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Amateur Author, hopefully soon to be widely published. Any pronouns are fine.

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freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Nov 27

Why not? #writing #novelvember

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Nov 27

Been seeing people share these while I've been in moving hell so now it's MY TURN

Get to know my Writing. For every like, I will post one Quote, heart emoji

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freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 1d

HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND OUT MY DESK CHAIR HAS AN ADJUSTABLE BACK????

AUGH I CAN WRITE WITHOUT BEING IN AGONY NOW!

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Eight days into #Novelvember and I finally figured out the plot.

Oh this has not been a good year for me.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 7d

Actually finishing stuff. I've managed to finish all of one short story in the last three months.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 7d

What's something you'd like to improve on in your writing? #WritingPrompt

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freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 10d

I am begging publishers, please include a "if you haven't heard by x date please query" clause in your guidelines. I'm going on two months of not hearing back from some markets and I don’t know if I can query. #writingcomnunity

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 12d

People Always assume malice over mistake and it's fucking exhausting.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 21d

Demons and Hell are their own pantheon in the Divine setting I'm trying to write (still need a name). Not 100% sure where they are morally, but considering I wrote Jesus as an antagonist in two of the stories I've written for it, I imagine that it's a 'lesser of two evils' situation.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 21d

Tell me about your demons and demonic characters! 👹#WritingPrompt

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 21d

Having to be professional is exhausting, but I keep telling myself it'll be worth it in the long run.

That said, if I had a nickel for every snarky post I wanted to write about my life or my reading habits, I could retire.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 22d

So no classical casters in my setting, but the gods and spirits empower human avatars with 'magic' abilities that match their domain.

One of my favorite concepts that emerged from this is that Bragi, Norse god of performance and poems, has the power to get free tickets to any show he wants.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 22d

Tell me about your witches, sorcerers, warlocks, wizards, and other magic users! #WritingPrompt

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freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 25d

After I'm done with this temp job, I never want to work in an office again.

I feel like my brain is oozing out my ears every night.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 26d

$100 is a 1300-word short story in an SFWA-rated market. As an advance on a novel, it's criminally low.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 27d

I honestly wish that oldschool creepypasta authors would try to pro-publish their work. Closest I've seen is a novel titled "No-End House" by someone who wasn't the original author of that, and had nothing to do with the original work.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 27d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · 28d

I knew it was bad when I ordered popcorn at a theater and had so many Elio buckets they gave me one for free with my food.

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Amanda (OnionBug) 🔜 Shoebox @onionbug.bsky.social · Oct 9

Are you trans in the Magic the Gathering space? Are you creating, supporting, even just playing and having fun!?
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.

Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.

a cartoon drawing of a fox carrying a flag

Alt: Magic the Gathering character Miles Tails Prowler says trans right

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freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 9

So was the Moksha submission platform named ironically? Every time I submit to a publication that uses it, I feel like I'm trapped in an unending cycle of checking if my work's been read every time I see the Grinder update a listing. #writingcommunity #writing

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 6

If someone is willing to collaborate with you creatively but will drop you at the first sign of you being emotionally inconvenient, you don't have a friend. You have a colleague, at best.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

I feel like if a platform's function degrades to the point where users can't delete accounts, the best time to migrate off that platform was five years ago, the next-best time is tomorrow.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

If I had a nickel for everyone who claimed to care about me before shutting the door in my face, I could retire.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

This isn't "My worst is screaming and breaking your monitor, my best is burnt spaghetti."

I am going through a hard time right now. My father is dead, my life is in shambles, and people take that as an excuse to fucking read me as being the worst possible person I can be 100% of the time.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

"The Killing Joke" convinced an entire generation of semi-literate folks that people are cannot rise above the worst day of their lives.

Anyone who thinks that someone at their worst is the sum of who they are isn't worth engaging with.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 5

Anyone know how to force someone to unfollow you on Bsky? Could do it on twitter but you seem to only be able to block here, and it still counts as following.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · Sep 26

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

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freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 3

I feel like we need a list of markets that say "no politics" in the sub guidelines as a general 'do not submit here' warning. Every press I've seen with this stipulation has been queerphobic. #writing #submissions #writingcommunity

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 3

I'd also like to point out these folks partner with a transphobic author/publisher. They list Hellbound Books on their site, whose owner wrote "I Am Joe's Unwanted Penis".

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freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 3

> apolitical
> twilight zone

Pick a lane.

freemanwrites.bsky.social @freemanwrites.bsky.social · Oct 3

Oh and these folks partner with the author publisher of "I Am Joe's Unwanted Penis", a transphobic short story whose pitch deadnamed Caitlyn Jenner.

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