlm (yet) but I'll read the heck out of ones that I click with

#Smutcember i think like i said yesterday my biggest difference is that i’ll read a higher level of smut than i usually write 🤷 in terms of partner configurations/genres i can’t think of any radical differences

I don't really read smut recreationally. It's mostly games or roleplay. If I was to compare that to writing public works, then it's very separate as I said before. My public works are pretty damn tame and vanilla in my honest opinion. While privately it can be a little more adventurous.

It's more or less a circle for me. I don't branch out much beyond my own interests, which probably makes me kind of boring. 😅 #Smutcember

#smutcember 4: I write romantasy(?) in a very marketing-unfriendly voice and I include elements (and implements lol) that don't often appear outside of erotica but my tone isn't very sexy. And while I'd love to have an entire library like this, being hard to sell makes others equally hard to find.

#Smutcember 4 Yes. I read a lot of monster romances and haven't written one. Yet. I have something in the works. It's sitting on the pile of a dozen WIPs I have yet to finish. 🙃 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Wren reflects on the past. From book 2 of my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer

I said you don't know what a treat you're in for, but actually... you *can* know, if you're keen >>>

Plan for the rest of December: - Learn everything I can about self-publishing. (Advice/tips/tricks welcome!) - Reread TD Draft 5. - Do a final pass/proofreading draft (Draft 6). - Batch make Instagram marketing posts for January. - Rest and refill my creative well by reading books & playing games.

Erm, I finished all the edits. The whole book. Total word count is 86,588. I guess I'll leave it for a week, then read everything again from start to finish, making any tweaks/adjustments to the new additions. Then it's time for the final pass/proofreading. 😳 #WritingCommunity #AmEditing #AmWriting

#AwesomeCharacters #SayaAshrah Well, the first creature that Ashrah respected as a fighter and even a sort of mentor was Azzer'fir, the devil known as Paragon of Agony. While theirs wasn't the first army she fought in, it was the one she remained the longest and became an integral part of, (1/4)

Jason and Ayana met at a bar. She was celebrating the end of her residency with friends from med school, and he had just completed a job for a very prestigious client. They caught sight of each other from across the room, and he bought her a drink. It was instant chemistry.

I'll have some fun with this (multiple). 👀 Mana met Fioné in college. Fi pivoted her major in junior year to find a way to get away from home for good and shared a class with Mana in her freshman year. Despite the stereotype Fi can fit based on appearance, she's actually quite brilliant. 🧵1/7

#AwesomeChracters Well, Spencer and Wren meet for the first time when he digs her up in a grave. The Blackboots had buried and left her there for an hour or two, just to teach her lesson. Luckily, Spencer got to her first. #Wrencer #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

#AwesomeCharacters #Tenement: Noah already knows most of the major characters before the story starts, at least distantly. So his first "meeting" with Mr Gellar, the Librarian who becomes a mentor figure to him, isn't technically a first meeting. He'd seen Mr Gellar before & already knew who he was

#AwesomeCharacters #Charagma - Mem first meets her future LI/enemy Light at a hidden away "pleasure club" that her sister Clara drags her to (it's literally just a regular club with dancing & drinks, but Arx Lucis is Puritan city so it's seen as ~sinful~). Mem loses Clara in the crowd & starts

#AwesomeCharacters #Atlantis - I can't decide if I want to talk about Mireia's first meeting with Kena or Icozoue, so I'm gonna do both (neither are great 😂) The first time Mireia meets her future mentor Icozoue is at a large feast where all the candidates for Sea Mother & Sun Father are gathered,

December 3rd – dominant (dominance) Fox finds herself in need of backup, so she is attempting to explain the problem to a very suspicious imperial spymaster. #DawnsBlood #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips 3. "Dominant" (dominance) From the first time that Ashrah wields the Eternal Flame—a great risk that she takes... to save Sareena. #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Vibes today! Xa'aba usually at least *pretends* to be respectful of Mireia & Kena, but here the mask slips... Won't be the last battle in their struggle for dominance 😬 From Book 1 of my #Atlantis trilogy.

Wren has a conversation with the big bad, Magnus Var Krugan. From book 2 of my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer

I had the opportunity to ARC read this book and I loved it. it was a captivating mix of navigating young adulthood and friendship / love with a thrilling dash of mystery and horror. #BludeyeBeach #hqpress #books #booksky

#Smutcember 3: I tend to prefer writing smut because of the aforementioned control it gives me in tailoring the experience to my tastes. For similar reasons, my next favorite way of engaging with smut is probably through video games. (1/3)

#Smutcember hm! i do tend to write a lower level of smut than my reading tolerance ceiling, so i do like engaging with higher-level spice by reading other authors’ works to be continually learning about how it can be used in different purposes than i tend to employ 1/

I’ll be honest, after decades of wading through fanfiction and published books of varying quality, I prefer writing smut to reading it. That way, I can tailor it to exactly how I like it. That said, I’ve read some great smut recently. #Smutcember

#Smutcember 3 Don't have strong feelings one way or the other, tbh. I have definitely spent a lot more time in my life reading it than writing it, but in terms of enjoyment, I'd have to say writing is more fun... just because it's *my* characters 😊

#Smutcember 3: I don't know that I have a preference. Smutty scenes are fun to write AND to read, but are usually a small section of a much larger story. And I enjoy all the parts of a well crafted story, whether I am writing or reading it. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#DecemberWorldbuilders I'll go with Anatasia and Makariy Romashenko this time. 😁 These two are/were prominent biochemists that began Illuminos Bioworks in 1001 after years of university lab work with the backing of a very wealthy sponsor, Amvrosiy Lukovic Illyuzov. 🧵1/8

It's official; BLUDEYE BEACH will be released early 2026 😄 This book is incredibly near and dear to me, and this all feels so surreal! Thank you to everyone who has supported me in this journey ❤️ (Graphic is not the actual cover; that will get its own reveal 😘) #writingcommunity #hqpress #writesky

Bluemoose Books of the year! The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social - short listed - The Orwell Prize The Orange Notebooks @susannacrossman.bsky.social Beast by @luluallison.bsky.social Celeste by Colette Snowden Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers. Here's Hetha in a hat!

#AwesomeCharacters Wren enjoys reading. Fenholt has cheap paperbacks that are color coded by genre. Pink = romance, green = adventure, blue = mystery, gray = ghost stories, and so on. She loves reading any of those, but her favs are cheesy romances. #Wrencer #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Nush is a phenomenal artist, and I highly recommend taking a look at her portfolio to see if something catches your eye. She draws frogs exceptionally well too! 🐸

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