#LoreOutLoud Every now and again, I'll hit that old chestnut of "who tf will care about this?" But I know better than that. I have people who care about my writing a lot. That matters.

Morgan traced her thumb over the weeping cut, mindful of the renewed ache her touch could bring. But a minute or two of their time was all it took for the wound to close and a few remnants of magic sparked like snapping embers off a log. - A Dance of Bow & Blade #SundaySnippet

Hello #SundaySnips! Here is my instance of 'renew' from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revision

#SaturdaySnippet I was going to say I'm probably not going to change this as it's just a silly alternate timeline thing I'm writing, but now that I've spotted that damned modern cliché in there I might change that lol... (P.S. revenge does come swiftly, in the form of an over-exuberant doggo)

#LoreOutLoud This year's exploration is one of extremes, and yet they are linked: - how to take the fight to corrupted institutions ✊️ - how to be gentle and loving to oneself and those one loves 🫂

#LoreOutLoud I am a mix between panster and planner. I come up with a general outline then do whatever I want instead but somehow still get to the conclusion… 😅

I'm a discovery writer who uses a map (outline). While the majority of my stories come from discovery/pantsing, I do work off of a light outline now to give me an idea of where I need to go. #LoreOutLoud #WriteSky

#queerwriters check in: Today is my last chance to hand in an important application, for which I have done maybe 25% of the work. But it makes sense that I'm running behind on that, given life events. Have to crank that out today and get back to the nice gentle sustaining stuff tomorrow 💖

#SapphicLineShare - 01/02 *start* From "the Manor," a dark sapphic jaguar shifter/witch romantasy novella. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #Writers #QueerWriters #ButchFemme

#sapphiclineshare Sesi's parenting skills are questionable. #lesfic #sapphic

#SapphicLineShare 2. "Start" Sorry to hear about the (likely) pneumonia, and hope you'll feel better soon 🤞🏽 A bit late to this, but I should have more Ashtara chaos to share now that we're officially in "their chapters" 👀🔥 #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah #CaptainNitara #Lesfic #QueerWriters

a day late but oh well #SapphicLineShare #QueerWriters #WritingPrompt #WritingCommunity

From Monster Realm Short Stories Collection: #WritingCommunity. #SapphicLineShare.

New to Cat's #sapphiclineshare. Paws crossed I've done this right. 3 *Start* snips from different novels. Top's Women's Fiction w/sapphic romance Middle's Western w/sapphic romance Bottom's Women's Fiction/? w/sapphic romance #lesficfri #queerwriters #WritingCommunity #lesfic #sapphic

#SapphicLineShare #lesficfri #licoriceandmint #QueerWriters #sapphic #lesfic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts From One Bad Tuesday: Ch. 9 - You Pull Back the Curtains ( In Progress) archiveofourown.org/series/3436765

Eternal Flame is officially in its Ashtara phase now! 🤩 Aren't they the sweetest? 🥰 #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah #CaptainNitara #Ashtara #WriteSky #SaturdaySnippet

Reminiscing about their puppy days this morning 🥹🩷

An assassin seeking revenge for his brother's murder. A doctor investigating an impossible illness. Together, they uncover the occult conspiracy at the heart of their city—and the malevolent god lurking beyond its veil. 5 days until THE DEVOURING's cover reveal! #WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚

#sapphiclineshare 'start' I needed to just write something soft and low-stakes because of recent events in my life, so I'm writing an alternate timeline where my pirate girls just get to be disgustingly domestic u-haul lesbians

#NotRealOpeners #HQPress "I know this looks bad." Morgan dropped the bloody knife she was holding and it hit the ground with a clang. "But it was already in him. I just sort of... pulled it out."

“The sun baked the asphalt beneath my shoes and heat rose in shimmering waves, like fragmented mirrors, but it was no reflection. I saw Me staring through the light-bent haze. I waved. I didn’t wave back.” #notrealopeners #writingprompt

Now that I finally don't feel like a fraud (not that anyone would have said anything!), kia ora #LesFicFri! Here's a snip with two 'unusual's from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revision

#LesFicFri theme is *unusual* From “And Love Will Find Its Way” Book 4 in The Perfect Blend series New Release Out Now Buy it here relinks.me/B0G2HR9NF5 listen to me reading the first chapter snippet teresapurkisauthor.co.uk/readings-and-promos 🌈📚 #lesfic #Sapphfic #SapphicBook #WLW 🌈💜

#lesficfri - Unusual Since the topic is to share something unusual going on in our writing here is the excerpt, about a woman's letter to her own mother. Now the unusual part, this is the ending of 300k smut story, that I wrote for fun.

#LesFicFri *unusual* I posted an earlier draft of this elsewhere, but it bears repeating #sapphic #lesfic From the Tyton sequel WIP

#lesficfri *** UNUSUAL*** AVAILABLE NOW! A friends to lovers, hot for boss, dominance and submission, contemporary romance. www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6G65FHB @kcluck-author.bsky.social #romancelandia #booksky #sapphicbooks

#lesficfri #licoriceandmint #QueerWriters #sapphic #lesfic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts From Licorice and Mint: Ch. 12 - Made of Silk archiveofourown.org/series/1962421

#LesFicFri for 2 Jan: Unusual Is #Poetry cheating? I've not posted one in this format so try alt-txt if this is difficult to read.

#LoreOutLoud A multimedia writer with too many pots on the stove at once 😅

#LoreOutLoud #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #lesfic #sapphic #QueerWriters #LicoriceAndMint While Aoife has been screaming for a 2nd chapter for Truth to Trauma (as that is her chapter), Innani and Selene Taylor are calling me specifically to write a short. One giving them each some reveals.

#LoreOutLoud The compulsion to be louder about my stories and to make more of them. Most of my characters are queer in some capacity. I think it's important to be loud about our existence when people try to deny it.

#LoreOutLoud I'm a writer with one published book in a series, the second of the series in middle stages of development, a few novellas in various stages of completion, a standalone novel that's still in first draft. I have a lot of irons in the fire, and a lot of hope. That feels really positive.

That my B plot is too big and should be Book 6. On the upside, Book 6 has a huge head start. On the downside, I gotta hustle on Book 5! #loreoutloud #booksky #writersky #authorsky #mysterywriters #mysterybooks #lgbtqwriters #lgbtqbooks #queerwriters #queerbooks 🌈✒️

If Ashrah had killed Sareena like Datusha told her to, she would've fallen down a path of chaos and self-destruction from which she would never escape. Her "purification" would never happen because it's nothing but an excuse for Datusha to drown the Universe in blood, and without the love that (1/2)

Happy first Friday of the new year, friends!! How about we kick off 2026 with another round of #notrealopeners? 😸 The rules are simple: let's share some practice opening lines to books that don't exist (...yet? 🤭) I'll go first: "A tattoo is only as good as the artist's ability to spell."

If Kallista hadn't invited Geni back from the tavern to the Paxos for a "tour" 😏 then it all would have fallen apart for them eventually. Geni would have been arrested once the secret clinic got discovered, and Kallista and the Paxos would likely have been captured by the Navy in about a fortnight

New year, new character portrait! This is Bruce, Spencer's cousin and best friend who also happens to be a mercenary who commands the Everton-Thorne security company. Enjoy a bit of Bruce and Spencer banter along with the picture. #Wrencer #OC #Art #CharacterArt

#LoreOutLoud Time for me to really go hard on draft 3 of A Prayer for the Pirate Queen. Life has been getting in the way. But with its second birthday coming up (6 Feb) and with my girls having been a big part of helping me find myself, I need to focus up 😤 I owe it to them 💜

#WOTV is calling me back. It's a story that deals a lot with death & grief, facing your fears, and becoming who you were meant to be-all wrapped up in some magic and undead creatures. It matters because I really want to put this one Out There. I think...it might go places. I hope. #LoreOutLoud

A Fab #StarterPack of LGBTQ+ Storytelling --- Last month's #LoreOutLoud was incredible 🤯 From posting powerful stories to cheering on fellow writers, the creativity and support have been amazing 💖 Huge thanks to all Queer Authors for making this hashtag challenge so much fun! 🧵 3/3

This is genuinely moving 🥹💜

Bludeye Beach is out right now!!! 👁 (Also it cracks me up that I'm the one on screen when it says "anxious bean FMC" cos main character Edie and I have that in common 😅🫂)

A cold-blooded murder. A string of mutated corpses. Separate investigations entangle Jason and Ayana in a sinister conspiracy. And the deeper they dig, the more they risk losing: their sanity, their lives, and each other. 7 days until THE DEVOURING's cover reveal! #WritingCommunity #Booksky 💙📚

Coming in 2026: THE STARS WILL BE OUR OCEAN 🪐 Sci-fi Romance 👽 Alien x Human ❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn Friends to Lovers 👀 Scooby Gang Commits Light Treason 🏳️‍🌈 Space is Queer ❤️‍🩹 Hurt/Comfort Stay tuned for updates, cover reveal, and pre-orders later this year! Character art by @nukeloop.bsky.social

Happy #humpday (to those of you living in the past 😝), here is a snip from page 149 of A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently revising towards a third draft

Hopefully as one due to finish this draft of the WIP maybe end of February if I'm lucky--c'mon one chapter a week Other than that, it's push something out soon, time for that side project of mine to come to fruition #LoreOutLoud #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #ReaderSky #BookSky

#LoreOutLoud With my head held high, a clear set of goals in mind, and a positive outlook.

Sharing a bit more than a line because this is one of my favourite Taleena scenes in Eternal Flame 💜 #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #MileenaSuêòng #Taleena #WriteSky #QueerWriters #HumpDay

Happy New Year from the future ✨️✨️✨️ (am I a time traveller, or just from NZ? 🤷‍♀️)

👀👀👀 or more like 👂👂👂 maybe lol