More commerce goes through Broad Bend than originates there. Locally produced goods include fruits and grains and small watercraft, but none of that really gets exported. The olive oil from a little farther along the river valley is another story. #aprilworldbuilders #writesky

Anxiety chat is well timed. I am currently spiraling because some rando yelled at me at the post office for taking too long to vacate my parking spot (at least I think that’s what he was actually mad about).

#QueerWritersChat I love support on Ko-Fi so much and it will also give you a preview of my ongoing trans mythical creatures art! Check it out: ko-fi.com/transcendrag... I’ve finished putting my original writer-themed art on Redbubble. Shout out to the person who already got some stickers and pins!

Prince Baleirithys stood in the center of the room, his head down, his wings raised. Tharaiyelagh braced himself for a reprimand. “You should have left with Van-Dal.” “Why would I do that?” Tharaiyelagh blurted, too astonished to check his tongue. Lord Baleirithys’ wings twitched. #queerwriterschat

Many of them! Akieryon has social anxiety from his lonely childhood. Baleirithys has persistent trauma-fueled anxiety about ruining his country and harming others. Caspar can’t trust any of his family. Seikhiel has trauma-based anxiety. There are plenty more. #queerwriterschat

Any anxiety I feel about writing is related to sharing it, not about any part of the actual writing process. #queerwriterschat

I’m Bethany, and I’m working on publishing Balances, the story of a renegade Demonslayer figuring out what home means to him, and writing Tools of the Trade, which is about a feral dragonboy learning politics. #queerwriterschat

Akieryon is kind of oblivious about animals. He spends time with the Lenyr, which means their livestock occupy space in his life, but he doesn’t even know the name of Tempest’s horse! #awesomecharacters #writesky #writingcommunity

Crackships with my characters are hard. Idk. Tempest could be made believable with almost anyone, despite being aro. His relationships just don’t center romance (bc that’s yucky). Yrich x anyone would be the crackiest I guess. (Yrich is aggressively aroace, emphasis on AGGRESSIVE.) #ocsky #writesky

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I don’t understand RevPit and at this point I am too afraid to ask

Rahi has a chronic illness Tharaiyelagh is an amputee Sir Veirn is an amputee Yln is colorblind Tarys has chronic fatigue Ascelagh has limited use of one hip and wing joint #ocsky #writesky #writingcommunity

I don’t know if it’s good or not but… The hospital scenes in The Sword of Heaven happen because of my friend dying in 2023. For a less heavy example, Rahi’s rage at being medicated comes directly from the first time I tried adderal: “wait, this is how normal people *always* feel?” #queerprompts

Uhhh most of my characters, probably. It’s just more obvious with some of them (Tempest, Rahi, etc). #queerprompts #writesky #writingcommunity

the thing that makes vetinari work so well is that he is a cynic's cynic who has the worst possible view of human nature and he is quite determined to poke and prod and use the worst parts of that nature against each other to make something better than the sum of its parts anyway

Rahi likes to load every sentence with incomprehensible slang. #dailyocs #writesky #writingcommunity

Are you at Anime Boston? I've got BOWS in the Art Show!Hall A to the right after you walk in. Direct sales and 9 auctions. Come and get em! 🎀

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

I have embraced the adhd gremlin! I used to try to have a *process* but now I don’t need to. I am a gremlin! Deal with it! #loreoutloud

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Broad Bend’s main source of water is the river that gives it its name. #aprilworldbuilders #writesky #writingcommunity

Baleirithys: Having An Emotion Seikhiel: guilt-panic Tharaiyelagh: imposter syndrome Raaqiel: sloth Akieryon: desire to be liked Rahi: seemed like a good idea at the time #ocsky #writesky #writingcommunity

Akieryon is about 800 years old. Most of his friends are humans of an age close to 30. But he looks like the youngest, and that’s what they joke about. We don’t talk about Tempest’s age, because what does that even mean to someone who can exist outside of time? #ocsky #writesky #writingcommunity

Honestly if you’re a Harper author now is a good time to email and say how disgusted you are by the toon animation ai announcement

Out in the woods is where the Lenyr can usually be found, so most likely they’re there because Tempest is doing his ambassador work (good Tempest, Caspar is pleased). They have breakfast and then strike camp, if it’s a travel day. #awesomecharacters #writesky #writingcommunity

With a long weekend ahead, there's plenty of time for you to submit your book(s) to Fiction Fest! 😊🍁 #booksky

OMG, this awful regime wants to drill in CHACO CANYON.

Five shows to get to know me: • Leverage • Avatar: the Last Airbender • M*A*S*H •Time Team •Apothecary Diaries

Texans, we really need your help.

A strange warmth filled Them, body and soul. Did They have a separate soul? Were the Selves only half-souls, that combined to form Them? Too many questions. Not enough time. Time slipped away like an eroding shoreline. #WIPSnips #writesky #writingcommunity

Akieryon comes from the Sixth Sphere of Heaven, which has electric appliances, to Davenz, which has only made it as far as printing presses and gunpowder. He’s used to interacting with worlds with differing technology levels though, so he manages. #ocsky #writesky #writingcommunity

“All authors are using AI now” False! Some of us are using adhd and hubris.

Seikhiel is actually called The Sword of Heaven by certain groups, which already kind of sounds like a superhero name. #ocsky #writesky #writingcommunity

Struggling with burnout this week. It’s day job stuff.

Broad Bend is in Davenz, which is a monarchy, but the king has had the notion to start a parliament. The nobles who collect rent from the people of Broad Bend are not happy. The guildmasters, who actually functionally control the commerce through town, are delighted. #aprilworldbuilders #writesky

DO IT!!!!!!!!!! Feed an indie author!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can haz books....for a fee. (Though I also have some free ones on my website.)

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Only 2 weeks left! I’m at 90% of the pre-order goal needed for Inkshares to publish my book. For $10 you can grab a copy and brag that you helped make it a reality when you see it in bookstores! #writers #art #writing #amwriting #booksky #writingcommunity lastbeaconbook.com

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This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

I don't use AI in my writing. AI, on the other hand, steals my writing to train up on so it can do its work. The recent discourse about how writers use it but pretend they don't pisses me off. If you're using generative AI to write your stories, you are pissing me off. You. Specifically.

Bubby and the dragons wishing everyone a chag kasher v'sameach! Happy Passover!

Be relentless against your enemies, but be ready to show mercy and grace should the opportunity arise to turn a foe into a friend. People can change, and honor is a path through the complex landscape of life, not a fence to keep out trespassers.

I’m Bethany, and my book Balances is about a renegade Demonslayer discovering what home means to him. It’s also an unintentional allegory about growing up queer in a conservative household (the end part, where it gets better). #queerprompts #writesky #writingcommunity

We are SO close to our first stretch goal of €34,000–that’s when all artists get bonuses! 🎉 Can we get this trans-led project there before the campaign ends in 2 days? #TDoV 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

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Gender is a performance and i ate the script.

Wishing you a gentle April 🐾🤍

A book series. And a comic. And a bunch of fragments rattling around in my head. #marchworldbuilders