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Lilia Moore 📚

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25 y/o writer and aspiring author 🕰️ Historical Fiction 📝 WIP: Portrait of American Destruction Website: liliamoore.netlify.app

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 6

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD x AMERICAN PSYCHO

📺 PORTRAIT OF AMERICAN ROT

The violent self-destruction of an esteemed WWII veteran and family man.

Featuring:
📰 Suburban Psychological Horror
📰 Morally Black Protagonist
📰 Queer and Neurodivergent Rep
📰 Multiple POVs

#QuestPit #W #A #HisFic #H #LF

In 1950s America, a veteran struggling to escape the influences of his domineering mother and festering war trauma engages in increasingly violent extramarital affairs, with his mental deterioration and abusive behavior threatening to destroy the constructed family life he fought so hard to create.

Writing Sample: Conrad’s life came to a close the day the Japanese surrendered and he was forced to retreat to civilian life. The honeyed crawl of suburbia left him raw with yearning for more, and had long since dragged his interiority to bleed out all sticky on the hot pavement.

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · 11d

Yellowface is so good so far, I don’t care what anyone else says #booksky

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · 16d

I just outlined a pivotal chapter tonight. Reading it back again, and I mean REALLY examining the book as a whole, it has made me realize my niche is more among the lines of transgressive fiction and splatterpunk. I need to change the way I talk about this novel to reflect this discovery. #writersky

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Sep 11

Rewrote my entire first chapter instead of actually writing anything new for my story LMAO

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Sep 8

Good choice, can’t go wrong with a snack like that.

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Gay League @gayleague.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hello! Just want to share a few teaser pics with you! This graphic novel by Anais Flogny has beautiful art and a great story about a Chicago mob boss and a younger delivery man who meet in 1938 and soon fall in love. The location then shifts to New York and later 1960s Marseille France.
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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was finally able to resume my novel after about a week of procrastination. Gotta stick of the advice of “make it good later”

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 30

I made this fake tweet of my characters from my novel, does that count?

A fake twitter screenshot of a tweet made by the user Evelyn Mallory captioning a photo of two cockroaches wearing doll skirts with “literally us” and tagging her friend Miss Dottie. There is a reply from Dottie underneath this tweet with the thumbs up emoji.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Aug 29

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 186:
Always try to be aware of how much you're telling the reader. Is it enough? Is it too much? Are you feeding them just the right amount, or are you overwhelming them with unnecessary detail? If in doubt, just ask yourself: "Why do they need to know this?"

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · Aug 29

Are there any authors on here? They might want to take a look at this, and take action by Sunday:
www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Anthropic Authors’ & Publishers’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

www.lieffcabraser.com

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just wrote a cartoonishly evil moment into my WIP, but it’s sadly realistic as well. If I’m reacting this strongly to it, imagine what the audience will think!
#writersky #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 29

Finally getting character art of the other MC, let’s GO
I also got some character art of the MC on impulse today too

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Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.social · Aug 29

#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky

A Boston monument to Phyllis Wheatley. Earliest known African poet in US and first woman to publish a book.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · Aug 28

"If criticism and thoughtful engagement continue to be pushed aside in favor of shallow viral moments, the cultural conversation risks becoming as thin and ephemeral as the Instagram stories that fuel it."
observer.com/2025/08/arts...

The Death of the Full-Time Critic and What It Means for the Future of Art Writing

If we let art criticism become an exclusive club for the well-connected and well-funded, we risk creating an echo chamber that flatters power rather than interrogates it.

observer.com

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · Aug 28

Performatively reading a book? Level up. I’m performatively writing a book

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Buck Sinclair 🇨🇦 Elbows up! @nowsentient.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yesterday I found a manuscript I wrote 40 years ago

Typed on an IBM selectric, only 1 copy (odd pages & a few chapters were all I had left)

Believed I mistakenly threw it out late 80’s

For decades this belief pissed me off considerably, so much work

I can’t contain my excitement & had to share

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 28

His evilness is not nuanced enough for me right now, he feels like some teenage girl’s serial killer OC. My tendency to flanderize my characters and overfocus on certain aspects of them will be the death of me, I swear.

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 28

All I’m asking is that he fulfills two core tenets: that he’s interesting enough to where the audience will want to read a whole book about him, and that he feels like a real person

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 28

I think Conrad as a character has so much potential. I have the foundation for something genuinely compelling and interesting, the problem is that I’m far too inexperienced with writing for me to really nail it down right now.

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 27

I hit 11k in my draft recently. #writersky

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Aug 25

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 126:
Ideas are worthless without hard work. The literary world is littered with the corpses of people with "ideas" who were unable or unwilling to put in the time and effort to develop them (or worse, expected someone else to do the work for them.)

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Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 17

Burnt Olives by Natasha Girshin is my next read. I have faith it’ll be a good book.

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 16

Just had the biggest reveal about a huge aspect of my story… this new revision makes my story make more sense and better in every way. It also means I have to redo my outline quite a bit, and I also will have to redo some chapters again (including my longest one)
#writersky #writersofbluesky

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 16

I hit 10k words in my first draft a few days ago!!
#writersky

Lilia Moore 📚 @liliamoore.bsky.social · Aug 16

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD x AMERICAN PSYCHO

A gripping nightmare about hollow lies presented by the American Dream, and the decay following WWII.

🏠 Multi-POV
🏠 Neurodiverse and Queer Rep
🏠 Morally gray cast
🏠 A villain you love to hate
🏠 Generational Trauma

#PosterPit #PosterPitW #H #HF #LF #A #LGBT

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Rye 🪲 @ryelynn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Wyoming, 1902.

Jesse is still running — this time to a small ranch north of the Great Plains, where he’s secured work as a farm hand. But the Beast is always close behind… and every time it finds him, it demands more and more of his flesh.

#PosterPit #W #HF #H #A

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