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📜 Writing epic fantasy. Obsessed with ancient history. 🎲 DM and mini painter. 🏳‍🌈 Genderqueer (She/They/He) | Aroace | ND Projects: 🐲 Royal Magpie series - Dragons, Queer Romance, Rome-flavored 🏛 7 Days of Fire - Historical Fiction, Fall of Carthage
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In the Royal Magpie series, there are two aroace characters and one aroallo. The latter hooks up with one of the MCs, who is poly, and the concept of love is discussed. The MC of 7 Days of Fire is aroace. #queerprompts #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingprompts #queerwriters #transwriters

I've missed #WIPSnips for a couple of months. I'm going with plaque = badge. Picking up with Thaumatist, in an alternative present, where England is a Spanish province, since its conquest by the Armada. Sam and Sally have been co-opted by the loathed secret police - the Securidad... #MagicalFantasy

'whim' from The Villa Delacroix 🏚️✒️💀 a gothic horror novella available now on Royal Road #WIPSnips

#WIPSnips 20. "Plaque" Using 'slab' as a synonym here! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters

#WIPSnips 2/20 In which Hook philosoph-ametizes (her words) about the previous holders of her title with the help of a handy display on her cabin wall. Note: In it, I assign the original story's Hook a full name (although it's blacked out). His 2nd middle name is also an easter egg. #QueerWriters

#amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

I was going to write this word in today’s session, but I thought I’d go for the synonym instead. From “Holo-Mon: Beast/Bird”. #WiPSnips

oof, hard to find plaque. Went for 'sign' instead. from Peregrine Pax // My Best Friend is an Interdimensional Shape-shifting Time Traveller 🚀🌌😸 a middle-grade sci-fi adventure, currently in revisions #WIPSnips

Maybe this is a stretch because the statue has a name plaque, but Pica doesn't need to look at it. ✨Vibes?✨ From Royal Magpie's Lament #WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingprompts #queerwriters #transwriters

'sense' from The Villa Delacroix 🏚️✒️💀 an ongoing gothic horror novella available on Royal Road (but this is a rare nice moment apart from the gothic horror vibes 😅) #WIPSnips

Guidelines for our first ever Author Hype Event #WSPit #WIPSnips has always been about growing community. You all show up everyday (some since day one) sharing pieces of your writing. Here's the chance to go beyond snips and pitch your work! More infographics to come, but here's a start

#WIPSnips 19. "Sense" Have a few good options today and decided for this passage from the chapter I'm currently revising. So, here's more Ikalry! x) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters

~phew~ Had a couple of these to choose from. This, from “The Last Duty”. #WiPSnips

Davros can read people's emotions through his magic, which, until the events of RMO, hasn't been a good thing. From Royal Magpie's Lament #WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingprompts #queerwriters #transwriters

Just wrote this today. Maybe I should shoehorn all the words I don’t have into my writing for the day? 🤔😅 From a new #ONC2025 entry, “Holo-Mon: Beast/Bird”. #WiPSnips #OpenNovellaContest2025

Got this one! Without having to grind it in to a story! Yay! 🎉😅 From “The Last Duty”. #WiPSnips

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Never pass up the opportunity to mention food. From Royal Magpie's Lament #WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingprompts #queerwriters #transwriters

#WIPSnips 2/18 I don't have bowl anywhere in my WIP. I was initially going to go with swing, like bowling, but I went with curve. This is a talking about Pan's sword shortly after they change Wendy, as well as the new name they decide she should have. #QueerWriters #DarkFantasy #WriteSky #AmWriting

I want to finish the first chapter of my historical fiction and get some feedback from my writer's group! #queerwriters

I like to add scenes from the killer's POV without giving away who they are - I feel like it adds another layer of suspense and intrigue. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #mystery #BeyondDark

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A stretch of a synonym for this one. Not a ‘glimmer’, but a ‘flicker’. From “Lore & Augur”. #WiPSnips

#WIPSnips | glimmer Fest gets his first glimpse of the Hall (aka the setting for the majority of Silver in the Ashes, since the whole crew wind up there by various highways and byways and then get snowed in when the storm worsens) ( saranadosfiction.com/2022/08/13/s... )

Re-upping for the morning crowd/the folks who spend Shabbat offline (Also for the folks who do the #WIPSnips prompts, this is the story mine're from)

As his heart dwelled no longer on the brother he loved but the man he had fallen in love with too late, Ra’tha watched the scene come to life. No more did the transparent glass statues glimmer in the dim light. #WIPSnips #WIP #WritingCommunity "glimmer"

#WIPSnips 16. "Glimmer" Skarlet giving love advice on the way to a deadly martial arts tournament! (Also showing one of the token M/F couples in CotR :D) #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

From Sunfall (no spoilers today!) #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips 16: glimmer Going with vibes. Lots of things in the new timeline meet with Jim's disapproval. Fashion-forward male formalwear is... let's say 'particularly vexing.' #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel

In this scene, the Citylord assesses reports of rising attacks against the citizens. Used 𝘍𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘭𝘦 since I already used 𝘎𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 last week! 😅 From a light-hearted satire novella about a girl, a small robot, and the heist crew they call family. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚

#WIPSnips 16 - glimmer Not many choices today but this is the end of the scene where everything Zejela once knew or thought to be true is destroyed. #amwriting #fantasy #writesky #writingcommunity

#WIPSnips 2/16 Early in their association, Gwen claims ignorance about many aspects life in Neveland, something Hook (who hasn't disclosed her identity) treats with suspicion. Eventually, Gwen asks about the slang term 'true-true'. #QueerWriters #DarkFantasy #Sapphic #WriteSky

I didn’t have the #WIPSnips word glimmer in the current script to book rewrite, but I knew I could work it in.

I wrote this yesterday so this turned into a writing prompt, too! From 7 Days of Fire #WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingprompts #queerwriters #transwriters

Practicing my drawing by making cute character valentines. We have: Pica and Anouk from the Royal Magpie series Canius, the MC of 7 Days of Fire. #characterart #WIP #queerwriters

From The Provincial Elf. Alice’s POV. Poor thing doesn’t know she’s only seeing the tip of the iceberg. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Lots of "hearts" in my WIP, many of them in a purely biological context. I offer you this "heartbreak" minus any context. 😏 #WIPSnips

'heart' from The Villa Delacroix 🏚️✒️💀 an ongoing gothic horror novella available here: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1029... #WIPSnips pounamu = greenstone, usually carved into a pendant and worn by Māori (like myself, and the character Maika)

In which the 'don't do feelings' Captain is definitely doing feelings. Plus a first kiss, as a Valentine's Day present. (This is a first pass on a scene I've been thinking about for months, so be gentle😅). #WIPSnips 2/14 #DarkFantasy #LesFicFri #Sapphic #AmWriting #WriteSky

After the tenderness of yesterday, let's skip back and see Hook position on the immortals before she's spent time with Gwen... (CW: Sword fighting, a brief mention of blood, a mention of someone losing fingers) #WIPSnips 2/15 #DarkFantasy #Sapphic #Pirates #QueerWriters #WriteSky

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There are some people with reputations, and then others that live up to those reputations and then crush them. 😅 From “Lore & Augur” #WiPSnips

CW: PTSD From Royal Magpie's Lament #WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingprompts #queerwriters #transwriters

Happy Valentine's Day, my beloved #WIPSnips! I am so happy I edited the love confession chapter earlier this week because it leaves me with the SWEETEST snip. 💜 (for context, elatria are bands of bioluminescence on the alien face and body that can heighten various senses)

'sweet' - apparently a word I don't use very often, and only once in the whole of Peregrine Pax // My Best Friend is an Interdimensional Shape-shifting Time Traveller 🚀🌌😸 a middle-grade sci-fi adventure, currently in revisions #WIPSnips

#amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky