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✍🏼Winter Simpson
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🏳️‍🌈 Writing character-driven queer fiction in altered states and liminal spaces

📚 Stories, blog and community at https://patreon.com/winterandwords

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Good morning, #WriteSky! May all your words flow fast and freely today 📚
February 16, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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📝 There’s nothing I have to to take from this guy. They just want him dead for some reason I’m never going to know and couldn’t give a fuck about if I tried.

✂️ from Miles From Morning

🏷️ #WIPSnips (never) #WriteSky #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #Writers
February 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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📝 Then she fires her impatience at me. “Turner, you can’t just go breaking people’s wrists when they piss you off.”

I’m not sure there’s any worse I can make this, so I may as well be honest. “I can though. I’ve done it loads of times. Not always wrists, but—"

🌃 Miles From Morning

🏷️ #QueerWriters
February 15, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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TFW you're writing a prequel so you can absolutely TORTURE the main character because readers will know how everything turns out even if the characters don't 😈

In other news, I've made myself cry two days in a row working on Miles From Morning 🙃

🏷️ #WriteSky #Writers #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters
February 14, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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🩷 Write what you want. No, what you REALLY want. You're allowed to do that. You're also allowed to publish in whatever way makes you genuinely happy. You shouldn't hate the process by which you share your stories with the world. You are allowed to love every part of this.

🏷️ #PretendPanel #WriteSky
hiriadunning.com Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.com · 2d
See, I told you I wouldn't make it about romance, #pretendpanel 😜 so tell me...

February 14th: If you could send a kind, loving message to your earlier writer self, what would it be?

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#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.com February 14th: If you could send a kind, loving message to your earlier writer self, what would it be? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
February 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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✅ Check-in day! My writing week went really well. I'm not sure how many chapters I've drafted in Miles From Morning, but it's definitely more than the one or two I was hoping for. The words are flowing and I'm happy. I hope everyone else had a good week.

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
amaralynn.bsky.social AmaraJLynn 🦹 scheming @amaralynn.bsky.social · 2d
#queerwriters Saturday: Check in Day!

How was your week? Did you accomplish what you set out to do?

Share your progress, encourage, cheer, and support others!

#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
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February 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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🌃 Whoever said cyberpunk is the Gen X comfort genre knew what they were on about. New bog post, Architectural aesthetics in the Cityverse, just went up on my Patreon. It's members-only but you can join for free!

🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/150334...

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon
Architectural aesthetics in the Cityverse | Winter Simpson
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February 14, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Hitting flow state, when the story is pouring out of my brain, through my hands, into the computer, and it feels like describing the movie I'm watching in my head. That feeling is pure joy of the highest order and I totally live for it.

🏷️ #PretendPanel #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
hiriadunning.com Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.com · 3d
Don't worry #pretendpanel, I won't be asking awkward questions about romance just cos tomorrow is Valentines 😉 Instead...

February 13th: What do you LOVE about writing?

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#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.com February 13th: What do you LOVE about writing? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
February 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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📝 I got in #serious shit for what I did at the rescue where no-one got rescued. Apparently explaining that I didn’t technically disobey an order wasn’t a helpful thing to do and I ended up with a week in solitary confinement for insubordination.

✂️ from Miles From Morning

🏷️ #WIPSnips #QueerWriters
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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#vss365 #touch

His touch was dry and papery, as if the dust of a thousand graves covered his fingers.

Death’s static electricity, she supposed.

Yet, she craved his presence, mesmerized or besotted, she did not know.
-GoRhyme
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Yesterday
I heard the offbeat
sound,
grass growing
as all I touched
turned violent hatred,
I lived in Dostoevsky
and died in Woolf;

that was my
heart breaking
and the stones filling my
pockets
maybe I am the criminal
and my life is the sentence

#bedroomeyes #vssdaily #vss365 #faesense #poetry
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Thing is, I still crave the liquid nitrogen destruction of your #touch. There are too many parts of me whole again since you walked away and I'd gotten far too comfortable with sharp edges and shattered pieces. I miss the hollow breathlessness held by your company. I shouldn't. But I do.

🏷️ #vss365
February 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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📝 I LOVE that where I found today's word gave me an excuse to make an indulgently psychedelic graphic with my snippet. The place being described is a futuristic drug dealer's office in the back room of a club.

✂️ from Miles From Morning

🏷️ #WIPSnips #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Text: She’s fully committed to the vibe, with an operating table instead of a couch in her office. It’s sprayed with coloured stripes that glow under blacklight, but it’s definitely still an operating table. ID tag: Miles From Morning / @winterandwords Image: Stripes of coloured paint glowing under blacklight
February 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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It's found crime family for me, heavy on the "we should hate each other but instead we're healing together" and leaning into platonic soulmates.

(PS How did I now know this chat exited until today?! So happy to have found it!)

🏷️ #SpoonieAuthChat #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
spoonieauthnet.bsky.social Spoonie Authors Network @spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 5d
Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), February 10, 2026:

Let's talk about family love! Found family more than counts! Have you written about it?

(Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
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February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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There was that one night when we sat on the roof smoking menthol cigarettes and you told me what really happened. You told me no-one else knew. Now it's been six years to the minute since I didn't know the right thing to say and I #ache for all that could have been. I miss you. I'm sorry.

🏷️ #vss365
February 10, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Your #vss365 #prompt for Feb 10 is #ache

"I wish to run my trembling fingers long
Through the black tangles of your heavy hair,
To plunge my aching head amorous of
Your skirts as into secret, perfumed bowers,
To breathe your scent as from pale withered flowers"

'Le Léthé', Charles Baudelaire

#10
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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✍🏼 Because February is the new January, I've been doing a big digital reset, including all my writing stuff. Now I'm ready to get stuck into making words happen, so my goal for this week is to finish the chapter I'm writing in Miles From Morning and maybe start another one.

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky
amaralynn.bsky.social AmaraJLynn 🦹 scheming @amaralynn.bsky.social · 7d
#queerwriters Monday: Goals Day!

What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on!

#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
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February 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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I was looking for an app or website to track my writing and I just discovered Trackbear. It's EXACTLY what I need to satisfy my hunger for stats and it's customisable enough to help me set goals while staying out of workaholic mode. Also, there's no AI and it's free!

🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
February 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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If you have AI generate your books, then you miss out on the joys of First Draft Cake. Just saying.

Also, it’s stealing and lazy AF.
February 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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📝 His hands, perfectly manicured and soft from a life of leisure and an excess of care, start at my shoulders and move across my collarbones and down my chest, tracing my ribs with a gathering dissatisfaction on his face.

🌃 from Miles From Morning (this is NOT a romantic moment!)

🏷️ #QueerWriters
February 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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What would it look like for a vampire to drink your blood?

In this sequence the anatomical references are clear.
Suddenly, I see my blood entering him. Like an anatomical model, I watch it moving through his mouth, slowly dripping into his throat, then his stomach. There, it spreads, being absorbed into every part of his body. First, his arteries start to fill, like crimson spiderwebs spreading across his skin. Then veins plump up, juicy and purple. The more he drinks, the more animated he seems. Alive. Beguiling. Abaś’ tongue laps at the puncture, and the languid movement of his lips distracts me from the spectacle of his skin. My breaths quicken as my pulse slows down. I feel pulled and pushed, hollow and full.
February 8, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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#Pale fabrics and carpets and walls - maybe white or cream or light grey, I don't remember and it's not the important part - tempted stains from hands that were never appropriately clean. Pure. I still scrub bleach-dry palms when I can't find an apology big enough for the sin of my touch.

🏷️ #vss365
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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🎧 New audio reading on my Patreon! Enjoy my sore throat voice and a well-dressed serial killer's musings about the meaning of home.

🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149831...

🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #Patreon
Audio reading: Spin Cylinder, episode 04 / chapter 01 | Winter Simpson
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February 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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You know what's really creepy? People who are on here for the sole purpose of trying to sell services (that wouldn't be worth the money even if they were free tbh) who keep following, unfollowing and following you repeatedly. Stop it. It's fucking weird. This shit is why I have DMs turned off.
February 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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With each new #wound they gave you, you became smaller and quieter and less until you would ask their permission to bleed and apologise for the stains on their hands.

🏷️ #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
February 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM