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SK Weathers
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Hearth Saga: Kingdom of Cinders available via B&N & Amazon. Come check out my mostly for free Patreon (love my Patrons): https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=122409728
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SK Weathers @skwfantasywriter.bsky.social · Mar 10
A found family, f*ck the patriarchy, we're-just-getting-started, bloody good epic fantasy, in which it becomes increasingly clear that everyone should have listened to the old women, available now from B&N.

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Kingdom of Cinders: Hearth Saga - Book One|Paperback
A match struck burns, and the world burns with it--unless--an old ally can find a way to stop the world's slow roll toward destruction, but what if that ally is keeping a secret of their own that migh...
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How exactly do you let the server leader know about a downed server? I can't see anyone or anything and I'm unclear if I can be seen-where the problem is--what the problem is, so forth. Oh blue.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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First the month Patreon haul. I'm currently abt $75 from my goal, the lowend $ to handle pub costs for Book 2. I mean, it's getting there, but currently a bit stalled. I'll keep on it. Meantime, there's loads from free stuff up on Patreon, too. Link in comments
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Collection cover image from Patreon. Image of old fashioned ink bottles and a stylus. One bottle is tipped over into a puddle of ink spilling off an edge, as if on a desktop. Text says "Only New Posts. A rotating space that will ONLY hold the new posts for each upload cycle"
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I wanted to write this little book, simple plot, crispy archetypes, and then I met these characters. Well, shit. I set a familiar story in motion, and then I realized they were screaming at me to see the whole point was to upend it
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susansavagelee.bsky.social Susan Savage Lee @susansavagelee.bsky.social · Oct 25
If you’ve written a sequel, what made you do it? Love of the characters? Wanting a new journey for them? Something else? #writingq #WritingCommunity
October 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Raud is an Art Sage, a Master of all things Artful (aka magical), but there might be someone who knows more--and if there was, let's just say, that would be a spoiler of all spoilers (yay Book 2)

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charliedeltawrites.bsky.social Charlie Delta 🦊🐐 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · Oct 23
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

On a scale from "Can't figure out the TV remote" to "Tech genius," how is your character with technology?

Please swap magic for technology here, if that is more appropriate for your setting.

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October 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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10/15 Since these novella pages are in no way edited or even really sure to stick around in a later draft I'm not sure this is reliable copy, but very vibey. Here, Whinset (POV) has her hands full juggling her man's shame, "carefully"

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#WIP Snips (a bluesky writing community tag). October 15 (word is) care. Remaining text: Share a line from your work in progress with the daily word for inspiration! Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics. Synonyms, variations, and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! (Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social) Text over a faded background autumn scene: “I couldn’t close ranks fast enough, I couldn’t raise an effective defense. I failed. Old Foer’s right about that much.” “Raise a defense? You were playing a game, but that was the ruse, wasn’t it? A lie to hide carefully planned crimes. We knew Nebbyd was disloyal. We knew he consorted with the Kellman. We underestimated how far and how quickly he would move, but you can’t be serious when you say you failed. How can you fail at a trap dug in your path?” She reached for his hands again, but he tucked balled fists under his arms. “A wise man can see the trap and step over it.” Could they have seen it? Could they have guessed when they planned for Muster? He needed to believe he could not have. Guilt would tie his sword to his side. In evidence, he sat steeping in his shame, knees slacked open, his arms binding his own chest so he could barely breathe.
October 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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10/7-since Bk 2 is delayed due to a total lack of funds I'm working on a novella covering "off camera" events in Bk 1. Haven't settled on a title nor roughed enough to do this often but here's a 1st clunky vibe at it. Work is therapy
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Text on a blue background: “Your father never faced this challenge. But I know you are able to meet this. Our people will know it, too. Every bit of preparation will lift them up, help them cope with fear, sacrifice. Let me call Waergan.” “Midgyr. Send word to Midgyr. With that change, write your bond. I will sign it and seal it.” His pain radiated like cold rising from a frozen lake. She almost wished he would run hot again, but the fire was out. She had taken him down to bedrock. Was that necessary? Seizing her tighter, he kissed her but drew away as suddenly to plead,  “Must I go? How can I ride away from you again?” She bore him down, deeper. “You have no home now that does not make room for the safety of  your people. I will share this burden, but there is no putting down.” He was beyond either weeping or raging, and for that she was at least a little thankful. There was so much work to be done. #WIP Snips (a bluesky writing community tag). October 7 (word is) safe. Remaining text: Share a line from your work in progress with the daily word for inspiration! Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics. Synonyms, variations, and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! (Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social)
October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I biffed yesterday's post--no alt text. I ham thumbed. Trying it again, arg. My Patreon 1st of month bunches of stuff are up, including new art for sale and this posterized version that I just put up for fun (of a story setting). Link in comments (it's by&large free)
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Artwork of farmland and distant woods, big puffy white clouds and sun rays. The word "Fen" is superimposed across the image in green.
October 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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At a time when so many creatives are battling tidal waves of AI slop & suffering as algos are strangled, this title really pissed me off. No matter what it ultimately says (no, didn't read it, don't sub), this is not a good faith question. Please do not give up. Ever.

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Title and art for New Yorker story: Should you just give up? by Joshua Rothman.
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Sep. was a a month of meeting the nicest sweetest most generous people & of seeing up close how lovely my friends (whom I already adore to bits) really are. Ready for a 1st of the new month Patreon drop. Come check it out. Membershiop's free/link in comments
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October 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Hi! If we followed each other bc of a political type list, that's great. I am a boo-fascists person, so greetings to you! One thing though--I mostly talk about my books & art here. Sometimes I post things I'm hyping & I invite everyone to join my Patreon, which is mostly free
September 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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And a link to my Patreon.I'm also offering them directly through email but I am charging more bc Patreon handles processing so it's less work & lower risk for everyone. Covers don't grow on trees so I'm shaking every tree I can find
Link: www.patreon.com/collection/1...

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September 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I'm working my way through funding a delayed release of Hearth Saga Book 2: Path of Thorns. Part of that funding will be through the sale of very inexpensive works of art. I know this isn't for everyone, but that's okay. It's for the people it's for.
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Preview of Patreon Art Gallery, two images for sale
September 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I'm not a horror writer, but you can bet I am an indie author booster!

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matthewkingauthor.bsky.social Matthew King @matthewkingauthor.bsky.social · Jun 9
Re-post & share your work! 🔥📕🔥
September 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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9/8 Fun! Okie doke

Warmth and light had taken their time finding the north, but the season, once arrived, clung like a golden vine.

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cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @MFF C8 @cometkins.bsky.social · Sep 8
Share a snippet from your book/wip that features the color gold 🏆🛎️🔔 #WritingPrompt
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Hey, I just realized it's the first of September! I can officially release the title for Hearth Saga Book 2!!! eeep
Meet my newest baby...still months away from release and currently coverless, but at least she has a name!
Book title: Hearth Saga Book 2: Path of Thorns. Words appear over purple background with faded images of thorny vines
September 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Another month another Patreon upload. It's hard to grow a Patreon following & I know I don't use it right--don't require a paid tier for amost anything--but I'm stumped as to how to grow this base. I love Patreon, personally. It's so flexible
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A character picture from a Patreon post, showing a young woman surrounded by thorns
September 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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8/30 Day after posting about a delay in release, a storm swept through & dropped limbs from our tree into a neighbor's yard. My nose now says it's 2026 for sure. Can't keep this up for that long but I'll post new stuff & follow y'all. Hang around?
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#WIP Snips (a bluesky writing community tag). August 30 (word is) nose. Remaining text: Share a line from your work in progress with the daily word for inspiration! Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics. Synonyms, variations, and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! (Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social) Text over purple background: He gulped wine and smiled to himself, fingering the cup’s rim, around and around. “Approach is a cheering word, ominous, but doom’s approach is separate from doom itself. I cannot simply assert my will, can I? Not while peril sits enthroned above me. But I know too well what you have ignored, my Shoanic friend,” Thith bent closer and whispered into Uunrei’s ear, “Even the most ominous vespid has its appetites, its blinding needs. I must choose carefully where to concentrate pressure on that appetite, matching the beating heart of the moment, allowing for the exquisite pause before quickening to a sudden, purposeful thrust, and, lo, all will be awash with the light of the fire I’m setting. Forget the hornets over my head. I am quite used to their imposition. For this to work, I must find the rosebud hiding under its cowl.” He leaned back, hung his nose over the cup, inhaled deeply, and drained it in a single draught.Hearth Saga/Book 2/Fall 25
August 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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8/24 Took a week off of most things. Been a hard summer. I hope fall's betterl, but I dont' like the group trajectory, eh? On my end I'm realizing I may need to postpone my book release. I can't do the cover right now. Just cannot. Such is life
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#WIP Snips (a bluesky writing community tag). August 24 (word is) same. Remaining text: Share a line from your work in progress with the daily word for inspiration! Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics. Synonyms, variations, and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! (Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social) Text over green background: When he woke to find her gone, Helde would be angry with Raud, and with her, but Raud said Helde would be fine, and that must be true. If Helde insisted on following after her, he would have found her by now. He had chosen not to search, but to go forward, leaving her to do the same. Valo didn’t know why the thought should worsen her pain, but she ached from her eyes to her gut, a single bolt of loss, a knife’s stroke. Hearth Saga/Book 2
August 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Listen, I need you to know, if you try to send money via venmo and anything glitchy goes on and the money doesn't transfer and you cancel, you're gonna be shit out of luck. They will not refund that money no matter what they say when they encourage you to cancel the transaction
August 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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8/17 Crawl is a good word--verbs are great. I struggled with this one in editing, though. Do slugs crawl? Technically no, but slither sounded so deliberate, like she'd planned out what to say. In the heat of anger, crawled hit more truly

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#WIP Snips (a bluesky writing community tag). August 17 (word is) crawl. Remaining text: Share a line from your work in progress with the daily word for inspiration! Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics. Synonyms, variations, and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! (Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social) Text over green background: “We do not serve the Lady of the Lord, but the new Lord when he’s here. He’s not here. What do you want?” “For you to go away, good man. I have so much work to do, and you’re in my way–a slow witted slug who eats the green leaves of the rose and considers yourself a bud, always on the verge of blossoming. But you cannot bloom with a mouthful of borrowed finery, because, again, you are a slug. I am salt. Crawl home and please do not wait until you’ve made sense of that.” Hearth Saga/Book 2/Fall 25
August 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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8/16 How do you deal with the bodily stuff in narrative? In fantasy, journeys abound. Irl in a car on I10, I'm always in a dead panic for where we're gonna stop next. I feel compelled to at least meantion it once or twice. That just me?
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List of writers' prompts for the month of August, one for each day. Hosts: @chesneyInfalt and @L.V.Russell/@l.v.russell_author FantasyIndiesAugust prompt/Text over faded background: Snippet The day spent at Yarrow’s side exhausted all the good morning fish had done. These men labored like their lives were owed to aching. So many, near two thousand Yarrow claimed, and yet when the sun set and the moons rose, the signs of their passage through the lush curve of Greensward would show hardly more than a crease in the grasses, and a gorge in need of a season to compost their collected excretions.
August 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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yes yes yes
boxoffrogs.bsky.social Box of Frogs @boxoffrogs.bsky.social · Aug 15
BTW: Everyone is using the wrong analogies for Trump meeting with Putin.

The correct one is the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was signed on August 23, 1939. This pact included a secret protocol that divided Poland into spheres of influence for both Germany and the Soviet Union.
August 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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8/15 Free Friday--can I go back to harping on the idea of overediting? What I meant when I said we've been sold the notion of brevity as the gold standard is that it always benefitted publishers. 1/?

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List of writers' prompts for the month of August, one for each day. Hosts: @chesneyInfalt and @L.V.Russell/@l.v.russell_author
August 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
skwfantasywriter.bsky.social
8/14 Enemy is a tricky word. At least I can say this scene does not take place in Rus--oops--Alaska. If only we had a Whinset to deal with this crap irl

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#WIP Snips (a bluesky writing community tag). August 14 (word is) enemy. Remaining text: Share a line from your work in progress with the daily word for inspiration! Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics. Synonyms, variations, and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! (Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social)
August 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I've no problem w adverbs. Can they get unwily? Yeah. But if everybody sounds the same because they're over edited (there, I said it, there is such a thing as OVER edited) nothing feels new or special. Just use w good sense like all other parts of speech

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reaper-man.bsky.social 🎄 Santa Vimes 🎄 @reaper-man.bsky.social · Aug 13
#SummerOfStory 13

As with other parts of speech, it depends on how you're using them! I'm actually quite fond of a few cheeky adverbs here and there, though I usually put them in for comedic effect. 😅

A single, perfectly placed adverb, however, can change the entire meaning of a sentence...🧵(1/2)
cfranciswrites.bsky.social Charlotte Francis @cfranciswrites.bsky.social · Aug 13
Hello #SummerOfStory!

Day 13: Strong Verbs over Adverbs

Massive caveat: I know this advice is contentious. Stephen King has riled up many a writer with his war on adverbs. This is not my advice, just prompting discussion.

Okay, let me just fetch my fire gloves before I hit post...

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August 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM