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emma
@surrealwritings.bsky.social
aspiring literary fiction novelist
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accountability thread for my #wip 🧵

NORMAL PEOPLE x MELANCHOLIA

🪐 lit fic/surrealism
💫 loving someone is never a waste
🌊 climate change dystopia
🥂 doomed by the narrative
2024 writing wrapped

🤍 started writing fiction again
🍊 wrote my first ever novel
✨ edited it and fell out of love
🪐 wrote 75% of a new novel
🌊 wrote 46k of a different wip
📚 read some (not enough) books
🥂 met some incredible new writer friends
December 31, 2024 at 6:28 PM
#writinggoals2025

✨ finish writing 🪐
✨ start & finish writing 🫧
✨ finish writing 🌊
✨ find a dream agent 🤍
December 16, 2024 at 2:44 PM
oh conclave is actually incredible
December 15, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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commission of my #wip fmc 🥹🥹🥹 she turned out so stunning
November 30, 2024 at 4:07 PM
heartbreaking when you listen to breakup songs and sad christmas songs and think of your mc and their parents
December 15, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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I am officially represented by Maddy Belton at @mmagency.bsky.social for WHEN THE SEA BURNS RED ❤️ I cannot wait to work with her on sharing this love story with the world ✨
December 10, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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I'm not convinced that the politics of the killer matter more than the politics of the act.
December 9, 2024 at 9:18 PM
broke through my writers block tonight!! and this tweet @alliewritesalot.bsky.social sent me helped so much 🩵
December 9, 2024 at 1:23 AM
my spotify wrapped being ruled by the succession score for two years in a row is so silly to me
December 4, 2024 at 12:39 PM
for christmas this year i am gifting each family member a different book i read this year and loved so i can force literary discourse throughout 2025
December 3, 2024 at 12:44 AM
literary aspiration and chaos is actually my whole being
December 3, 2024 at 12:43 AM
there’s nothing i love more than a cab ride home from the airport the city is so pretty across the water
December 3, 2024 at 12:38 AM
hoping to get back into writing tomorrow but it’s so hard to find the flow again after a break
December 1, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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BoS🌞🌙: To clear her mother’s name, girl from London plays the reluctant hero of a magical world until magic begins to corrupt her.

VietMythWIP🎭🪭: When the spirit world suddenly turns hostile, a cursed princess and a fake shaman must journey to the realm of the gods to find answers.
Pitch your story in a sentence.💙📚
November 27, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Elior and Linh from my agented YA Fantasy BLOOD OF SILVER!!!

🌙 SPIRITED AWAY vibes
🌞 Sun & Moon are rivals (loverboy x hatergirl)
🗡️ Viet FMC corrupted by magic

(It’s not an Allie book if the MMC doesn’t get stabbed by the FMC at least once)

Artist: @ciancy-an.bsky.social

#WritingCommunity
November 30, 2024 at 11:13 AM
also still thinking about sally rooney’s article for the irish times from saturday and highly recommend it. as always her writing is succinct and pertinent.

t.co/RiELFNJ0rH
November 27, 2024 at 3:28 PM
i haven’t written in days i’ve been so sleepy but hoping to write on my flight home tonight
November 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 7:41 AM
found a new song for my wip and it’s wild horses and i think this is the first time i’ve found literary inspiration from the rolling stones
November 23, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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@surrealwritings.bsky.social's lit fic is totally giving me this vibes 😭🫶
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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A quote from page 27 of my #wip to celebrate turning 27 ♥️
November 21, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Snippet from the latest chapter of my #VietMythWIP 🎭🪭

What if we’re enemies who commit a terrible crime together and now we trauma-bond while still hating each other?
November 21, 2024 at 11:33 AM
thinking of doing a long weekend in a hotel in january for a little break post holidays (and to write completely uninterrupted)
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 AM
i just looked at my outline and it says “they kiss at the aquarium” and yet i wrote them discussing politics and gerrymandering at the aquarium
November 21, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time
November 21, 2024 at 4:15 AM