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Andrea
@andreabrownriley.bsky.social
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she/her 👩 twin mom 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 bookworm 📚 writer ✍️ social justice advocate ✊️
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andreabrownriley.bsky.social
More evidence at how bad I am from stepping back -- I'm already outlining book 2. 🤦‍♀️ The opening scenes for the first chapter are already rough-sketched. 😅 #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #Book1 #Book2
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Can't stay out of my book even when I'm trying to give my brain a rest, so been working on my series bible and honestly, I'm really proud of all my worldbuilding and lore. Like, I might actually be good at it. 😅 #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Draft 3 is DONE! 🎉🎉 Time for a few days off before I dive back in for a pre beta reader polish. 🖌
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
So anyway, been buried in revisions, basically rewrote half the book, the final chapters are FINALLY in sight.

Anyway, how's fall treating everyone? #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Oof, the revision fatigue is hitting hard today. 🥱🥱 #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
September 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
This feels like me to me. No, I will not elaborate.
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
My MMC's got me over here blushing in the Daily Grind. 👀👀 Revisions are going well I guess. 🫣 #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
September 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
#writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #WIPSnips
Taryn hadn’t returned since she’d delivered the map to me that morning. She had made a very deliberate comment about my reviewing territories ahead of the delegations arriving in two weeks for Endri’s ascension – a clever lie – and then excused herself for the rest of the afternoon. And I didn’t fault her for it. I didn’t begrudge her desire to be as far away from me as possible when I fled. The less she knew, the better – for her sake.
September 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Happy Monday! Happy September! Feeling back in my groove with draft 3 now that I got chapter 13 right. How's everyone else feeling today?? #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
September 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Just spent 3 days reworking 4 different versions of a single chapter but I think it's finally where I want it. If not, that's what draft 4 is for? 😬😬😬 #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
August 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
PMS + med changes certainly do a number on my self-confidence with this whole writing thing. 😅 Went from "this is it! This is THE draft" to "why did I literally quit my day job????" #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
August 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Man, draft 2 was a slog. Draft 3 has me soaring. I feel like I am NAILING these revisions. ✌️ #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
August 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Revisions have been such a wild ride, both in discovering the story I want to tell, and my instincts as a writer. Now that draft 3 is underway, I'm encountering my first true "kill your darlings" moment. And I'm weirdly okay about it. #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
August 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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😂😂
August 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #WIPSnips
Disgust shivered across my skin, damp and heavy. “I think she's spent more than enough time in your room,” I sneered, and the vampire's eyes flashed. Finally, he rose to his feet – smooth, like danger uncoiling itself to bare a razor sharp edge. “While I am here, the Princess is my responsibility-” “The Princess is my responsibility,” I hissed, and the vampire snarled, low, lip pulling back just enough to expose the sharp point of a fang. To the guards I said, “Escort him back to his room.”
August 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Been working on draft 3 this week and it's going surprisingly well. Think this might be the one that makes it to beta readers! 🤞🤞 #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky
August 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Jfc I hate it here.
westvirginiawatch.com West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · Aug 13
Gov. Patrick Morrisey is ramping up the state’s participation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announcing a wide-spread agreement that enlists the National Guard and police officers to expand immigration enforcement operations in West Virginia, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.
Morrisey ramps up immigration enforcement in WV; law enforcement can question immigration status • West Virginia Watch
Gov. Patrick Morrisey is ramping up the state's participation with ICE to expand immigration enforcement operations in West Virginia.
westvirginiawatch.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
#writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #WIPSnips
road I’d spent hours traveling down made sense. This had once been the entrance for any fae traveling from the direction of the Winter Provinces, from Eilyris, before the Fae Gates had been constructed. Before the realms were split. I dropped my hands to my sides and stepped back from the gate, small rocks crunching beneath my boots. I surveyed the gate, my eyes roving over the thick steel beams that criss crossed to form grates too small for anything but the smallest creature to sneak through. At the top, the gate was edged in sharp, blade-like points. Even if I’d had the energy or skill to attempt to scale the gate, even if I could push past the nausea and pain of the ward, I’d be just as likely to impale myself attempting to go over.
August 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
andreabrownriley.bsky.social
Halfway through A Court of Frost and Starlight. Definitely beginning to see why Rhysand haters exist. I have so many questions for SJM regarding his character. Like, what happened???
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · Aug 12
Good morning! We love talking about reading almost as much as we love talking about writing. So, tell us: what are you reading this week?
Photo of a sunny summer beach overlaid with the words "Good morning! We love talking about reading almost as much as we love talking about writing. So, tell us: what are you reading this week?"
August 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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westvirginiawatch.com
In Morgantown, volunteers have been using federal emergency funds to put people and families — typically single mothers and their children — in hotels, helping them avoid sleeping in their cars or on the streets. A freeze on those funds will likely end the program, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.
Trump funding freeze likely to end WV program that houses homeless mothers and their children • West Virginia Watch
Volunteers have been using federal emergency funds to put families in hotels, helping them avoid sleeping in their cars or on the streets.
westvirginiawatch.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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weeknightwriters.bsky.social
This is terrifying, and we cannot let it happen

Eliminating queer content - or content about any group of people - is a clear step toward eliminating them from public life, and then from life altogether, which is the end goal of the far right

Stripe MUST receive push back on this
dieselbrain.bsky.social Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 12
twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.
August 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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#writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #WIPSnips
“The pack is just moving through. You simply made them … curious.” When I looked back at him, back to his golden eyes – more bright than the wolf's yellow gaze – I had the feeling he wasn't talking only about the unseen predators in the trees. “You can read wolves' thoughts?” I asked softly, a gentle snap, though there was no real bite behind it. “I can smell them.” “You can smell their thoughts?” I asked, incredulous. “No, Princess, the wolves,” he clarified with a laugh. “I can smell the wolves. I can smell the way their scent changes – when they're calm, curious. When instinct rises in them and calls them to the hunt. When fear chases them off.” He paused, then, “I can smell you too.”
August 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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#writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #WIPSnips
I reached out my hand, and let my fingers brush against the hazy barrier contained inside the arch of the Gate. It was like dragging my hand through spiderwebs and warm, thick water, and sparking veins of gold and white flickered in the wake of the movement, before vanishing. I steeled myself, and sucked in a deep breath, and then, with my eyes closed tight, I stepped through.
August 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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When that slow burn starts to smolder 😏😏 #writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #WIPSnips
Soren explained it all to me from where he sat at the end of my bed, leaning back against the post, one knee propped up. I merely nodded, silently chewing on a slice of bacon while I stared into my tea. Soren had delivered my breakfast himself, pleasantly wishing me a good morning and settling himself at the foot of the bed, before launching into the updates. And while he spoke – of extremely serious matters – all I could think about was what I had done the night before, in the dark, after he’d left me alone. The heat in my face refused to cool. I only prayed he would see the tension in my body and read it as anxiety over the information he shared, and not he fact that I was certain he could smell what had happened on this very bed.
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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#writing #WIP #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriteSky #WIPSnips
Twilight began to fall as I continued to follow the abandoned road winding through wooded uplands and rolling hills alike. The birdsong had transitioned gradually into the soft, near silent chirp of bats as they wheeled and spun above me, beginning their nightly hunt. I had stopped several times to rest along the way, pulling off my shoes and massaging at the pain in my feet, while trying to carefully avoid the blisters that were beginning to form in earnest. I attempted several times to pull at my magic, to try to heal away some of the injury, but I was too tired, too hungry and dehydrated, and the stress of the walking too frequent for it to have any real impact. And so I made do with my rest stops, my feeble kneading, and the few tears of anger and frustration I allowed to slip out.
August 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM