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Ness 🎃🇨🇦

@vriccithode.bsky.social

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aka Vanessa Ricci-Thode. Nebula Award-winning trashbag & queer SFF writer. SFWA & TWUC. Dogs, gardening and Canadian rage. she/they 💙💜🩷 I'm only here for the food thodestool.ca

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · Sep 11

hello new followers! i'm ness (she/they), nonbinary, bi/pan, acespec disaster who writes mostly gay fantasy novels. i mostly post about my dogs, with some writing, gardening and mental health stuff thrown in. i swear a lot? and sometimes rant. more about me on my website: thodestool.ca 1/?

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 8h

I really like the Punisher. He's kinda cathartic in the way my billionaire plague story is. But also there's a lot wrong with me

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 8h

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🚮

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 9h

anyway, i'm gonna reward myself by reading a bit and then going to bed at a reasonable hour 🥹

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 9h

research complete! wrote 500 words and the story is done at 1250 words! hurray! so i guess it's time to get back to novella outlining while i wait for favour fire copy edits

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 9h

Old Man Goofbutt says goodnight.

a shaggy black dog lying on a tiled floor.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 10h

a million thanks kind sir and yes, because cozy horror is absolutely a thing

fight me

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 10h

October Spooky Reads: It Was Her House First by @cheriepriest.com

I maintain Cherie is at her best when she is writing about hauntings, and here she interweaves past and present to deliver a ghost story with a delightful ending. It's almost cozy creepy? Is that a genre? A+ pacing & characters.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

OH! also i'm going to meet with the uptown BIA next month and we're gonna talk about expanding Booktoberfest omg

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

may the force be with you

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

oh no

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

i put up a decoration! it's only 1 decoration so far, but it's a big one! (it's not the 15 foot jack skellington, but if the weather is right this weekend, i'll get that up soon)

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 18h

the ratio of scam emails to real opportunities i've received since winning a nebula is profoundly depressing. anyway, buy my books?
vriccithode.itch.io

Vanessa Ricci-Thode

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

okay, i'm gonna try to do some research on this time travel flash fic and then maybe finish writing it? i'm already at like 800 words and i'm pretty sure it's almost done

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

GO BUY THE SPOOKY SHINIES

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 11h

The @peculiarityshop.bsky.social is 11 LGBTQIA+ misfits who make sparkly stuff. The store is 20% off in hopes of homing a few more spooky pieces you may ABSOLUTELY NEED.

Highlights! Mute thread as needed.

Nibs! Art nouveau. NNNGH. $18.40 ($4 flat US ship)

www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Nibs' The Goddess in the Grove | Peculiarity Shop

These earrings from Nibs make me think of walking through a cemetery in the gloaming. Components: Oxidized brass, czech glass, electroplated steel hooks Lead/nickel free.

www.peculiarityshop.com

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Skeletal Viking Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 11h

I simply cannot with them.

Two corgis snuggling; one corgi has her face on the other corgi’s paws.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

even though the #WeeknightWriters prompt questions have changed, I'm still gonna tell you what brought me joy this week 😂

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

yikes! i have had that happen a time or two and it is not fun

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

i tried to do this once and vastly underestimated the number of side characters i was gonna need

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

okay but coparenting with a ghost sounds pretty rad

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

she's still a work in progress who doesn't even have a name yet but i think her main want is for someone to actually give a shit about her. she also has to get over the part where she doesn't believe she deserves to have people give a shit #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 11h

Q5: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says "#WeeknightWriters: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want?"

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

omfg yes the names. and i always end up with these tertiary characters that pop up while i'm writing and i didn't plan for them but they're *just* important enough that i gotta fuckin name them omg

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

really just when there's an aspect of the character i need to know to move forward with the story and i can't figure it out #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 12h

Q4: What aspects of character development do you find most frustrating? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters: What aspects of character development do you find most frustrating?"

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

oof that sucks

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 11h

i really like figuring out how they're going to change/grow over the course of the story #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 12h

Q3: What aspects of character development do you enjoy most? What goes into making a character? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters What aspects of character development do you enjoy most?"

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 12h

omg

Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 12h

i need to know goals/motivations, fears/traumas and quirks. i tend to fully develop characters before i ever start writing, but answering those things are my starting point. #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 12h

Q2: What aspects of character development do you consider most important to your story planning process? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters What aspects of character development do you consider most important to your story planning process?"

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