leah holler writes
@leah-holler-writes.bsky.social
Writer & poet drafting YA solarpunk 🌱🌻
Actor & puppeteer living the skoolie life 🚌🎭
Here queer & not goin down without a fight 🏳️🌈🌟
Actor & puppeteer living the skoolie life 🚌🎭
Here queer & not goin down without a fight 🏳️🌈🌟
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Hey bsky I’ve heard good things! New here, so here’s a bit about me:
✨writer, hoping to become a published author some day, dreaming the dream 😅
✨ace, pan, ethically non monogamous millennial
✨actor, puppeteer, theatre & MT nerd
✨I love aerial circus, cats, also dogs, witchy things, dnd, nature
Hi!!
✨writer, hoping to become a published author some day, dreaming the dream 😅
✨ace, pan, ethically non monogamous millennial
✨actor, puppeteer, theatre & MT nerd
✨I love aerial circus, cats, also dogs, witchy things, dnd, nature
Hi!!
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries ! Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!
October 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries ! Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!
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Are you readying your manuscript to query agents? Preparing for this year’s RevPit event?
What better way to know if your query and first 5 pages have what it takes to stand out in the slush pile than to get an editor’s eye on it?
We are hosting a #10Queries event, October 10th - October 24th!
What better way to know if your query and first 5 pages have what it takes to stand out in the slush pile than to get an editor’s eye on it?
We are hosting a #10Queries event, October 10th - October 24th!
September 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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So excited!!
🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉
RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!
#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!
#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
September 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So excited!!
Third day in a row that I’ve spent the morning trying and failing to remember an important revision that I came up with last night right before I fell asleep that I didn’t write down there and then because I *definitely* wasn’t going to forget it…
#writersky #writing #writingcommunity
#writersky #writing #writingcommunity
August 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Third day in a row that I’ve spent the morning trying and failing to remember an important revision that I came up with last night right before I fell asleep that I didn’t write down there and then because I *definitely* wasn’t going to forget it…
#writersky #writing #writingcommunity
#writersky #writing #writingcommunity
I’ll never know how I went this many years without owning a hot water bottle
August 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’ll never know how I went this many years without owning a hot water bottle
Still got a lot of changes to make and I’m gonna try and cut about 10k words, but I typed THE END today 🥹
#writersky
#writersky
August 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Still got a lot of changes to make and I’m gonna try and cut about 10k words, but I typed THE END today 🥹
#writersky
#writersky
My brain when I have a busy day full of other tasks: Aw man, why can’t we be writing right now?! Here’s three fun new ideas and 270 pretty sentences that you’ll absolutely forget later, ur welcome
My brain when I sit down to write: Holdup, you expect me to do what now?
#writing #WriterSky
My brain when I sit down to write: Holdup, you expect me to do what now?
#writing #WriterSky
August 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
My brain when I have a busy day full of other tasks: Aw man, why can’t we be writing right now?! Here’s three fun new ideas and 270 pretty sentences that you’ll absolutely forget later, ur welcome
My brain when I sit down to write: Holdup, you expect me to do what now?
#writing #WriterSky
My brain when I sit down to write: Holdup, you expect me to do what now?
#writing #WriterSky
I wrote to the end of my draft today, and to be scarily honest, I thought that I would feel more. Maybe I’m just tired? Maybe it’s a sign the ending isn’t quite right? Maybe I’m delirious from spending so many of my waking hours in a fantasy world? #WriterSky send help
August 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I wrote to the end of my draft today, and to be scarily honest, I thought that I would feel more. Maybe I’m just tired? Maybe it’s a sign the ending isn’t quite right? Maybe I’m delirious from spending so many of my waking hours in a fantasy world? #WriterSky send help
Can’t make this stuff up…just as I am #writing THE climactic moment of my entire novel, all of my pens dry up on me. That is correct, pens plural, not one but THREE. All in the same sentence. The universe be like “challenge your protagonist amirite?” 🤣😅
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
August 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Can’t make this stuff up…just as I am #writing THE climactic moment of my entire novel, all of my pens dry up on me. That is correct, pens plural, not one but THREE. All in the same sentence. The universe be like “challenge your protagonist amirite?” 🤣😅
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
July 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Today is my birthday, and I always enjoy knowing when I’m the same age as characters I love. Can you all think of characters who are 35 in their stories (or when something significant happens in their lives)?
#BookSky #writingcommunity
#BookSky #writingcommunity
July 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Today is my birthday, and I always enjoy knowing when I’m the same age as characters I love. Can you all think of characters who are 35 in their stories (or when something significant happens in their lives)?
#BookSky #writingcommunity
#BookSky #writingcommunity
I was aiming for this rewrite of my WIP to be around 90k words instead of the 99k of the original draft. Shoulda been easy since I’m switching from multi-POV to single, right?
And yet this draft is on target to be at least 120k 🙃 oh the things I do to myself
#writer #writingcommunity
And yet this draft is on target to be at least 120k 🙃 oh the things I do to myself
#writer #writingcommunity
July 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I was aiming for this rewrite of my WIP to be around 90k words instead of the 99k of the original draft. Shoulda been easy since I’m switching from multi-POV to single, right?
And yet this draft is on target to be at least 120k 🙃 oh the things I do to myself
#writer #writingcommunity
And yet this draft is on target to be at least 120k 🙃 oh the things I do to myself
#writer #writingcommunity
If only I were as prolific as the spam emails in my inbox
a woman is sitting at a desk with her head down writing in a notebook
ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her head down writing in a notebook
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July 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If only I were as prolific as the spam emails in my inbox
Not to pat myself on the back too hard or anything, but this was probably the fastest I have ever filled a notebook 📒 Been rewriting my YA fantasy manuscript (and I’m one of those gremlins who loves hand-writing drafts) and filled a fresh notebook start to finish in a month! Small wins please clap!
July 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Not to pat myself on the back too hard or anything, but this was probably the fastest I have ever filled a notebook 📒 Been rewriting my YA fantasy manuscript (and I’m one of those gremlins who loves hand-writing drafts) and filled a fresh notebook start to finish in a month! Small wins please clap!
I LOVE IT when authors include original songs in their books, and the lyrics are so good that my brain invents a melody for them without even trying 🤩
#booksky
#booksky
July 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I LOVE IT when authors include original songs in their books, and the lyrics are so good that my brain invents a melody for them without even trying 🤩
#booksky
#booksky
How will I have the patience to start waiting in between episodes now that I’ve finished the entire backlist of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing??? 🥲
#writingcommunity #writing
#writingcommunity #writing
July 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
How will I have the patience to start waiting in between episodes now that I’ve finished the entire backlist of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing??? 🥲
#writingcommunity #writing
#writingcommunity #writing
Can you spot the moon? ☺️
July 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Can you spot the moon? ☺️
My book club is me and a bunch of the femmes in my family—three of my aunts and two of my cousins—and at least half of us are queer, and I’m kind of obsessed with that 🥲
July 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My book club is me and a bunch of the femmes in my family—three of my aunts and two of my cousins—and at least half of us are queer, and I’m kind of obsessed with that 🥲
Another YA fantasy I really enjoyed lately: These Stolen Lives by Sharada Keats. Seamless worldbuilding, and I was low key obsessed with the chapter titles when I figured out where they came from ☺️ so brilliant.
#booksky #yafantasy
#booksky #yafantasy
July 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Another YA fantasy I really enjoyed lately: These Stolen Lives by Sharada Keats. Seamless worldbuilding, and I was low key obsessed with the chapter titles when I figured out where they came from ☺️ so brilliant.
#booksky #yafantasy
#booksky #yafantasy
Do we think Alanis would qualify this horrifying bill getting passed right before we’re all supposed to celebrate America as ironic?
July 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Do we think Alanis would qualify this horrifying bill getting passed right before we’re all supposed to celebrate America as ironic?
In other cool news, my uncle was one of the ten people interviewed and featured in this book coming out in August, “Lessons from the Mountaintop: Ten Modern Mystics and their Extraordinary Lives” by Lawrence Pintak. Just pre-ordered my copy from Bookshop.org and I’m super psyched!
#booksky
#booksky
July 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
In other cool news, my uncle was one of the ten people interviewed and featured in this book coming out in August, “Lessons from the Mountaintop: Ten Modern Mystics and their Extraordinary Lives” by Lawrence Pintak. Just pre-ordered my copy from Bookshop.org and I’m super psyched!
#booksky
#booksky
I WENT SKYDIVING TODAY!!!
June 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I WENT SKYDIVING TODAY!!!
Why is reading my work out loud to myself so helpful, but also so embarrassing, even when nobody but my cat is around to hear me? 😅
June 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Why is reading my work out loud to myself so helpful, but also so embarrassing, even when nobody but my cat is around to hear me? 😅
I’ve been reading lots of YA lately on the hunt for comps for my ms, and even though it won’t work as a comp I absolutely *loved* All The Wind In The World by Samantha Mabry. The way the relationship tension got my heart rate up!! I was so invested!
#booksky #ya #SamanthaMabry
#booksky #ya #SamanthaMabry
June 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I’ve been reading lots of YA lately on the hunt for comps for my ms, and even though it won’t work as a comp I absolutely *loved* All The Wind In The World by Samantha Mabry. The way the relationship tension got my heart rate up!! I was so invested!
#booksky #ya #SamanthaMabry
#booksky #ya #SamanthaMabry