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Guido Schmidt @narkerns.bsky.social · 1d

I'm exploring character banter at the moment.

I'm on a quite serious story right now, but I need some levity as reprive while still staying in character and tone. Tricky stuff.

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🎃Annie Laurie👻 ~ #Shield&Scalpel WIP @holfelder-writes.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that I could. My newest project, #ChefsKiss, is just in the planning stages. I'm *almost* ready to start writing it, but still plotting some things out. I only have plot snippets, and sharing those would be far too spoilery.
#WritingLifeMonthly #WriteSky

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 12 📚

Easy one today, just a few lines, something you like, something you've changed, something you want feedback on, anything you want. Make sure you tell us a little about why you shared this piece.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #WIPsnippet

October #writinglifemonthly Day 12 Share a snippet (a few senteces) from a new project you're working on.
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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🎃Annie Laurie👻 ~ #Shield&Scalpel WIP @holfelder-writes.bsky.social · 1d

I think that all authors have to have a degree in writing. I have a BS in mathematics and a MS in clinical mental health. You can write with no post-secondary education. You don't have to know everything about writing in order to write a good book.
#WritingLifeMonthly #WriteSky

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

October #writinglifemonthly Day 13 What's one myth about being an author you'd like to debunk?
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miwwdu sitsom (they/them) @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social · 1d

#WritingLifeMonthly 13: I guess that all writers read a lot? I read a little, but not as much as some.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Hannah Gordon @hago-91.bsky.social · 1d

#WritingLifeMonthly 13. Writing is so much more work than most people realize. When I wrote my novel, so many people told me they wish they could write one. I have a hard time believing that.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Margaret Albrecht @maggiethebookeater.bsky.social · 1d

Dayv13 - The only one I can think of is how people think it's easy to write a full book, including editing it. I think I've been working on mine for about a year now, and I'm still at the beginning due to revisions, notes, planning, life, etc
#writinglifemonthly #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨ @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 1d

These are good points!
I'm going to add that writer's block isn't how it appears in the movies. It isn't so much that you can't get words out and need inspiration, but rather you know something is off about the plot or a character that you just can't put your finger on.
#WritingLifeMonthly

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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PapaDjinn is querying @papadjinn.bsky.social · 1d

1. Being a successful writer ≠ being a GOOD writer. There are many aspects to becoming a popular author and skill is not necessarily at the top of that list.
2. Original doesn't mean 'never been done before'. Most art has inspiration and originality comes from how the story is presented.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Evvie Jo | she/her 🏳️‍🌈📚✒️ @evviejo.bsky.social · 1d

My newest WIP is one that my brain begged to start writing in October, so I did to shut it up.
It's a literary novella with elements of magical realism and dual timeline and POV.
#WritingLifeMonthly #writing #writingcommunity #writersky

Excerpt from manuscript:
I don't mean to pry on our daughter's progress settling in, but I do take a peek inside. Her bed is the only thing that has the aura of being part of a home, the rest, is all brown cardboard and colourful mess. The desk is covered in a books, the stack ready the topple at the touch of a breeze. I sigh, remembering, vaguely, what it's like to be fourteen. And of course, I didn't get moved halfway across Europe at that age, but change schools and a city, I did.

On the railing outside, a jackdaw is perched, its blue eyes peering into the room. I stare back. It caws, whether in greeting or warning, I don't know, and springs into flight. For a split second, I fear it's going to smack straight into the french door and leave nothing but a bloody imprint of itself. I have just enough time to panic what I would tell Willow happened if she came home and found me cleaning bird guts off her bedroom window, before the jackdaw swiftly soars, gracefully avoiding any parts of the house.

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Judy L Mohr @judylmohr.com · 1d

The two myths that @traceyleewrites.bsky.social added to her comment for today's #writingLifeMonthly prompt were good myths to debunk. But I'd also like to add:

* write what you know (because #writers are good researchers!)
* if you get the traditional contract, you have it made. (Total bollocks!)

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

👉writing a book is the hardest part of being an author👈

This is…half-true, but I think marketing books & getting people to read them is just as hard (if not harder) than finishing a book is, and the time/effort spent on marketing makes writing more books even more difficult.
#WritingLifeMonthly

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 1d

#writinglifemonthly 13

Well, I haven't really authored anything, so I don't have much to say for this one. I do agree though that the two myths you mentioned are utter crap - writing is neither easy, and if you're investing labour into your work, you ought to be paid for ut.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 13h

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 12 📚

Published - Feel free to use this one as a promo

Unpublished - Don't tell me you haven't made a mockup

Readers - Share one of a book you want made 😁

Artists - Share your creations

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #bookcover

October #writinglifemonthly Day 14 Post a mockuo of your book cover.
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 1d

That writing fast means it's bad quality. I've written books fast and slow and you wouldn't be able to tell which were which, but just on general, the speed someone writes has nothing to do with the quality and there's no minimum or maximum wpm an author has to write to be legit 😉

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly There's a lot of books that inspire me (and other media as well) but I think the main one that pushed me back into reading and writing still remains Roadside Picnic

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 5d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 09 📚

This one's not just a book you love, but one that makes you want to write. It could be fiction or non-fiction. What about it inspires you?

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat

October #writinglifemonthly Day 09 Tell us about a book that inspired your own writing.
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly Getting the muse to do it? I'm ADHD as heck and in and amongst my billion other hobbies and my actual job (which also requires writing!) getting the headspace to sit down and just splurge words can be elusive sometimes.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 4d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 10 📚

As a #neurospicy author, I find sticking to one project is really challenging, especially if I'm in a hard slog phase that doesn't give me any dopamine.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #findtheglimmers #adhd #dyslexia

October #writinglifemonthly Day 10 What's the hardest part about writing for you?
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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly How about one of my bookmark designs for when the book goes on sale? :D

a bookmark of a man with brown hair and purple eyes he has big wings and a long brown coat. he has one hand on his chest and smiles to the viewer. at the bottom in gold text it says "Stardust of Morgrad"

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Revy L @revylucywrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly a few lines from book 2 of my series that I'm now working on.

Blue background with black text that reads: “Yuliya Vasilyevna’s going to ask where her favourite gossip mill is hiding himself,” Mietek grumbled. His leg had been stiff since they disembarked the train.

Mayak stifled a snicker and stepped back, gesturing dramatically to the station’s thick glass ceiling. Just beyond it, the everpresent dividing wall loomed through the smog. “Sightseeing, naturally — is that not what a visitor does in the capital?”

“And see what exactly?” Mietek quipped, gesturing the same as Mayak did. “The smog looks nastier than the last time we were here.”

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Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 13 📚

I have two myths for this one
(1) Writing is easy
(2) Artists should work for love, not money

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #thehillIwilldieon

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Serenity NOW! 🧘‍♀️ @keepwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Took me a minute to get this little bit of the scene just right. I like it. #WritingLifeMonthly #WIPSnippet #WritingCommunity

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 1d

#writinglifemonthly 12

This passage is from A Matter of Faith, one of my current WIPs. This particular part is describing the khenedrin desert people, who are basically desert elves. Basically I just want to know how interesting they sound by the description I've written.

There were fifteen khenedrin, most of them sitting around the fire pit, watching them without a hint of surprise. Their beauty rendered Bellona speechless. They were lithe of body, all of them, with skin that shone burnt copper, light bronze and dark amber. The lobes of their ears hung down past their jaws, pointed like daggers and pierced with tiny quartz gemstones. Most of them were shorter than her, but only by a head or so, and they all sported hair that shone like molten gold.

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Rachel Beth Ahrens @rachelbeth99.bsky.social · 1d

#WritingCommunity #writersky
Black Magic Door, ch 1:
"“One trip to New York won’t hurt us,” she said. “Let’s go try to find him at the Drama Book Shop,” she said. “If not, we’ll try to see him at the New York Masquerade Ball and wear glamourous dresses doing it!” Fuck. Why was I...

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 12 📚

Easy one today, just a few lines, something you like, something you've changed, something you want feedback on, anything you want. Make sure you tell us a little about why you shared this piece.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #WIPsnippet

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 1d

Cordelia waited until Esmé left, to open her fingers. She said the same incantation & watched the aquamarine rise in the air once more & glow like the North star guiding them home. "Of course, I'm sure." She caught it, repeating the process.
- my WIP, Seven Years Love

Seven Years Love Moodboard
Yarrow on the top left
Map with a compass and skeleton key bottom left
Rosemary on the top right
Ship on the water during sunset bottom right
Middle top murder of crows on the shore
Middle middle aquamarine earrings
Bottom middle in a torn heart shape red chest on a beach
Red words that match the chest with an aquamarine blue shadow in handwriting font arched over the heart reads "Seven Years" and below the heart "Love."

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A. J. Roberts/Skellington Liquorish @skeffington.bsky.social · 2d

#WritingLifeMonthly (Random line I plan to incorporate in some way)
"It's bad luck to kill an albatross," Bristol shook his fist at the sky. "So may it befall the Almighty if he sinks my ship!"

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 12 📚

Easy one today, just a few lines, something you like, something you've changed, something you want feedback on, anything you want. Make sure you tell us a little about why you shared this piece.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #WIPsnippet

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Nectar Vam @nectar-vam77.bsky.social · 2d

#WritingLifeMonthly 12 #WIP #Amwriting #Writing #WritingCommunity

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