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Hey #RevPit friends. I've been finishing up a client's project, so I could focus on my #10Queries. Join me on Monday, April 6, 2026, at 6 p.m. for some anonymous insights and feedback on your query letters and first five pages. Let's see who can guess which one is theirs. #RevPitTeaser

Both of us are pretty funny IRL. I (Holfelder) struggle to get that into my writing. I'm better at riffing off of someone or one-off comments than thought out humor. Watson has been adding some humor into Sanal's voice, which is so on point for Sanal's dry sense of humor. #PretendPanel #WriteSky

Just like that: a writer. It's a foundational part of who I am. I don't "write", I *am* a writer. I have stories to tell. #LoreOutLoud #WriteSky #QueerAuthors

The need to do something with everything in my (Holfelder) head is what pulls me to put words to paper. Even if the words on the page don't match what's in my head, it's a way of processing thru what's up there. My characters end up with mental health arcs that way. #LoreOutLoud #WriteSky

It's been a gradual realization these past 8 years, since I (Holfelder) picked back up & started writing fanfic. I've slowly come to understand that I am a storyteller, an entertainer via written word. I've always been that way, and I'm learning to own it. #LoreOutLoud #WriteSky #QueerWriters

Most of my (Holfelder) writing is centered around me processing negative things that happen. Even the "good things" that happen in my stories were once "bad things" in my life. I write to process my emotions, to distract, to keep going. #QueerPrompts #WriteSky

In #LL&MM, Liam is autistic. It's never expressly stated, but he's a product of an autistic brain, and thus carries some of that autism forward with him. #QueerPrompts #WriteSky

#learntowrite #litrpg #novel #waywordwriters #WhyWeEdit

Howdy! We are Holfelder & Watson, two nerds in a trench coat, writing queer adventure stories. Our current #RevPitWaiting submission/WIP is about a trans masc detective coming to terms with...a lot of things, all at once, and falling for the pathologist. Literally. #QueerPrompts #WriteSky

Gender is a performance and this show is not going on.

Happy #tdov! 🏳️‍⚧️ I’m Gabe, NJ based trans man that writes MM romance (including transmasc) & dark fantasy! All of my writing’s available for free in the pseud linked below! (Including The Witch of Eden Hollow, a 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 fantasy romance starring 2 older transmasc leads!) archiveofourown.org/users/TheEld...

It's Trans Day of Visibility, and I saw someone else share their story. Maybe if I share mine, it might help someone. I was raised & socialized as a cisgender female in a conservative Christian household. I learned about trans folks eventually & while my parent's weren't That Bad about it [1/7]

Eyyy! Not only am *I* trans (agender), several of my characters are also under the trans umbrella. From #LL&MM, Liam is FTM & Sanal is agender, From #WOTV, Mya is genderfluid. I love my trans characters. #WriteSky #QueerPrompts #BookSky

#LL&MM has 2! Detective Turner from Life, Love & the Monongahela Murders is a trans man, who started his transition about 2 years prior to the start of the story. He also uprooted his life and moved from Erie PA to Pittsburgh in order to start fresh as Liam, not [deadname]. #WriteSky #BookSky [1/2]

It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public. I might not see you, but I know you're out there.

Visibility feels very not needed. I'd rather make trans books visible, especially if they have a trans main character(s)! So drop us your trans book recs! If you're a trans author & or have a trans MC; give us a description, link & graphic of your own books! 🌈📚💙🏳️‍⚧️ Boosts appreciated!

It's TDoV, so I (Holfelder) might as well be visible. I'm agender! I am only recently coming to own my place under the trans umbrella & understand how my experience of gender is unique from my AGAB. Anyhow, hi, I'm trans and I cowrite about trans & genderfluild characters. :) #personal

Y'all, it's her book birthday ;) CyberSnow is out TODAY. 👥 dual pov 🤜 anticapitalist 👍 making good trouble 😈 gremlin energy 🍎 Snow White vibes 🩷 ace, no-heat romance 🏳️‍🌈 everybody's queer Universal Book Link: books2read.com/CyberSnow Itch(.)io Preorder: aebrossbooks.itch.io/cybersnow

After a full year, #LoreOutLoud will soon be coming to an end... What began as a one-month project grew far beyond what I expected, and while it's been incredible, this feels like the right time to close the chapter. 1/🧵 #WriteSky #Writingcommunity #WritingPrompts 🌈✒️

“No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” - George Orwell

💎 Here’s some advice that I find good to keep in mind when getting *rabid* about eliminating those pesky filler words! Got this from Literary Gems over on Facebook. #writingcommunity #writesky

....actually, yeah. (Holfelder's a POTSie)

#SelfPublishing #authorsediting #BookWriting #indieauthor #authorssupportingauthors #write

Oh. Oh, I (Holfelder) needed to hear that today. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Because I have stories to tell, at a foundational level. But also because no matter how fatigues or shit I feel, I can almost *always* tell a story. Telling those stories keeps me going on the darkest days. #SpoonieAuthChat #WriteSky

Thinking and plotting and planning. We can't touch #LL&MM until after #RevPit, but we're thinking thoughts. Might work on some of the Sanal POV stories as well, for kicks and giggles. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Many of my notes are spoilers & many of them are also hysterical run-on thoughts. This one is more serious. We struggle to balance in this story: Sanal can bring light into Liam's life, but it's still Liam's responsibility to do work on himself. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #snippetshare

Sanal is aro, but desires a committed relationship. They value friendship and close platonic bonds over romance. It's a hard place to be at, wanting that relationship but not being able to do it the "normal" way. #WriteSky #LL&MM #WriteSky

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1296: Give yourself time away from your desk. Stepping away from your work-in-progress is sometimes the most creative thing you can do.

No piece of writing is for everybody. And many readers will mistake *not for them* for badly written.

Waiting! We're waiting on a #RevPit submission until winners are announced on April 13th before we make any real changes to our manuscript. Until then, I've got some alt POV scenes from that world to work on, and two other WIPS. But I wanna work on our submission...😭 #WriteSky

And what of the writers that suck at writing query letters or loglines, or whose first 5 pages don't end on a cliff hanger? Will we never read of their work?

Liam is fairly reliable in most things, with the notable exception of how he views himself. This is something we will be working on in the next edit pass - showing his competence vs his inherent assumptions that he's terrible at his job. #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #LL&MM

We do! Well, Watson does! I'm pretty terrible at chapter names & titles, but I like them. I think it helps place the returning reader in space ("oh yeah, x happened in ch. Down the Rabbit Hole"), but I'm shit at it. Watson is brilliant! #WriteSky #QueerPrompts #WritingCommunity

#WriteMore #writerscommunity #WritersLife #writer #author #newauthors

I'M SO EXCITED!!! I got the email this morning and cheered!

Hey, #ChaosChat, here's a mockup cover for #LL&MM. We're in #RevPitWaiting right now, and we'll give you more updates after the end of RevPit. :) #WriteSky

Alas, I am not very punny. I wish that I were, maybe Watson and I can try to come up with some... #ChaosChat #WriteSky

Oh, Sanal would *love* pranking Liam. Probably they would do something silly to his coffee (though they'd have a real coffee on standby). Liam would *not* see it coming, and might take a second to realize that it's a joke. He's not been kindly teased much. #ChaosChat #LL&MM #WriteSky

I'm late to #ChaosChat but Ima jump on board if that's okay. For #LL&MM, the *worst* idea that Liam acts on is "let's accuse the suspected murderer in an abandoned hallway at 2am...it is Not A Good Idea. I'll leave you to imagine the results, at least until such time as we publish. 🙂 #WriteSky

Don. *evil author grin* Don is the product of some late changes to #LL&MM in which we decided Some Things about how Liam's mother died. Don *will* come back to haunt the narrative. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Anybody else out there genre mashing? Life, Love & the Monongahela Murders can't decide where it fits, and it's a *problem*. Is it a murder with romance or a romance with murder? Who knows? Not us! (JK, we're trying...) #LL&MM #RevPitWaiting #WriteSky #BookSky

I (Holfelder) am an autistic extrovert who spent most of their life assuming that I was an introvert. I know both sides of that coin really well, and I think that allows me to write both extrovert & introvert characters. #QueerPrompts #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

*not great stuff* Hear me out...if I only wrote what I would read, I would never edit. I would be so okay with the first version, and I would never improve my writing. I'm happy to write for other eyes, because it encourages me to do my best, to offer my best skills. #LoreOutLoud #WriteSky

What I want as a writer? I want Universal Basic Income. I want to not have to panic because I lost a session in a given week, I want to not feel guilty for writing instead of "productive-ing". I want to be able to write as much as I want and not worry about paying bills. #LoreOutLoud #WriteSky

Life, Love, & the Monongahela Murders. No, really. I think that we are writing what we would write otherwise. Is it "marketable"? Eh, dunno. But it's what needs to be written, it's a story that needs to be told, and I believe we'll find our audience. Once it's done... #LoreOutLoud #WriteSky

You don’t know who is finding meaning in your stories and novels. You don’t know who your words are helping though dark times.

Plotting discussions with @slightlyfb.bsky.social (Watson) always make me feel better about the work we're doing. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity