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Janae Hill
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Writing the Slice of Life, High School Club Story I Wish I Had Growing Up

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Do you remember the feeling of watching K-On!, or Love Live? The joy of watching a group of friends create something truly magical. You smile.

I want to capture that feeling.

So, I'm writing something that will make me smile wide - an all Black girl string quartet.

Follow along my journey.
August 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I'm changing my genre. For now.

Because a slice of life, non fantasy story is, so far, one of the only stories that I wrote for me. No expectations. No dreams of being perfect, of writing something to launch my author career.

It's fully, 100% for me.

Not perfect.

Me.

#bvm #writinglife
August 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Sometimes, you just need to have someone put things in perspective. I wanted to give up on my book until my mom gave me hard truths to swallow.

And, I learned that I like stories to forever live in my head and not actually put them down in a structured outline. It's a problem.

#bvm #writing
July 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I think I forgot that writing is supposed to be fun.

After chatting with y'all, with being so reflective of myself as I struggled the day after that…there was a comment that stuck with me and made me pause. I…I'm not having fun. Instead, I'm trying to be perfect.

I'm going to breathe.

#bvm
July 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Do you ever worry about writing in harmful black stereotypes in your characters?

She can't be too popular because it gives Jezebel, she can't be too rebellious because it gives Sapphire. Am I just reinforcing these tropes?

I…just hate this.

#bvm #blackauthors #blackwriters
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Plotting the end of your novel sucks.

I decided to sit down and come up with a solid plot for my novel - specifically, the ending.

I couldn't do it. Because coming up with an ending felt like me already parting ways with my main character.

...this will be a problem.

#bvm #writingcommunity
July 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Have you ever tried to write a draft of a novel without an outline?

I've been in this endless cycle of coming up with a vague plot and then changing it because it doesn't work. It's frustrating time and time again, starting over

Folks - how do I get out of this?

#bvm #writingjourney #writers
July 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I rarely admit that I'm a Christian Fantasy Writer, because when I think of the genre, I think super white. And two - just the negative connotation of being Christian.

I felt that when writing yesterday. But I’m claiming Christian Fantasy as my own.

#bvm #christianfantasy #blackbooksky
July 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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“You think it’s just humans being evil?”
“No. But it’s always humans making it worse.”
#BadBlood #SpecFic #UrbanFantasy #BlackBookSky #WritersOfColor #WritingCommunity
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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It's really rude of things to cost money with the state of our TBR lists🙄📜

[😋Meme by Cassondra Flanery] 📚💙

#BookSky #Books #Memes #Funny
July 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Do you ever get the feeling that the side characters in books don't have lives outside of the main character?

I’m currently trying to make sure the members of the secret society in my novel have their own agendas. Do they trust each other?

#bvm #blackbooksky #writinganovel
July 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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ICYMI... #Booksky #BlackBooksky #SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic

eARCs are open for SAGEBORN, the first in my YA Fantasy trilogy, coming October 7th!

Apply before July 31st at bit.ly/Sageborn-ARC...

Nothing stays hidden forever...
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July 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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❤️ We're patient, but are our love interests? 😜🔥

[:art: Original art by Chantal Galindo]

#booksky #slowburn #romance #slowburn
July 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Hello! I realize that I haven't actually introduced myself on here!

I'm Janae, an aspiring fantasy author. I'm currently on the fourth draft of my YA novel about a high school secret society.

Looking forward to being in community with you all!

#bvm #blackwriters #blackbooksky #authorcommunity
July 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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It's so hard writing character dynamics. Do I even like their personalities? I just want to keep changing them.

Thoughts of Day 9 of writing the fourth draft of my novel.

#characterwriting #bvm #blackwritersky
July 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Here are the words for #WIPSnips for July 7th through July 13th.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The #WIPSnips words for July 7 through July 13 July 7 - stripe; July 8 - yell; July 9 - smile; July 10 - concert; July 11 - apparition; July 12 - locker; July 13 - random
July 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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#BluePit is back for the summer! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects!

#BluePit will be taking place again on July 13th, 2025!

And #BluePitHype starts July 8th!

#WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents
Text overlaid on a sunny scene of wildflowers and a trail of bright orange and yellow butterflies. #BluePit - A Storytelling Hype/Pitch Event What It Is: An event designed to uplift storytellers of any media. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage (e.g., Drafting, Editing, Querying, On Submission, or Published). When: July 13th, 2025 and will run the full 24 hours! #BluePit Rules: Limit 3 posts per WIP; multiple works allowed. Include correct emojis to appear in media specific feeds Use appropriate tags (see Tag list) All images must include ALT text. No AI. Everyone is encouraged to like and repost Use the #BluePit feeds to find and support others. Agents, editors, and publishers are welcome to participate and can also use #BluePit feeds without a BlueSky account #Emojis for custom media feeds: Writing (e.g. “#bluepit 📖”) Game Dev (e.g. “#bluepit 🎮”) Comics (e.g. “#bluepit 💥”) TTRPGS (e.g. “#bluepit 🎲”) Questions: BluePit.Carrd.Co @BluePit.Bsky.Social @ZProspero.bsky.social #BluePit Tags MEDIA: #BluePit 💥 - Comics #BluePit 🎮 - Game Dev #BluePit 🎲 - TTRPGs #BluePit 📖 - Writers STAGE: #W - Work In Progress #Q - Querying #OS - On Submission #P - Published AUDIENCE: #PB - Picture Book #MG - Middle Grade #YA - Young Adult #A - Adult #NA - New Adult REPRESENTATION: #OV - Own Voices #LGBT- LGBTQIA+ #DIS - Disabled Creators #WF - Women's Fiction #POC - Person of Color #ND - Neurodivergent #TR - Transgender GENRE #F - Fantasy #R - Romance #H - Horror #SF - Sci-Fi #M - Mystery #PN - Paranormal #C - Crime #HS - Historical #SP - Speculative #PO - Poetry #NF - Non-Fiction GAME SYSTEM: #D20 - 20-sided die based #D6 - 6-sided die based #D100 - 100-sided die based #NAR - Narrative based #DUN - Dungeon Crawler #RO - Rogue-Like
June 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I'm a disabled trans author living with hunger.

Please support my comic on Kickstarter.

Kobra Olympus is a trans Muslim lesbian superhero who has to save the life of a leftist politician from a global conspiracy.

#comicsky #mutualaid

PLEDGE TODAY
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On the left is the cover of Kobra Olympus Issue #3. On the right is a comic page from that comic. From the script: PAGE 8 - PANEL A Kobra is in a new place, without the tupperware. There is a tree on the left, and the side of a building on the right. She is using her phone. SFX: BEEP KOBRA ACTIVATES A SECRET APP ON HER PHONE . . . PAGE 8 - PANEL B Contiguous. Kobra is leaping up into the tree. Her phone is put away, and her left hand is now “Tha-ified”. SFX: HUP NANITES COME OUT OF HER CELL . . . PAGE 8 - PANEL C Contiguous. Kobra is bouncing off the tree toward the building. Her left arm is now fully “Tha-ified”. SFX: HUP TRANSFORMING HER INTO . . . PAGE 8 - PANEL D Kobra/Tha is leaping up into the rooftops. On her left (our right) she is “Tha-ified”; the opposite side is her regular Kobra self. We’re looking up at her as she jumps over our point of view. In the upper right hand corner the moon peeks out from behind the buildings. . . . AGENT THA! PAGE 8 - PANEL E We’re looking at the back of Agent Tha, who is now fully transformed with her cape unfurling. She’s leaping from a short rooftop to a higher rooftop, with a high rise building in the background. SFX: HUP THE NANITE SUIT ENHANCES HER NATURAL ATHLETICISM! PAGE 8 - PANEL F Tha is finally revealed to anyone reading this as their first comic, standing proud while surrounded by tall buildings, the moon in the upper righthand corner, and a troubled stormy sky above her. She is posing like a real hero, her cape flapping in the wind. SHE IS THE ENEMY OF EVIL!
July 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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You know what? It's okay that a draft is just me throwing my ideas onto the page to be organized later.

Thoughts of Day 8 of writing the fourth draft of my novel.

#bvm #writesky #writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting
July 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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bookstr.bsky.social
Don't talk to me until I finish this routine, okie dokie? 🙂‍↕️

[🤪 Meme by Talia Khorassani]

#BookSky #BlueSky #Meme #Funny #BestCombo #CoffeeAndBooks #Bookish
July 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Why is it so hard to write what you say you're going to write, instead of reasoning that it's not a good idea and then writing something completely different?

Thoughts of Days 1-7 of writing the fourth draft of my novel.

#bvm #blackbooksky #blackwriters #novelwriting #fantasywriter #wip
July 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A definite worst-case scenario 😓📚

[Original art by Layla Dehrab]
#booksky #reading #booktok #bookish
June 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Incredible opportunity for aspiring Black authors!

(And check out the mentor list 🔥)

#blacksky #booksky #blackbooksky #kidlit #yabooks #blackauthors #blackcreatives
weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · Jun 17
🔔 OPEN APPLICATION REMINDER! Unpublished Black authors are encouraged to apply for our 2025 Black Creatives Revision Workshop in collaboration with @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social !

Apply below ⬇️ Applications close on July 1st, 2025.

💻 bit.ly/BCRW2025
Purple graphic that has an illustration of a ringing bell at the top followed by text in all-caps that says “Reminder!” Beneath that is a white bubble containing the words “Open Application” followed by “2025 Black Creatives Revision Workshop.” Beneath the title text is smaller body text that says, “Applications close July 1st, 2025”. At the bottom of the graphic are illustrations of Black creatives chatting one-on-one and a Black professional sitting at their desk and reviewing application profiles.
June 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Check out these 10 memoirs by queer authors that celebrate, reflect on, and get vulnerable about the LGBTQ+ experience in our new article 🏳️‍🌈📚

🔴TW: homophobia, transphobia, sexual abuse, sexual violence

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[Article by Phoebe Pineda]
#booksky #pride
June 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Indie authors are NOT pushing out books too fast. Everybody writes at their own pace. Making closed-minded remarks about a writing process you know nothing about is ridiculous. #booksky #blackbooksky #authorsky
June 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM