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Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨ @emiloulockett.bsky.social · May 7
Guide to Fate & Her Atrocities, an adult romantasy at 95k #agentguide #agentguides #romantasy #amquerying
Fate and her atrocities The pitch: She reads minds; he sows thoughts into them. It’s a cruel twist by the Goddess of Fate that makes them-- and only them-- impervious to the other’s ability. To protect those she owes everything to, she’ll have to kill him. Yet with each try, it only gets harder. Has Fate given her a blessing or a curse? The tropes: moon-based magic, enemies-to-lovers, chronic pain rep, found family, mythology The comps: Curious Tide by Pascale Lacelle (unique magic), The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon (complex characters), When the Moon Hatches by Sarah A. Parker (dark yet ethereal vibes)
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Announcement!

RevPit's Fall into Fiction is back and it will all take place here on Bluesky!

We hope to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for fiction writers who are drafting, editing, or querying a novel this fall (11/3-21)

#RevPit #RevPitFiF
Fall into Fiction 2025
In November, RevPit is hosting Fall into Fiction, a minievent to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for f
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October 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
#WIPSnips - "Charge"
“Do you know Jonas?” he asked. She glanced up, meeting his gaze again, and nodded stiffly. Something flashed in his eyes, and a muscle worked in his jaw. “You know Jonas?” he repeated. His tone was different now, dark and cloudy, charged like a storm brewing in the air. “Very well.” The corner of his lip tipped up.
October 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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badhandbooks.bsky.social
Using AI in your work makes you stupider and lazier. That's it. That's the post.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
All her secrets start to unravel, and while she "gets" what she wants, she starts to lose something she didn't expect...
#PlotTober #WriteSky
gunsmile.bsky.social Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 21
#PlotTober Day 21: Second Pinch Point

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
#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social 21. We need another Pinch Point, this time halfway between the midpoint and the end of Act 2. What are some small ways you could remind the MC of the antagonistic forces at this point in the story? Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
This is a throwback, but I'm cheating and using "The Magic Treehouse" series, since we can go everywhere they went. And because I was obsessed with that series as a kid.
#WritingLifeMonthly #BookSky
traceyleewrites.bsky.social Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · Oct 21
📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 21 📚

I want to say "all of them" but I'm pretty sure I'd die on day one if most of them! Still, I'd love to vist Pern, and I'd move to The Shire in a second.

What about you?

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #fantasyworld #worldbuilding
October #writinglifemonthly Day 21 What's a fictional place from a book you'd love to visit? Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
"Second"
#WIPSnips #WriteSky
Pounds come from Namura’s balcony, and she grimaces. Ther ladies-in-waiting are here to dress her so that she’s presentable to Cal. Not that he ever takes a second glance at what Namura is wearing. Their wedding is nothing but political, so there’s no reason for me to be jealous. But I am. With every bone in my body, I hate that he’s taking my best friend away from me. I hate that our time together has been sequested to the time it takes the sun to grace us then raise over the horizon. Most of all, I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
I get the initial idea for a character, and create the world, then create more characters. My world-building and characters influence each other. It is a process, and a lot of it changes by time I get to the drafting process.
#WeeknightWriters #WriteSky
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Oct 16
Q1: Do you build your world to suit your story and/or characters or does the world come to you first? #WeeknightWriters
Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters: Do you build your world to suit your story and/or characters or does the world come to you first?"
October 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Hey #WeeknightWriters !
I’m Emi. I’m a teacher with too many houseplants and books. I’m querying an NA Romantasy with moon-magic and mythology. My WIP is a YA Fantasy with spirits, courtesans, and a whole lot of secrets.
#WriteSky
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Oct 16
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall planning is going!
Notepad that reads: #WeeknightWriters Introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going!”
October 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
Maev finds Cal, dead from a yurma (snow leopard spirit) stealing his soul. In her anger, Maev kills the yurma. When interrogated by the court, she reveals that she killed the yurma, but lies that she did so with the goddess Agna's help: from courtesan to goddess-chosen.
#PlotTober #WriteSky
gunsmile.bsky.social Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 16
#PlotTober Day 16: Inciting Incident

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
#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social 16. Let's rewind back to Act 1 and explore the Inciting Incident. What are some ways the MC could realize something is different about their world/life without necessarily taking action yet? For example, a sudden death, a strange encounter, a mysterious letter, a lottery gone wrong. Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
#WIPSnips #WriteSky
Amulets, which come from defeating or freeing a spirit, have some sort of magical properties. But they take just as much as they give.
That is the other risk of amulets. Just as spirits crave something human, amulets all have a catch. It’s why they go straight to the crown for mending. The shamans aren’t only finding their use, but what they might take. Just as the amulet Nehru used to become stronger and stronger, it decayed his soul.
October 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
My LAST page is 334, so here is the last two paragraphs.
#HumpDay #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Rasa looked down at it. Her breath caught, and for a moment, she wondered if it was a trick. For the scar was the perfect teardrop shape, and purely white. And as the sun sunk over the horizon, and night fell over the island, no moon goddesses visited the sky. Maras took it, but for once, the darkness did not unnerve Rasa.
October 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Today’s #WIPSnips Sometimes I forget what I have written and I think “Whoa! I wrote that?” 😵‍💫 #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts #lgbtbook
“He would have to take care to not indulge the desires of the guests. He would not want to mislead anyone unintentionally. It was going to be a long and tiring night. Jack already wanted to crawl into his bed and forget about it all, but the thought of catching a conversation with Nicholas stopped him.”
October 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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#WIPSnips
Namura and Maev are friendship goals
I glance at Namura over my shoulder, and her smile is as wide as mine. We look at each other for a moment before bursting out in laughter. She grabs her stomach and swats at me until I grab her hand. Her laugh is heavy, the only thing about her that doesn’t match what belongs under a crown. It’s what first attracted me to her. That she didn’t care if her laugh was full of snorts and hollers: being born to a throne wouldn’t mold everything about her. “Thank the gods!” She throws her hands up to the sky. “Our mothers will sleep peacefully in their graves. Their rotten daughters have not foresaken them.” “Except for now.” “On a roof,” she continues and lifts one leg up, “wearing pants.” “The gods are weeping.”
October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
My midpoint is a little different. I want to create a false sense of victory that starts around the midpoint and crashes at the All is Lost. The MC reaches her goal at the midpoint and is finally recognized for it, but it has contradicted what she has learned on the way.
#PlotTober #WriteSky
gunsmile.bsky.social Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 15
#PlotTober Day 15: The midpoint

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
#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social 15. The midpoint of the story serves two purposes: (1) it reveals critical information to the MC and (2) causes the MC to confront both who they used to be and who they need to become to grow, change, and/or achieve their goals. What are some ways you could do this? Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!
October 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
As a fantasy writer, I always make my own worlds but inspired by real places.

For this WIP, the main kingdom is heavenly inspired by the Himalayas. The elements of wind, water, flame, and stone keep humans safe from the spirits, so humans have to live in high altitudes.
#FirstDraftFall #WriteSky
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Oct 15
#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall

Is your story set in our world or a world you've created? Give us some setting vibes!

These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...
Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning Is your story set in our world or a world you've created?
October 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#WIPSnips October 14th ultimate
Tenacious and his friends are getting unwelcome attention from a strange police officer named Bland.
From "Tales of Midbar: Exiled Angel" - www.inkitt.com/stories/624474
Background: A ruin on the edge of canyon. "Anyway," said Generous, "they've produced a few anavim, most of whom have relocated to other sephirot but Bland, and probably the royal family, thinks they've been disappeared by the XT's. Therefore, he thinks that Beauty has some strange relationship with the XT's because she's the oldest of the anavim they've bred who hasn't disappeared and she's employing drop-offs and has a history of being interested in them. It seems by their reasoning that Freethinking should also have disappeared but for some reason Bland thinks he's different from Beauty." "The fake drop-offs were the only people I got on with!" said Beauty. "Later, I befriended some of the last real drop-offs to help fake drop-offs act realistically. By the way, all the real drop-offs I've met have been naviim and as far as I know, they all married naviim, often other drop-offs and formed a true-breeding navi extended family." "It sounds like they're doing the same thing as us," I said. "Only nibeyim can't teleport." "They can go through wormholes," said Freethinking. "That's very dangerous," said Breeze, "and requires difficult magic." "It's more likely they're just coming from off-world or perhaps the Big Sea," said Fascinating. "But none have come in the last forty years," I said. "And now a bunch have disappeared, including descendants of the ones from forty years ago."
October 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
They are all my beloved children and I'm excited to write all of them BUT if I have to pick one, it will be my FMC. I am having a lot of fun diving into the mind of a courtesan who fakes spiritual divination.

I'm so super excited to write the villain because I love villains.
#FirstDraftFall
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Oct 14
#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Of all the characters in your story, who are you most excited to write about?

These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...
Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning Of all the characters in your story, who are you most excited to write about?
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Of all the characters in your story, who are you most excited to write about?

These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...
Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning Of all the characters in your story, who are you most excited to write about?
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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strange witch, laying in a pond & hiding from her mom

#dragonage #morrigan #art
digital illustration of Morrigan from Dragon Age, laying on some fluffy grasses underwater, with fish and lily pads above. Water reflections on her skin look like raven wings. The illustration is framed by two dragon silhouettes.
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
Since I want to make this a duology, the ending will end on a cliffhanger. Maev gets what she wants: she's not a courtesan and a respected captain on the spirit corps. However, the theme of freedom has a cost comes back, and while she might have everything she wants, none of it is sweet.
#PlotTober
gunsmile.bsky.social Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · Oct 14
#PlotTober Day 14: Story endings

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
#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social 14. Now that you have some ideas of your story's beginning and the main character's goals & growth, can you come up with a few different story endings that would be satisfying for a reader? Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!
October 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
Hammering out all the fun in the fun & games part. I have some general scene ideas but need to work on connecting them and threading through all the subplots. Writing is so much work.
#FirstDraftFall #WriteSky
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Oct 13
#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Check-in! How's your progress? Let us know what you're working on tonight or what you've worked on so far today!
Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall Nightly Check-In: What aspects of your story are you working on tonight? If you’ve already worked on it, how did it go?”
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
emiloulockett.bsky.social
I love Save the Cat and Story Genius. I'm so character-driven that my external plot will take a hit if I can't reign it in and run wild just on my characters. So both help me stay organized. BUT I'm a firm believer that everyone needs their own process.
#WritingCommunity
ddwardiswriting.bsky.social Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · Oct 12
So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?
October 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible.

Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon!

📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!
Mentors Part 1: Molly McDonough Deena Helm Julie Lew Megan Bontrager Seren Kilig Natalie Kikić Deandra Davis Christie Curry Eunice Kim Carmeline Melchior Corvin A. Doupagne Rachel Kitch Samantha Chong Fatiha Rais Shepard DiStasio Thea Liu Damara Allen Karis Rogerson Mentors Part 2: Julie Hafsa Derbal Tali Shammas Lilly Lu Cassy Klisch Camille Chong Bayley Mae Amanda Helander Libby Kennedy Taylor Pitts Shaina Cordas J.D. Myall Asia Murphy Grace Morrow Meredith Mooring Ellen Mulholland Chantel Pearson Stephanie Kim Johnson Caitlyn Averett Sabina Martin
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Gemmi needs all eyes on her.
#WIPsnips #push
Supposedly, they were “broken up,” but they didn’t seem like finished business. Rewind watched them with glistening eyes in a stone face when Gemmi wasn’t flirting with him, instead. “Reeeeewind, I like your hair today!” Gemmi giggled as she tousled it, leaned in toward his face, then scrambled off. “Ooooo, let’s see those LEGS!” she’d screech as she yanked down his saggy pants, smacked his butt, and grabbed him from behind. “Do I have anything on my shirt?” she would ask, as she’d push her boobs up while walking backwards in front of him. Rewind blushed and chuckled at these harassments. Glitch would jump into the middle. “Aw, c’mon, those CHICKEN legs??” “Yeah, looks like you dribbled on yourself, Gemmi!”
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM