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Zulu8Davis
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#Amwriting author of Speculative Fiction
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

About to start my writing session.

Need to pick up the pace w/ my revisions as I’d like to begin querying in December.

With that in mind, my 2nd draft revisions are working out splendidly.

Feels like a different book 👨🏿‍🚀

#HorrorWriter 🦋 #BlackBookSky 🐺 #Writing
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Watching Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, & I’m quite disapointed.

His aesthetic is dull, which is uncharactristic of his filmography.

Worse, it feels lazy.

The movie is passionless & trite, hitting plot points at predictable moments.

#Netflix
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Close to finishing CH21 of my werewolf manuscript.

The 2nd draft has allowed me to expand the roll of a character who empathizes with the protagonist's lycanthropy.

👉🏿 I anticipate finishing my line edits by tonight.

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November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing Crew ☻

Today’s goal is to finish CH20 before the clock strikes midnight.

👉🏿 For my 2nd draft, it’s been imperative for me to clean up transitions, & composition.

The main beats are fine, & the gore is a joy to re-read. 😎

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October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

I’ve finished CH19 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft 👏🏿

Tomorrow I’ll finish it by line editing.

I conclude my night w/ Alexis Henderson’s HOUSE OF HUNGER (2022).

Such a treat. Her work’s is what I aspire to do. 🫡

#HorrorWriter 🦋 #BlackBookSky 🐺 #Writing
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Addendum ☻

Fortunately, during my morning regimine, I decided upon an approach.

I believe that horror, i.e. shock & gore, feeds into the drama, but the genre also relies on setting 🤔

Based on my outlook, I'll use setting to transition my next piece ✍🏿

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October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Last night, I started CH19 of the 2nd draft.

I’m about 191 pages into the werewolf manuscript 👨🏿‍🚀

The initial pages are going well.

I only stopped when I couldn't figure out how to transition into the next set piece ⑴

#HorrorWriter 🦋 #BlackBookSky 🐺 #Writing
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Addendum ☻

🤦🏿‍♂️ I anticiapte similar problems when I begin CH19

I’ve decided to cut the middle that I composed for my 1st draft: I need to tweak my antagonist’s motivation for harming, & then helping, my protagonist 🤔

Will spend my morning ruminating (f)

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October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

On Friday, I finished CH18 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft 😤

Curiously, most of my difficulties arose from a renegade paragraph where the vampire’s voice didn’t sound authentic to their experience ⑴

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October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Addendum ☻

I’ve spent 5 days retootling that vampire scene, and, finally, I may have broken through 🙋🏿‍♂️

During my morning walk I enountered a quartet of hummingbirds.

Something about that fits.

Will play with that during my afternoon writing session. (f)

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October 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

Still working on CH18 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft.

I’ve been stuck on the scene that introduces my vampire 🤔

Creating their presence is more important than the battle that ensues. ⑴

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October 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Addendum ☻

After re-reading Audre Lorde, I’ve begun journaling about my vampire & the power of eros.

I need to discern how they weaponize joy ✍🏿

While cogitating, I’m spinning a CD set that I’ve neglected.

Haven’t heard Today's “Him or Me” in a decade.

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October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Last night I re-wrote the first exchange between my werewolf & vampire

To render their excchange metaphorically, I’m re-reading Audre Lorde’s timless rumination, “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” (1978) ✍🏿

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October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

About to start my 2nd writing session for my werewolf manuscript.

👉🏿 For CH18’s 2nd draft, I've reimagined my vampire as an assemblage of subjectives, rather than a lord, a punk, or a goth.

Will begin by freewriting 🤔

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October 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

Finished editing CH17 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft.

My writing is denser & more provocative than my work from my 1st draft 😤

Ending my night w/ one of my favorite films, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN. (1943)

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October 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Today, I anticipate completing CH17 of my werewolf manuscript.

✍🏿 While I'm having a lot of fun w/ the 2nd draft, I worry about CH18.

My redraft compels me to balance combustable personalities w/ coercion & violence 🤔

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October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Addendum ☻

CH17 has lots of werewolf action, so I felt like I needed to consider how he would’ve lived if he weren’t cursed.

I consider his ideals as well as his belief systems.

Despite his condition, he doesn’t believe in fate, or luck.

Good start. (F)

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October 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

About to start my final writing session for today.

Earlier, I started working on the 2nd draft for CH17 of my werewolf manuscript.

I decided that I needed to pace the narrative w/ more character moments. (1)

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October 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

Tonight, I anticipate finishing CH16 of my werewolf manuscript.

The work I’ve done on my 2nd draft has allowed my short chapters to focus on themes.

For CH17, I’ll get to play w/ my action figures: werewolf vs. vampire❗️

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September 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Last night I finished CH15 of my werewolf manuscript.

My 2nd draft is allowing me to reimagine setting as I would a fantasy novel.

Each character feels rich because they inhabit vibrant spaces.

Steady progress. 😤

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September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

On Thursday, I finished CH13 of my werewolf manuscript.

The 2nd draft is going well, but it’s taking me about 6 days to refine my writing.

Hoping the latter chapters of my manuscript require fewer rewrites 🤔

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September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

I’ve veered completely off my timeline.

By now I should’ve begun writing my query letters, but alas, I’m only on CH12 of my manuscript’s 2nd draft.

I’m progressing well, but I’ll have to target November for submissions 😐

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September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

On Thursday, I finished line edits for the 2nd draft of CH10.

Will spend today re-reading my werewolf manuscript to piece together a refined version of CH11 🤔

It needs lots of work, but so far my plans have bore out

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August 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

Beginning my final writing session.

👉🏿 My goal tonight is to finish CH10 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft.

I have less to rewrite, so I could abide by the beats & spirit of my dialogue.

Finally, some momentum 😤

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August 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

Today I’m starting the 2nd draft of CH10 for my werewolf manuscript

✍🏿 While the beats are fine, the writing is messy, which means that it’ll require a lot of new composition.

I’m enjoying the 2nd draft, but it’s tough 😤

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August 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM