30 days 30 facts about my MC, day 19 @alexluco.bsky.social #ThroughTheCracks I'm not sure if Skylar would be more of a coffee person or a tea person. They don't really strike me as an alcohol person, though. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

#AwesomeCharacters #TheDragonblood: Felix rents a room in Cambridge, and has some flatmates. No, I have not come up with any details about their flatmates. Outside of school, Felix lives with his family. No details for them, either. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (1/5)

#DecemberWorldbuilders 4 #TheDragonblood: I've been trying to go for a high-tech (mostly magitech) fantasy setting for Nemoria. But I've been struggling a lot with how to depict it exactly, and what the tech level should be in the surrounding countries, where magic is less common. (1/15)

#WIPSnips 'city' #TheDragonblood: Sabrina opens a portal for Felix into the magical world.

#AwesomeCharacters #TheDragonblood: Felix first meets Sabrina when she infiltrates his D&D session by pretending to study in the room where the session will be held and volunteering to step in for someone who can't make it. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (1/10)

Introducing #DetailedSFFIntros! Do you write sci-fi/fantasy/spec-fic? Do you post tidbits about your story here? Ready for a few days of intense yapping? I want to hear all the juicy details, so I can follow and get invested in what you post here! Starts December 14 (tentative)! (1/2)

#WIPSnips 'dominant' #TheDragonblood: I'm just sharing a shorter bit of a scene I posted a week ago, 'cause that's what I've got. Felix witnesses a change in Kalaidaskeup's aura as they switch fronters. (Alios is a temporary name.) #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

#FantasyIndiesDecember 3: Well, since I literally just read it and enjoyed it, I HAVE to recommend Titanic Voyage by @juliebihn.bsky.social, which takes place Dec 9–Jan 13. Free on Hoopla, which is where I read it, but I shouldn't be telling people not to support indie authors! books2read.com/TV

#QueerPrompts 3 #TheDragonblood: Felix is supposed to be undiagnosed AuDHD, probably won't find that out in this book. And those without magic face ableism. #InReverse: Meg ends up deaf, and there are other deaf characters. And being in reverse acts as a disability for her. (1/3)

#DecemberWorldbuilders 3 #TheDragonblood: Aimetor is a shapeshifter, which I think should quality as one or the other. I've focused a lot on Aimetor's knowledge of biology as a healer, but a good knowledge of chemistry is also needed for shapeshifting. (1/3)

#TimeTravelAuthors 3 #TheDragonblood Around the corner, I notice light. Another entrance then. Not just that though. It looks to be sparkling. Curious, I keep crawling, stopping as it opens up into a large room, #decorated with gold, with a sleeping blue dragon in the middle. (1/2)

#AwesomeCharacters #TheDragonblood: What makes Felix happy? Dragons! Also, discovering new things or gaining understanding about something. And playing D&D. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (1/3)

#Char_Roleplay 1❌ #ThroughTheCracks: Going with a character who has hardly been developed at all, so this is going to be very vague and improvised. Biologist: I must be the best biologist of my time. Maybe of all time. That feels strange to say. I get imposter syndrome about it all the time. (1/6)

#WIPSnips 'percent' #ThroughTheCracks: When their nephew Harlie asks if people will ever make it to Proxima Centauri, Skylar explains the difficulties with human interstellar travel.

#WIPSnips 'belong' #TheDragonblood: You can tell when a Souled one lies, because their soul's magical aura turns discordant. Kalai is one of the alters of Kalaidaskeup, a plural system.

#QueerPrompts 2: I'ma go with art share. I forgot I had these to share! I made these in 2020 as the front and back designs for a t-shirt I ordered, featuring the quote my username comes from. #Art #DigitalArt #Inkscape

#FantasyIndiesDecember 2: Holidays haven't really been mentioned in the story so far, and I haven't really developed the holidays for the magical world. But I imagine Felix's family celebrates Christmas. Felix is atheist, but still enjoys going home for the holidays to spend time with family.

#DecemberWorldbuilders 2 #TheDragonblood: The magical world shares a common history with our world, and its people evolved from single-celled organisms like we did. At least, that is how the Soulless came to be. (1/6)

#AwesomeCharacters This feels like a really basic answer, but I guess I'd say a character generally deserves a name if the point of view character knows their name or finds out their name. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (1/6)

I really liked this activity. I felt like I was stalling in my conlang project, but this helped me realize that my work was more developed than I thought, and it gave me ideas on what to develop next. Thank you so much! Shout out to @dmnitcernos.bsky.social who told me about this.

#DecemberWorldbuilders 1 #TheDragonblood: In Nemoria, any mage can participate in scientific research, and mages are most of the population. Non-mages tend to be at a disadvantage, being more limited in what sorts of experiments they can do, although magic items can equalise the field a bit. (1/5)

#FantasyIndiesDecember 1: Hi! I'm an autistic aroace amateur writer who writes both sci-fi and fantasy. My fantasy WIP is #TheDragonblood, in which a physics undergrad from Cambridge is brought to a magical world by a goddess from that world and is super excited to get to see dragons! 🐉

#QueerPrompts 1: Hi! I (they/them) am an autistic aplatonic aroace agender amateur writer who likes to write science fiction and fantasy. My current WIPs are: #TheDragonblood: portal fantasy #InReverse: time travel action sapphic romance #ThroughTheCracks: hard utopian sci-fi

#TimeTravelAuthors 1 #TheDragonblood: 'Twas the night before Felix would discover something beyond his wildest imaginations, and he and his friends from Cambridge were playing D&D. They were joined by a mysterious woman named Sabrina, who Felix would soon learn is not of this world. (1/2)

#Char_Roleplay 30✅ #TheDragonblood Sabrina: I'm Sabrina, also known as Gnaramater, goddess of knowledge. And I know umpteen people who fit this description, but you wouldn't know most of them. But I want to talk about Felix. They're always the first to rush in when someone is in danger. (1/3)

#Char_Roleplay 29⚠️ #ThroughTheCracks Madison: Hi, I'm Madison. People don't like me when they meet me. Whatever I say, I offend people. Whatever I do, I hurt people. I usually don't realise I've done anything wrong. I never feel bad about it. But like, I think I should. (1/3)

#VillainVibeVember 30 #TheDragonblood Laannig: Look, I don't have time for this. I'm on a holy mission given to me by the gods. The ACTUAL gods: the Akewan gods. If you don't think this is real, I'm not wasting my time to convince you. (1/3)

#AwesomeCharacters #TheDragonblood: You can bet Sabrina has already accessed the whole Internet (at least any part of it that's publicly accessible) and memorised all of it already. Nothing changes. Okay, maybe 'memorised' is the wrong term. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (1/7)

#ConlangNovember 30: I had a lot of fun doing this, and I'm glad others did to! Thanks to all of you who participated! I started this with the intention to reply to all your amazing contributions, and that IS still the plan, however long it takes. And I really learnt a lot doing this. (1/22)

thanks for hosting!! and good luck on the novel(s)!

Thank you for hosting this! It was super fun to do and helped me answer some questions about Quyy'lie that I had never even thought about! Unfortunately I've been very busy lately, and I was not able to keep up in the end, but if anyone is still interested I might answer the last ones sometime :D

I had no idea what to put for many of the prompts, but I'm still very happy for having taken part It felt like I could finally take my first proper conlang for a spin, and it's given me more of a drive to work on other projects I'll simply say: thank you!

Although I wasn’t able to complete all the prompts I still had a lot of fun! Thank you for the opportunity to talk about my conlang!!

#ConlangNovember 30: My main takeaway from these has been that I should work more on the jargon end of FS's registers. Other than that, thanks @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social for making these, been a fun month

#TheDragonblood has magical lighting. It's fairly readily available. #ThroughTheCracks has readily available artificial daylight (electric lighting simulating and as bright as daylight). #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Worldbuilding

#InReverse: Meg is demiromantic, so it's going to take a while for her to start falling for Harriet, and I haven't gotten nearly far enough yet. But probably Harriet's compassion and dedication to making tools that help her adjust to her new life. #WritingPrompt

#ConlangNovember 28 #TheDragonblood: The word for 'to say' in Nemorian is 'sepeti'. Here's the conjugation table. (1/3)

#MelsNoWriMo 30: Thank you @mslanna.bsky.social for hosting this this month! I wrote a nonzero amount this month. I finished a book. I hosted a prompt game thing. We'll say that's good. And here's your next #InReverse snippet. Meg discovers a hidden message on a whiteboard. (1/3)

#NovemberWorldbuilders 30 Another big way my worlds get built! #TheDragonblood: The world is an alt-Earth which split from ours c. 2100 BCE, so a lot of research went into what the world was like around that time (and to decide on that particular timeframe in the first place). (1/11)

#pretendpanel 29: I want to say thank you @hiriadunning.com (and your alter ego, @karamoonauthor.com) for hosting this!

#WritingLifeMonthly 30: In terms of my reading goals, I did finish Leviathan Wakes. But really, I want to say a big thank you @traceyleewrites.bsky.social for hosting this. I really hope you're okay. My thoughts are with you.

#TimeTravelAuthors 29: Just going to say thank you @juliebihn.bsky.social for hosting this. I really love that you've got a prompt game for time travel, right in my particular niche!

#QueerPrompts 30: Thank you @cjaralore.bsky.social for hosting this!

#FantasyIndiesNovember 30: Pretending the monthly wrap-up is today (I have no marketing tips). Thank you @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social and @lvrussell.bsky.social for hosting this!

#AwesomeCharacters #TheDragonblood: In Cambridge, Felix usually walks, bikes or takes the bus. Aimetor usually uses portals for long distances, magic carpets for medium distances and walking for short distances. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (1/5)

#ConlangNovember 30: We've had a full month of conlanging, but now it's time to wrap it up. Do you have any closing thoughts? Things you learned doing this? Shoutouts? Feedback, or areas for improvement? #Writing #WritingPrompt #Conlangs #Worldbuilding

#QueerPrompts 29 #TheDragonblood Aimetor: Felix, you understand how wishes work, yes? Felix: Um, wishes are part of Fenzetor's domain, right? So, sort of like oaths to Fenzetor? Maybe? Aimetor: Correct. They work by manipulating fate. Felix: *sarcastic* Lovely. So that means… (1/14)

#NovemberWorldbuilders 29: A lot of my worldbuilding goes like this. Some of it becomes plot-relevant later on. I like it when it does that. #TheDragonblood: First, the world was GOING to have dragons, because a world without dragons would be no fun. The plot got formed around that. (1/11)

#MelsNoWriMo 29: I did make cover mockups for #TheDragonblood and #ThroughTheCracks. I don't know if they'll be the designs I go with in the end, though. The one for Through the Cracks was my creative project for #Septopolis, which I later thought might work as a cover and stuck a title on.

#TheDragonblood mostly has variations on human. The two main categories are the Soulless and the Souled. The Soulless are your regular Earth humans, and are unable to use magic. #Writing #WritingPrompts #Worldbuilding #BuildTogether (1/10)