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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice
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Mad scientist, testing H2O to keep it safe from supervillains & polluters. Prolly posting about writing, workouts, games/tv, or cats. Maybe about mud. She/her. No LLMs/AI allowed
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Sage like the Pumpkin Spice @sagecollins.bsky.social · Sep 23
Heatmiser & Snowmiser, but instead of brothers:

🩵 best friends
💚 rivals for Mother Nature’s power
❤️ secretly in love with each other
💙 Snowmiser wouldn’t know a joke if it nipped at his nose
💛 Heatmiser can be ridiculously silly at times

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q
Snowmiser (a man of ice dressed in blue) & Heatmiser (a man of fire dressed in red) argue over the head of Mother Nature (a cheerful women in green with a bird on her hat)
sagecollins.bsky.social
For Black Friday, I bought a new battery for my car because the old one died
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Picturing future readers being absolutely certain that Lilia will have to soulmate with a certain person in this group and me cackling in the background

#AWNoNo #AmWriting
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Here's the thing I'm realizing about people who say, "I asked ChatGPT." They think it means more to the listener than "I did an internet search."

Coworker was on an e-mail chain where I was discussing with my boss options for tricking our statistical program into doing what we want it to

🧵 1/6
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
SCWWGC

Winters are taught to use a sword starting at the age of 10. King Frost wants them ready to invade Summer at their earliest convenience

Summers have an elite fighting force of Flower Knights, all women. They are trained better than the Winters, but only use (heated) staves

#WritingPrompt
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 5h
Is there a military or other fighting force in your book's setting? How do they function? How do they fight? #WritingPrompt
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Just Nico being Nico

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From The Magic in Our Bones 🦴🕺
Nico is giving me "What's up?" face when I drag him across the school parking lot. He points to Mel's name on his phone. "Nope. Mel's getting rest, and we're going on a field trip." This piques his interest. He dances around a bit at the thought, and I have to keep my hand in his to keep him from ZIGZAGGING in front of oncoming traffic. "Come on, Spooky Scary Skeleton," I say with a laugh, pulling him onto the sidewalk with me. “If you're going to dance all silly, at least do it out of people's way." He points at the parking lot we just left, about to where my car is. "No, we're close enough to walk. We're just waiting for..." "Here!" Azura bounds up behind us. "Sorry I'm late. Miss Bliss had a question about my English outline."
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
The Magic in Our Bones soundtrack as it *currently* stands:

Lady Gaga - Abracadabra
Zedd - Good Thing (Lilia's opening theme)
Telemon - Skeleton Dance (Nico's opening theme)
GQ - Almost There
311 - Amber
Will Jay - Never Been in Love
Churchill - Change
Little Mix - Black Magic

#Novmemeber
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sagetgreene.bsky.social Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 16h
#Novmemeber 28

Share a song on your writing playlist. This doesn't necessarily need to relate to your story—just something you like to listen to while writing.

(If you don't listen to music while writing, adjust the prompt however you see fit!)
28. A song on your writing playlist A prompt game for the month of November, titled #Novmemeber (as in meme). Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social . The bottom says "Have fun, interact, and remember alt text!" There is a silly emoji face with wild eyes and tongue sticking out, and some fall-style leaves in the corners.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
H/V

Not so awesome, but Evie always has her phone on her

Now, tbf, in books 1 & 3, that’s more exciting than you’d think because she shapeshifts. In book 3 she realizes that her phone is actually shapeshifted too. Thus, it’s with her on each end of a non-human transformation

#AwesomeCharacters
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social Charlie Delta 🦊🐐 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 22h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

What is something your character always carries with them?

In a purse, a bag, a secret pouch, a pocket?

Is there something they never travel without? Why?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
A drawing from 2016 which feels relevant for my American friends today
A sketch of a fat wolf that reads ‘I’m never eating again’ ‘Oh ham..’
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nicolelsopergorden.bsky.social
disorganize -> chaos

The twins are like literal personifications of order and chaos sometimes 😂

From Tennyson's arc of The Atlas Brothers Break the Multiverse

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmWriting
Rolling his eyes, Tennyson pointed to a drawer next to the fridge. “Check there, genius.” Poe shuffled through the drawer’s contents, coming up with a set of tiny screwdrivers a moment later. He let out a breath. “Thanks,” he said grudgingly. Tennyson grunted, punching this bread dough again. “Whatever gets you out of my kitchen faster. Your presence will sour my sweet cherry cobbler.” Poe glared, then stormed out of the kitchen and into the back yard, where Kip was already playing some game he had invented that involved the garden hose, a pair of lawn chairs, a bocci ball set, and three dozen empty aluminum cans. Poe sat at the patio table with some electronic device – not the END, thank fuck – in approximately twelve million pieces arrayed before him in a careful grid. For a second, Tennyson looked out the kitchen window at the twins, Kip happily creating chaos and Poe fixedly putting things in order.
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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whistberry.bsky.social
FREE COLORING PAGES!

If you find yourself having to entertain bored kiddies today, you can download a set of 3 free coloring pages including this turkey fellow! (Or you can download for you? Do kids even color anymore? Do adults? I don't know anymore😂)

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Line drawing in black ink against a white background of a male turkey displaying its tail feathers while strutting through a forest scene of dead log, mushrooms, acorns, fallen leaves.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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alexp336.bsky.social
If you're trapped at a family Thanksgiving today, you can always say "Please excuse me, I have to read Alex's free gay short story where a shy college guy realizes he kinda likes being the center of attention" and go lock yourself in the bathroom.

You're welcome 🦃
alexp336.bsky.social Alex Pendragon @alexp336.bsky.social · 5d
You've got that "I need some silly, sexy gay short story action in my life" look in your eye again, so here you go.

If you love the "I shouldn't do this, I shouldn't enjoy this, but I just can't stop..." slippery slope then I think you might like Scooter's story. Attention is one hell of a drug...
"Online Orders" by Alex Pendragon - Alex Pendragon
Online Orders When Scooter reluctantly agrees to help his college roommate with his online clothes store, the shy swimmer doesn’t expect to be modeling on a live webstream. As the outfits get more rev...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Ugh, I'm sending the characters through this tiny crack in a rock that they're hoping will open into a cave, and it is like nightmare fodder for me. Lilia's a bigger person, too, so she's having the same problem as me convincing herself to go through

#AmWriting #AWNoNo
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Okay, this book isn't going to finish itself. Time to stop playing on BlueSky and start writing

#AmWriting #AWNoNo
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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There’s no point in hiding that Azura is modeled after early Tara (Amber Benson)

#Novmemeber
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Synonym, possibly written for today’s snip.

Back to nature, & Lilia’s not happy

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From The Magic in Our Bones 🦴🌳
Black text, green background, “chaotic” highlighted pink So, I find myself in nature. I don't know what Nico's status is, but if he was aware of his surroundings before he got to the cave, he would have been delighted. I'm just cringing at every memory of Nico decomposing among the CHAOTIC growth of the forest, even though that wasn't in this patch of wilderness. We've left the paths far behind, diverging from their safety next to the preserve's stream, and are making our way into the thicker growth of trees that lies deeper. It's not forbidden, per se, to leave the pathways in La Cadabra Preserve, but every visit I ever had with my school insisted on sticking to the path, so it feels that way.
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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#WIPSnips

When I think of the word "impede," I think of driving through Ohio.

This story is a fantasy is because people sometimes arrive on time.

The angels, demons, and undead pale next to that miracle.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writers
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"Can I do X thing in my novel?" You can do anything you want! If doing X won't hurt anyone (for example, by promoting harmful stereotypes), the real question to ask is whether it's effective. Is the story engaging readers? Does it fit the genre and age category? Are YOU enjoying it? #WritingTip
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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It’s all “impede” vibes when Dorothy stops Lilia from moving so the Council can reveal Nico as a skeleton without her interference & get the witch community to turn against their father for necromancy

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From The Magic in Our Bones 🦴⛓️
Black text, green background, no highlight "No," I shout and run after them. I reach for his hand, but miss it. "Nico. No, don't you guys dare--" We're almost to the end of the aisle when our fingertips touch, but I slam into a barrier, my body suddenly unwilling to move forward. Eve pulls him up in front of the table and turns him to face the audience. Nico just lets her. I fight with everything I have to move, to do anything at all, but my body is locked into position. I can't even move a pinkie from my hand outstretched before me. I glare at Dorothy. "This is what you did to my dad, huh? Just lock him in his body so he can't move. Hasn't he suffered enough, then? And, now, what? The Council's purpose is to humiliate a teenage boy in front of everyone? Is that what you guys do? Just make everyone's life hell?" "Hush, dear," Dorothy says, and my mouth is bound as tightly as the rest of my body, even if those bindings are invisible. I redouble my glare, or at least I hope my facial features show exactly how I'm feeling inside. They're probably botox-stiff too, but I think my vilest thoughts at her, anyway. "The Clearborne family has made a sympathetic plea. Nicholas was 'saving' his son. Wouldn't you all do the same? Lilia claims we wish to humiliate him. Rose believes she was making his life easier to manage. But here's the truth." She waves her hand and exposes Nico, my brother, who wouldn't hurt a bug, even if it was endangering a tomato he was growing, as the living skeleton he is, as if showing the torch-wielding mob that the monster has been in their midst the whole time. Meanwhile, I'm seething, mentally screaming at them that I will become the monster they fear and slaughter them in their sleep. It's probably to my benefit that Dorothy shut me up, to be honest.
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
Jayden, the last time we saw him....

#Novmemeber
Exit 12. Left. A car swerves across a divider for a quick exit from the freeway. The sign above has a wide arrow straight ahead and a small arrow turning right (despite the "left" at the top) for the exit. Text next to the big, straight arrow reads "Stalking 'Zura" and next to the exit arrow reads, "Kidnapping this skeleton I just met." At the bottom, it reads, "Get in, loser, we're performing necromancy!"
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
sagecollins.bsky.social
As a former green witch, Nico loves nature. He especially likes gardening, but he’s excited about any plant life

Lilia’s not so interested. She supports his interest, but she’d rather be indoors

And after watching him decompose in the forest, Lilia’s sworn off camping forever

#AwesomeCharacters
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social Charlie Delta 🦊🐐 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

How does your character feel about nature?

Do they like the outdoors? Have good survival skills?

Or do they prefer the comforts and amenities of a city?

Some combination of both?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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2. It's rare for any creative, including writers, to be able to live solely off their creative income. Moreover, there is no correlation between the creative value of art and the income status of its creator. It's okay to have another gig to eat and pay bills and survive our capitalist hellscape.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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1. I see elsewhere on Bluesky that the discourse has turned toward telling writers not to be ashamed to admit they have day jobs or other sources of income (or spousal/family financial support), and you know what, that's 100% correct. Day jobs and support from loved ones are great if you have them!
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM