#TimeTravelAuthors #Writesky #WritingCommunity #Readersky #AmWriting The Chronobasis Chronicles (my time travel WIP) Outlander + Katabasis myths (Persephone, Psyche, Orpheus) + Analytical Psychology (Freudian, Jungian)

#FantasyIndiesMaytober 29 My favorite villains are Jadis the White Witch, the Grand High Witch, Agatha Trunchbull, Serena Joy and Commander Fred Waterford, Rasputin, the Wicked Witch of the West, Saruman, the Beldam/Other Mother, Captain Hook, Count Olaf, Margaret White, Pennywise, & Randall Flagg

#QueerPrompts #Writesky #QueerWriting #Autism My MC Beth is a bisexual woman of the 20th century. I'm an aro ace bi-oriented aegosexual man of the 21st century. We're both autistic & fantasy obsessed, but Beth has it harder than me because she didn't have the help that I had in the late 90s.

#MayWorldbuilders Apart from our gracious host, I would like to give a shout out to @wizardhill.bsky.social @servantand.bsky.social @shailstonelaw.bsky.social @solarisstory.bsky.social They're wise, deep, wonderful, great minds & fellows of the writing trade. I'm but a candle next to them (the sun)

#MayWorldbuilders Graves or memorials Fairies do not have graves. Their bodies are burnt. Most families do not keep the ashes, but scatter them. Humans have graveyards and marker stones. The richer you are, or your family is, the better the marker.

#MayWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WorldBuilding #Writesky In the Nequinum world, on the Island of Scalot, they bury their dead in the sea: their coffins are hooded boats (like a hooded cradle), decorated with flowers and the deceased's personal belongings.

and the Republicans are pulling a Karen over this aka playing the victim So pathetic of them

#AwesomeCharacters Bethany Ivanoff is a stroppy brat & imperfect/flawed victim of her times. She takes things for granted, gets impatient, gets in trouble for giving people a black eye, etc. She knows how to behave though. Her journey teaches her discipline, particularly from her companion Adelais

#QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #Writesky #Writing #Amwriting Bethany's most favorite childhood toy is the doll, Lady Polly. Originally a boy doll, but her favorite aunt simply put a dress over it to make it a girl. Still bearing the mustache, making Lady Polly look androgynous.

#Mememay #WritingPrompts Paul Bettany as Sergei Ivanoff (the adopted father of Bethany the MC)

#FantasyIndiesMaytober 28 #WritingPrompts #Writesky Jennifer Connelly and her husband Paul Bettany as Ruth and Sergei Ivanoff (Bethany's adopted parents)

#FantasyIndiesMaytober Who would I cast for my book? I do not think along these lines, so I'm really at a loss for casting. Other than Manzanita is Tony Rice. The bluegrass guitar player, not the football player. So does anyone have casting suggestions? I'd love to see them.

#AwesomeCharacters Bethany is a girl/young woman. I made her so to follow the tradition of "girls traveling to other worlds" (like Dorothy, Alice, Wendy) And to express the vulnerability i have through her. Because there are times when I feel vulnerable as a woman.

#MayWorldbuilders Devastating wars The Battle of Brine Hill was the last major battle of the latest Fairy/Human war. Technically a Fairy victory, but the losses on both sides were high and the Humans showed their determination to fight no matter the devastating losses.

Why I have problems marketing my book series: 🧚 There are Fairies, but not your typical Fairies. 🏹It's an epic fantasy but focuses on dialogue and character moments, not big battles and fight scenes. 🌙Large cast of mostly women. 🔆Ceremonial magic! 💚💜🤍 www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

Chana is about a 3. Sometimes higher if her brother is around. Mathias is a 7, unless his sister or other women are in danger, then it's a 2. Rose is an 8 to anybody but Chana. With her it's a 5.

Hey all, If you'd prefer to read Daughters of the Digital Empire in epub format, it's free on the Internet Archive! archive.org/details/@d_d...

#AwesomeCharacters #Writesky I think for Bethany, its an 8 or 9 for when people are mocking her friends/family. Her bully, Blanche, knows this well. The moment Blanch started mocking Beth's parents (with an implication of adultery), Beth got riled up & punched Blanche in the eye.

#MayWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity #Writesky Each of my characters have different beliefs about after death. Some believe in an afterlife, some in reincarnation, & some believe we all return to earth. They're all equally valid. No better, No worse. & this coming from a writer of faith

#QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #Writesky As my WIP is a loose retelling of a fairy tale, Stinging Nettles are specific to the plot. They can break animal transformation curses.

#Mememay In my Cinderella retelling, the wicked stepsisters are a twist on the Madonna-Whore Dichotomy, both equally horrible. With Cinderella as both sensual & compassionate. And a creature that is a parasitic, predatory Manic Pixie Dream Girl who feeds on positive emotions, leaves victims broken

#FantasyIndiesMaytober Villain's successes Wingless has definitely succeeded in plunging the Fairy Realm into civil war and bringing the Human King mostly under his thumb. He's spread chaos through the Elen towns and almost succeeded in destroying the Exile Forest.

#FantasyIndiesMaytober 26 #WritingCommunity In my wip of The Nequinum Gests, the Immund Siblings (magician-demigods) have had successes in the past (magically stunting the world, starting plagues/famines, imprisoning gods, would-be rescuers & humans), until the Heroes showed up to defeat them.

Chana: not dead. Mathias: not dead. Rose: cold and tired but I'm on the right path.

#AwesomeCharacters That depends all on the context. If Bethany made a book sale, she'll respond with "I'm more than fine.... I'm overjoyed" If there's been a death in the family, she'll respond with either an honest answer or a polite lie.

#WritingPrompts #Fantasy #Tropes What would you think of a monster/creature that's basically a parasistic, predatory Manic Pixie Dream Girl? Meet the Sylphine-- a dangerous nymph who seeks out brooding/melancholic mortals, charms them with her quirks, feeds on their positive emotions & jilts them

#AwesomeCharacters #WritingPrompts In my current, the story stars with Bethany at age 13, and ends the story with her at age 19. Its a coming-of-age fantasy with Beth on a heroic quest that lasts for 7 years. I just that age partially to reflect on how I felt at 13, especially as an autistic kid

#FantasyIndiesMaytober Scary moments in WIP Toward the end of the Rose Book there are several scary moments. All involve Wingless. He is the most terrifying of my characters. Toward the end of book 2, Talia gets close, since maybe unconsciously she's imitating him.

#FantasyIndiesMaytober 24 #WritingPrompts #Writesky #Amwriting Does this sound scary at all? in your opinion?

#MayWorldbuilders #Worldbuilding #WritingCommunity #Writesky #Writing In the Nequinum world, some funerary rites involve keening, lighting incense or candles, offering libations & Amarant flowers (they never fade after being plucked & symbolize undying love). 🧵1/2

#QueerPrompts #Writersky #Writing I can only hope so. Most of the time, I feel like I'm a novice, like I'm still in creative writing class or grammar class.

#MayWorldbuilders #Worldbuilding #WritingCommunity In the Nequinum world, the closest they have is Atlantiadis, the intersex, nonbinary messenger deity serving as a psychopomp. They guide the souls of the dead to the underground to sleep undisturbed until their version of judgment day. 🧵1/2

This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️

#AwesomeCharacters A Romantic Fantasy. Something extremely cozy. I think Hailey enjoys the idea of magic, not necessarily what she's encountered in Lin J'Roe, but I think she generally likes the idea of it. A lot less danger, a lot more beautiful landscapes, tasty food, and smoochin'.

Very true

It's obviously unhealthy for people to think of celebrities as their friends or above critique but there are also people who think of them like Homer thinks about Flanders, where every innocuous thing someone does or says makes them go "she WOULD say that, that BITCH"

#MayWorldbuilders #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts For the Fae of the Otherworld, death is all part of the cycle of life, and rebirth. The Fae have no fear of damnation, as they return to nature and return in another form, be it air, fire, flower, stone, or raindrop.

QTP with a red-haired girl!

#AwesomeCharacters Bethany already enjoys the genre she's in, a fantasy. And she would always pick it.

#Mememay My MC, Bethany Ivanoff, would definitely love this song by Seanan McGuire youtu.be/Re0YzKE-4xc?...

#FantasyIndiesMaytober 22 #booksky #adaptation I thoroughly enjoyed Netflix's adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events. I especially enjoyed Walden Media's adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.

#TimeTravelAuthors 21 #Writesky #WritingPrompts #Booksky In my wip ("The Chronobasis Chronicles"), the time-traveling Heroine, believing her love interest & his crew have been killed, wanders the snowy fields until she's rescued by her paternal ancestors, kind-hearted Protestant Irish folk. 🧵1/?

From Fairy Court in Exile Before this moment, Titania was asking what Min and Elanor wanted to be called since they had rejected the title of 'Lady.' And then important things start happening.

#FantasyIndiesMaytober Villain's family Wingless has a messed-up family. His father was part of the rebuilt blood cult, which was destroyed during the era of the Exile Queen. His mother is unknown at this point, but she probably did not survive his birth or long after. (more)

#Mememay 21 Using a GIF, give us an out-of-context spoiler for your WIP 🤫

#FantasyIndiesMaytober 21 #WritingCommunity #Booksky The villains of my current WIP are a mother & son duo. The Fairy Queen & Prince of chaos, discord, strife, folly, ruin, & destruction. The Prince's father was the mortal Henry VIII. Their relationship is weird, with them sharing "companions"