#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Have I thought of how people could possibly make bread in this place? Yes I have. Is this bread actually good? Probably not by our standards 😅 From #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

It’s autumn, and the leaves are aflame! Itty bitty autumn dragon stickers ♡ #artshop

#WIPSnips | dodge Silver in the Ashes, and Amelia getting frustrated with Viola for doing her job (since, y'know, Viola's her bodyguard as well as her maid [and her big sister in everything but blood]) ( saranadosfiction.com/2021/08/07/s... )

#WIPSnips | dodge From my post-apocalyptic #WIP w/ a misfit trio of kids. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amwriting

The crew's bar becomes a safe haven during a terrible riot. 'Arisen' is the polite term for zombies, like Bob and his team, who find the z-word to be a slur. From an action-comedy novel about a girl, a robot, and the heist crew they call family. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📖

#pretendpanel it used to be revision. It's only the last year that I've started to feel quite genuinely excited about revision and capable of doing it. Now it's probably the mere idea of doing any social media author stuff other than right here on bluesky (and sometimes even here I get overwhelmed!)

Spencer meets a lovely lady named Heather. 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

#PlotTober 18 While lost outside Arx Lucis, Clara will discover that it's not the evil, degenerate place full of human monsters she thought it was. There's a massive culture shock, but the people are just... *people*. Some are even kinder than those she knew back in the city. That plus meeting...🧵

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Nothing like a little sword practice to get the blood flowing, if ya know what I mean 😏 From Book 2 of my #Atlantis trilogy.

Atl literally leaves the Hive, the only place he’s ever known. He has never seen the outside world, only heard stories, and he’s not even sure *where* the Hive is in relation to the rest of civilization, and he is totally on his own until he meets— Ballard, who metaphorically leaves his+ #PlotTober

#AwesomeCharacters Generally if Mireia's mad at you, she'll make sure you know in the moment. But if you harm someone she loves, she'll make your life hell, even at her own risk. Kena can absolutely hold a grudge, even more than Mireia. But he's the type to bottle it in & unperson you in his mind.

Obsessive grudge-holding is one of Alexander's defining characteristics. This whole series is the story of a grudge. His compassion, love of justice, and hatred of bullies contain how badly he BEHAVES due to a grudge, but he's definitely stewing inside. And maybe not fairly—the reader can decide.

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

It can’t be a coincidence that the White House and its minions have joined bluesky the day before the No Kings protest. Do not engage. Block. Protect your peace and what’s left of this space.

#PlotTober I worry I don't have traditional Acts, so these transitions may not fall where they're "supposed" to! But 1661 does seem to want to divide into thirds, and 1→2 does happen to be when Alexander moves from home to a long stay at the neighbors', midst strangers and their unfolding drama.

#PlotTober 17 These latest prompts are really giving my pantser brain a workout. I'm thinking this will happen as they leave the more traditional path through the fens, which follows the road and river, to actually cut across a swatch of wild country. 🧵 #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #Wrencer

#pretenpanel I have so many characters that are adrift because I got bored and moved on to a shiny new story. One that I'd really like to get back to is Jessa and Bran, soldiers in the Orphan Army. It was an ambitious story structure and... 🧵 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

Happy #AwesomeCharacters! Despite Edie's anxiety always keeping her focused on future what-ifs, she's very much a creature of the Now; she can make plans and wait on them, but that makes even more anxiety. Her default is more to react on what's around her at that moment. Milo is much more patient+

Happy #PlotTober 17! In order to explore the mysterious illness and the Weird Happenings, Edie is going to have to get more familiar with a piece of Bludeye folklore that still terrifies her, and use those pieces to mark a path to the "why" instead of just "who".

More fun questions. 🥰 So, Mana to me feels like an impatient person tempered by her indecisiveness. The most natural of slowfasts. Mori, I think, is more moderate on patience. Things need to be planned well to be executed well, which requires time, but there's some things he can get impatient on.

#AwesomeCharacters Mireia is generally pretty impatient. It goes along with her overall impulsive, "untamable" nature. She isn't good at holding back or waiting for a more opportune moment; she wants to take action *now.* Funnily enough, the big exception to this is her relationship with Kena, 🧵

Daemrin is the most impatient motherfucker. He can't wait for anything to save his life. Lex has far more patience than him, except when she's anxious, then she's about the same. In his case, he just hates sitting around waiting to do stuff. He gets bored easily.

#AwesomeCharacters Spencer is very patient. Patient enough to wait out Wren's stubborn moments when she doesn't want to admit he's right. Patient as the grave, some might say. (it's me, I'm some) Wren on the other hand... #Wrencer #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#PlotTober Day 16: Inciting Incident The inciting incident for Josh is when he finds The Door. Walking home after being kicked out of his sister's engagement party, he takes a shortcut down an alley near his apartment. He finds a door (details pending) that he doesn't remember being there before.🧵

#PlotTober 16 My inciting incident at the end of Act 1 is when Clara gets lost outside of Arx Lucis, starting the twins on their diverging paths. By now Mem & Clara have passed their exams. Mem is a Shepherd & Clara is a Paladin, both on their first missions, which both go horribly wrong... 🧵

In SpaceWIP, the inciting incident is when Lex witnesses her father murdering her mother. It's what makes her realize she is not safe even in her own home. She runs away without a plan, knowing only that she must get help. #PlotTober

For Atl, it’s when his sister Aleli murders his secret-one-time-fling-but-there-was-chemistry-lover the morning of the tournament where they were supposed to fight each other to the death. Atl loses it and kills (eats) her, and realizes that he can’t stay in this hive and become a monster #PlotTober

#PlotTober 16 Hmm. Well, I think it's when Wren & Co. visit an Inn and find the Magnus's men searching for them, so Wren leads everyone away to stay with a contact she has in the little town. That was her plan all along, but the soldiers help clinch it. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #Wrencer

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommmunity #writers #writesky 🪟 From #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.

#WIPSnips #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #might Drisal is suffocating. In Chapter One. - Brother’s Keeper, book one of my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power.

That weird thing Morgan can do really messes with detection abilities with enough exposure. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

October 16th – might On cleanliness. Fox really needs to freshen up a bit. CW: blood #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The ND tendency to answer rhetorical questions. Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Me: Yes, please, I would like that.

#WIPSnips | might Back in Blood on the Snow, and Sabbat making a decision that's very much going to come back and bite him ( saranadosfiction.com/2020/07/16/b... )

G'morning #WIPSnips. We have something from TLC, but might need to move back over to Clipper again at some point. Progress is stalled, and i think it will be till next month. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Using 'authority' a brief description of two of the ruling families in the squabbling state of Laith. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips "Hope" from Fight or Flight Anything *can* be dangerous. It's all a question of context…

Wren and Spencer are on the road out of Fenholt. 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

Happy #WIPSnips 16 - Might! From Edie's first night in BLUDEYE BEACH, after meeting her estranged father and grieving her grandmother.

NoaF needs more contributors. Maybe that could be you? If not, we'd really appreciate a share, or if you fancied passing the link across to someone who might be interested, so we can keep on covering as wide a ground in SFF as we can.

Ah ha ha ha ha (okay, so Mortimer's a soldier, Archer used to be one, Viola's a servant, and Fest's very young and terminally anxious, but the reason I'm laughing is Sabbat. There's a reason "ain't t'you t'tell me what t'do" is a fairly common kneejerk response of his, after all)

Tok is good at taking orders, but as of late he's mostly been the one giving orders. Duggy would rather avoid following orders, especially if he doesn't agree with them. He's more of the "do just enough to go unnoticed" type of person.

#AwesomeCharacters Mireia is all rebel, 💯💯💯 She hates taking orders so much, she will knowingly do something detrimental to herself just because someone ordered her not to. This is a core element of her personality. She does get more rational about it as she gets older, but it's just who she is.

#AwesomeCharacters Ashrah won't follow orders unless she's somehow forced to or respects the other creature's ability to lead. A commander with multiple victories under her sleeve, she *is* great at making tactical decisions... unless they have to do with dealing with people and feelings.

#AwesomeCharacters Wren is TERRIBLE at taking orders. Sometimes, she doesn't even listen to herself. She can follow the lead of someone she trusts, especially if it involves something she is not an expert on (like Spencer and the undead). Spencer... 🧵 #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Wrencer

This is a fun question. Mana wants to be given orders. She wants to be told what to do and go with the flow. It's entirely from a place of uncertainty and lack of confidence. Mori is not keen on taking orders, will avoid it if he can, and prefers self-directing rather than giving orders to others.

#PlotTober At the midpoint of The First Mate and the Dryad's Daughter 🦜💚🌴 Daphne starts to see Iona as a powerful whirlpool she could drown in if she doesn't try to escape. She's not wrong in that, but it's more because Daphne doesn't know herself well enough yet. Iona's not doing it on purpose. 🧵

#PlotTober Day 15: The midpoint I think the midpoint of Josh's story will come at a real low point for him, both personally and in his mission. The PI that altJosh hired has been getting closer to him, and the woman he has been falling for is getting suspicious about his unusual behavior. 🧵

#PlotTober 15 I think my midpoint has to be the twins meeting each other again after being separated for a long time. Clara got lost outside of Arx Lucis in the inciting incident, and has since been trying to get back into the city, while Mem works inside the city to get the means to save her...🧵