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Myles Katt

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I write #spiritual #fantasy with touches of #mystery, #magic and deeper questions. My first novel, Being Magic is now available! Go #meditation, go #blueCrew 📚☮️🙏 https://www.myleskatt.com https://substack.com/@myleskattautho

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Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · Sep 15

Welcome to the spirit-infused world of Being Magic. Can Elana defeat hatred to save the secret of reincarnation? 📢📚

🌟 Reincarnation romance
🌟 Magical realism
🌟 Found family
🌟 Love triumphs over bigotry
🌟 Spiritual fantasy
🌟 A sentient house

books2read.com/beingmagic
#booksky #fantasynovels

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 15h

In Seeing Magic, my main character has a series of mystical experiences that both create questions and provide signs and clues about her answers. This midpoint accelerates Elana’s arc across this book and the two that follow.

#plottober #writingcommunity #writingprompt #writesky

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober Day 15: The midpoint

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

15. The midpoint of the story serves two purposes: (1) it reveals critical information to the MC and (2) causes the MC to confront both who they used to be and who they need to become to grow, change, and/or achieve their goals. What are some ways you could do this?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober Day 15: The midpoint

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

15. The midpoint of the story serves two purposes: (1) it reveals critical information to the MC and (2) causes the MC to confront both who they used to be and who they need to become to grow, change, and/or achieve their goals. What are some ways you could do this?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 16h

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober #BookSky #writingcommunity Day 15

Since my main characters are repeatedly reincarnated together, they could go as famous romantic couples from history. That’s too obvious. Jerome would dress as a mad professor and Elana would dress as a cat or a red panda.

This month’s fantasy indie topics.

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 18h

Do I read their post correctly that their deadline was a month ago?

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 23h

Apples in sky trees
Green and red and glowing gold
God dreams all colors

#haiku #poetry #DailyHaikuPrompt

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 2d

Thank you very much!

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 2d

I sing the ballad of the fallen star
The brightest light in indigo nights
Measuring breaths on dancing willow peak
There is no gift but the ocean depths
Meeting diamond sky horizons
Where fallen star meet crystal note stories
Home in hearts alive

#blueskyrelay #writingCommunity #writeSky

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 2d

My main characters in Seeing Magic had their first meeting detailed in my previous book, Being Magic. I have a story of how they met in a previous lifetime in in Jazz Age New Orleans. That fragment will become a short story or a gift for newsletter subscribers.

#PlotTober #writingcommunity

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 3d

#PlotTober Day 13: Story beginnings

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

13. Let's begin brainstorming the main plot points of our WIPs. Knowing what you know of your main character(s), what are a few potential ways you could begin their story?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 2d

Please don't do what I invariably do, which is rub my eyes after chopping spicy peppers.

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober #BookSky #writingcommunity Day 12

In Seeing Magic, the villain sees my main characters as either inconsequential or a tool.

My main characters see the villain as a threat for their entire town and a metaphysical threat to their spiritual evolution.

This month’s fantasy indie topics.

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

I've thought about a similar character for my novels. I don't have the historical element that yours do to contend with, but I worry that my attempt would also be contrived or inorganic.

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

Her eyes, the brightest gem lumens in otherwise dark nights, illuminated the ground for all true searchers who walked in the hills surrounding the true lake. The dusk of searching grew long, but her eyes knew that finding was in our very walking itself.

#blueskyrelay #writing #writingcommunity

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

📢📚 Would you sacrifice yourself to save your love and the secret of reincarnation?

Being Magic is a contemporary fantasy

🌟 Reincarnation romance
🌟 Magical realism
🌟 Found family
🌟 Love triumphs over bigotry
🌟 A sentient house

books2read.com/beingmagic
#whattoreadnext #booksky #fantasynovels

The cover to Being Magic by Myles Katt. It features a magical orb glowing against a small town backdrop.

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

myleskattauthor.substack.com/p/discovery-...

#writing #writingcommunity #meditation

Discovery Writing as Meditation

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a writer. Only meditation allowed that to become a reality.

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Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

myleskattauthor.substack.com/p/what-is-sp...

#writingcommunity #writing #spirituality #fantasynovels

What is Spiritual Fantasy?

The storyteller makes no choice

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Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

Will I edit this book forever? Possibly.

I accept that and will live in the editing moment.

#writingcommunity #writing #editing #writesky #indieauthors #fantasyauthors #mysteryauthors

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 3d

Thank you and you are right about that!

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 4d

Mountain river run
There is no crunch in water
Moon and sun have tea

#dailyhaikuprompt #haiku #poetry #poem #moon #sun

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 4d

You are much too kind, Tre! I am honored by your words. 🙏 🙌

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 4d

Very well put!

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 4d

Did I mention that my second book, Seeing Magic, now has a cover? I am not ready to reveal it yet, but it’s just as lovely as the cover to Being Magic.

books2read.com/beingmagic

#booksky #writingcommunity #fantasynovels #imdieauthors

The cover to Being Magic by Myles Katt.

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 4d

Elana and Jerome each undergo character arcs that reveal their true selves, gaining insight either through direct, and sometimes revelatory experiences or by facing significant challenges that arise in the plots of each book.

#writingcomminity #writesky #writingprompt #plottober

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 5d

#PlotTober Day 11: MC growth & change

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

11. What are some possible ways your main character(s) could grow and change over the course of the story? On the other hand, what are some ways their growth could be hindered?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 4d

Led Zeppelin IV. Every note on that album is a study in majestic musicianship and arrangement.

Myles Katt @myleskatt.com · 4d

I read Ray Bradbury’s books when I was young, and he was alive and I continue to read them now. His combination of vivid imagery and humanistic themes, even in his most fantastic fiction, has always inspired and moved me.

#pretendpanel #writingCommunity #Writers #Authors #writingPrompts

Is there a deceased author or poet you connect with?

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Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 5d

There's two, #pretendpanel.

I didn't find Ursula K. Le Guin until just before she died, and that's a huge shame, but like my other author I'm going to mention, it feels like a bit of an honour to have existed on Earth at the same time, however briefly.

🧵

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 5d

#pretendpanel I can't wait to catch up with your responses! Life is super busy here - I'm at a fundraising dinner right now - but let me know...

October 11th: Is there a deceased author, writer, or poet that you've really connected with?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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