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Ellen Geers Loftis

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Zookeeper. Writer. Mother of a bearded dragon and a golden. She/her I will give you animal facts and writing updates. Beta-reading services: https://www.fiverr.com/s/2ov26k at

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Jan 27

TEMERAIRE x THE GUNS ABOVE
Disabled after her steampunk-cyborg dragon is shot down, Keire still yearns to fight. Her new crew’s mission—take down the enemy’s most dangerous dragon—was set up to fail. And Keire needs to reckon with the fact that she is probably the reason it will. #2025Pit #A #F

An aesthetic. It is nine squares, the outer ones all with pictures, while the middle one just says “The Dragoneer” in a white cursive font on black. The pictures are, clockwise from the top left: a burning cigarette on a black background; a close up of brown scales, such as from a snake or lizard; an image of the sky near sunset, with light blue on top and gold and pink below, filled with gentle clouds; a black-and-white image of the close up of the trigger on an old-fashioned rifle; the metal head of a cane, with a leaf-like pattern pressed into the handle, on a black background; a close up of some gears; a large building, like a barn or hanger, on fire at night; a black-and-white image of a deserted scrubland.

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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 6h

literally me screaming at every single program offering to write things, summarize things, etc etc, via genAI

fuck OFF I didn't ask for this!! I like using my brain, actually, even if it's hard!! it's good for me and I like it!!

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 18h

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · 1d

Not even Rin knows how many knives she has hidden on her person.

#JustStabsWIP

Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 1d

Does your main character use a weapon? If so, what is it?

#WritingQ #WritingCommunity

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · 3d

I wanted two black and white ones that I could put side by side, but then I saw the narwhal and thought I needed that, too. Hard to say no at these prices.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · 4d

I just got the armadillo and little owl and narwhal for myself, and the kingfisher for my mom for Christmas. 😊

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · 4d

Well, my new apartment has more wall space in need of filling as compared to the last one, and I also need to do some Christmas shopping...

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · 7d

How my dog and my parents’ dog feel when they’re together.

A photo of two golden retrievers lying down in front of a couch. One is young, head up, looking at the camera, with what looks like a giant, dopey grin on his face. The other is older, with his head down, eyes mostly closed, as though he looks totally done with all of this.

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · 13d

It's definitely not the middle, but here's from #HullWIP.

Seth let out a long, heavy breath. “We’re in a real pickle here.”
Mouse snorted. “How did you all get into such a mess while I was gone?”
“If I knew, I could have maybe fixed it before it got this bad. I don’t know, man, it feels like too much shit colliding all at the wrong time.”
Mouse frowned. “Is there a right time for shit to collide?”

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 23

Anyway, I'm going to do a read of #HullWIP now for a palate cleanser, and then do another quick pass through #JustStabsWIP to make sure the edits make sense, and then it's finally off to the first readers. Yay, it's about damn time.
#amrevising

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 23

Bragging moment:

The original draft of #JustStabsWIP was 135,361 words. The latest draft is 115,740 words. That's nearly 20k, a full 14.5% shorter. Behold all those babies I killed. Especially when you consider there were a couple points needing expanding.

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 23

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 20

Did you know Sept 20 is International Red Panda Day?

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 13

(Brought to you by the zookeeper who had a sloth sneak up on her today.)

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 13

Remember:

You cannot startle a sloth,

but a sloth can most definitely startle you.

A close up picture of a sloth’s face, upside down as a sloth should be. She is coming into frame as though she is creeping up.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 10

For the record, I will never write this book. But if someone else is inspired, please take it.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 10

In hindsight, it should have been obvious, because the title was just the name of the food. Not "The Butterscotch Cookie Murders" or whatever, but literally "Delicious Butterscotch Cookies".

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 10

A book where there's a mention of some food right at the beginning, and then it goes off into this convoluted murder mystery, with the twist at the end being that it was all an absurdly long lead-up to the recipe for said food.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 7

Good to know we all have a fallback career if our current plans don't work out.

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s one of my favorite days! It’s International Vulture Awareness Day! Vultures prevent the spread of disease by eating up dead things that would otherwise rot. Thank your local (and beautiful) vulture today! #IVAD

(Also, vulture stomach acids are so strong their poop can be used as disinfectant.)

A photo of a turkey vulture sitting on a stump, giving the camera a side eye.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today at work a little boy asked me where the panda bear was (in reference to the red panda, we don’t have a giant panda), only his annunciation made it sound like “candy bear”, and I propose that this now be used as an alternative name.

A close up of a red panda on some branches, looking at the camera with the tip of his tongue sticking out.

Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 3

And I'd forgotten about to Heretothere, but that was a fun one! I definitely had the obligate joke of "Where are you from?" "Heretothere." "Could you be specific?"

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Disputed Zone is a constant war zone. Due to the influence of a magical Big Bad, Tempes Maris and Victoria have been at war for 100 years, but neither can win. It's a bit of a joke how often the one city (of an otherwise uninhabited area) changes hands.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 3

soldiers are sent to to be this beautiful but deadly paradise. So Cicandria has a post on it to keep out the monsters that wander down from Atiara. Soldiers very rarely survive their five-year deployments there. 2/2

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Handle, as it's called, is super thin, just a kilometer or so at one point. Atiara is super isolationist, so they don't fight over it, but that's not to say there isn't fighting. I was inspired by subverting the Reassigned to Antarctica trope, where I wanted the dangerous punishment 1/

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 3

I think it belongs to Sancia. The name is a bit of a joke, because this is my story featuring dragons, and my pet bearded dragon is named Audrey. A little shout out to her.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 3

Those islands are just... there, so we'll talk about Havelle, because it's where the story starts. It's not terrible, but there's definitely clear socioeconomic stratification, with the peerage at the top and a lot of problems for those down below.

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Ellen Geers Loftis @lnloft.bsky.social · Sep 3

It also didn't make sense. When the creature blackmailed him into making a bride, he needed to consult some dude for help. And it wasn't to buy time, he literally needed this guy's help, when he made the original creature without help.

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