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Philosophika
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(She/Her) 🇨🇴🇬🇧 I'm a philosopher (BA & MA), freelance fiction editor, and aspiring novelist in my early 30s.
Babes, I'm considering adding a second antagonist we don't see coming until they do something unspeakable in act 3...

And I'm worried XD Am I doing this to save the ✨main antagonist✨ (who I kind of love)??????? Am I being a bad?!?!

Send help 😂

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Results! The novel incrementally tests just how far the protagonist is willing to go until she discovers she actually does have a limit she won't cross at the midpoint. This causes tension with the antagonist. Ironically, he also discovers he has a limit in the 3rd act. #AwesomeCharacters
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Honor or results?

If it came down to it would your character choose to maintain their honor, or would they break their oath/promise/the rules to accomplish their goal?

How would they feel about it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
#HazbinHotel has got me reading #ParadiseLost by #JohnMilton for the hundredth time 🍎✨😂 I need more Lucifer content. #BookSky
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
No 🤣

That goes for the entire cast, lol

#Lovember
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Does your character believe in The Power Of Love™️? If so, what do they believe are its limits?
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
#WhiteOleander by #JanetFitch is a coming-of-age story about Astrid, the daughter of a murderess, as she navigates life in dif. foster homes. When I read this (20?), I was broke & living w/ a fancy grandmother who resented me (the daughter of the ⚫🐑). I *immediately* felt seen.🧵→ (1/3) #Bookvember
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
100% motivated by love. The antagonist *needs* to be admired and struggles w/ his unexpected love for the protagonist. The protagonist *needs* to be loved by her immediate family, and struggles w/ her unanticipated love for the antagonist. Theirs is a love🩸sans mercy.🩸 #Lovember
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

How motivated is/are your character(s) by love—romantic, familial, social (e.g. fame or approval), or otherwise?
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Beautiful warm November day in Kelsey Park Beckenham. Not a single frost yet this winter.
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Looking to sink your teeth into a cerebral, rich epic fantasy? "The Fruit of War: Stone and Flesh" will be served 1st March 2026!

Get your first taste by signing up for my newsletter at www.tamarasharker.com!

🪐📚 💙📚
#epicfantasy #darkfantasy #fruitofwar #indiebooks
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Being criticized, outshone, or disrespected will send the antagonist into a scathing rage. Everyone walks on eggshells around him, although age has made him easier to navigate. The protagonist, on the other hand, runs on a constant, low-grade 🔥fury🔥. And who can blame her? 🧵→ #AwesomeCharacters
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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✨The Audacity ✨ is a queer as in weird and queer as in gay existential multimedia space adventure series!

The novel Audacity 4: Significantly Other just released. Check it out and find lots of other fun stuff like a space-themed tarot deck and comic book adaption at CarmenLoup.com
Tarot Illustrator | Author | Carmen Loup | Savannah GA
Carmen Laura Loup is an illustrator and author in Savannah, GA with a degree from SCAD. She has published Tarot in Space and The Audacity Humor Sci-fi Book Series
CarmenLoup.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
As a philosopher, I have a dif. view. I was trained to take what's fragile in my writing and expose it to the sharpest knife in the room. Thoughts, beliefs, observations... Everything goes belly up! You learn to be so ruthless with yourself & your work, your vulnerabilities grow teeth—and bite back.
Your writing self is not the part of you that goes on dates or argues with your family. It observes these things from a position of hidden inner safety. It is too vulnerable to injury from others.

Often writers won't be read by people in important relationships to them.

#writingcommunity #booksky
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The antagonist is a fascinating piece of shit. I love how complicated he is. Somehow, he's simultaneously the best and the worst humanity can offer, which seems impossible, and yet! That said, I will ✨never✨ willingly be in a room with a person like this again. #Lovember #WritingCommunity
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What is something you love about a character of yours, that you would absolutely NOT love if you met them IRL? 😆
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Nobel prize-winning #HumanActs by #HanKang portrays a defining moment in Korean history—the pro-democracy Gwangju Uprising of May 1980—through and around the fictional story of Dong-ho, a young boy killed in the government-sanctioned massacre that ensued. A difficult, eye-opening book! #Bookvember
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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$2300 we are so close to artist raises!!!! take the money out of my pocket!! JUST STEAL IT FROM ME WHY DON'T YOU
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The author and one of her books...

I chose to showcase Serpentus today because I love this book (I could say that about all of my books, but this is in my top 3 favorites of the 11 I've published.)
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#PedroPáramo is a literary masterpiece by a pioneer of the #magicalrealism genre, Mexican novelist #JuanRulfo. The book is dark, disturbing, and definitely not for the faint-hearted, but also absolutely fucking brilliant and profoundly moving! One of my all-time faves ✨ #Bookvember #BookSky
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I 💜LOVE💚 editing! Specifically, I love ✨developmental editing✨ (the sexiest editing 🤫😉). I love it so much, I actually do it for a living, lol. I really enjoy the critical thinking and creative problem-solving that goes into strengthening a manuscript's overall structure! #Novmemeber
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The protagonist's (platonic) relationship with the antagonist definitely brings out the worst in her (w/ him she learns to indulge her vanity, arrogance, cruelty, greed, selfishness, etc.). However, in the end, that exp. also helps her become a better person, so... 🤷‍♀️ #Lovember #WritingCommunity
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Is there a love your character has had that's made them a worse person?
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Why on earth is it easier to think at night!?
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender
January 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Amalia must defy her ambassador husband & his ‘taint’ fearing cult to return to her sickly daughter before she’s consumed by a magic mutating plague.

Her rage is unraveling and so too is her forbidden death magic.

🫀Body horror
Sapphic slow❤️‍🔥
🐲Dragons & Gods

#WritingCommunity
November 7, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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The last member of a dying race quests across the world to pay a divine debt. Want to join in? Read the full tale in Shadows & Sorcery #188

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com/p/shadows-an...

#fantasy #flashfiction #fantasyreads #indieauthor 💙📚
Shadows & Sorcery #188
This week, the last member of a dying race quests to pay a divine debt at an Eternal Altar, we take an atmospheric journey into the Northern Woods, and the red wizard Carloman pulls out all the stops ...
shadowsandsorcery.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I put the writing down, take a deep breath, & remind myself that "difficult" is just a part of the process 💜 It doesn't mean anything. Maybe I'll take a walk or play with my cat for a while. I'm fine b/c I know no level of difficulty can stop me from trying again. I'll get it eventually! ✨ #WritingQ
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It’s the 8yr anniversary of If I Say Yes🥳so it’s FREE this week✨

Shell didn’t want an arranged marriage—till it was fixed with Imran

If only the Best Man wasn’t trying to sabotage the wedding

💔forbidden love
🤝childhood ‘bromance’
💍Bengali wedding traditions
#romancelandia #booksky

bit.ly/IISYbsk
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM