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Lou ✍🏻 🧶 @loustardust.com · 4h

#WIPSnips “Hope”

The Unbreakable Bond - 💔

#writingprompt #amwriting

Her soul looked broken and beat. He was pretty sure she had lost all hope a long time ago.

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Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire @azaleaforrest.bsky.social · Mar 10

👋🥰 Hi everyone! I'm Azalea, a fantasy author. My books are full of hope, second chances, & mental health rep.

You can find my work in a lot of places!
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And on itchio & Campfire, too!

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#indieauthor #booksky #writer

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Books: Legacy of the Brightwash, Imbued, His Ragged Company, Afterlands After the Harrowing, Merchants of Knowledge and Magic, The Binding of Bloom Mountain

Movies: Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Hot Fuzz

Games: Final Fantasy IX, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Final Fantasy XIV

The Witch of Emelle Series:

Book One: Witch in the Lighthouse
A warm cup of tea full of magic, grief, friendship, and forgiveness.
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Book Two: A Witch in Isenshire
A bold cup of coffee made with determination, personal growth, and adventure.
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Also available on itch.io, Campfire Writing, and Kobo Plus

A Bitter Drink by Azalea Forrest
Rowan reflects the fear and hedonistic apathy that resides within all of us. Some of us need a bit of a nudge to veer those destructive tendencies in a more positive direction. Thank the goddess he has Dagan.
https://www.books2read.com/abd
high fantasy/lgbtq+ & spfbo8 semi-finalist

The Underground:
City streets, vampires, and werewolves. Anen is not what it seems. Ashai hunts down the arsonist to her blood bar, willing to do whatever it takes, until a local gang brings the city into an all-out war.
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Dark/urban fantasy/supernatural

Also available on itch.io, Campfire Writing, and Kobo Plus

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Lou ✍🏻 🧶 @loustardust.com · 47m

#cats #catsky #proofofcat

Felix says good morning ☀️

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 46m

Awww

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 3h

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 7h

October Bills 💸💕

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Anything helps!!

#helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 #disabled #mutualaid #maboost

Disability Crowdfunding.
Internet: $60.
Electric: $40.
Water: $60 (due on the 15th).
Other: $200.

Venmo: bevmichele
PayPal: bevmichele
Kofi: beverlyannemichel

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 5h

Do I want to write this morning? Possibly but… cat.

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The Bath Bomb Dealer 🛁 🫧 @jumpyjellybeanbath.bsky.social · 13h

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 3h

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October Bills 💸💕

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 4h

me: i should work on my halloween short story and then i can start something new

also me: falls into canva

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 5h

#WIPSnips

DystopianWIP - hope 🌼

“I…” she started to say. “I know. I’m just scared.”
“Me too.” I walked toward the door and grabbed the doorknob. “We’ll figure it out.”
“I hope so.”

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 5h

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 5h

I apparently need to renew my website domain. Great 🙄

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 5h

Do I want to write this morning? Possibly but… cat.

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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 6h

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 7h

October Bills 💸💕

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 7h

Too early 🥱

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 7h

Awake for no reason at 2:30 in the morning 😩

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 21h

#helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid #maboost #disabled 💸💕

bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 22h

I swear I’m just going to start a monthly goal on kofi with the way things have been lately.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 16h

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 22h

I swear I’m just going to start a monthly goal on kofi with the way things have been lately.

Anyway, short on funds for bills after not being able to catch up last month.

Internet: $60
Electric: $40
Water: $60
Other: $200

ko-fi.com/beverlyannem...

#helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid 💸💕

Buy Beverly a Coffee

Become a supporter of Beverly today!

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 16h

I started with the general idea, created the characters, and bc I was in class I got feedback before I started the actual plotting. I wrote out a paragraph for every chapter to give me an idea of what I wanted to write. There was some that change when I wrote it but that was mostly bc word count.

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 17h

Although I’m a pantser, my debut was planned and outlined. I did it because it was my MFA thesis. I do think it’s one of the better things I’ve written but the pantser in me just does not want to outline.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 18h

Okay #WritingCommunity

Planners and Pantsers. Have you ever tried the opposite approach? Planners, have you ever just writtem with no plan? What happened. Pantsers, have you ever tried outlining? What happened?

Was there anything you kept from this experiment.

I switched from pantser to planner.

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The Bath Bomb Dealer 🛁 🫧 @jumpyjellybeanbath.bsky.social · 2d

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The Bath Bomb Dealer 🛁 🫧 @jumpyjellybeanbath.bsky.social · 17h

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 17h

If you see this, QTP with a cartoon with an awesome/catchy theme song.

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