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Ann Darlington
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I am a Canadian engineer who writes sci-fi & fantasy novels. I enjoy photography, hiking, gardening and cats. 🇨🇦
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You asked us about #editing stuff and #RevPit #editors loved answering you.

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reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 4d
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November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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“What if the clue has been destroyed?”
“It doesn’t matter. You’re clever. You’ll find something of value to work with. Just because the tokens were set out to point you in the right direction, doesn’t mean they always will.”
#WipSnips #amwritingfantasy
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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My MC would be excited to discover a family heirloom. It's likely to be some amethyst jewelry or an old journal.
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reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 5d
Happy Thursday!

Your MC just discovered a family heirloom. What is it? And how do they react? #FiFRevPit #writingcommunity #amwriting #writersky
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit. Prompt: Your MC just discovered a family heirloom. What is it? How do they react? #FiFRevPit
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I think I'll go for a short walk at lunch and figure out how the chapter that I'm writing should wrap up.
#walkandplot #amwriting
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I kept the animals in my fantasy novel similar to what we have. They keep cats and dogs as pets. In the wild, there are bears, snakes, song birds and other animals. In another fantasy novel I wrote, there are dragons.
#FiFRevPit #Revpit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 8d
Animals can be a great for worldbuilding, whether fluffy and cute or scary and deadly. What kind of animals exist in your world? #FiFRevPit
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit. Prompt: What kind of animals are in your world? Domestic and wild! #FiFRevPit
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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A reminder to drop your questions here or DM us! Get answers to all of your editing or querying-related questions from experienced editors 💖 #FiFRevPit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 20d
Don't forget to send us your questions for our Editor Q&A Video Panel, which will take place at the end of #FiFRevPit. You can comment here, send a DM, or send us an email.

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Don't forget to submit your questions for our Editor Q&A Video Panel. [Black cat on a stack of books next to pumpkins, a candle, and leaves. Hashtag FiFRevPit]
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This week I got part of a new chapter written. I'm hoping to finish it this weekend.
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reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 10d
Share your wins for the week! What did you get accomplished?? #FiFRevPit
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November 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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time to buddy up 😉

use the hashtags #match and #FiFRevPit to introduce yourself and your genre!

I write ✨️ adult fantasy ✨️ with a special focus on queer Asian rep and mental illness
#A #F
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 11d
Today's the day! Use #FiFRevPit #match and the genre hashtags to find your critique partners ❤️
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit. Critique Partner Matching. #FiFRevPit
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hi, I am looking for a critique partner for my ancient history/mythology-inspired fantasy novel. It’s about a woman who discovers her missing husband is alive and imprisoned in an underground cave system, and sets out to rescue him. Would love to work with another fantasy author.
#FiFRevPit
Image depicts a blonde woman in a flowing gray dress playing a lyre and a close up on the face of a dark-haired bearded man. The text “Beneath the Valley” is written in white.
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Hi all. I'm seeking a critique partner for my WIP, "What Lays Below". It's a paranormal mystery thriller about someone who builds a replica of Stonehenge in Hertfordshire, activating two powerful lay lines and unleashing pagan mayhem in middle-class English towns.

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November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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looking to expand my CP network! i write contemporary romance and some that are book club crossover. let me know if you want to swap!

#fifrevpit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 12d
🍂🍁 Critique Partner Matching is tomorrow!🍁🍂

For those seeking critique partners, post to the #FiFRevPit feed on Bluesky on Friday, the 14th, and then take some time to scroll through this weekend to find your match! 🧵
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit: Tomorrow is CRITIQUE PARTNER MATCHING #FiFRevPit
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Looking to swap with one or two more people for LCM (complete) + find some early drafters to swap with for MM :) I added the pitch and opening for both below! Happy to chat on Bsky or Discord! 🤍

MM has 2 genres because I'm not sure where it will fit yet as I'm outlining!

#FiFRevPit
LAST CHANCE MATCH: Adult Dystomance with Horror Elements Opening: It was the sixth time this month that a soulmateless disappeared without a trace. The nauseating scent of greasy fries and oils filled the air of Kona’s Diner. One of the seated customers projected the reporter from their holophone, the sounds of plates clanging and muffled chatter drowning out her voice. “Bolivas, a twenty-four-year-old soulmateless, was last seen on the corner of Plath and Qutz. The police indicate there was no foul play or forced entry to Bolivas’ shared apartment in Downtown Luriel, but have not ruled anything out,” said the reporter. She tilted her head and her blonde bob stayed perfectly placed. “Bolivas’ family and friends report he was not a user of—” Cera shook her head and set her holotablet on its charging station. Soulmateless were the least of the government’s concerns—this man would never be found. LAST CHANCE MATCH Pitch: Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, twenty hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could be the start of something amazing until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive. COMPS LISTED: LOVE ISLAND SQUID GAME BLACK MIRROR THE COMPOUND BY AISLING RAWLE HEART OF THE SUN BY MIA SHERIDAN ANNIE BOT BY SIENNA GREER MYSTIC MOUNTAIN: Adult Horrormance or Thriller Romance OPENING: The musty scent of dried scotch and bourbon fries burned the hairs of Whitney’s nostrils. She always said it would be the last time she ever took a late night gig at some no-name bar, but she never learned. Gaspar’s was no different than any other nightclub she’d been paid to take photos at, and no matter what life the manager swore upon, no one would pay Whitney for her time but the establishment itself. People came to places like this to forget their lives, not to capture it in a still frame. Whitney knew that feeling all too well. MYSTIC MOUNTAIN Pitch: Seven years after her brother's disappearance and cutting ties with her college friends she ran a YouTube channel with, Whitney is offered the payday of a lifetime to produce a documentary on the abandoned theme park MYSTIC MOUNTAIN and its mysterious closing. The last people she expected to see was the gange from the life she left behind, including the optimistic and attractive Ale. But when their inviting host locks them in the park overnight, Whitney's past isn't the only thing she's running for her life from.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Hey pals! I'm looking for a CP for my sporty MG Fantasy ⚽✨ ~50k

When a soccer player with special athletic abilities is invited to a magical sports boarding school, she and her new friends must break the curse of the invincible soccer cleat to save the future of sports

#FiFRevPit
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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I would love to find a CP today :))) I write mostly adult fantasy and sci-fi (staying on one project for long just isn't my style lol), but I'm currently focused on a fantasy about magical beasts and struggles with identity

DM if you want to connect/swap!

#FiFRevPit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 12d
🍂🍁 Critique Partner Matching is tomorrow!🍁🍂

For those seeking critique partners, post to the #FiFRevPit feed on Bluesky on Friday, the 14th, and then take some time to scroll through this weekend to find your match! 🧵
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit: Tomorrow is CRITIQUE PARTNER MATCHING #FiFRevPit
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Adult contemporary romance writer looking for CPs or anyone interested in forming a writing group that meets regularly.
#FiFRevPit #WritingCommunity
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 12d
🍂🍁 Critique Partner Matching is tomorrow!🍁🍂

For those seeking critique partners, post to the #FiFRevPit feed on Bluesky on Friday, the 14th, and then take some time to scroll through this weekend to find your match! 🧵
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit: Tomorrow is CRITIQUE PARTNER MATCHING #FiFRevPit
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Would love one or two new CPs for an upmarket/book club comedy. Romance as a B-plot. Similar vibes to Schitts Creek. :) get in touch if interested!

#FiFRevPit #amwriting #critiquepartners #PitRev #bookclub #upmarket #writingcommunity
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Would love to find some CPs (maybe a group?) who also write queer characters. Also looking to make more writer friends on here!
#FiFRevPit #amwriting #writingcommunity
kathryncoto.bsky.social Kathryn Coto @kathryncoto.bsky.social · 11d
My wip is a queer paranormal w/ cozy vibes. MC is a bi-ace webcomic artist who inherits a magical house. W/ witches, werewolves, & cryptids.

Story is New Adult w/coming of age themes, but I usually write YA and have an academic background in children's+ ya lit
Black background behind white illustrations in a vintage style of a big Victorian house, a full moon, a howling wolf, a cauldron with steam rising, a witch's broom, a sprig of lavender, lots of thick, old books, and a Volvo station wagon.
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Unfolding" is a completed and extensively edited 91k #A #F manuscript with powerful women and complex family dynamics. It is set in a high fantasy (elves, dragons) world with a unique magic system. I'd love to expand my CP network! Please comment or DM if you're interested. #FiFRevPit #Match
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Querying my #MG Elf Punk & starting the sequel! Interested in swapping w/a story about the fae returning to Earth & humans resenting them for fritzing out Earth’s electrical grid? A gang of fae orphans deal w/bigotry, preconceptions, and mercenary Ice Elves rounding up “bad” fae.
#FiFRevPit #match
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Would like to find a CP or two to swap YA fantasy, sci-fi or mystery MS, and continue to share revisions with. I would be open to adult/no erotica or religious topics.
My WIPs include a YA grounded fantasy, dystopian and an older adult suspense. #FiFRevPit #Match
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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reposting w new hashtags, just in case!

#FiFRevPit #match #A #F
thewriteratlas.bsky.social Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · 11d
would love to expand my CP network! esp for my adult fantasy: WILL OF THE MANY X NAUSICAA

After conjuring the ghost of bone magic's inventor, uni student Aris attracts the attention of an undead professor who would kill to keep the secret of magic's origins buried.

#FiFRevPit #WritingCommunity
Quote: ‘Aris waited until the groundskeeper turned around the bend of the carriage way to break the window.’ A picture grid below feat. trees, a boy by historical buildings, a shelf of animal skulls, a button down shirt, a large animal skull, hands around a table of cups, and a diagram of a skeleton.
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This is a great opportunity! I'm not currently looking for additional CPs, but I found mine in this type of event.
#RevPit #FiFRevPit
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 12d
🍂🍁 Critique Partner Matching is tomorrow!🍁🍂

For those seeking critique partners, post to the #FiFRevPit feed on Bluesky on Friday, the 14th, and then take some time to scroll through this weekend to find your match! 🧵
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit: Tomorrow is CRITIQUE PARTNER MATCHING #FiFRevPit
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The current book I'm reading is a contemporary romance and I'm writing a fantasy novel. My MC may be surprised by all of the technological advances. She would adapt well, since she's accustomed to being thrown into unusual situations.
#FiFRevPit #RevPit #writersky
reviseresub.bsky.social Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 12d
Where reading meets writing - how would your MC react if they were dropped into the world of the book you're currently reading? (or last read) #FiFRevPit #writingcommunity #writersky #writersofbluesky
Fall Into Fiction with RevPit. Prompt: Imagine your MC was dropped into the world of your current read. How would they react? #FiFRevPit
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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“You’ve done everything within the guild laws that a new trader can do to save their route. Instead of rushing, why not build your reputation and buy back the Westriver route in a few years? Join me. I'd love to have you as a partner for a few seasons," Gavin said.
#WipSnips #WritingCommunity
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I wonder how likely it is that I can squeeze in a writing sprint this evening without being interrupted? 🤔
#amwriting
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM