Okay. I feel really weird saying this but, does anyone else feel pretty good about their WIP after a first draft? I'm my own worst enemy. If the story isn't working & I can't write in linear chapter to chapter flowing story, I drop it. Am I alone on this? #writingcommunity #writesky #writer #WIP

The #WIPSnips word "coach" is not in my #WIP so I went with "training" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #writing #editing

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” ❤️❤️❤️ ― Ray Bradbury Write from your heart, always, #turtlewriters ❤️🙂🐢🍀 #WritingCommunity

Torned. 😬😬😬 #amreading #reading #books #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #booklove #bookworm #writerslife #stories

The #WIPSnips word "phase" isn't in my #wip so i went with "time" #TheShadowsClaim #AmEditing #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, five dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #BluePit #A #H

I am currently in the final round of revisions of my cozy fantasy HEDGE MAGE FOR HIRE before querying. It features: - Chasing your dreams - Dad Issues - Friends to Lovers - Magical Animal Sidekick - A city built around a bottomless Pit - What truly makes you happy? #📖 #A #F #W #BluePit

Veil Of Starlight! Fantasy romance centered around Lu, the unclaimed son of a Queen and Sorrel, son of the court doctor. Reunited, they confront their past together. 💕2nd Chance Romance ⚧🏳️‍🌈LGBT+ Leads 💀🖤Dark Themes 💔PTSD ♿🩼Disabled Chars #BluePit #📖 #W #A #LGBT #OV #F #R #D #TR #VeilOfStarlight

A young girl, used by the government because she can sense other psychics, must piece together her own history before she and her kind are destroyed forever. #TheCanary #bluepit #YA

Imagine Calvin and Hobbes's classic Attack of the Mutant Killer Snow Goons, except the snow goons are 50 feet tall. And Calvin has A MECH. That's OLIVER ASTLEY AND SANTA'S GIANT ROBOT VERSUS THE ABOMINABLE SNOW BEASTS. A boy and Santa stop snow beasts from freezing everything. #BluePit #📖 #MG #F

🤫 Secret government agency ♥️ Slow burn romance 🔫 Fast paced action 🏃🏻 Man on the run 🇦🇹 Taking place in real locations in Austria🏔️ 🖋️~120k words #MasterWatch, a speculative spy thriller Coming soon. #BluePit #W #M #SP #Thriller #📖 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

The #WIPSnips word is "almost" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIP #FirstDraft #Romantasy #FantasyRomance

THE HUNGER GAMES x THE CRUEL PRINCE When 17-year-old Rawiya becomes the first mortal ever Casted into the deadly Light Bearer Trials in the Lands of Draoibeo, she must navigate treacherous court politics by weaponizing the one power no faerie possesses: the ability to lie. #BluePit #YA #F #Q #📖

Araceli has spent years running from the man she once loved. K'oro never expected to fall for a woman with secrets. When a dark god's influence threatens the family they've built, saving a child may cost them everything. #BluePit #📖 #A #R #F #FR #W #Editing

A runaway joymage and a battle-scarred warrior become an unlikely family to a powerful little girl. When the child's estranged father returns with dangerous secrets and impossible choices, love and loyalty are tested against shadow and sacrifice. #BluePit #📖 #A #R #F #FR #W #Editing

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #BluePit #📖 #YA #R #M #AG #OS #LGBT #Dis #OV

A TEMPEST OF TEA X LEGENDBORN When Brooke's power erupts, nearly killing the only two people she loves, she has two choices: find herself in the magic or lose them both. #Bluepit #📖 #Q #YA #F #ND

LIFE IS STRANGE x sapphic CEMETERY BOYS At an elite academy for the arts, Addie, a girl who can see ghosts, is recruited by the spirit of a former student to solve her decades-old murder before she fades away… for good. #BluePit #📖 #M #YA #LGBT #agented

He needs a job. She needs an engineer. The Kingdom needs a hero. It's THE THREE MUSKETEERS + GUNDAM in THE CATAPHRACT OATH, a #swashbuckling #clockpunk #mecha adventure! Wherein a countess hires a disgraced engineer to salvage an ancient war machine. Available on KU! #BluePit #P #SF #F

CITY OF BONES x THE DRESDEN FILES 🤷‍♀️ no memory of her past 🫆ex-dead investigate demonic crimes 🧙a handsome scruffy sorcerer that shares an unclear bond with the protagonist 🎭 a mafia controls which demons live and which die 🕵️ a trail of murders terribly similar to hers #A #BluePit #W #F #LGBT

The Goblin Emperor x The Jasmine Throne 🏜️🦓🏳️‍🌈🏇🧑‍🦽🌈👨‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍👨👩‍❤️‍👩⚡🌠⚖️ Heart of the Tiers A queer literary fantasy about grief, power, and the consequences of putting duty before self. #Q #A #F #LGBTQ #BluePit

Lila's had it. She has no future in today's world where nobody can afford anything and she can't get a job. So, she leaves our world for a magical one, and has to make a choice to go to 1 of 5 Magic Academies. The catch: don't get caught as human or she'll be sent back home. #BluePit #F #W #A

A lonely warrior never wanted a family. Then a runaway singer and her magical daughter stole his heart. Now he'll face gods, shadows, and his own fears to keep them. #BluePit #📖 #A #R #F #FR #W #Editing

While I am waiting a few days to jump into editing my 1st Draft Romantasy novel, I'm finishing the beats for Book 2. 🤫😂🥰 This is planned as a 4 book series but it's 100% fine being standalone too. (If I could Trad Pub & they only wanted 1 book, I'll fan fic the rest. 🤣) #writesky #writingcommunity

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Today's Prompt: Most likely to win in a fight! 🥇 - Zyler 🥈 - K'oro 🥉 - Araceli #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #AwesomeCharacters

Our Dungeons and Dragon campaigns have influenced a lot of my writings over the last few years. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #BluePitHype!

Oh. My. God. I just finished the first draft of my book!!! I feel proud and relieved and excited. I can't wait for the editing to refine and adjust but I'm really happy with my flow & the fact that I told the story the way I wanted! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky #wip #amediting #booksky

Look at me being all productive and creating my #BluePit pitches before the day of the event. (I think the first draft of The Shadow's Claim will be done by tomorrow night. 😱) Side note - Pitches are way easier to do when the book is written & not a concept! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky

Interact. Repost Do not obsess. Make your pitch memorable and dynamic to stand out. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG

Random Thought - I went through a phase that I used different programs to organize my #worldbuilding, etc. This time I just have a well organized file system of ~100 word documents and it's working out just fine. Different things work for different people, I guess #writingcommunity #writesky

people are aware that what satisfies one reader might not satisfy another reader and that's okay, right? because we all want different things from a book. we don't all have to like the same things. some of us get annoyed by different things. mind-blowing, i know. but it's true.

The #WIPSnips word is "attack" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIP #FirstDraft #Romantasy #FantasyRomance

Leave it pretty vague, please. Nothing pulls me out of a story more than 10 pages describing a wall. I know that sounds lame but I would rather have the characters experience the area rather than having something described with an overabundance of detail #pretendpanel #writingcommunity #writesky

The #WIPSnips - "substitute" is not in my #WIP so I chose "replaced" Honestly, every option I could think of was a stretch so I decided to just go with a passage I like. (I really love my MCs... they're so frustrating and adorable.) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The #WIPSnips word is "keep". Here is my entry. 😜 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I'm finally getting to write the only spicy scene in this book and I'm thrilled! It feels like a reward after 100k words. 🎉 (My only published short story was erotica so it's one of my favorite things to write.) I only have 4 more scene to write! #writingcommunity #writesky #romantasy #amwriting

No. I really don't. I just think of what story I want to tell and the tropes kind of sort themselves out. I honestly don't give it much thought at all. Once the story is in my head, I realize what box it fits into. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #pretendpanel

I write Fantasy Romance and I am often inspired by the #D&D characters. I started writing a million years ago. Like, literally, my ff.net user number is a little bit over 30,000. But I matured and now enjoy creating my own adventures. 😊 Let's be friends! #BluePitHype #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

So... where does one find a beta reader? I am willing to pay for one eventually but for now I just kind of want to find a reader who's willing to read a rough first draft and give me their general thoughts on the story, rather than a whole evaluation. #writingcommunity #writesky

The #WIPSnips word is "humid" which is not in my #WIP so I will choose "hot" instead. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

NGL... I'm in a bit of shock right now. I've written a LOT the past 2 days. (Nearly 6k words today alone). Most importantly, I wrote the scene that's the emotional hinge of the entire book & it works. I'm relieved & excited. I think I can finish draft 1 by next week! #writingcommunity #writesky

I used to be a pantser but not anymore. I am a planner and I LOOOOOOOVE planning now. World building, Magic Systems, Characters, Families Backstories It's so much fun to build and plan - In turn, making writing the story so much easier. #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt

The #WIPSnips word is "quarter" This word appears only once in my #WIP so here you go. LOL Also, it is some insight into the magic in my world. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The most difficult part of writing for me is crippling self-doubt. I will write and love it and then suddenly get in my head and think that no one whill ever like this so why try. It becomes a toxic circle. #SummerOfStories #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt

Just hit over 90k words on my #WIP - Goal is about 110-120k. I'm really really really proud of this. I usually get in my head and quit by now but I see the finish line and have a clear path so I will get there... and soon! #writingcommunity #WriteSky #WIP #WordCount #TheShadowsClaim

The #WIPSnips word is "bench" This is actually the first two paragraphs of my #WIP - #TheShadowsClaim. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting

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Everyone is saying how hot it is today in there neck of the woods. Times like this, I am glad I live where I do... #Alaska However, I would really take some sun over the rain currently coming down... #whereissummer #whyisfireweedalreadygrowing #fall #Imwearingalightjacket