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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 27

god that first one is so real

M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 27

it’s always a sad day when you have to shelve a wip but it’s just not the time for me to write this story #WriterSky #writingcommunity #amwriting

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 10

maddox is kind to zamora and she mistakes the pull she feels toward him as friendship born from being trapped in the same hell #MayWeDance #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 10

#MayWeDance
maddox is almost instantly attracted to zamora. she’s stubborn and doesn’t give him special treatment as a prince

zamora is still harboring feelings for her best friend back home so it takes her longer to realize her where her true feelings lie

#writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · May 10

#MayWeDance Day 10

Regardless of how quickly or slowly romance blooms between the MC and LI, what initially attracts them to each other?

#WritingCommunity #WriterSky #WritingPrompt #Romancelandia

#MayWeDance
A writing prompt game by @gunsmile.bsky.social for romances in all genres

10. What initially attracts the MC to the LI, and the LI to the MC?

The background image is a couple dancing from behind. The man wears a suit, and the woman wears a sleeveless dress.

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 10

well this definitely has my attention. i love all of the names especially

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 10

uma is a character that only showed up in this draft and idk how i could ever do this story without her now #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

When she finishes with a pat to my uninjured shoulder and a muttered “Now that oughta hold for a while,” I am dizzy and nearly panting from the pain. The knuckles on my right forefinger are bruised and purpling, the indents of my own teeth deep and prominent. Uma helps me settle back onto the bed, taking care to make sure there is extra padding underneath my newly-wrapped wound. “Now, where is that boy?” she says to herself once she is satisfied that I am comfortable and safe from tearing my sutures open again. “Maddox!” she shouts to the room and I startle, wondering how it is she could both know Maddox’s name and be so familiar with him that she speaks to him as though he’s a young boy about to get a scolding from his mother.

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 10

this sounds super intriguing!!! good luck with your querying 💗

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 10

one day i might actually finish writing this 😅 #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

Seventeen-year-old Zamora Rettim has always known she was destined to die young. She’s been training her entire life to compete in the Voxium — the magical contest held every by three countries to determine a victor in their centuries long war. Zamora is proficient enough in hand-to-hand combat, but she knows it’s not enough to save her life.

Because Zamora doesn’t possess an ounce of magic.

Once she arrives at the Voxium, however, she finds that it’s not at all what she was lead to believe that it was. There is no contest — magical or otherwise — just a smarmy lord who holds all of their fates in his hands. As she tries to uncover the secrets of the Voxium, Zamora begins to make friends — including Maddox LaCrath, the prince of one of the neighboring kingdoms.

Soon, Zamora and her friends learn that there’s a bigger threat on their lives than the Voxium and its host. They set out, intent to destroy it, but how can they when the threat is none other than one of the war kings…and Maddox’s older brother?

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · May 7

LIGHTLARK x THE GILDED ONES

seventeen year old zamora has been trained her entire life to represent her country in a magical death competition.

upon her arrival, however, zamora learns that everything she’s ever know—about the competition and herself—has been a lie.

#questpit #ya #fantasy #w

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 23

why is making writer friends so hard 😭😭 #writingcommunity #writersky #writesky #amwriting

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 7

congrats!

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 7

how do my fellow caregivers/writers manage it? because right now it’s been feeling like i have to choose one or the other and writing is the one that has to fall to the wayside #writingcommunity #writersky #amwriting

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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · Apr 6

#WIPSnips

Lucifer has hated hearing his name for millennia. Demons call him General Manager.

But hearing Virgil say it… makes it sound right.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

"Virgil." An imp, a red creature in a polo shirt wearing no pants, approached him with a mug of foul-smelling coffee. Virgil recognized him. Hubert. Operations Clerk.
Hears about things before they happen. "I'm told Lord Satan has set her annual safety drill to today. Her creatures don't know you, you should be careful."
"Everyone knows me." Virgil leaned against a cubicle as other demons sidled between them. Satan knows me. That's why she's trying to kill me again. "I'll have to discuss the approval policy about unannounced safety drills with Lucifer."
"You know the General Manager doesn't like us to use his real name." Virgil crossed his arms and failed not to be smug about one of his most cherished privileges.
"He's never mentioned it to me." Hubert smiled.
"Well, everyone knows he.." Virgil's head tilted.
"Knows what?" Go on. I goddamn dare you. Hubert shivered as Virgil smiled with his teeth and retreated into a cubicle a bit.
"He trusts you." That's what I thought. Hubert started to breathe again as Virgil started staring down the hallway.

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 6

when you meet your endgame and don’t even know it and also he doesn’t know what he’s doing because his evil brother is controlling him with blood magic #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writersky

“You aren’t as inconspicuous as you think you are, Jewel.”

I turn on my heel to face the boy, to demand how it is he knows not only who I am but knows enough to call me by that Etherdamned nickname. But, he’s no longer standing behind me. In fact, he’s nowhere on the street at all.

He simply vanished, as if he never existed at all.

Acutely aware of the world and my place in it, I trudge back the way I came. The interaction with the strange boy has soured my desire to be in Terein a moment longer and, for once in my life, all I want is to be behind the safety of the Citadel’s walls.

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 5

mood

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 5

if you ever need a second set of eyes 👀👀

M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 5

thank you!! it’s definitely a fun time writing it

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el🦋 | drafting🌿 @thatfunkylilfey.bsky.social · Apr 5

Six of Crows x Cruel Prince

For everything Ser Valdemar Brannigan had faced in his life, nothing presented a challenge that could measure to that of writing his own will.

— Mothlight 🦋

[ #1stLinePit ; #WIP ; #A ; #F ; #LGBT ]

3x3 grid with the text "MOTHLIGHT' overtop

row one: a bust of a figure (mouth to shoulder shown) lying in a bed of flowers ; hands holding aloft a flower crown ; a red sash tied around the arm of a figure in armor, their hand on a sword hilt

row two: close up of a butterfly wing ; a person turned away from the viewer with long wavy bond hair ; close up of spider webs

row three: jaws of a crocodile where only the teeth are wholly visible, the rest is in darkness ; flower petals cover the neck and jaw of a figure (only that part is visible) ; monarch butterflies and a silhouette of a hand to make it seem like a butterfly has landed on it

Mothlight Trope Map, starting from top and going clockwise

• NB MC x Trans Man LI
• revenge against abusers
• grief is unexpressed love
• established couple
• memory loss
• what doesn’t kill you better start running
• breaking cycles of trauma
• established couple
• unapologetically queer cast
• shapeshifting as a queer/trans metaphor

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 5

good luck being on sub! i can’t wait to read this one day 💗

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Author Kelly G @authorkellyg.bsky.social · Apr 5

ITHACA X CIRCE

“Diotima’s mother wrote her destiny while she had still cooked inside her womb.”

#1stLinePit #OS #HF #A #editorsguide

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 5

a black and white drawing of a cat with the words `` gimme gimme gimme '' written on it .

ALT: a black and white drawing of a cat with the words `` gimme gimme gimme '' written on it .

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Flossie Foster @flossiefoster.bsky.social · Apr 5

An #AgentsGuide to KAMI TOUCHED:

Clove Lewis, a botany major, gives her name to a Japanese deity—and is pulled into their deadly, mythic world.

“The fluttering of leaves whispered his arrival.”

#1stLinePit #Q #F #NA #YA #BookPitch #RF #Mythology

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M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 5

those comps 💗💗💗

M.R. is in drafting hell @mrwritesfantasy.bsky.social · Apr 5

ohhh my godddd i am obsessed

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Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · Apr 5

No one ever left the Tenement. That was Rule Number One.

😨 Dystopian nightmare
🚪Backrooms
⬛Empty World
📜Follow the Rules
🤱Missing Parent
👥Wholesome Bro Friends
✊Rage Against the Machine
🗝️Forgotten Knowledge
🔎Buried Secrets
💊 Leaving the Matrix
#1stLinePit #WIP #YA #S #M #D

bsky.app/profile/prof...

A dimly lit frame with the first four Rules of the Tenement:
RULE ONE
Under no circumstances shall anyone leave the Tenement.
RULE TWO
The Front Door is to remain shut and locked at all times.
RULE THREE
Any windows that appear are to remain closed, with the curtains drawn, and should be avoided until they disappear again. Tenants are forbidden from looking upon the outside.
RULE FOUR
These Rules, being given to us by our Landlord and passed down unchanged from the founding of the Tenement, shall be inscribed into the heart and mind of every tenant for the wellbeing of all
A mysterious photo of a woman in a dark hall and a scrap of paper are tucked into the bottom corner. The paper reads "Where is she?"

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