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Adregem ཐིཋྀ
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Professional science writer. Unprofessional novelist. Mom with half an empty nest. Insomniac. She/her. That is not me in the picture.
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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 27d
In a dark kingdom where light is toxic and steel is untouchable, a mortal woman with a flashlight and a cosplay sword becomes a monster king’s obsession and the realm’s best weapon against a vengeful demigod. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) #AgentGuide #AgentGuides #Romantasy #Fantasy #AmQuerying #Writers
Image Credits: From Wikimedia Commons Cleora Alienaria Moth (BilliBhai) • Cracked Earth (Patrick Hendry) • Full Moon in Fog (Dinkun Chen) • Sword (Rama) • Samal Fruit Bats (Ranieljosecastaneda) • Lighthouse (Martin Belam) • The Redwood Sunbeams (National Park Service) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
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Not many of these ... here's one from my #DarkFantasy Death & the Dreamer. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy
At first, the necropolis looked like another village, rising from the flat plane of boundless meadow in disordered gray and brown shapes. As we got closer, the shapes grew taller, and faces appeared in them, most of them effigies of the god of death, but I also recognized the goddess of children, the god of journey, and the god of storm and sea. Traditional graves were scattered over the foreground, people whose families could afford to leave them in the shadows of the gods but not in the consecrated abyss of the underground system.
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This one's easy, only way deader than the one in the GIF. #Novmemeber #WritingPrompts #Writers #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I have no "debut" anywhere, but here is an "introduction" from a middle-grade novel I was working on in grad school called "Lydia and the Boy-Eating Spider." #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #middlegradefiction #middlegrade #mystery
Lydia stood on the sidewalk and listened while Mom’s car rumbled away and her fellow students went about the noisy business of having friends and not wishing they were back in Oregon. She sighed. Today, the kids weren’t just strangers, they were My Little Pony characters. Sparkly, brightly colored, and way, way too cheerful. She looked down at her dragonfly shirt. Maybe no one would remember yesterday’s disastrous introductions. But of course someone did. It was Pink Girl, looking almost exactly as pink as she had the day before. “Hello Spider Girl,” Pink Girl said. “Hello, Pink Girl.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Not exactly a fairy tale ending I guess #Novmemeber #WritingPrompts #Writers #WritingCommunity
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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No "global" so I'm going with "universal." #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
The words stick in my throat. I cough into my right elbow to buy myself some time, which just makes me look like I do need medical attention. The Dawn Lord takes a step towards me, and I raise my hand in what I hope is the universally understood symbol for give me a sec and summon one more cough.
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Soryl is like, maybe we can just *reason* with the necromancer king and his undead bride ... #Novmemeber #writers #writingcommunity #writingprompts
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the opening lines of the Moth King. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
My nemesis stares at me, big-eyed, the tip of my blade shining in his pupils like arsenic crystals. He is slain. Actually, “nemesis” is a bit of a stretch. Scott is barely a mild irritant. And he’s wearing a fencing mask so it’s not like I can literally see my blade reflected in his eyes.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The best thing about where I buy groceries is the feral #chickens
Three chickens roosting on a “pick up cart here” sign
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Me looking at art these days be like
a man with long hair and a mustache says i do not mean to pry but you do n't
Alt: a man with long hair and a mustache says i do not mean to pry but you do n't
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November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Tova might not really be traveling alone #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #DarkFantasy
Behind us, the branches we’d tied our horses to groaned as the panicked animals tried to free themselves. The thing had eyes now. They flicked between Win, me, and the horses. “Don’t,” Tova groaned. It paused, then it cast a look backwards, in Tova’s direction—the gesture a perfect, absurd parody of a man—and dissolved like smoke in a sharp gust of wind.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I spent 30 minutes trying to find the perfect meme and then I was like fuck it pickle rick #Novmemeber #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Here's Sunday ruminating on her special talents. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
“Can shadow people shoot?” I ask Aurea, who’s looking disconcertingly frazzled considering she’s an air spirit who possesses flawless, eternal beauty. Apparently, I have a special talent for exhausting supernatural creatures.
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Since right now the working title of my #NovemberNovel is "No Working Title," I'm going to go with "Unnamed." #Novmemeber #Novelvember #NotNaNo #WritingPrompts
sagetgreene.bsky.social Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 6d
#Novmemeber 19

Give us an alternate title to your WIP. Another title you considered, your working title, or a joke title.

Potential examples:
Of Mice and Men was originally Something That Happened
The Da Vinci Code might've been ScavengerHuntWIP
Frankenstein could be How to Make a Guy in 10 Days
19. An alternate title for your WIP 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 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Weird how people keep dying around Tova 🤔 #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #DarkFantasy
“You killed him,” someone said. The blond’s eyes flicked around the room, from one silent spectator to the next. “I didn’t hit him that hard,” he protested. “He’s only stunned.” He nudged the dead man with the toe of his boot. “Dorne. This ain’t funny.” Dorne’s head lolled on his neck like a broken doll. “He’s fucking dead,” someone else exclaimed. “He’s not,” the victor insisted. “He’s just drunk. Dorne.” He nudged him again, harder. The third nudge was more of a solid kick. “Dorne!” he raged, as if it was Dorne’s fault he was dead.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Poor Ocer #Novmemeber #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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I'm pretty sure I've only ever used this word in non-fiction so for the sake of today's #WIPSnips I'm calling this excerpt "The Moth King in Retrograde." #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #Romantasy #AmQuerying
And then, because this is not already horrifying enough to haunt my nightmares every day for the rest of my life, the fragments of glass rise from the ground and loosen themselves from the bodies of dead soldiers, fly in reverse to the place where the Moth King stood moments ago, and somehow put themselves back together. The Moth King gazes down at me and wipes some stray blood off his shoulder with the back of his creepy, shadowy hand.
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Nothing like getting up at 4:30 am to get an early start on the day only to find out that every server you depend on to get your work done is down 🙄
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Here's one from my unnamed #NovemberNovel. Here's Fion lamenting the fact that she's expected to go to a boring ball. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #TimeTravelRomance
Fion had spent most of her life thinking balls must have been named for cricket balls, since they were lobbed at you rather violently and if you weren’t ready for them they could embarrass you in unpleasant ways. She preferred not to attend balls at all, not ever, but they were notoriously difficult to dodge. Also much like cricket balls, when one was approaching, everyone expected you to do something about it. “Oh but you must,” Eliza complained when Fion informed her that she planned to spend her evening not going to the End of Midsummer’s Ball.
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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So what does it mean when you reach for your thesaurus app and find it open on a list of synonyms for "help me" when there was very definitely no point in the last 24 hours when you were looking for a synonym for "help me?"
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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When you have to teach supernatural creatures about shit like parking tickets #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
I practically sob with relief to find that my car hasn’t been towed, but my joy sours when I see the patchwork of parking tickets on the windshield. He studies me curiously as I snatch the papers from under my wipers and stuff them into my glove box. “Why do you keep them if they anger you?” he wants to know. “Because you can’t run from the parking authority.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Love when I can use one from my #NovemberNovel! #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #TimeTravelRomance #TimeTravel
There was a time when he thought he might get used to it. The sinking sensation in the bottom of his guts, like falling with no hope of ever hitting the ground. The strange press of air around him, as if it had gone gelatinous. The gray fog encroaching on his vision from the periphery in. The smothering sense of doom. He’d come to think of it as a death in miniature. The final one, when it happened, would probably progress in exactly the same way, only it would not be in miniature.
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I'm so happy to have a chance to use this snip ... It's one of my favorite early moments between Sunday and the king. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
The Moth King is still looking at me. “What is your name?” “Sunday Hale.” He’s silent for a beat, then he says, “Like the day of the week?” This is how literally everyone responds when I say my name. Apparently, it is also how terrifying moth monsters respond when I say my name. Somehow, I manage to feel irritated even as my adrenal gland screams at me to get out of this place right now.
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Here's Sunday having about as much success lighting a fire as I usually do #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
Eventually, the desire for warmth and light gets the better of me, and I build a fire. I’m terrible at it, which seems to greatly amuse the king. “Call a servant,” he suggests. “No,” I garble. My flashlight is sticking out of my mouth, its harsh beam of white light bobbing around on the kindling as I wrestle with it. I’m absolutely determined to humiliate myself with this stupid fireplace.
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"Shirt" is one of those words that appears a lot in romantasy 🥰 so here's a more unconventional use of the word from my #DarkFantasy Death & the Dreamer #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy
“Here.” Tova handed him a waterskin. He dumped it over his hands and rubbed them vigorously together, then he tore one of the sleeves from his shirt, rolled it into a ball, and stuffed it into his shoulder wound. I flinched. My vision went a little gray around the edges, but Macsen’s expression never changed, as if the gaping hole in his flesh was merely a nuisance.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I was like, there's no way I have this word anywhere in any of my WIPs but what do you know ... #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #Romantasy #AmQuerying
“Jahnari makes good soup,” Ryan puts in. “And when I first met her, she gave me a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. It tasted like straw, though.” That’s slightly off-topic and maybe a little fiendish, but mediocre cheeseburgers are hardly evil.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM