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french-american writer of speculative lit 🌿 host of #MeetMyMCs ɴᴏᴛᴇ: interactions from this account are strictly in my capacity as a writer. av © corey brickley. agent account: @literaryfey.bsky.social.

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 30

my characters in another life ⚡️ #cipherwip edition

(all credit for this concept to @realgmorrow.bsky.social, I think!)

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · 2d

forgot I outlined most of a feminist femgore literary horror in an absolute rage-soaked fugue state but I just found the outline again and ...... it slaps???

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Jul 17

see the problem is I am really good at coming up with a banging cast of characters but the minute you mention "plot" and "structure" I run screaming into the woods

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Jul 5

I hurt myself today (came up with a new WIP idea)

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Jun 29

writing historical romantasy really has me asking the big questions, such as: what is the sexiest title (duke, earl, viscount, or baron) (marquess is out by default there is nothing sexy about that word)

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Jun 7

😔😔😔 oops...

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · May 26

An LLM does not "help you write your books". An LLM prevents you from writing*your* books, while you are helping the LLM generate its books.

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · May 26

thinking of doing a Plotting June and then Zero Draft July (in the style of NaNo) if anyone wants to join me?

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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social · May 23

older people and especially librarians defaulting to supporting any and all AI tool bc they don’t want to be considered “out of touch” is embarrassingly pathetic

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · May 23

singlehandedly changing the faerie romantasy landscape

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · May 23

love how I told myself I'd work on this new WIP as a distraction from the complex and difficult worldbuilding of cipherWIP. you know! something soft! something easy! .............and then I immediately tumbled headfirst into complex and difficult worlbuilding for this new project

brain, why

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · May 21

hm. Perhaps

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · May 14

Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming

Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · May 4

the entire Oppenheimer soundtrack by Ludwig Göransson, but especially Gravity Swallows Light

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · May 2

👀 #cipherwip: the wartime codebreaking of Bletchley Park meets the steampunk-industrial vibes of ARCANE and BLADES IN THE DARK...

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · May 1

Comp your book to anything BUT books! TV shows, games, hobbies, existing ships, you name it! Just can't be a book! #WritingPrompt

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 30

Lachlan: human abjuration wizard, lawful good
Alys: drow battle smith artificer, true neutral

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Apr 29

If your MC(s) were in DND what would be their class and alignment? (Or what were they if they were from DND?) #WritingPrompt

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 30

my characters in another life ⚡️ #cipherwip edition

(all credit for this concept to @realgmorrow.bsky.social, I think!)

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 27

congratulations!!!!

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 27

thinking of making a Slow Writers Support Group discord or something lmfao I need other people who understand the struggle of slow development on their work

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 16

Dimension 20 are doing steampunk ... #cipherwip is steampunk ... the amount of serotonin my brain is about to be INJECTED with ......

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 14

made like 0.005% progress on the WIP and immediately got hammered with a new idea. will my brain please stop lol

j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Apr 13

words happened today, I guess

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Mar 17

ok good to know thank u!

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Mar 10

happy Monday! curious to hear from writer friends: what project(s) are you working on at the minute? 🤲 (WIP, outline, fanfiction, etc... anything is valid!)

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Lore Austin @loreaustin.bsky.social · Mar 10

Something I've been calling #PaladinInPinkWIP — a burnt-out college grad, a hot archfey, a world built on game rules, a quest to find a sibling long thought gone for good, and a flirtatious bard full of secrets guiding the way.

I have been having a BLAST, your honours 🫡

a pink and purple moodboard with a woman in armor, an old book, a field of lavender, a sword among roses, a ghost cat, a void man, a lute, and a man lounging on the floor of a dungeon cell.

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j ✍︎ drafting #cipherwip @helionauts.bsky.social · Mar 10

wax children and the primal fear we have of our mothers... oh you are cooking

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