✎ dakota 𖤐
@northofdakota.bsky.social
✎ writer of gay black boys & nonbinary pals.
𖤐 queer speculative fiction writer. ☁️🌈
𖤐 youtube.com/@northofdakota
𖤐 queer speculative fiction writer. ☁️🌈
𖤐 youtube.com/@northofdakota
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✎ dakota 𖤐
@northofdakota.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hey yall! I'm Dakota and I'm a queer writer currently writing a queer dystopian sci-fi novel called project. stardust! 💫 #writingcommunity
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You'll always be the villain in someone else's story 🙃
June 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You'll always be the villain in someone else's story 🙃
Finally revealed what's been going on with me mentally and it feels good to get it all out there so I can move on and just focus on myself and my stories ✌🏾 #authortuber #writingcommunity
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am I leaving the authortube/writing community? ☆ channel update
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April 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Finally revealed what's been going on with me mentally and it feels good to get it all out there so I can move on and just focus on myself and my stories ✌🏾 #authortuber #writingcommunity
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I WROTE AN AU FANFIC OF MY UNPUBLISHED DEBUT NOVEL!
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I wrote an au fanfic of my unpublished debut novel! 💫 ☆ cozy writing vlog ☁️
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February 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I WROTE AN AU FANFIC OF MY UNPUBLISHED DEBUT NOVEL!
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AUTHOR Q&A!
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answering questions about being a writer! | author q&a
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January 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
AUTHOR Q&A!
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I swear that the universe is trying to yeet me out of existence cause not only am I in yet ANOTHER writing slump when I JUST got out of one only TWO months ago, but I've also been feeling extremely overwhelmed and overstimulated lately on top of NOW I got a bacterial infection LOL 🙃😭
January 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I swear that the universe is trying to yeet me out of existence cause not only am I in yet ANOTHER writing slump when I JUST got out of one only TWO months ago, but I've also been feeling extremely overwhelmed and overstimulated lately on top of NOW I got a bacterial infection LOL 🙃😭
TURNING MY DEBUT NOVEL CHARACTERS INTO SONG LYRICS/POEMS!
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my debut novel characters as song lyrics/poems. ☁️🎵
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January 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
TURNING MY DEBUT NOVEL CHARACTERS INTO SONG LYRICS/POEMS!
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Hello #writingcommunity! As an introduction (or re-introduction) I'd like to share the cli-fi piece of mine that released today: "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now."
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...
January 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hello #writingcommunity! As an introduction (or re-introduction) I'd like to share the cli-fi piece of mine that released today: "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now."
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...
I'm really glad to hear that people are vibing with the themes & tropes of my debut novel cause I wasn't expecting much but to hear people say that they love slow burn & friends to lovers & that my story sounds awesome really is a big motivator for me to keep going and get this story published!
January 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I'm really glad to hear that people are vibing with the themes & tropes of my debut novel cause I wasn't expecting much but to hear people say that they love slow burn & friends to lovers & that my story sounds awesome really is a big motivator for me to keep going and get this story published!
Yeah that's what I plan on doing with one of my wips and I honestly feel like it fits the story better 🤣
now that i'm thinking about it i'm actually gonna encourage more standalones but in a connected universe, cuz i love that shit
observing this dynamic for ten years or so is why I decided not to write series
January 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Yeah that's what I plan on doing with one of my wips and I honestly feel like it fits the story better 🤣
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good evening "freydís moon" is using the blurb i wrote for their anthology and officially retracted after learning they are, in fact, a serial catfisher, race-fisher, and bully. the blurb was not written for this book (which i have never read) and they do not have my permission to use it.
January 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
good evening "freydís moon" is using the blurb i wrote for their anthology and officially retracted after learning they are, in fact, a serial catfisher, race-fisher, and bully. the blurb was not written for this book (which i have never read) and they do not have my permission to use it.
I swear my brain is still in holiday mode. It doesn't wanna revise my story at all this month 🤣😭
January 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I swear my brain is still in holiday mode. It doesn't wanna revise my story at all this month 🤣😭
This is what I'm worried about is my debut novel not doing well so it doesn't get a series 😭 thankfully it can work as a standalone just fine but I love the story so much that I would like to make it into a series and explore more of the story
observing this dynamic for ten years or so is why I decided not to write series
Getting a lot of "I tried that, but Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time and Kingkiller ruined me!" replies.
Pull up a chair and I'll explain how publishing works.
Pull up a chair and I'll explain how publishing works.
January 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is what I'm worried about is my debut novel not doing well so it doesn't get a series 😭 thankfully it can work as a standalone just fine but I love the story so much that I would like to make it into a series and explore more of the story
writer reset. ☆ plan my 2025 writing schedule with me! ✏️☁️
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January 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Yall Octavia E. Butler walked so people like me could run. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be able to write in the science fiction genre cause she was the first black woman to write in that genre and her works have been heavily influential in pop culture, the literary world and science fiction 🥺💫
January 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Yall Octavia E. Butler walked so people like me could run. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be able to write in the science fiction genre cause she was the first black woman to write in that genre and her works have been heavily influential in pop culture, the literary world and science fiction 🥺💫
Fam I GOT YOU! 🙌🏾 the slow burn romance in my story is one that I'm super proud of~ 🥰 like I don't even like the friends to lovers trope but I love MY friends to lovers 🤣
January 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Fam I GOT YOU! 🙌🏾 the slow burn romance in my story is one that I'm super proud of~ 🥰 like I don't even like the friends to lovers trope but I love MY friends to lovers 🤣
I'm starting to dislike seeing other writers telling the rest of us what we should and shouldn't do when it comes to writing. We ALL write differently so what works for you might not work for a handful of others and we shouldn't force people to write something they don't feel comfortable writing
January 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I'm starting to dislike seeing other writers telling the rest of us what we should and shouldn't do when it comes to writing. We ALL write differently so what works for you might not work for a handful of others and we shouldn't force people to write something they don't feel comfortable writing
when you're writing a book and you're trying to remember which character knows what information LOL 😩 I might have to start making notes in my notion about what character knows what info from what chapter cause I keep having to go back and skim my chapters just to make sure I'm not wrong 🤣
January 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
when you're writing a book and you're trying to remember which character knows what information LOL 😩 I might have to start making notes in my notion about what character knows what info from what chapter cause I keep having to go back and skim my chapters just to make sure I'm not wrong 🤣
AUTHORTUBE NEWBIE TAG!
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🌙 authortube newbie tag! 💙 | 2025
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January 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
AUTHORTUBE NEWBIE TAG!
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2024 WRITING RECAP!
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books I’ve written this year! ☆ sci-fi/fantasy stories. ☁️ | 2024 writing recap
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December 30, 2024 at 7:21 PM
2024 WRITING RECAP!
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Just came up with some additional dialog for a scene in ch. 4 with my two characters today for proj. stardust and I'm over here giggling and kicking my feet at how cute the scene is 🤭 I can't wait to sit and write it out. I love these mfs so freaking much LOL 🤣
December 29, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Just came up with some additional dialog for a scene in ch. 4 with my two characters today for proj. stardust and I'm over here giggling and kicking my feet at how cute the scene is 🤭 I can't wait to sit and write it out. I love these mfs so freaking much LOL 🤣
I swear taking a month off from writing my story really helps more than I thought cause I've been able to look at my story more from a reader lens than a writer lens and I've been catching plot holes and missing dialog that I didn't catch when I was writing the first draft 😌🙌🏾
December 28, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I swear taking a month off from writing my story really helps more than I thought cause I've been able to look at my story more from a reader lens than a writer lens and I've been catching plot holes and missing dialog that I didn't catch when I was writing the first draft 😌🙌🏾
Thinking about it, proj. stardust is legit my comfort book~ 🥺 Like I love this book so much and whenever I think about it, I feel so comforted by the story and the characters and I really hope that when it gets published one day, other people get to have this same feeling as me~
December 28, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Thinking about it, proj. stardust is legit my comfort book~ 🥺 Like I love this book so much and whenever I think about it, I feel so comforted by the story and the characters and I really hope that when it gets published one day, other people get to have this same feeling as me~
I'm really glad to see that my fictional menu video got a lot of views cause I was hoping it would but I also gave myself the expectation that it might not since it's such a different idea that you don't really see in the authortube community so I'm glad to see that people are enjoying it!
December 24, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I'm really glad to see that my fictional menu video got a lot of views cause I was hoping it would but I also gave myself the expectation that it might not since it's such a different idea that you don't really see in the authortube community so I'm glad to see that people are enjoying it!
I was gonna wait till I published my debut novel (and also hopefully my apocalypse sci-fi novella) before I started outlining more of my dream sci-fi book but I ended up doing that anyways plus making a moodboard for it LOL.
December 24, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I was gonna wait till I published my debut novel (and also hopefully my apocalypse sci-fi novella) before I started outlining more of my dream sci-fi book but I ended up doing that anyways plus making a moodboard for it LOL.