Read my review of Eve by B.K. O'Connor on Goodreads! (Seriously, you NEED to check out this book once it comes out February 10th! One of the best literary novels I'll read all year.) #booksky www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#awesomecharacters #writesky #writingcommunity Usually when I give characters names, they are placeholders that stick. There are a few times when getting the name right is important, like with Dr. Ben Ngo (Binh is a common Virtnamese name, often anglicized to Ben).

My YouTube algo can no longer figure out what I want so it just shows me shit I've watched ten seconds of, like a fussy aunt trying to get me to eat more of the gross lasagna she brought to the potluck.

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts Jim in denial, trying to convince himself that he doesn't have schizophrenia

Is it cringe here to celebrate your follower count? I don't care, I'm very pleased that I'm over 500, even though a few of them are probably inevitably bots too.

#writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity Jim's son Dylan explains his "little toys" (which become a bit of an important plot point later on...)

#awesomecharacters #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts Jim makes (and breaks) lots of promises, mostly to his son and himself. He won't (or can't) deal with the underlying trauma that makes him break so many promises, though, and it leads to a vicious cycle of self loathing.

I do! My story "Unicorn Farm" was published in the Autumn 2025 edition of The Colored Lens short story anthology. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTL7GQV...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity Jim is always having problems with his managers, it seems

A fake romance on a queer dating show spirals off-script when the golden boy falls for the villain—and choosing love means blowing up the finale. [ALT: filmstrip collage of two men holding hands, rises, champagne, a villa, and a clapperboard] #bluepit📖 #A #R #Q #OV #lgbt

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 Mean Girls X Practical Magic With Surfing When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a plan to steal it back—betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic. #BluePit📖 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch

#bluepit📖 #q #a #f THE MESSENGER Parable of the Sower x Paradise Lost The Archangel Gabriel was not meant to fall. But an unapologetic human witch, and Gabriel's own doubts in God’s plan, will break his faith beyond repair as the apocalypse closes in around them.

Listen to the snail. 🐌

"Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.”

#bluepithype #writesky #writingcommunity I don't have much experience with querying, but something I hear from lots of agents is that authors simply send them manuscripts that aren't in a genre they represent. So please don't do that, lol. Don’t waste everyone's time, yours and theirs.

#wipsnips #writingcommunity #writesky Jim brings his rat Retsu to meet his son Dylan for the first time and well... things don't go so great...

#bluepit #writesky #writingcommunity Cliche, but Gabriel and Miranda come to love each other, not just through trauma bonding but through learning they can count on each other with thier lives.

#bluepit #writesky #writingcommunity Gabriel is afraid of losing his connection to God, of being led astray. Miranda is afraid of having to betray herself and go back to the religion she left in order to survive.

#bluepit #writesky #writingcommunity Gabriel: angels are not meant to be proud of anything, but later on he prides his ability to handle new challenges. Miranda: her teens were hard and she's very proud to have gotten into college and a job she loves.

#wipsnips #writesky #writingprompts #writingcommunity Jim's past always seems to have a way of coming back to him.

#pretendpanel #writingcommunity Well, since I've finished a first draft and edited nearly 30k words off of it (!) I have a much better idea of how long scenes should be and how much I can shave off and still have a good story. I'm much better now at killing my darlings without remorse 🔫😈

#Bluepithype #writingcommunity #writesky I feel like this piece called The Other Side by Dean Cornwell sums up The Messenger very well. I'd love to use it as a cover, if I went down the self pub route.

I never entirely understood Discord. It looks like a chat room of yore, or a forum, but I don't understand how the tabs work? I'm eternally confused when I try to use it. Another symptom of becoming elderly (late 30s)??

#awesomecharacters I haven't talked about Miranda much (The Messenger). She has a complicated and strained view of motherhood. She's never wanted kids, her dad kicked her out for having an abortion, but she might find herself reckoning with that choice again.

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity I haven't done one of these in a while, time to start again! Jim has an argument with his sister about going to therapy.

We had to send our bunny Phoebe over the rainbow bridge today. 🌈 She was nearly 13, ancient for a bunny. She let us know she was ready; she wouldn't eat, her liver and kidneys were shutting down, stopped cleaning herself. She'd gone blind as a bat years before. She was the best bunny ever.

New bed: built and slept in New review: written and posted New chapter: I'll get to it god dammit

Read my review of Don Schechter's "Ascendants" on Goodreads (available March 24th 2026) www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Well I won't be writing this weekend because our BED BROKE. We spent the evening tearing apart the old bed and we'll be spending tomorrow putting together a new one.

#pretendpanel I started writing fanfics during my second pass through college in about 2012/2013. Then I started writing original stuff just a few years ago.

Feeling like a slug. I haven't written anything in more than a week. Gotta get back in the groove this weekend

I gotta get that American hustle culture out of my brain. It's OK to just enjoy learning about something, I don't have to somehow make it profitable or even write a book about it.

#awesomecharacters #writesky #writingcommunity Jim isn't a holiday guy, but I think he would like Halloween: trick or treating with his son without other family involved. The angel Gabriel: Christmas is obvious, but he'd have a special place in his heart for Mawlid too

Me when I get a chore coat for Christmas:

I'm getting whiplash reading "The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching" by Thich Nhat Hahn and "The Rasputin File" by Edvard Radzinsky at the same time. Two VERY VERY DIFFERENT kinds of holy men.

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts Jim has an emotional moment at an impromptu therapy session with Ben.

Sudden obsession with Rasputin: honest interest or procrastinating doing research for my current WIP? Can it be both?

I am now OOooold... two days ago, I spent 30 minutes kneeling on the floor, wrapping presents. Two days later, my hips still hurt.

Check out my ARC review of Meat Bees by Dane Erbach! This is my first ARC review I've ever done through Netgalley. I highly recommend it if you like getting free books to gossip about before anyone else! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts Ben finds Jim in a bit of a precarious situation, Jim tries to make small talk instead.

#pretendpanel I want to finish editing and finally query The Messenger. And if I don't get any bites that year then I'll probably give up on that book lol.

#awesomecharacters I'm a sucker for dream sequences. Jim has a lot of "visions" that are basically dream sequences/ short stories.

#writingcommunity I have a version of my WIP saved as themessengerround3_final_sendthisone.docx and I still don't think it's the final version...

I have a bad [read: totally no market for it] book idea bouncing around in my brain and it won't leave me alone. Do you want to know what it is? I don't care, I'll tell you anyway.

I think it's weird that "beating someone down" and "beating someone up" have basically the same meaning.

#writingprompt Ack, I would answer this question for both of my WIPs but they're huge spoilers! I do feel, though, that point usually naturally arrives smack in the middle of the book, doesn't it?

I got an ebook TBR list 10 years long and I'll keep adding til I die... #booksky #tsundoku

I think I may be incapable of writing a first draft under 100k