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Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 29d
Just throwing this out there! November is now #Bookvember for writers and readers who want to yap about books and authors they love.

#writesky #booksky #authors #books #writingcommunity
#Bookvember A book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Introduce yourself and share how you came to be a reader/writer. Share a children’s book that influenced you as a writer or reader. Share a children’s author that sparked a love of reading/writing in you. Share your favorite non-fiction children’s book or series. Share your favorite children’s poetry book / author. Share a children’s book with illustrations that captivated you. Did anyone monitor your reading as a kid? Or was it a free for all. Share a book by a female author that you love. Share a book by a queer author that you love. Share a book by an author of color that you love. Share a book by a neurodivergent author that you love. Share a book you love by an author from an underrepresented demographic. Share a book that acted as a window to someone else's life. Share a book that acted as a mirror, reflecting a part of yourself. Share a book you love from your favorite genre. Speaking of genres, what’s your favorite(s) and why do you love it? Share a book you consider an overlooked gem from your favorite genre. Share a book you consider overhyped from your favorite genre. Which 4 authors from your favorite genre would you enshrine on your genre Mt. Rushmore? Share a book you love from a genre you don’t usually read. What genre do you refuse to read? Why is it off limits? Share the book with your favorite hero/ heroine’s journey. Share the book with your favorite unreliable narrator. Share the book with your favorite heel turn. Share a book you love with a mentor character. Share a book you love with a setting that acts like its own character. Cliff hangers. Love them? Hate them? How do you read? Paperback in a cozy corner? Ebook on the train? Audiobook while folding laundry? A mix? What’s at the top of your current TBR or TBW list? If you could only recommend one book to someone to turn them from a non-reader to a reader, what would it be?
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Only if it's divided into two books because it's so big of a book that it would be physically uncomfortable for the average human to read it. In that case, split in two & released at the same time is fine.

Otherwise, no ty
Secondary plots and hinting at things is fine though. Just not main plot.
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 10h
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 27: How do you feel about cliff hangers? Love them? Hate them? Is there a book you feel did a cliffhanger particularly well (or did it poorly)? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#Bookvember

First, Id like to point out the difference between a “cliffhanger” (a problem solved in the next chapter) and a “game-changer” (a problem that blows readers mind and changes the story.)

I hate cheap cliffhangers.
I LOVE a good game-changer, but also, prefer one-shot stories.
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 10h
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 27: How do you feel about cliff hangers? Love them? Hate them? Is there a book you feel did a cliffhanger particularly well (or did it poorly)? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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estebannoguera.bsky.social
#bookvember day 27

Like every other troupe, cliff hangers can work very well if they are used correctly.
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 10h
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 27: How do you feel about cliff hangers? Love them? Hate them? Is there a book you feel did a cliffhanger particularly well (or did it poorly)? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
woodenvelt.bsky.social
#Bookvember 27

I feel like I am more tolerant of cliffhangers in tv/movies than books. Unresolved plotlines tend to make me angry unless they are very well done, and I don't have to wait for the next book. That said, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig does a cliffhanger very well. #Books #Writesky
Book cover for the gothic fantasy novel One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig. It shows a girl in red standing on a bridge between to stone towers with a gray mist rising above her.
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
woodenvelt.bsky.social
How I'm rolling up to thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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November 27th – disorganize (chaotic)

Fox is facing off with a demon. It isn’t going well.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Where ‘Mikiva’ had once stood was… words failed her. It was amorphous, flickering and changing before her eyes. There was nothing that she could focus on. For a moment she had to close her eyes, trying to staunch the panic that rose in her just from gazing on its chaotic shape. A being with no fixed physical body. The true form of a demon. “I won’t allow you to speak to her any longer.” Its high, piping voice did nothing to settle Fox’s jangled nerves. “I know what she wants, and it isn’t to be rid of me.” Its… limb? Did it have limbs? Well, whatever the extension of its being that was currently crushing the life out of her was called, it had intensified its efforts. Fox pushed back, forming a barrier tight to her skin and expanding it until the goop exploded off her like a bursting bubble. Breathing hard, she clambered to her feet. “It might not be as simple as that, demon. I don’t intend to just lie down and die.” “And I don’t intend to kill you.” Somehow, she could tell it was smiling. “I don’t have to. Fancy mage tricks aside, you have no real power here. This is my realm, and I have you for as long as I wish. As long as it takes to break you.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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ladyjane.bsky.social
Generally not a fan - Gabaldon has used it, Casey has used it, and even - to a small degree - May has used it. I love their series, but when a storyline is left hanging, I always think, "hope nothing happens to the author before the next book!"
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 10h
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 27: How do you feel about cliff hangers? Love them? Hate them? Is there a book you feel did a cliffhanger particularly well (or did it poorly)? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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mgundle.bsky.social
Alas, the only cliffhanger I remember reading - such as it is - was the end of Half-Blood Prince by She Who Mist Not Be Named. Which is just as well; a cliffhanger has to be done reeeeeally well for me to buy in.

#Bookvember
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 10h
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 27: How do you feel about cliff hangers? Love them? Hate them? Is there a book you feel did a cliffhanger particularly well (or did it poorly)? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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rachelsimpsonwrit.bsky.social
The Oasis Stone... I can't say more...

I will say though, I love love love when cliffhangers give me hope
#Bookvember #Booksky
The cover of "The Oasis Stone" by Jack Davidson with a blue stone on sand with greenery creeping towards it from the edges
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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gunsmile.bsky.social
I really enjoy Mimi Matthews’ historical romance books, but I can’t say they’ve ever inspired me to write anything similar. They are simply wonderful treats. #Lovember #WritingCommunity
isaacxisaac.bsky.social Isaac X Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 15h
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Is there a book or writer you love who has NOT really inspired anything in your current work(s) and/or whose oeuvre doesn't really have anything to do with your current focus?
An eclectic love of yours?
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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sayaashrah.bsky.social
#Bookvember 27. I do like them, and as someone who writes series, they're always a part of my stories.

There's the arc of the series and the arc of individual books, though, and I always take care to finish the arc of the book, and that's important, otherwise you get that empty feeling at the end.
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 10h
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 27: How do you feel about cliff hangers? Love them? Hate them? Is there a book you feel did a cliffhanger particularly well (or did it poorly)? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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capricangirl.bsky.social
I feel like most folks are fans of stories with cliffhangers—big or small. It keeps you interested in the tale.

How about a play with a cliffhanger? I always liked the end of Act One in Sondheim/Lapine’s Into the Woods.

#bookvember #writesky #booksky
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
woodenvelt.bsky.social
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 27!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 27: How do you feel about cliff hangers? Love them? Hate them? Is there a book you feel did a cliffhanger particularly well (or did it poorly)? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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penguin-ponders.bsky.social
#Bookvember Setting as Character:

Alan Dean Foster does great alien worlds / biologies, and Midworld is my absolute favorite. Everything is weird and deadly and interconnected, constantly blurring the lines between plant and animal. It's a great survival journey.
Book Cover for Midworld by Alan Dean Foster A man of indeterminate race crouches in a dense jungle, holding a blow gun the size of a rifle. He wears skimpy green leaf leather and looks at something above him. Beside him is a large, benign green cow-like alien.
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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theeldervampire.bsky.social
Catching up on #Bookvember
This year I read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Normally, I don't read contemporary lit (not for any particular reason), but I was curious when my mom said she wanted to read it, and it surpassed my expectations and was an enjoyable read for me.
Book cover for Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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#Bookvember
The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield
An incredible trans cosmic horror starring a man that will do anything to get the body he wants. And I mean Anything.
Be it grief, his descent into madness, or his one-track minded pursuit, his narration sometimes distorts reality.
Book cover for The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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theeldervampire.bsky.social
#Bookvember
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
I love how this book and They Both Die at the End have New York City be such an integral part to the story, but you really feel it in the prequel. This book wouldn't be the same if it wasn't in NYC. It's its own entity.
Book cover of The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hard to just pick one! Along with The Starless Sea, Anne of Green Gables, & Jane Austen books, these indie books. The descriptions, treatment, & character interactions with setting make the settings feel alive.

#Bookvember
Screenshot of Realm of Monsters Series by Joharra Harper page on Amazon. Books include The Realm of Monsters, The Vampire's Creation, & The Queen of Monsters. Description reads Callista must face her traumatic past as she tries to save humanity with the help of some fellow monsters, despite the hell humans have caused them. Cover of The Treasure of Ravenwood: A Fairy Tale by Barbara Lieberman. White words above an image of red apple in a basket on green grass. Screenshot of Everwood Falls by Kat Kinney series page on Amazon. Books featured include Light My Pyre, Fallen, A Siren's Cursed Kiss, & Hunted. Description reads EVERWOOD FALLS... A small supernatural community tucked in the Colorado Rockies where witches, werewolves and vampires can live without fear of discovery, and those with curses they can't control are sent to keep the existence of magic from being revealed to Mundanes. Screenshot from Royal Road of Tower of Memories Series by Alyssa Louttit. Covers include Towers of Nine, Welcome to Dragon Tower, Drawing Lines in Blood, & Thawing the Nightmare.
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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estebannoguera.bsky.social
#Bookvember day 26
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I guess Quillbert tired himself out from all that swimming and hopped on a train for the next leg of his book-related adventure. He gave me another hint about what he's up to, though! He said there's someone he's trying to help out?

#writingcommunity #quillbert4ever #writers
A plush octopus gazes out a train window at some lovely bare autumn trees
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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verosthewriter.bsky.social
#Bookvember
In Patricia Wrede's the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, the Enchanted Forest is a magical entity unto itself with constantly shifting internal and external borders and its own inherent magic that produces all kinds of loveable weirdness.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 1d
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 26!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 26: Share a book you love where the setting is it’s own character. How does the author breathe life into the setting? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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philosophika.bsky.social
I'm going to be a cliche and say #OneHundredYearsofSolitude or #CienAñosdeSoledad by #GabrielGaríaMárquez! What is the town of Macondo, if not Colombia 🇨🇴 in its most fantastical guise? 🦜🌴🥭💜 #Bookvember #BookSky
Book Cover for One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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nerdcactus.bsky.social
26. For this one, I have to go with Mansfield Park, which is actually my favorite Austen for this reason. The comparison of country and city, the way locations reveal so much about character and drive the plot foward, is what I love so much about it. #Bookvember #writingcommunity #writesky
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 1d
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 26!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 26: Share a book you love where the setting is it’s own character. How does the author breathe life into the setting? #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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calyxbooks.bsky.social
I’m obsessed with Magiford. Every series gives me a little more of it and the characters I love. Generally, I go for spicy romance, but these books are in my top favorite books and they’re sweeter than closed-door. I will never recommend these enough.
#bookvember #booksky #magiford
5 book covers with arrows showing the reading order. “K.M. Shea” “Magiford Supernatural City Trilogies”
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." #bookvember
The cover of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. It is a soft painting of a large English home seen through a hole in a hedge. A man and a woman are walking up the path to the home. The sea is in the background.
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM