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English professor, aspiring writer, lover of cats and dogs. Recovering conservative Evangelical, now a Progressive Christian/Agnostic Democratic Socialist. Unfortunately stuck living in Texas. 🥲 Banner art by Jeffrey Shult: https://www.schultartiste.com/
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Share a character who didn’t deserve their fate (pls use alt text!): Even though he eventually got a happy ending, he suffered waayyyy more than he deserved.

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I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs

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Oof! Brian hit the nail on the head!

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#FebruaryWorldbuilders 22 1/ The govt situation in Atalantis is complex! There are 6 regions ruled by monarchs who command the military & enforce laws. But the laws themselves are written by the clergy who arguably have even more power. There's also the gods, the Sea Mother & Sun Father, who are

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Oh, interesting question! I'd be overjoyed to see any kind of fan art tbh 😅 But I have a fantasy alphabet in my story and it would be incredible to see people incorporate that into art somehow.

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#FantasyIndiesFebruary 22 SNIP: "Pain" The kaana crystals of Atalantis can do some scary things to your brain... 😬 #writingcommunity #writers #writesky

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I am currently: ♡Reading♡ - The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton - The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Yee - It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis ♡Watching♡ - Severance - Squid Game ♡Playing♡ - Outer Wilds ♡Listening to♡ - 80s/90s pop music mix 😂 And you?

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#WIPSnips | money In which Viola tries to work out how to go about getting her waistcoat back from the enemy (who, right now, hopefully think that she's one of them). Because good fabric doesn't come cheap and embroidery takes a lot of time. ( saranadosfiction.com/2022/09/10/s... )

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#WIPSnips Grilled learning about how the Shallot's great-grandmother Yamma bought the Good Thyme Inn from the town's baron (who, after a devastating war, was severely in debt and had contracted a tapeworm that made him hunger constantly)

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'Money' features throughout in Flock, though the word itself is only rarely used. In this chapter, the Farmer finally has his say... #WIPSnips In this thread, I post a page a day from my novel: Flock bsky.app/profile/shak...

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Had to repost. Dutch Typo 🫣 Been too long! Back to Isaac and Skye today. This #WIPSnips comes from one of my favourite scenes in the book. On a trade post, they encounter a couple from Terra, Isaac's destroyed home world. They're great side characters (and a nod to my Dutch background)

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#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writersky #booksky Mr. Schadenfreude teaches Maya the cost of temporal power vs the cost of mysticism

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#WIPSnips 22. "Money" Betting is always a risky thing, especially when you bet with 'gold'! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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#WIPSnips “money” Inviting the frenemy & friends to an end-of-year ball is definitely off the table. But they might just crash it anyway… 💃🪩 #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors

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From my romantasy WIP about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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#WIPSnips There must be talk of “money”, and of debt, when Blake & Sergei meet Mammon, CFO, Lord of Greed, and Wolf of Wealth. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers

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The things that money can do - this snippet is from the sequel to Tok's story "A Feast for the Crows". Can't give too much context, but gave what I could lol~ #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Authors #writersky

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From Sunfall. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Some illegal activity might be at play here... #WIPSnips

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#WIPSnips 2/22 Skipped yesterday because I couldn't settle on a snippet. Today is one I've shared before. Entirely vibes, but definitely gets the currency thing across.

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#WIPSnips 22: money Jim's an anthropologist, used to adapting to other cultures... but he's under a lot of stress, too. #ScienceFiction #TimeTravel #AlternateHistory

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Today's #WIPSnips is two completely different dispositions to life

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tbh the whole reason my two idiots don't end up together faster is because taxes. bert a true bro tho. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

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In this scene, our two bumbling protagonists attempt to change some money at an airport. From a new WIP, in which two retired assassins get pulled back into the game. Shenanigans galore. John Wick, but with Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute instead. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Even though wealth is quite important in my Atlantis WIP, I never actually use the word "money." So today we're gonna do another snip from my Snow Queen WIP. This is part of a sequence in which Kai is going through a dark transformation.

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From a wip that will get a bit longer before I'm done: Shallot talking about how none of the punishments she tried on Grilled worked, lol. "Then I made him sew with me, and now the scamp loves to sew."

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#WritingPrompt From This Is How Immortals Die: "What was I expecting, a witch hunt?" (The sentence after that would probably be more "middle," but it has a significant spoiler, so... 😅)

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