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Adregem ཐིཋྀ
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Professional science writer. Unprofessional novelist. Mom with half an empty nest. Insomniac. She/her. That is not me in the picture.
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 15d
In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) #AgentGuide #AgentGuides #Romantasy #Fantasy #AmQuerying #Writers
Image Credits: From Wikimedia Commons Cleora Alienaria Moth (BilliBhai) • Cracked Earth (Patrick Hendry) • Full Moon in Fog (Dinkun Chen) • Sword (Rama) • Samal Fruit Bats (Ranieljosecastaneda) • Lighthouse (Martin Belam) • The Redwood Sunbeams (National Park Service) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
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Here's Sunday having about as much success lighting a fire as I usually do #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
Eventually, the desire for warmth and light gets the better of me, and I build a fire. I’m terrible at it, which seems to greatly amuse the king. “Call a servant,” he suggests. “No,” I garble. My flashlight is sticking out of my mouth, its harsh beam of white light bobbing around on the kindling as I wrestle with it. I’m absolutely determined to humiliate myself with this stupid fireplace.
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"Shirt" is one of those words that appears a lot in romantasy 🥰 so here's a more unconventional use of the word from my #DarkFantasy Death & the Dreamer #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy
“Here.” Tova handed him a waterskin. He dumped it over his hands and rubbed them vigorously together, then he tore one of the sleeves from his shirt, rolled it into a ball, and stuffed it into his shoulder wound. I flinched. My vision went a little gray around the edges, but Macsen’s expression never changed, as if the gaping hole in his flesh was merely a nuisance.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I was like, there's no way I have this word anywhere in any of my WIPs but what do you know ... #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
“Jahnari makes good soup,” Ryan puts in. “And when I first met her, she gave me a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. It tasted like straw, though.” That’s slightly off-topic and maybe a little fiendish, but mediocre cheeseburgers are hardly evil.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Apparently I only use this word in the most boring, expository parts of my stories 🙄 #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #DarkFantasy
We passed the night dry, in a room overlooking a cow pasture. By morning, the pasture had become a marsh and the cows were clustered together on the higher plateaus, lowing miserably, their ankles caked with mud. The rain kept falling into the afternoon and through the second night. We killed the sluggish hours playing dice in the tavern and spinning fictions about the locals.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Hosting sprints one last time for the One Hundred Hours of Writing event!

I'll be live on Twitch from 10pm EST until midnight.

Come join me and get some words in!

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Gaming since 2018. My first + most beloved game is Bloodborne! I enjoy platformers, Soulsborne games, & good stories! Mostly stream writing/coworking sprints right now. Owned by 7 furrocious felines. ...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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From Opus Eternal: Tess confronting the grim reality that Lorcan Harte is hot. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy
“Why are you called that?” I picture him as he was in my dream—with a crown of antlers and a raven on his shoulder—holding a blood-coated sword. It’s … really hot, actually. I’m not even going to deny it.
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Too many choices for this word. Here's one from Death & the Dreamer, where Tova is about to show the brigands how tough she actually is #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #DarkFantasy
Tova sat calmly in the saddle, her crooked smile a blade of ice in the gloom. She was using her menacing, accented voice, but it was going to take a lot more than accented menace to keep these men from murdering us. The friendly voice laughed. “Is that so, little lady?” “Indeed,” she said. “Line up along the road now, and keep your weapons to yourselves. Once we have passed, you may resume your criminal activities with the next group of travelers you encounter.” Now they were all laughing. “The little lady is tough!” the friendly one crowed. “Why would we do that, sweetheart?”
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The Moth King intimidating Sunday with his repulsive horribleness #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
“My enemy?” the king says. His boots shift, and the movement orphans a few tendrils of whatever is crawling all over him. I watch in horror while they tremble at his feet and then right themselves and schloop back into the crowd. “I … I …” I stammer, dragging my eyes away. “I’ve had a few years of swordplay and fencing lessons and that’s everything I know about fighting.” The king is silent. I kind of wish I could see the look on his face, except I definitely do not want to look at his face. “Everyone else leave,” he says.
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I know I am so redundant and I promise I listen to other music besides Deftones, but the line "time will make us realign" from Diamond Eyes is eerily perfect for my #Novelvember story. #Novmemeber #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I will be super impressed with anyone who actually has this word in their WIP 😆. Here's my first snip from my #Novelvember story. This is Joric's penultimate encounter with Fion. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #TimeTravelRomance #TimeTravel
“You’re asking me to accept things without providing the reasons why I should.” She let go of his hand. “This has been fun, and you have been honorable, just as you promised. But perhaps—” “If you’re about to say, ‘perhaps this should end here,’ I’m not sure I believe that is possible. I suppose you will find out.” She frowned. “And you will not?” “I already know everything.”
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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My #FirstDraftFall or #NotNaNo #Novelmber (or whatever) antagonist is one of those abstract sorts so I'll use Death & the Dreamer's antagonist for this: He's a 300-year-old necromancer who steals life from other people to keep himself going but damn it, everything he does is for ❤️LOVE❤️ #Novmemeber
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I had a lot of options—most weren't super compelling out of context—but here's one from Death & the Dreamer where they're about to find out who the vultures are eating #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #DarkFantasy #AmQuerying
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Sunday and the Moth King having their usual spat about who's gonna kill the Dazbog #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
“Steel is the only thing that can kill the Dazbog,” he says. He seems to have regained most of his composure, and his terrible black eyes are fixed on me again, his face as inscrutable as an unmarked grave. “Steel is an alloy that can only be crafted and wielded by mortal hands. The shadow people cannot wield your sword. I cannot wield your sword. Only you can.”
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I use this word a lot less often than I thought I did and only had a few instances to choose from. Here's one from Opus Eternal. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy
Lorcan slides into the booth and I jump at least six feet. “What the fuck, Lorcan?” I reach into the table caddy and throw a sugar packet at him. “Ow,” he says, though there’s no possible way he could have been hurt by 3 grams of C & H. I deliberately choose to not notice what he’s wearing, which is much less than usual. I guess he was in bed. Still, he’s rubbing his bare arm dramatically and now my eye is drawn to it. He has nice, firm biceps. What the fuck. Does he work out? There’s no way he works out.
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The Moth King was my 2024 NaNoWriMo novel and that worked out pretty okay, so this year I'm doing the Reedsy Novel Sprint. My story is a time travel romance which is admittedly a bit crazy for a writing challenge but there you go. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #PretendPanel
karamoonauthor.com Kara Moon (the artist formerly known as Hiria Dunning) @karamoonauthor.com · 12d
#pretendpanel, this month we're talking around the subject of writeathons!

November 1st: Are you participating in a November writeathon? If so, which one and/or which project/s are you working on?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social November 1st: Are you participating in a November writeathon? If so, which one and/or which project/s are you working on? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Here is the WIPSnips TrackBear leaderboard.

Maybe we can do some other writing challenges with specific goals in the future.

This one is really laidback and allows anything to be tracked!

trackbear.app/leaderboards...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I didn't think I was going to find this one anywhere but here it is in Opus Eternal. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #Romantasy
Seeing the door like that—hanging open expectantly—is slightly world-altering. I’m almost tempted to savor the moment, but that would be dumb. There couldn’t possibly be anything on the other side of it except a dark, hollow space and maybe a couple of cobwebs.
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I'm going to meme about my NaNoWriMo story (I know NaNoWriMo is no more but I'm still calling it that). Don't have a logline for it yet but it's a time travel romance so ... #Novmemeber #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Happy novel writing month! I had only one instance of this word in any WIP, in this abandoned story from 2013. In this snip, Michael is trying to convince Ceri that her mother was lying about her age. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy
The photo was sepia toned and so old it was flaking at the edges. I was bad at judging eras, but even I could see that it predated the 1960s by maybe a half dozen decades. The woman in the picture wore an enormous hat that reminded me of the crazy, old-fashioned things people wear to the Kentucky Derby. She had a splash of freckles across her nose and a small, horizontal scar under her eyebrow. There was no question it was my mother. But what I said was, “I guess that could be an ancestor.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Sunday's been locked in a room for a couple of days, and she's trying to figure out how much time has passed. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
The room grows progressively colder, then progressively warmer, which seems to suggest there’s a day and a night, but that’s stupid since there’s no solar energy in this place and radiative heating and cooling can’t possibly be a thing. I guess monster kings and talking foxes can’t possibly be a thing either, so I’m not sure why I’m looking to science for an answer.
October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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This is a bit spoilery and not exactly in the spirit of Halloween spells, but it's my favorite instance of the word. Also, sorry about all the F-bombs 😁 #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
My slouch loses fifteen degrees. Fuck Dimple Moth King. And fuck me for thinking he was into me and indulging his Royal Horniness. He’s trying to come off a 150-year dry spell, and I’m pretty sure the main thing he finds attractive about me is that I’m fully corporeal. I’ve almost accomplished parallel slouch by the time the door finally opens and the Moth King walks in with Veradis and a pair of schrats.
October 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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If the Moth King was a movie, Deftones' "Rosemary" would be in the closing credits ... because the Moth King wears Sunday's Deftones shirt in a couple of scenes, and because, obviously, "We discover the entry to other planes." #PlotTober #WritingPrompts #Writers #WriteSky
October 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Free writing competitions in November, list complied by Erica Verrillo. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/10/52-w... #Author #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #WritingCompetitions #EricaVerrillo
52 Writing Contests in November 2025 - No entry fees
This November there are more than four dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes ran...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) #AgentGuide #AgentGuides #Romantasy #Fantasy #AmQuerying #Writers
Image Credits: From Wikimedia Commons Cleora Alienaria Moth (BilliBhai) • Cracked Earth (Patrick Hendry) • Full Moon in Fog (Dinkun Chen) • Sword (Rama) • Samal Fruit Bats (Ranieljosecastaneda) • Lighthouse (Martin Belam) • The Redwood Sunbeams (National Park Service) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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This is the one and only time I've used the word "broom" in the last 20 years and I had to keep it very short, else you'll all know how the Moth King ends. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #Romantasy #FairyTale #AmQuerying
Panic seizes me. My hand grabs a fallen branch with a broom of browning pine needles still clinging to it, and I jump to my feet.
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM