Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 19: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames #playstation #psx

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 18: Chrono Trigger #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames #snes #rpg #chronotrigger #nintendo

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 17: Spyro the Dragon #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames #playstation #psx

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 16: Final Fantasy XII #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames #finalfantasy

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 15: Conker’s Pocket Tales #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 12: Shenmue #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 11: Mario Kart 64 #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 10: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 8: Final Fantasy IX #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

I'm really enjoying Andrzej Sapkowski's, "The Last Wish." Might be my favorite book I've read so far this year. The dialogue is excellent, and the episodic nature of the story reminds me of Hans Bemmann's "The Stone and the Flute." I'd love to write something with this structure someday. #booksky

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 7: The House of the Dead 2 #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 6: Fable #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 5: Xenogears #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 4: Pokemon Gold #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 3: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days. Day 2: Breath of Fire IV #retrogameschallenge #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

For the next few weeks I’ll feature one retro game per day that’s special to me. Join in with #retrogameschallenge and the text: “Choose 20 retro games that stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days.” Away we go! Day 1 #gamechallenge #videogames #retrogaming #retrogames

Excited to share that I’ve been accepted into the Futurescapes Writing Workshop! Looking forward to working with Fran Wilde and an incredible group of writers and faculty! @futurescapesww.bsky.social

Cursed with the nine-tailed fox spirit, Mina is one soul away from achieving godhood—but after meeting a brilliant yet quirky grad student, she questions her goal for immortality. But the fox has been waiting patiently, and it won't let anything stand in its way. 🦊 #Questpit #W #A #PR #H #R 🖤

NETTLE & BONE x CAMP DAMASCUS Girl meets boy. Girl meets monsters. Girl has to save the town. Sometimes what you don't know can kill you in BLUDEYE BEACH. 🫂Found Family 👧Character driven 💕Slow burn romance 👻Monster menagerie #QuestPit #Q #F #H #A

EVA EVERGREEN, SEMI-MAGICAL WITCH x HOMEWARD BOUND When Echo the dog’s best friend and owner—12-year-old Ema—is caught doing magic, he must travel across a country where magic is reviled to save her from witch hunters before her execution. #questpit #Q #F #MG

Lonely Jane has mood-affecting weather abilities, Corwin’s an anxious new kid. Both could use a friend. When Jane’s shady landlord threatens eviction because of her, she has to control her emotions, but how can she when she’s majorly crushing on Corwin?! #2025Pit #MG #Con #RomCom #SPF #DIS

Grim are immortal. Auri knows this. But when one shows up to take her father's soul, she cuts him a deal. If he spares her father, she'll find him what he wants: a way to die. Now Auri has a week and a day to kill this immortal (who she's definitely not falling for). 🐈‍⬛ #A #F #RF #2025Pit 🐈‍⬛

EVA EVERGREEN, SEMI-MAGICAL WITCH x HOMEWARD BOUND When Echo the dog’s best friend and owner—12-year-old Ema—is caught doing magic, he must travel across the country to save her from witch hunters before her execution. #2025Pit #Q #F #MG

The #SmallPitch pitch submission window opens soon, so let's go over some reminders. First, you can view all the guidelines on our website at www.smallpitch.org. Please read them carefully! There's also an FAQ and a list of participating publishers. Now, onto the key information.

EVA EVERGREEN, SEMI-MAGICAL WITCH x HOMEWARD BOUND When Echo the dog’s best friend and owner—12-year-old Ema—is caught doing magic, he must travel across a country where magic is feared and used as a scapegoat for any misfortune to save her from witch hunters before her execution. #P2Ppit #Q #F #MG

Wanted to share this because many of these pitch events were coming out of nowhere for me and I was wondering how everyone was hearing about them. I’m guessing I wasn’t alone! #amquerying #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/UzNMwUV

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Public service announcement: COVID is still bad! If you feel sick, stay home! Do NOT go to the library just to watch TikToks on the public computers and infect everyone around you, like the gentleman who gave it to me did.

Ever notice how often your characters shrug, nod their heads, or look at things? These generic gestures don’t bring them to life. Let’s dig into how to write gestures and beats that are fresh, meaningful, and layered with character. A writerly 🧵 #writingcommunity #amediting

@writingexcuses.bsky.social 's first episode of the season was great! It got me thinking about my favorite Avatar episode where Uncle Iroh says to Zuko, “It's time for you to look inward, and begin asking yourself the big questions. Who are you, and what do you want?”

I'm doing a FREE one-hour LIVE webinar (no sales pitch) to help writers be less overwhelmed by finding the right agent + Q&A, which everyone found very helpful. If you're interested go here for more info and to sign up: forms.gle/ikZFaWSbTj7K... Or DM me. DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: Jan 5, 11pm EST.

I’m starting a holiday, Join me if you wish, It’s Questmas, and it comes on December 26th! What’s Questmas? It’s a holiday of my invention (as far as I know) dedicated to playing role playing games. Join in! #videogames #rpg #ttrpg #dnd #gaming #nowplaying #fantasy natesearlebooks.com/questmas/

Finished the first draft of my latest MG book early this morning! Always feels good… until you read it through and realize how much work still needs to be done. #amwriting

We’ve interviewed 100+ agents for our Book Broker series over the last 6 years. And we’ve been in the trenches ourselves, so we know the struggle. Here’s what querying authors really need to know about writing a query letter. A thread🧵 🪓 #amquerying

Struggling to keep your story on track or find yourself second-guessing your plot points? Join me and Jule Kucera this Sunday for a free discussion about the crucial interplay between external and internal genres, and how to discover or confirm the specific genres at work in your current project.

This #bookchallenge has been fun! I feel like I could do this forever, but that would sort of defeat the purpose, so I’ll stop. (I already cheated by stretching it to 24 😀.) I thought it would be fun to briefly describe what each book means to me though. Follow along if you like! A 🧵 (1/22) #booksky

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I always wondered how the knowledge of this rule influences how readers feel about certain stories. For instance, I loved Alice in Wonderland as a kid, then the story was sort of ruined when a writing teacher pointed out that she is just drifting/being dragged through the plot.

Choose 20 games that stayed with you or influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 21 (honorable mentions) #GameChallenge #videogames #Games #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 21 (honorable mentions) #bookchallenge #booksky #writingcommunity #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 games that stayed with you or influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 20 #GameChallenge #videogames #Games #retrogaming #retrogames #rpg

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 #bookchallenge #booksky #writingcommunity #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 games that stayed with you or influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 19 #GameChallenge #videogames #Games #retrogaming #retrogames #rpg #skyrim

This new iPhone update is brutal. Sitting here doing nothing while the battery drains like I’m trying to use GPS in the Himalayas.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 #bookchallenge #booksky #writingcommunity #20daybookchallenge

Choose 20 games that stayed with you or influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 18 #GameChallenge #videogames #Games #retrogaming #retrogames

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 #bookchallenge #booksky #writingcommunity #20daybookchallenge @lainitaylor.bsky.social

Choose 20 games that stayed with you or influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 17 #GameChallenge #videogames #Games #retrogaming #retrogames #rpg

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 #bookchallenge #booksky #writingcommunity #20daybookchallenge