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bettebergeron.bsky.social
TGIF! 😀🍷

While I love the creative aspects of writing (& even doing the research), & how my characters sometimes tug me in completely different & wonderful directions, what I love the best is being part of such an inspiring #writingcommunity. 🖊️

#amquerying #pretendpanel #pretendpanelists #writesky
hiriadunning.com Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.com · 2d
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?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#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 1:59 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
*The #Writing ✍️ #Vortex 🌀🤳📖
(*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Y”)

#BlueSky🦋
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#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#booklovers📗
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#gamedev 🎮
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#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#wip🖊️📑
#plot🕳️🪏
#MemeSky🖼️
#manuscript📑
Meme of a writer stretching for an object just beyond his grasp, captioned: “When the end of your book is just out of reach.”
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
*The #Writing ✍️ #Vortex 🌀✂️📖
(*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Y”)

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#authors📖
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#plot📑🪏
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#wip🖊️📑
#editing🪓
#comic💀😂
A writer is sitting at desk in a bookstore, beside a stack of books and a sign that reads: “Edit the Author.”
February 7, 2026 at 1:11 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✍️ #Quote 💬 of the #Night🌚✨

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#writingcommunity🏘️
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#authors📖🗣️
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#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#KidLit🧒🏽
#GothicWriter🕯️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
Writing. Somewhere between torture and fun.
February 6, 2026 at 2:12 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
*The #Writing ✍️ #Vortex 🌀😵‍💫📖
(*any day 🗓️ that ends in “Y”)

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#WIP🖊️📑
#MemeSky🖼️
That feeling when it’s time to put all the pieces of your story together: Meme of writer’s desk littered with scraps and photos labeled the midpoint. The bad guys closing in, the all is lost, the B plot, the catalyst, the fun and games, the set up, the climax.
February 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
bettebergeron.bsky.social
"...the hardest part of any artistic pursuit: there is no path, no sure way to get from one place to another, no directions or map. It’s not the road less taken. It’s: there is no road." 🍃
--Leslie Cohen 🖊️

#writingcommunity #amquerying #writesky #amwriting
February 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✍️ #Quote 💬 of the #Night🌚✨

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#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖🗣️
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#WriterSky📝
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#LitFic🏛️
#SciFi 👽
#FantasyBookSky🧚
#wip🖊️📑
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#KidLit🧒🏽
#GothicWriter🕯️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
Secrets to Writing a Bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writing. Stop wishing you were writing. And you write.
February 5, 2026 at 12:45 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨ #Word Up ‼️📓✨❄️☃️🧛🏼🩸

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#readers 👀📖
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#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#comic🖊️
#Art🎨
#puns 💀😂
#grammar📓
Comic: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire? Frostbite.
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨ #Poe - boy #Blues 🎶🐦‍⬛🫀📖🪶

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#Art🎨
#puns💀😂
#MemeSky🖼️
#BohemianRhapsody🎶🎤
#Queen👑
Meme of Edgar Allan Poe in a takeoff on Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen: 🎶Poe: “I’m just a Poe boy and nobody loves me.” 🎶 Raven: He’s just a Poe boy from a Poe family.’🎶
February 3, 2026 at 12:32 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
A day in the #life… ✍️✨
( #Keep@It Edition)🖊️📖🍷

#BlueSky🦋
#writing💻
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#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#art🎨
#WritingInspo🧠
#WineSky🍾
Comic: panel of three authors, captioned “How long will it take to writers your next novel? First author replies “About six months. Second author replies, “About nine months. Third author replies “About 200.” Moderator says “200 what?” Third author, replies “Bottles of wine.”
February 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
bettebergeron.bsky.social
Good morning #writingcommunity! ☕

Bravo to everyone posting for yesterday's #QuestPit! 🖊️

Sharing my #agentsguide for RESISTING THE RABBIT HOLE today; internet went down yesterday...

📚Book Banning
🚫Resisting ICE
🏫Educational Advocacy
👭Unintended Allies

#amquerying #A #WF #amwriting #writesky
Poster for RESISTING THE RABBIT HOLE (women's fiction, 87,000 words). Themes & Tropes: Reconciliation, Unlikely Allies, Sibling Rivalry, Career Crossroads, Book Banning & Censorship, Educational Bureaucracies, Empowered Women, Eclectic Friendships Summary: Joplin has grown to love her work as a team leader with one of Maine’s Education Service Centers. That is, until she receives the unwelcomed news she has been named as her Governing Board’s new “Agent of Policy Enforcement,” tasked with weeding out new teachers who don’t align with their polarizing ideologies. To make matters worse, her Board president is collaborating with an ambitious politician to promote policies of censorship—including book banning. Furious, Joplin realizes she is caught in a position where she must choose between exposing the ugly truth or protecting the very teachers she was sent to evaluate—knowing that either decision could end her career. It is the support of the Wednesday Club, an eclectic group of colleagues, which leads Joplin to reimagine her future.
February 1, 2026 at 2:37 PM
bettebergeron.bsky.social
It's #QuestPit Day! 🖊️

Ready to query.. SEA CURSER (Adult Speculative)

What ancient evil waits off Maine's iconic coastline... 🌊

⏺️Closed-Setting
🌲Remote Island
🤬Ancient Curses
🧜‍♀️Folklore & Coastal Mythology
🙏Loss & Reconciliation

#A #S #Q #agentsguide #amquerying #writesky #writingcommunity
Poster for Sea Curser (Speculative Adult Fiction, 76,000 words) Themes and Tropes: Closed-Setting, Folklore, Contemporary, Mythical Creatures, Loss & Reconciliation, Remote Island, Maine, Women's Retreat, Ancient Curses Summary: What ancient evil resides within Rose Bluff Island’s iconic pink granite? Hoping to decompress after the death of her mother, Nan attends a retreat at an idyllic Maine Inn. But nothing has prepared her for the arrival of Faye, who claims she is Nan’s half-sister. As she struggles to navigate her relationship with Faye—and the back-stabbing women at the retreat—a series of dramatic events occurs. Connectivity is severed. The island’s causeway disappears. And the island drifts out to sea. When guests vanish, and Faye is attacked by a beast, Nan is warned of a cursed Creature of the sea. But the Creature is not the only one on the island who is cursed…
January 31, 2026 at 2:39 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨ #Eat Your #Words Day 🍽️📓✨

#BlueSky🦋
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers ✍️
#authors📖
#readers 👀📖
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📗
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky🌌
#5amwritersclub 🌄
#6amwritersclub 🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#comic🖊️
#Art🎨
#puns 💀😂
#LitFic🏛️
#foodies🍲
Culinary takeoff on the classics: war and peas. Quiche 22. Lord of the pies. Animal flan, the lion, the witch and the Waldorf salad. Of mice and Menudo. Pride and prune juice. Crimini and punishment. Oliver Twix.
January 28, 2026 at 12:49 PM
bettebergeron.bsky.social
Happy SnoMonday from southern Maine! ❄️☃️ (Go Pats! 🏈)

Can't wait for the start of tomorrow's Submission Strategy Workshop with the #ManuscriptAcademy! Looking forward to brushing up my querying skills, and connecting with others in our #writingcommunity. 🖊️💻

#amquerying #writesky #amwriting
January 26, 2026 at 2:28 PM
jc-cannon.bsky.social
I'll be attending the @writingdaywksp.bsky.social workshop in DC 3/21/2026

Hope to see you there :)

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🖊️🌎 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersLife
2026 Chesapeake Writing Workshop
Get Your Writing Published: March 21, 2026
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January 25, 2026 at 5:57 PM
bettebergeron.bsky.social
My thoughts turn to MN on this frigid January morning. 🙏

"I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested — arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish." --Edna St. Vincent Millay 🖊️🌲

#writesky #booksky #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity
January 25, 2026 at 2:29 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
*The #Writing ✍️ #Vortex 🌀😧
(*any day🗓️ that ends in “Y”)

#BlueSky🦋
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📗
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky📝
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#WIP📑🖊️
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#MemeSky🌠
Meme of a colonial writer at his desk: When you added a sub-plot that seemed vital and now you have no idea what to do with it.
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
buddygott.bsky.social
A great new piece here from my wonderful wife Lisa about how her characters helped her decide to, happily, leave grad school.

#WriterSky #Writers #WriterCommunity
#Writing #WritingCommunity 😀🖊️⌨️
Blog | Lisa M. Gott
My Characters Made Me Leave Grad School . . . And I'm So Glad They Did | Reflecting on the importance of making questionable life decisions After I received my undergraduate de
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January 22, 2026 at 9:22 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
*The #Writing ✍️ #Vortex 🌀😧
(*any day🗓️ that ends in “Y”)

#BlueSky🦋
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authors📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📗
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky📝
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#WIP📑🖊️❓
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#MemeSky🌠
Meme about a writer who comes back to his work after a break with Paul Rudd’s confused face in the photo captioned “What the hell happened here?”
January 22, 2026 at 1:37 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨On The #Writing ✍️ Process✨😉

#BlueSky🦋
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authorquotes🗣️📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📗
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky📝
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#WIP📑🖊️
#publishing 📰📚✍️🌐
#fairytales🧚‍♀️🪄📖
Young girl, speaking to her fairy godmother: “I do appreciate the offer of a party dress, but any chance of getting a published book contract instead?”
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 PM
jenniferbeworr.bsky.social
Come on sun you can do it! Come on words, you must be there somewhere!

#5amwritersclub 💮🎴📖
#writingcommunity ✨🖊️
Lake with a jetty sitting in it, black band of a mountain range, sun rising from behind it.
January 19, 2026 at 5:48 AM
bettebergeron.bsky.social
Happy SnowSunday #writingcommunity! ❄️

Loved the reflection from author #SteveAlmond that, in these challenging times, to "remember that writing is a form of resistance, a way of understanding that your one and only life belongs to you, not the doom scroll." 🖊️💻

#amwriting #amquerying #writesky
January 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨On The #Writing ✍️ Process✨
( #Anxiety Edition)🫨💥

#BlueSky🦋
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authorquotes🗣️📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📗
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky📝
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#WIP📑🖊️
Posted by Alexander Pennington— Things that give writers and anxiety: Writing Not writing Being asked how our writing is going Accidentally talking to our characters in public and getting weird looks Having our characters talk back to us Realizing we didn’t hit safe before closing a word doc Life in general
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨On The #Writing ✍️ Process✨☕️

#BlueSky🦋
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authorquotes🗣️📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📗
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky📝
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#WIP📑🖊️
#MentalHealth🧠
#WilliamZinsser✂️📖
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard. It’s one of the hardest things that people do. —William Zinsser
January 18, 2026 at 10:34 AM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
✨On The #Writing ✍️ Process✨☕️

#BlueSky🦋
#BookSky📚
#writingcommunity🏘️
#writers✍️
#authorquotes🗣️📖
#readers👀
#WeeknightWriters🌘
#booklovers📗
#readingcommunity👀
#writersky📝
#5amwritersclub🌄
#6amwritersclub🌇
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#indieauthor👨🏽‍💻
#WIP📑🖊️
#tea🫖
January 16, 2026 at 1:47 AM