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Erika Chandler
@erikachandler.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Illustrator. Classical educator. Appalachian. Wife and mother of two. Goldendoodle mom. Anglican.

📖 Tolkien 🎌 Nihon 🥤Coke Zero

Current project:
Japan-based portal fantasy WIP
I only had this word twice and I believe I used the other one as a different #WIPSnips …I kinda like when I only have a few choices lol

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December 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Ryo is an exceptional shinobi, so to be at this kind of disadvantage is unheard of. This is no ordinary enemy.

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December 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Everyone is romantically clueless. But as my college roommate used to say, I try to avoid having characters “lose track of the plot in each others’ eyes” haha

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December 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One of those words with so many uses I didn’t even attempt to read all of my options 😂

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December 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I didn’t have many uses of this word, and several of them felt spoilery. #WIPSnips #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #YA #NA #fantasy
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Taro suspects Rin must have some connection to the Reikai if she’s able to pass through the portal at all.

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December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
She’s delighted because if she’s in pain it must mean that she wasn’t dreaming all of this, but they just met and poor Ryo is just confused lol

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December 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Ryo passed out and Rin had to drag him inside. None of the boys have been in the house before because Rin has a nosy elderly neighbor who will get the wrong idea. #WIPSnips #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #fantasy
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Brother, sometimes a friend just has to knock some sense into you.

I like this because it shows something about their friendship—if Taro hits him, his first instinct isn’t to hit back, it’s to ask why he did it, cause he probably has a good reason. #WIPSnips #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Rin’s lessons are not going well.

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December 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I feel like “smash” is not a word I use very much (and did not use in this WIP). From the prologue, set in the past of my otherwise modern portal fantasy WIP.

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December 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Taro is always the voice of reason. But to Ryo’s credit, if mundane life makes Rin have a ki outburst, it’s not a mundane problem anymore.

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December 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Ryo sabotages a drawbridge to buy time. This guard is basically an innocent bystander (who will also be in trouble for letting this happen), so he feels a little bad about that.

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December 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Rin’s grief is also tied up with the isolation of not being believed…but her story is so wild she’s not sure she believes it herself.

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December 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I wasn’t actually sure I’d have this word, but lo and behold!

I never make it to lunch without a snack, Ai-chan. But this snack is a plot device lol #WIPSnips #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #YA #fantasy
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The word “empty” is actually in the title of this chapter as well. Do you title your chapters? I do in some projects and not others.

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December 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I think the õmukade is one of my favorite yokai battles for sheer group effort required. #WIPSnips #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #YA #fantasy
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Rin is slowly but surely losing the ability to hide her double life.

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December 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Ki ended up being a HUGE part of this version of the story. My earliest versions didn’t include anything supernatural or spiritual.

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December 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ryo, the fact that you actively thought, “We’re going to make it,” is a guarantee that you are not going to make it.

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December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
“Fraction” for “percent.”

Of course it will not be that simple, Ryo, because ~plot~

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December 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Rin disguising herself as a servant—it’s about the most shinobi thing she’s ever done.

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December 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Poor little naive Rin-chan. She doesn’t know what she’s gotten into yet. This was oddly my only use of dedicate in a story that deals with duty a lot. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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November 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Lots of synonyms for me this week. “Wind” for “zigzag.” I think I posted earlier this week Ryo saying he needed a cell phone. This is later the same day, when some backup would have been helpful 😅

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November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM