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Willow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 she/her

MAnth 👩🏼‍🎓| aspiring writer (horror, fantasy, sci-fi, romance)

| INFJ | Humanitarian | 🍉

Cthulhu's favourite child | Lolth's Little Princess | Vault Dweller | former Hackett's Quarry counsellor
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Willow_Writes @sassquatch96.bsky.social · Nov 17
"Wow, look at all those unfinished drafts!"

*starts writing another story*
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
Remember to write all your sensitive information down on tiny scraps of paper lying around as a courtesy to future wasteland scavengers
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 AM
sassquatch96.bsky.social
Describing characters through the perspectives of their LIs was one of the best things I've done
November 29, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
🌌🛰️👾 SCI-FI NOVELLA 👾🛰️🌌

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🫂 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🪱 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈‍⬛ a rescue cat

🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below
November 28, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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normalisland.co.uk
Poor Nigel x
November 26, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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pileusmedia.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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natalisimmonds.bsky.social
Time for another #SimmondsWritingTips (busy day today so getting this one done early).

Let's talk about using all 5 senses to bring your descriptions to life. This is the next level to the 'How to describe characters' thread I wrote a while back.

Get comfortable. This is a fun one...
a woman says i have a fifth sense in front of another woman
ALT: a woman says i have a fifth sense in front of another woman
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 AM
sassquatch96.bsky.social
Post a movie gif from the year you were born.
November 23, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
Many scammers cheat authors by selling what looks like conventional publishing or marketing or agenting--except that it's a scam. But sometimes they just make shit up. Here's an example: a mythical thing called a "No-Objection Certificate", supposedly to ensure compliance with copyright laws.
STAR BOOK WRITING. Pricing and Costing To facilitate this international distribution, we must obtain a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the legal authorities in all 193 countries associated with WIPO. This ensures compliance with local laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and ADA compliance standards. Each NOC will cost $XXX (Based on the current costs for NOCs provided to Star Book Writing by WIPO), covering all administrative and processing fees. With 193 countries involved, the total cost for obtaining these NOCs will be $(Based on the current costs for NOCs provided to Star Book Writing by WIPO) x 193 = $XXX. In accordance with the final mutual agreement, the investment contributions from each party are outlined below, totalling $XXX : • Author Name: $ Author’s Investment USD • Star Book Writing: $ Star Book Writing’s Investment USD In addition, Star Book Writing will handle all logistics and legal processes involved in securing these NOCs. Our experienced legal team will coordinate with the relevant embassies and authorities, ensuring a smooth and efficient process. Book Inventory: Amazon will handle any costs related to digital marketing, book printing, delivery, and distribution for this contract without charging the author any additional fees
November 22, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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caradelaney.bsky.social
Book intro: BLADE OF THE CROWN

👑 a princess struggling with her magic
⚔️ a royal guard with too much ambition
🏝️ an ambush that strands them on a strange island
💘 falling in love at the most inconvenient time
🗡️ a revelation that could topple the throne

tinyurl.com/bladeofthecrown

🌈📚 #sapphfic
The cover of the book "Blade of the Crown" by author Cara N. Delaney. The background is the ocean, choppy with waves. The sky is grey and dark blue with storm clouds. Silver ornaments decorate the corners and the top and bottom edges. In the foreground is a golden crown in a classic shape. A slender sword with an ornamental cross guard goes through it vertically. The title is written in a silver, slightly translucent font, with one point of the crown filling the "A" of "blade". The author's name is in white at the bottom.
November 20, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke
November 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
🏹 sci-fi / dystopian
☣️ post-apocalyptic
👑 a tyrant king
🧪 a mysterious illness
🔥 slow burn romance
⚔️ enemies everywhere
📚 five book series
👾 book one is an SPSFC semi-finalist
❣️ ebooks are ✨99c!✨

🔖 book link: mybook.to/rSMw0
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/series/26074...
The Outlands Pentalogy, book one, A Touch of Death by Rebecca Crunden; cover is in black and white and shows a silhouette of a woman in a coat with her back turned
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
🏹⚔️🏰 SHORT STORY 🏰⚔️🏹

🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
👥 second pov
❣️ only ✨99c!✨

🔖 book link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 AM
sassquatch96.bsky.social
#writers #writingcommunity

If you could live in any of your stories, which one would you pick?
November 19, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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samatlounge.bsky.social
Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Authors, keep yourselves informed on what your publishers are doing re: AI & talk to your agents & Soc of Authors. lithub.com/harpercollin...
HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.
On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…
lithub.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM
sassquatch96.bsky.social
Post a perfect album for the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

Girl Power!
November 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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timinclimate.bsky.social
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.

That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."

That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.

There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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lizfremantle.bsky.social
👀 pitching is difficult. This could help.
natalisimmonds.bsky.social Natali Simmonds @natalisimmonds.bsky.social · Nov 17
So how can you do this? Well, I'm teaching this course tomorrow and there are a few places left so you can have the full answer there. In the meanwhile I will share a snippet of what worked for me and how thinking 'hook first' got me an agent in 3 days and a TV deal!
raindance.org/courses/from...
From Pitch to Product: How to Write a Story Pitch First
Hone your story into the perfect elevator pitch and know you're on to a good thing before you start writing so your script can go from pitch to product
raindance.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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itsjustdionne.bsky.social
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 16, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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parmparm.bsky.social
Dragon Age Veilguard is WILD
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Writing is a lonely hobby/profession, and it’s hard to meet others. A lot of new writers have joined Bluesky. Are you one of them? Looking for readers? Looking for other writers to collab with? Post below who you are, what you write, then surf the thread to find new folks to follow and share with.
November 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM
sassquatch96.bsky.social
"Wow, look at all those unfinished drafts!"

*starts writing another story*
November 17, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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sireviscerate.myatproto.social
A monstrously deformed 5th ninja turtle approaches.
"What are you doing out of your cage, Picasso?" says Splinter.
Then he sees the gun.
November 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
sassquatch96.bsky.social
This 👇🏻
tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Nov 16
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM