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Writes character driven adult Fantasy. WIP: Brother’s Keeper, epic fantasy sibling story Lives with bipolar disorder - @siegeofthespirit Clinical Laboratory Scientist Mountain backcountry horsewoman Every trail’s the one true home.
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#WIPSnips #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #sheet Ra’am Chalmalch is waiting for something. A very early scene in Brother’s Keeper, my epic fantasy WIP about two brothers born into a misunderstood power.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity This is so true. Characters do what they do. Foiling best-laid plans. Sometimes I relate the events the way they actually happened (but it’s fantasy so WTF there?) and other times they need me to portray the psychological consequences in symbols and imagery. I obey.

For the #WIPsnips, from ANOD II Even the Wife School arc is over, everything is depressing and Michael feels like his life is over, but at least the sheets are clean. The rest? Not so much, but he's deleted anyway... So who cares?

From the historical fiction piece. CW for some of the attitudes of the time. #WIPSnips

From The Crooked Oak, my most recent WIP. For context, MC Tess owns a B & B and is talking to her guest, who ordered way more breakfast food than he could possibly eat. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Fantasy #FairyTale #AuthorSky

#WIPSnips for the word: blanket (sub for sheet)! After being wrenched between worlds, Norui awakens.... Want to read more? Check out my webnovel free on RoyalRoad! www.royalroad.com/fiction/9232... 💙📚🪐 #writing #reading #fantasy #adventure #snippet #shorts #books #pngtuber #storytime

#WIPSnips #WriteSky So, uh, Her wife Sally is used to seeing her wife come home bruised up - Pro Wrestling Life and all - but after the events of this WIP she is definitely curious how Carmen got SO MANY bruises on her shin. It's not like she plays soccer...

Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis, I muvit furth allane, neir as midnicht wes past… —in “The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen & the Wedo” by William Dunbar (c1465–1530), the poet eavesdrops on three ladies discussing marriage. It begins as candid & moves rapidly to obscene… #WyrdWednesday

#WIPsnips | #roanwrites From a scene I wrote last night.

#WIPSnips Sometimes the best disguise is just a sheet of paper. #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommmunity #Writers

#WIPSnips #WriteSky Everyone’s writing is so good. I’m having a great morning! 😁📚📓

That's a really nice bed. From "The Strangers' War" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips

Lap. A two-dimensional being in a three-dimensional universe … From “The Sole of Discretion”. #WiPSnips

This book should be titled, "watch a tree suffer for 800 pages." That's not true, a lot of other things happen... but are they more important than this suffering tree, I ask you (yes, yes they are, don't tell him though or he might be less eager to suffer for my amusement). #WIPSnips #WealdandWen

From my upcoming sapphic YA horror, MARYNEAL, 1962! Out in one week and presales will be donated to The Family Place. Maryneal 1962 by Abigail F Taylor www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... #WIPSnips

From my erotic poly #MMRomance, "Barely Getting By." #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Romancelandia 🌈✒️

#WIPSnips *sheet* You never forget your first. Especially if she knew what she was doing. #lesfic #sapphic

#WIPSnips #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers #writesky This was the least spoilery one I could find. Still has a spoiler but it's fine, y'all don't know 😂 From #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.

Yardwork as a metaphor for healing. #wipsnips #dogwood1

#WIPSnips 18: sheet Anthropologists from timelines that split apart millennia ago struggle to exchange information. #SciFi #ScienceFiction #TimeTravelAuthors

#WIPSnips #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #sheet Ra’am Chalmalch is waiting for something. A very early scene in Brother’s Keeper, my epic fantasy WIP about two brothers born into a misunderstood power.

Well, we’ve finally arrived at the border of the state we’ve been trying to reach! It’s humbling to experience how desperately I jump onto the hotel’s WiFi each night due to my lack of cellular data. At least we haven’t lost anything more than a sleeping bag so far. #roadtrip

#FantasyIndiesJune #writingprompts 17. Characters prefer magic or science? MCs were born into a power that dominates their lives. Rush is scholarly and would prefer science to the curse he sees the power as. Drisal’s art and livelihood depend on it, and he loves what he does, so magic for him.

She’d risen through the ranks of people willing to cheat, steal, and kill for a better life on the Archipelago. She controlled the docks. Her claim to fame was as the Shark of Port Pell, known for sniffing out stowaways on her precious cargo ships and painting the pier with their blood. #WIPSnips

#WIPSnips #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity #writers #writesky I actually had "famous" in yesterday's snip too, but here's a new one. A little glimpse of my favorite god in the pantheon: Abaaxita the Unmasker. From Book 1 of my #Atlantis trilogy.

The #WIPSnips word for the day is 'famous' There are many famous things about Brume's family. Their fortune, the seriousness with which they take their word of honour, the young sir's arse... Right, probably not that last one, but it does get compliments

#WIPSnips for the word: famous! Journalist Roxie Santos meets the famous dressmaker that's the talk of New Kingston. Want to read more? Check out my novella on Patreon! www.patreon.com/collection/1... 💙📚🪐 #writing #reading #fantasy #adventure #snippet #shorts #books #pngtuber #storytime

#WIPSnips #writesky #writingcommunity From MORDRED, out in TWO WEEKS, July 1 I was paying homage to Bergman in this passage, inventing a movie review for a Bergman-like film called “Disintegrator” (think Persona meets Oedipus Rex)

Kyle shows up ready for the band's first gig. FYI: 1) The 3rd grade incident is from actual experience.😱 2) I forgot AC/DC's names when writing, so I ran with it. Might edit out. 😬 3) In 1st draft, the "sexy Mr. Rogers" vibes were too subtle. I'm far more blatant now. 😅 #WIPSnips #Romancelandia

#WIPSnips June 17 "famous"

Infamous— Not famous but close enough #WIPsnips

Just normal male friendship stuff for #WIPSnips.

#amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#WIPSnips When Grilled was a kid, he would often get in trouble, always caught by Shallot. As he grew up, he learned to be sneaky so he could get away with his shenanigans. Which, of course, led to him being a paranoid adult, but he's good at being sneaky now! Here's one failed attempt in childhood:

The next whack comes a little closer to a more sensitive area. This guy is making it personal. I can see an arm holding what looks like a car antenna, but he still hasn’t moved to where I can see his face. “You’re going to be famous, asshole,” he says. Well, it’s better than dead. #WIPSnips

From draft 2 of Neon Cryptkeeper. #wipsnips #weirdfiction #urbanfantasy #booksky #writesky #heavymetal #dragonforce Also, read AWOO, my first novel! writesinister.substack.com #werewolves #aliens #cosmichorror

Love, death, and erosion. Today’s word is “famous” #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts #fiction #groundeddystopian #amwriting #amediting #wipsnips

#WipSnips #Editing #SirThomasBrown #Histfic

We’re going for vibes with this one. Luci-Belle is a trans main character in my horror novel. I swear my narrator isn’t in love with her. I might be tho XD #WIPSnips #queerwriters #queercharacters #trans #transcharacters #pride #writers #writing

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters #LicoriceAndMint From Book 1: Chapter 9: Demons, Divas, and Devas. Wherein we see how vast the Volapedia in contrast to her hunter life.

The only use of 'famous' in this entire novel. Will comes through again. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writesky

as for today's... feel like this section works, sort of, for the tag but it's mostly just me showing off a section I liked from Wolfslayer's Curse #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #FantasySky #AmWriting #WIPSnips

#wipsnips #amquerying The old first day of school assembly… ✨THE ANNORA PROJECT✨