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✍🏼Winter Simpson

@winterandwords.social

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🏳️‍🌈 Writing character-driven queer fiction 🌆 Altered states and liminal spaces 📚 My stories, blog and community https://patreon.com/winterandwords 💻 Links to everything https://winterandwords.social

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 23h

Rafe from 🌃Miles From Morning is fucked up with a capital FU. Yes, that's a gun in his pocket, and no, he's not pleased to see you. He's made of scars, anger, unfortunate circumstances, and questionable decision-making. And he doesn't trust anyone, not even himself.

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon (MC intro)

A run-down looking corridor, grimy and rough, lit with rays of light coming through broken windows. A man with short dark hair stands in the middle weating baggy trousers, a hoodie, and sunglasses. The lighting is shades of pink, blue and purple for cyberpunk vibes.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 23h

Yeah, and it's a weird feeling because I don't start posting anything until it's fully edited and complete, so Name From Nowhere was finished as a creative activity in May. There's just something about it being outwardly finished that feels necessary.

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Website!! Very excited for you 😊

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

I'm cheering for you making your way through chapter 8 🥰

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Meeting trees is such an excellent goal 🌳

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Don't listen to a word that shadow says.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Good luck 🍀

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

I believe in you too!

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

It feels like ages since I've just written without other Tasks™️ feeling more important. Maybe my brain just needed to wait until Name From Nowhere finished posting.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

I'm helping them along with plenty of coffee 😄

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

"tiny kisses of water"

That's gorgeous!

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

"Icy shards" is such a great description.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Thanks so much 🩷

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Thank you 💜

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

I feel like I've been organising, planning and adminning a lot for the last little while, so this week my only goal is to write. Doesn't matter how much or which WIP, as long as the words are wording.

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon (goals day)

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 13:

Goals day! What are your goals this week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 13: Goals day. BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 3d

I don't usually post more than a couple of lines for these things, but I love the first few sentences of 🌄Project Darwin so much that I couldn't resist sharing a little more. The weather is basically a character in this story 😊

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon (line share) #QueerWriters #WriteSky

An image of heavy, dark storm clouds with the following text over it: The last stubborn leaves clung desperately to the trees against tearing November winds when Darwin Eaves arrived home for the first time in almost a decade. There would have been a certain poetry to the storm having followed her, but the truth is the storm was here first. Perhaps she invited it to stay though, to distract from her own force of disruption. I’m not saying Darwin could command the weather, but I’m also not saying she couldn’t.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 3d

🔫 NAME FROM NOWHERE chapter 35 is now live!

💜 The end! Thank you so much for reading Aria's story, and for all your support and enthusiasm. So much love xx

🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/141032...

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon

Promo graphic for Name From Nowhere, cyberpunk fiction by Winter Simpson.

The background image is of a dark-haired woman wearing visor-style sunglasses and a black coat is standing in front of a pink and blue patterned neon sign. The colours from the sign are reflecting on her skin and sunglasses.

The tag at the top of the graphic says patreon.com/winterandwords. The rest of the text says "And all the people out there, all the millions of lives, are as complex and fucked up and fascinating as each other."

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

Writing stuff was good this week. I hit both my goals - keeping up with daily #LGBTQWriteAThon posts and planning my Patreon context for the rest of the year.

I hope everyone else had a good week 💜

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 4d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 11:

Check in day! How was your week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

Potato looks so cuddly 😍

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

That's so lovely!! What a wonderful reputation to have 💜

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Sass Everett @sasseverett.bsky.social · 5d

My novella The Hand That Feeds still makes me very happy! I loved writing these characters so much
books2read.com/u/4APvDq
sasseverett.itch.io/the-hand-tha...
#lgbtqwriteathon

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Dahlia Donovan @dahliadonovan.bsky.social · 5d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10:

What will you find in my Skeleton Crew cozy series?

- Chaos Kittens
- Found Family
- An adorable autistic vampire + their witchy girlfriend
- Knitting
- a cozy paranormal world filled with magic and mystery

readerlinks.com/l/4105779

#CozyMystery #ParanormalRomance

a photo collage including the book cover for A Curse for Samhain, A photo of tacos, a raven, a roll of yarn with knitting needles, and a tarot card reading.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 5d

Oh my god, I LOVE your big anti AI sign right at the top of your website 💜

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 5d

#LGBTQWriteAThon I talked about Lemon Balm last time (which is still on pre-order and comes out on Halloween!)

This time, let me talk about my art. I do commissions for bookish art, graphics, and formatting, and I keep my prices low in order to be more accessible to indies.

Check me out here!

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 5d

Your knitting project is so lovely!

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