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Linds
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I should probably be writing.
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TODAY IS LAUNCH DAY!

My novella Floodwaters, prequel to my seafaring fantasy series, is available to read!!

Universal Book Link: books2read.com/u/b6wAxp
Buy Direct (SIGNED copy!) payhip.com/b/yj9l5

#writingcommunity #booksky #queerwriters #fantasyseries
November 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
When we first meet Kali, she's carrying a lot of hurt and anger from her first mom's choices. After the initial crisis of the story, Kaliana's anger has a new focus. She's on a rescue mission. If she can just convince her sister to get on board, there's a chance she'll get what she wants. #PlotTober
#PlotTober Day 6: Main character goals

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

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October 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I've got 5 MCs planned. This group is inspired by the Animorphs, so the plan right now is that each will have their own POV short story in a series. My first POV MC, Kali, is like the sarcastic Marco of the group; their style and anger issues are inspired by Gideon in Gideon the Ninth.
#PlotTober
#PlotTober Day 5: Main character ideas

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

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October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Secondary world, in the midst of a magically-motivated industrial revolution. The central city Sedereal is newly cosmopolitan, trains and long-distance communication devices connect different regions across the world, and a powerful material linked to dragon magic is redefining science.
#PlotTober
#PlotTober Day 4: Setting for WIP

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky
October 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
November 3rd!!!! Omg that's so close I'm so excited
My heartbreaker of a contemporary fantasy novella comes November 3rd!

Two teenagers. One science project. One furious god.

#artsky #booksky #indiebooks #indieauthor #queerauthor
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The most direct inspiration for my story and the world I want to build is the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. The diversity of her dragons and their nuanced relationships with humans and the environment around them are nothing short of magic themselves. I'll put other examples below.
#PlotTober
#PlotTober Day 3: Inspirations from other media

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

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October 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Initial idea: a young person and her queer-teenage-misfit group of friends uncover a mystery, attempt to right a wrong, and create seismic change in a world where the environment itself is defined by the presence and intentions of magical dragons. How we get there: Let's find out! #PlotTober
#PlotTober Day 2: Initial ideas

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky
October 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Hi I'm Linds, I like to write sci fi/fantasy and short fics and microfics when I get the chance. I'm going to work on a fantasy novel this November that has been in the back of my mind for years, with the hope that I can decide what it's about by the end of the month :) nice to meet you
#Plottober
#PlotTober Day 1: Introduce yourself & your WIP

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
all right let's DO this
Announcing #PlotTober, a WIP plotting prompt game for the month of October!

Here is a preview of the full list of prompts. I will post each individual prompt daily at midnight EST for participants to quote repost.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WritingQ #AmWriting #WriteSky
October 1, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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📣 Contest announcement 📣

Weird West Quick Draw is a weird-west-themed flash fiction contest with submissions opening July 1. Guest judge is award-winning weird west author, KC Grifant.

Five winners, total. 1st prize: $100 + publication in Apex Magazine

reachyourapex.com/wwqw

#writingcontest
June 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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When it feels like too much, remember that you could live to be this lady
April 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I felt #grief
In the riptide
That pulled me
Neath the sea

It’s then I heard
Selkie folk
Hum dirge
To my soul freed

Now my spirit
Swims with them
Their pod
Adopted me

Don’t you shed
One tear for me
The deep
Supplies my needs

If you dare…
Come swim with us
You’ll find love
In our lee
#vss365
a group of seals swimming in the ocean at night .
Alt: a group of seals that might be Selkie Folk, swim in the ocean at night
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April 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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#Grief
A void a blackhole
Ever growing ever empty

Nothing to hold onto nothing solid
Just that small time before
A weight so heavy

Memories
But they barely warm my skin
My age outgrowing them

And that’s the ache
That I go on
But you stopped

#vss365
April 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Scratching outside my #tent wakes me. A mouse seeking warmth, sure. In #time it goes away.

I unzip the tent and try to start a fire before #snow falls again.

Movement behind me. I turn to see a massive shadow hunched behind the now-closed canvas door.

It can keep the tent.

#2WordPrompt
#vss365
April 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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“Path to Adventure”

Art by me for this month’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of ADVENTURE! Writers, 14 days remain until submissions are due on April 17th. Full details on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html!

#SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts
April 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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D.C.'s Daily Rhyme- www.dcswanson.com

The more we plan ahead in life, the less we need to hurry
The more we work to set things right, the less we have to worry
The more we can ignore the noise, the less we seem to hear it
The more we learn to wield our voice, the less we ought to fear it.

#vss365
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Some stations were the darkest pits of the worst that space could offer, others were kind of civilised, while others were downright naive.

Lacking adequate security, people slipping away to #canoodle in sensitive areas, no customs. Great for a smuggler, but prime targets for piracy.

#vss365
March 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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This is Bella and Hank. They have a commensal relationship in which Bella benefits and Hank neither benefits nor is harmed. 13/10 for both
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
So demure I seem to you
Generous, I'm sure
Lascivious are you to me
#Insatiable, a boar

Beauty is as you behold it
Beastliness as I
Yet hidden in my coy disdain
Monstrous yearnings lie

If you turn into a man
They'll surely want us wed
But bring a bit of teeth, I beg,
Into this Beauty's bed
#vss365
Dears, #vss365. Have you ever experienced hunger? When it is impossible to get enough of something or someone. We continue to express our feelings and open our hearts.

Your #prompt for Wednesday is - #insatiable
March 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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#vss365

what might a bite of
inspiration has to quell
procrastination

#inspiration #WritingCommunity
March 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"You've got to be kidding."

"Hey," he soothes, arm snaking around my shoulders. "It's a compliment! You're my muse, my #inspiration, my-"

"You made an NFT of my FACE?!" I whirl, grab his collar. "Cash it, burn it. Profits are mine, debt is yours. Stick to trading cards, Michelangelo."
#vss365
My dear ones, #vss365! I like to say that inspiration has no timetable.

Your #prompt for Monday is - #inspiration.
March 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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His #passion for fashion is unrequited by every piece of clothing he wears. A fashion model will wear a sack and convince you of its and their radiant beauty, while his clothing, washed out and crumpled, puts him to the edge of your vision, a marginal entry pencilled into the book of life. #vss365
March 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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My whimsy's gettin' flimsy
my spark's become a lark
my mojo is a no go
my passion's stuck in park
I'm wagin' it's the agin'
by noon I start to yawn
no longer play, just sit and say
hey you, get off my lawn

#vss365 (passion)
March 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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March 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM