Yana is this owl in particular. Rook's an opossum. Six is a mantis, but only when they're posturing to scare off a predator. Diodorus is a giant tortoise. #Novmemeber (I actually spelled it right this time!)

No burgers, but here's the infamous Bread--the one, singular case of people eating in the entirety of First Light. To be fair, it's good bread. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Hi Bluesky! I'm writing a collection of stories called #Raven+Bear, which are free for everyone on youtube.🎙️ youtube.com/@thebrambler... They follow a knight & his page on cosy, whimsical adventures through the kingdoms of a post-apocalyptic Cymru.🏰 Us if you like/comment on them and subscribe!⬇️

The funnest fact about me, I think, is that I spent minutes on end trying to think of two interesting things about myself (plus a lie) for #Novmember, and couldn't come up with anything. And honestly? I think that's pretty sexy of me. You have to put in the work to be THIS unremarkable.

In today's snip, I channel my terror at having to turn corners in busy areas (people always bump into me), as well as my self-consciousness about my resting bitch face. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Man, I really thought I'd be able to go a single day without mentioning Arthur C. Clarke's Rama... It's a masterclass in awe and wonder. Of helplessness before something both benevolent and terrifying in scale. Curiosity--the essence of sci-fi. Too bad it doesn't have any sequels! #Bookvember

Little excerpt from the First Light WIP as I integrate beta reader feedback. Consensus seems to be all the parts I thought were good actually suck, and all the parts I thought sucked are great, actually. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

That's my excuse too, Rook. From First Light. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Absolutely unmonitored. For all the books my family owned, I never saw them read any. I was reading the wildest stuff and they had no idea, because they had never read it themselves. It was cool, but I would have enjoyed having someone to discuss them with. It was a lonely pursuit. #Bookvember

The artwork of Syd Mead doesn't just remind me of my writing, it inspired my love for utopic sci-fi. If it weren't for him and Arthur C. Clarke, I'd be writing some other genre right now-- 1/3 #HopePit

Naaah. I did it for a while for survival reasons and it absolutely blitzed out my brain. Ended up poorly. Unfortunate memories. However, when I'm done writing for the day, I like checking how much I did. It helps me conceptualize how far in I am, without any of the pressure. #PretendPanel

I may have shared this one before, I think? Anyway, I like describing Diodorus doing his technoshamanic work, because of the way it's both ritualistic and pragmatic. It makes for fun prose. Also, I like adverbs. From First Light. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Books that inspired me over the years: Any of the Wee Free Men books by Pratchett How to Train Your Dragon by Cowell The Princess Bride by Goldman The MUTTS comics by McDonnell #hopepit #hopepunk #TheTaleofTwoshirts

I'm so excited to have discovered l the #HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social ! My books (titled HOPE and JOY) are hopeful post-apocalyptic tales. They have #clifi elements, but #hopepunk describes them perfectly!

Regarding music, a lot of David Byrne's work uplifts me (and his 2018 album American Utopia is just chock full of such bangers), but I gotta go for that one time Byrne and Caetano Veloso performed Nothing But Flowers together: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwr... #HopePit

Hello #HopePit! I'm Steve from the wild north east of England, and I'm putting myself in the 'Not sure if your work fits in the genre? Join us anyway' category. Usually a writer of sci-fi and retro GameLit, at the moment I'm imagining a more hopeful world for the neurodivergent among us.

#Hopepit: I'm an autistic aroace anarcho-communist amateur SFF writer. I hope my sustainable fully-automated luxury communist near-utopia fits here? It has definite #hopepunk and #solarpunk elements, but I can see people being wary of the "fully-automated luxury" bit. #SciFi #UtopianFiction (1/9)

"... the collective embraced the name’s connection to older earth, and indeed unanimously adopted it for their new home world--without the trailing ‘a’. But then the name of the new world was not the most important of their considerations." New here. Don't know what I'm doing ...

Conrad - I write haiku. lottery tickets discarded in fallen leaves autumn is all loss #HopePit @hopepit.bsky.social

[1/4] I'm Arne! I'm a humorous fantasy and scifi author for kids & kids-at-heart. I favor rich, diverse characters and deep worldbuilding, creating a space for everyone to fairly ask tough questions like how to be happy, or how we can be our better selves. #hopepit #hopepunk #TheTaleofTwoshirts #Q

Writing about topics in ways that people haven't thought about before. I wholeheartedly believe the world should be seen as a singular thing with many facets, not a book we should rip pages we dislike out of. The world needs to be seen as it IS for us to truly change for the better. #Hopepit

I'm Miranda Nichole. I write YA contemporary fantasy. My WIP for #HopePit is a tale of found family and building community in a modern world that seems intent on driving people apart. Despite silly sayings and social media, today's youth bring me hope. #WritingCommunity #YouthWorker #WriterLife

Hello #HopePit I’m Chris! I write nomadpunk, anti-authoritarian climate fiction about resilience and mobility. Currently querying two story collections! What gives me hope is meeting so many people doing great work. Also great food and great wine. Those give me hope too. And my kids. Also.

#Hopepit #writersky Aside from being musicians, Tel is a poet & painter, and I'm a fiction writer. We recorded a video w/ two of our international musician friends for the music share later in the week :) Stay tuned! Seeing different communities come together brings us hope 💜 #hopepunk #musicsky

🌞Hi! I'm Iza, a writer in Portland, OR. I was a teen punk in a decaying rust belt city, obsessed with climate change & collapse since childhood... But also entranced by magic, permaculture, & art. I write about all these things. I find hope in community, & plants reclaiming human ruins 🌱 #Hopepit

oh no he's describing again From First Light. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Hi everyone, my name's Dan. I am currently querying First Light, a sci-fi novella about a near-utopic future and the people (and ideas) that hold it together. Nothing uplifts me like when people come together to stand up for their values and the environment. Also a nice sunrise. #HopePit

This is also my answer for #Bookvember #4. I read these books so much I wore out the pages. What a fantastic series. Now you're telling me there's a show, too!?

Six enters the story. I like introducing characters with pizzazz. First impressions stick with you, for better or worse, and Six is all about setting the scene in her own terms. From First Light. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

It's #Hopepit week! 🌞 share your pitches, books, videos, articles, and art 🌱 let's build community & uplift works of #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, + more 🌳 Not sure if your work fits in the genre? JOIN US anyway! join our community connect prompts starting Wednesday #hopecore

I have Opinions about this matter! It's my understanding that writing "rules" are supposed to make books better. Then why do they mostly make them more boring? Being all over the place with dialogue tags is, for all its flaws, still more interesting than complete inflexibility.

I, too, hate it when my boss forces me to take paid vacations. From First Light. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Good Evening! Today is the last day: Sale of #TheSpiritChapters !! #SpiritChase #SpiritChant #SpiritCircle #readingCommunity #books #booksale anderlandbooks.com/re/#spiritchase

It's gotta be The Classic. #Bookvember

One of the most difficult, but rewarding, parts of writing First Light was to write the in-universe poetry that opens some of the chapters. I'm not a great poet, but neither is the author of The Inward Construct, so it all worked out. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Hey everyone! My name's Dan. I grew up an only child in an isolated countryside home surrounded by my grandpa's library. He didn't have a lot of books for kids, so I had to jump right into the heavy stuff just for something to do. Now I'm a writer! #Bookvember #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

The Cortylorhynchus considers my problems, nods sagely, and says, "have you tried basking in the sun about it? While being as spherical as possible?"

Not I, #PretendPanel, not I! I don't really enjoy those initiatives. They exhaust me, kill motivation, and overall reduce the measure of my work to a hollow number. I'm glad they work for others, but for me, writing is fun, and anything that turns it into work takes away the joy that I find in it.

Huge thank you to everyone who claimed the book! It reached a nice and round 20 downloads, which I am very pleased about. Not just that, enough people were kind enough to leave a tip that I even made back the price of the stock image I used for the cover! Good reading, y'all. And thanks again <3

Ancestor--Vibes! Spooky time almost over, so we're doing First Light again! I'm currently outlining the sequel, so I'll hopefully have a fresh new batch of snippets for December. Until then, have the final draft version of snippets I've probably shared before. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Minizine #3 is officially released! ⚔️ Our featured short story is "The Sword of Bellerose" by @mxgomez78.bsky.social. It's a dark S&S-type fantasy with a twisted relationship between the Lady Bellerose and her "sword." Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/s/e5c9440194 itch: thepinkhydra.itch.io/something-ol...

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 31: I've got a few tricks AND treats up my sleeve in this special Yverwood bundle including TWO newly published shorts! itch.io/s/163860/dou... There's also a Halloween flash sale including Yverwood! itch.io/b/3311/hallo... #halloween #booksky #queerwriters

One last excerpt from The Cryptic Parade for the last day of the giveaway. This is from its very first story, "Encounter at Flatwoods". If anyone enjoyed these snippets so far, it would mean the world to me if you claimed a copy: itch.io/s/162112/hal... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

I am going to be predictable and plug my horror anthology, "The Cryptic Parade & A World Unfurling". It's free until the 1st and while I'm very happy with the 17 downloads I got so far, surely we can get to 20, right? Right? itch.io/s/162112/hal... #WritingCommunity #PretendPanel

A ghost-seeing girl afraid of the dark. Her horror movie-obsessed cousin. A tourist boy with a mysterious secret. Together they're Arctic Finland's most dysfunctional monster-hunting team. Too bad the monster's already hunting 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. SMALL SPACES X 30 DAYS OF NIGHT #GhostPit #MG #H #Q 👻

Dune 2 X The Unbroken In a city under siege those born with psychic powers are conscripted to defend their home. Sylin answers the call while Naraha resists...until he is forced to become the monster he fears. And visions of threatening 'Strangers' are increasing. #agentsguide #amquerying #writesky

RENEGADES x DR HORRIBLE Evie’s channeling her inner Jekyll & Hyde. The shapeshifting superhero just wants to meet her celebrity crush. Too bad he’s brainwashing the city to love him. Worse, he’s obsessed w/ her. But what’s a girl to do when she shares a body with the villain? #GhostPit #Q #YA #SF

What if magical abilities were like babies—they had to be conceived, carried, birthed, and nurtured? What if men wanted in on it, using surrogacy to access abilities they otherwise wouldn't have? #TheSurrogate is a steampunk fantasy inspired by Filipino 🇵🇭 culture and history. #GhostPit #W #A #SFF

In the century Tilaani has been alive and the 85 years she‘s been dead, she’s escorted the soul of nearly everyone she knew into the afterlife. And as always she is left in the space between: 🌱 Life and death 💀 🔥 Fire and ice ❄️ ❤️ Surrounded and alone 🔪 #A #F #R #FR #C #Agented #GhostPit