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@erratawrites.bsky.social
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writer & poet 🌲 reader & researcher
https://erratawrites.wordpress.com/
I'm a simple finch; I see paid submission calls or other opportunities to connect with the lit scene, I reskeet.
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THE ARCHIVE UNDYING x LEVIATHAN WAKES

🧠Mind Links
🚀Generation Ships
🪴Plant People
🤖Social Butterfly AI
♠️Aro/Ace Human
👑Space Nobility
🗡️Just So Much Betrayal
🕸️A Whole Dang Relationship Pentagram™️
💔Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
⛓️Overcoming Trauma Bonds
🌱Building a Better Future
#WIPPIT #SF #A #LGBT #FBW
Body Text: Whit nodded. Thumb to mouth, puffing up a storm, they seemed impossibly far away, and the blood red patterns swirling across their face spoke to a preoccupation with one detail or another. Eventually, they returned Ezra’s stare. “We’d best get started then.” Title: prelapsarian Subtitle: a far future scifi wip
December 14, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Ezra, scion of a sacred human lineage, needs a hacker to tip the scales on energy rations, and Whit, an escaped bioshell for the AI holding civilization together, is perfect for the job. Well... until the noble behind Whit's escape comes to collect on his investment.

🌔🌓🌒

#WIPPIT #SF #A #LGBT #FBW
Mood board (left to right, top to bottom): Yellow-tinted starry sky City skyline at dusk Ice cave Young man with curly hair looking to the left Pink-ringed eclipse with the word "prelapsarian" superimposed over it Person with illuminated body decoration and hands held near their face Rocky mountain face Person walking down a neon-lit street in the rain Glow worms hanging from a cave ceiling
December 14, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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🔥The hot mess relationships of THE ARCHIVE UNDYING x the equally messy, sociopolitical web of LEVIATHAN WAKES ☄️

A straightlaced Dyson sphere architect and a them fatale AI conspire to help energy-poor outposts. Meanwhile, an exiled patriarch returns to even the score.
#WIPPIT #SF #A #LGBT #FBW
A mood board with several images, arrows, and text. Stock Images from Canva (left to right, starting in the upper left corner): Multicolored liquid oozing over a black background Green digital rain Purple and blue skyscrapers Comet streaking toward the horizon at sunset People throwing their hands up at a rave featuring green strobe lights Eye with what looks like a camera lens at its pupil Black-and-white aerial view of a man walking toward a light source Ice cave featuring massive icicles at its entrance Silhouette of a man looking to the right Cigarette smoke Aerial view of fog rolling into a city Knife on top of a tree stump Text: Cursive: prelapsarian Subtitle: Working Title Blurb: The sun is a white dwarf, and what remains of humanity has recolonized the star... Floating Text: Shared Consciousness, Letting Go of Unsustainable Ideals, Life After Trauma Tags: space opera, heist gone wrong, dyson sphere, sublight speed, nanotech, forced proximity, noir, unreliable narrator, ticking clock, posthuman, dark romance deconstructed
December 14, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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From a flash piece I've been tinkering with this month. It's currently sitting at 723 words, and I'm targeting about 1,000 words total.
November 20, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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All of these prompts have been a blast, but this one made me giggle to myself while channeling early 00s décor and making sly references to story elements.
November 20, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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November 14, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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"I buried my oar in the silt, and over the bush crickets’ thrumming, I hollered for her to repeat herself. Her kid pulled his hands from their shellfish basket, wrapped them around his mouth like a horn, and echoed the claim.

A fish eater."
#WritingCommunity #FirstDraftFall #Novelember
Text and word counter box over a red and pink sunset at the beach. Text is as follows: First Draft Fall word count 010,000 of 50,000 (crossed out) Whatever I Get Done Rough month, embracing self-care
November 14, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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November 6, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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This year, I'm diving into a combination of short stories and novel rewrites. Let's gooooo! (૭ ｡•̀ ᵕ •́｡ )૭
#WritingCommunity #FirstDraftFall #Novelember
Text and word counter box over a lightning storm. Text is as follows: First Draft Fall word count 000,000 of 50,000 First Day!
November 1, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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I'm running a bit behind this week, so I've acquired the Swamp Monster of Distraction badge. That said, finishing Ada Palmer's Too Like The Lightning? Worth it.
June 28, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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@clarionwest.bsky.social Still rocking the #clarionwest Write-a-thon. Thanks to overshooting so many daily writing goals, I hit that weekly goal early and acquired both the Overachiever and Running Robot Badges. (Eyeing another sprint this evening for that final 15!)

Happy Friday, happy writing!
Most Recent Update: 06/21/2024 Badges: Flying Mermaid Overachiever Running Robot Green daily progress bar: 88% (105/120 minutes) Turquoise weekly progress bar: 105% Magenta Write-a-thon progress bar: 17%
June 21, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Clarion West's 2024 Write-a-thon starts today! My goal is to spend at least two hours a day revising or rewriting, and thus far, I'm off to a good start. 😊

Project Information:
secure.clarionwest.org/erratawrites

#clarionwest #writeathon #amwriting #speculativefiction #writingcommunity #goals
Most Recent Update: 06/16/2024 Green daily progress bar: 125% (150/120 minutes) Turquoise weekly progress bar: 18% Magenta Write-a-thon progress bar: 3%
June 17, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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Free to Submit ☑️
Paying Markets 💰

Flame Tree Publishing:
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Underland Press:
www.underlandpress.com/the-emptines...
Blue Planet Press:
blueplanetpress.net/guidelines/

#writingcommunity #SFFwriters #litmags #opensubs
A Few More Places to Submit Flame Tree Publishing - until 6/23 myths, gods, and immortals anthology; circe short stories between 3,000 - 4,000 words Underland Press - until 6/25 horror anthology; cozy cosmic short stories up to 5,000 words Blue Planet Press - until 6/30 science fiction anthology; deep space short stories between 6,000 - 10,000 words Find links above
June 11, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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What a fantastic experience! Great panels, great tips, and great people. Can't wait for next year.
#WriteHive2024 #writing #writingcommunity
An astronaut reading a book about Mars and the WriteHive logo are superimposed over a starry purple backdrop. The text reads "#WriteHive2024 / Achievement Unlocked / Successful completion of the 2024 WriteHive Conference."
June 10, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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The WriteHive free writers' conference starts this Friday! 👀
www.writehivecon.org

#writing #writingcommunity #authors #indieauthors #WritingTheFutureWeNeed #writehive
June 6, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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Clarion West is hosting a Write-A-Thon this summer, and registration opens today! 🤩
clarionwest.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/20...

#writingcommunity #sff #writeathon
Banner announcing the 2024 Clarion West Write-a-thon. June 16 - July 27. The banner primarily features soft blue-green colors with splashes of red and yellow. A dark-haired girl with a plaster over her nose is depicted in profile. She is at peace with her eyes closed.
May 28, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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"Like fish, the candied specimens darted between dark-bodied patrons, enticing them toward dimly lit holes in the wall or flashing stalls, where their counterparts demonstrated cheap gadgets with glowing hands and turquoise smiles."

Success! 🎉✨💫
#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting
April 30, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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"Across that upper sprawl, countless lit windows glittered, turned on, turned off, and the effect evoked a memory of starlight."

Home stretch!
#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting
April 23, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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Free to Submit ☑️
Paying Markets 💰

MudRoom:
www.mudroommag.com/submissions
Briefly Write's Briefly Zine:
brieflywrite.com/2020/05/12/s...
Plenitude Magazine: plenitudemagazine.ca/submit/submi...

#writingcommunity #litmags #submissions #opensubs
April 19, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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"... the Union’s bargaining power served as a punchline for several company jokes. Likewise, most Union colonists privately referred to Tellus as the solar parasite: the sun's devourer."

More on the editing side this week, but still on track!
#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting
April 16, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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"He traced the panel's engraved map of the solar system. Holes drilled through the metal became twinkling stars, and from under millimeter-thin ridges, that same light illuminated the inhabited worlds."

Eight days in and going strong! #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting
April 8, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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So my writing goal this April is 20,000 words of a scifi novel. Tell me yours, and I'll cheer you on. Here's to day one!💫 #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting
April 1, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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After taking time off to enjoy the holidays, it's back to writing. Here's to tidying up last year's NaNoWriMo!
January 1, 2024 at 6:29 PM