Story Valley Writers
@storyvalley.bsky.social
Writers helping writers. Follow for tips & fun #writingcommunity interaction. Join our online writing conference in August, meet our favorite professionals. Send questions to
storyvalleywriters(at)gmail.com
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Take a peek at our panels and #writingworkshops for Aug!
💫 1st Page Critiques
💘 Romance Workshop
📨 Query Letters Workshop
🧠 Reset Your Writer’s Mindset
✍️ Creating Your Author Brand
Sign up now ⬇️
storyvalleywritingconference.wordpress.com
#writingconference #writingcommunity
💫 1st Page Critiques
💘 Romance Workshop
📨 Query Letters Workshop
🧠 Reset Your Writer’s Mindset
✍️ Creating Your Author Brand
Sign up now ⬇️
storyvalleywritingconference.wordpress.com
#writingconference #writingcommunity
#WritingCommunity Tell us how your characters face impossible odds - Eldritch beings, fate, and demonic hordes, oh my! #WeekendwritingQ
October 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#WritingCommunity Tell us how your characters face impossible odds - Eldritch beings, fate, and demonic hordes, oh my! #WeekendwritingQ
October 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#WritingCommunity Fear - what do your characters fear most? How does fear create obstacles in their life? #WeekendWritingQ
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#WritingCommunity Fear - what do your characters fear most? How does fear create obstacles in their life? #WeekendWritingQ
#WritingCommunity How does humanity fare against the natural world? Are there other sentient species? Ones that want to eat us for breakfast? #WeekendwritingQ
October 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#WritingCommunity How does humanity fare against the natural world? Are there other sentient species? Ones that want to eat us for breakfast? #WeekendwritingQ
#writingtips Writing multiple POVs? 2 is fine for romance, but even for epic fantasy, 3 POVs is like 5 POVs and 5 is 25. Help us care about your characters. Stick to just a few. #writingcommunity #writinginspo #writersbluesky
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
October 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
#writingtips Writing multiple POVs? 2 is fine for romance, but even for epic fantasy, 3 POVs is like 5 POVs and 5 is 25. Help us care about your characters. Stick to just a few. #writingcommunity #writinginspo #writersbluesky
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
#Writingcommunity show us your creature designs! What's haunting your characters and kicking their butts? What genre do you write? #WeekendwritingQ
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#Writingcommunity show us your creature designs! What's haunting your characters and kicking their butts? What genre do you write? #WeekendwritingQ
Tell us the truth. Did you KNOW about the plot twist or did the plot twist surprise you too? 🤭 #writingcommunity #plotters #pansters #writingmemes
October 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Tell us the truth. Did you KNOW about the plot twist or did the plot twist surprise you too? 🤭 #writingcommunity #plotters #pansters #writingmemes
September 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Why it's important to get feedback on your work 🤪 #writingcommunity #writingmemes #betareaders #editors
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Why it's important to get feedback on your work 🤪 #writingcommunity #writingmemes #betareaders #editors
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📢 All September book sales and Patreon support for @krishna-author.bsky.social will be donated to school children's mid-day meal program.
Support the cause
📚 Buy books: amzn.to/45EHFzg
🤝 Support on Patreon: patreon.com/KrishnaPrasa...
#booksky #bluesky #blacksky #books #readers #writers #kindle
Support the cause
📚 Buy books: amzn.to/45EHFzg
🤝 Support on Patreon: patreon.com/KrishnaPrasa...
#booksky #bluesky #blacksky #books #readers #writers #kindle
September 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Happy #hobbitday #writingcommunity! Who's the true hero in your story, the side character that helps save the day? #writingq #LOTR #fantasywriters
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Happy #hobbitday #writingcommunity! Who's the true hero in your story, the side character that helps save the day? #writingq #LOTR #fantasywriters
#writingtips Not all antagonists want to end the world! If you want to write standalones, shorter novels, or short stories, challenge yourself to avoid this trope. #writingcommunity #writinginspo #blueskywriters #writersky
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
September 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
#writingtips Not all antagonists want to end the world! If you want to write standalones, shorter novels, or short stories, challenge yourself to avoid this trope. #writingcommunity #writinginspo #blueskywriters #writersky
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
If you've finished a first draft, you're already ahead of many writers! It's dark times ahead in self #editing but don't quit now! #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingmemes
September 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If you've finished a first draft, you're already ahead of many writers! It's dark times ahead in self #editing but don't quit now! #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingmemes
You ever wake up the next day and wonder who left that word salad in your manuscript? 🫣
#writingmemes #writingcommunity #firstdrafts #editing
#writingmemes #writingcommunity #firstdrafts #editing
September 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You ever wake up the next day and wonder who left that word salad in your manuscript? 🫣
#writingmemes #writingcommunity #firstdrafts #editing
#writingmemes #writingcommunity #firstdrafts #editing
#writingtips Hate naming things? Don't lose your momentum! Use a placeholder that's easy to search for, and leave that problem for future you. #writingcommunity #writinginspo #blueskywriters #writersky
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
September 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
#writingtips Hate naming things? Don't lose your momentum! Use a placeholder that's easy to search for, and leave that problem for future you. #writingcommunity #writinginspo #blueskywriters #writersky
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq:
What would you add to this tip?
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This could be a great opportunity for a writer out there! 🖤
We open up for submissions tomorrow! (Happy labor day)
Speculative (fantasy, generally) short fiction (1k-10k words) in non-technological settings. Take a look/we'd love to hear from you starting tomorrow!
hearthstories.org/submissions....
#writingcommunity
Speculative (fantasy, generally) short fiction (1k-10k words) in non-technological settings. Take a look/we'd love to hear from you starting tomorrow!
hearthstories.org/submissions....
#writingcommunity
Hearth Stories: Submissions
Submission guidelines for Hearth Stories magazine. What to send, what not to send, when to send, where to send.
hearthstories.org
September 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This could be a great opportunity for a writer out there! 🖤
What project are you working on right now?
We hosted our annual writing conference, celebrated our discord's 4th anniversary, and announced our next anthology theme. We hope your August was as motivational as ours!
Are you getting words in for #LaborDay, or relaxing? 👀
#writingcommunity
We hosted our annual writing conference, celebrated our discord's 4th anniversary, and announced our next anthology theme. We hope your August was as motivational as ours!
Are you getting words in for #LaborDay, or relaxing? 👀
#writingcommunity
September 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What project are you working on right now?
We hosted our annual writing conference, celebrated our discord's 4th anniversary, and announced our next anthology theme. We hope your August was as motivational as ours!
Are you getting words in for #LaborDay, or relaxing? 👀
#writingcommunity
We hosted our annual writing conference, celebrated our discord's 4th anniversary, and announced our next anthology theme. We hope your August was as motivational as ours!
Are you getting words in for #LaborDay, or relaxing? 👀
#writingcommunity
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Grateful to have been part of the @storyvalley.bsky.social Conference this weekend 💛 Huge thanks to Amber Scott for moderating & to fellow panelists for an encouraging convo on work/life balance & self-care. Looking forward to next year! ✨
#writers #writingcommunity #StoryValley2025 #AuthorLife
#writers #writingcommunity #StoryValley2025 #AuthorLife
August 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Grateful to have been part of the @storyvalley.bsky.social Conference this weekend 💛 Huge thanks to Amber Scott for moderating & to fellow panelists for an encouraging convo on work/life balance & self-care. Looking forward to next year! ✨
#writers #writingcommunity #StoryValley2025 #AuthorLife
#writers #writingcommunity #StoryValley2025 #AuthorLife
Another writing conference in the books! Time to kick back with tea and a good book. What do you do when a con ends? Besides check out all the panelists' websites and books, of course!
Bonus points for gifs
#virtualconference #writingconference #writing #WritingCommunity #writingq
Bonus points for gifs
#virtualconference #writingconference #writing #WritingCommunity #writingq
August 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Another writing conference in the books! Time to kick back with tea and a good book. What do you do when a con ends? Besides check out all the panelists' websites and books, of course!
Bonus points for gifs
#virtualconference #writingconference #writing #WritingCommunity #writingq
Bonus points for gifs
#virtualconference #writingconference #writing #WritingCommunity #writingq
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Feeling grateful to have two poems in the debut issue of Abundance Literary Magazine. Always special to see work out in the world. online.fliphtml5.com/FunInTheZine...
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#poetry #writingcommunity #abundanceliterarymagazine
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#poetry #writingcommunity #abundanceliterarymagazine
Abundance Literary Magazine Vol. 1 Windows to the Self
online.fliphtml5.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Feeling grateful to have two poems in the debut issue of Abundance Literary Magazine. Always special to see work out in the world. online.fliphtml5.com/FunInTheZine...
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#poetry #writingcommunity #abundanceliterarymagazine
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#poetry #writingcommunity #abundanceliterarymagazine
#writingtips Submitting to a magazine? Read their stories to get a good sense of what they like! #writingcommunity #writinginspo #blueskywriters #writersky
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
August 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#writingtips Submitting to a magazine? Read their stories to get a good sense of what they like! #writingcommunity #writinginspo #blueskywriters #writersky
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
Bonus #writingq: What would you add to this tip?
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Editing, in summary...
Day 1: This is so bad I should throw it in the trash.
Day 2: I've figure it out! The one thing that's wrong!
Day 3: There are so many things wrong.
Day 4: All I need to do is rewrite 3/4 of it.
Day 5: Begins new WIP.
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing #Writesky #writing
Day 1: This is so bad I should throw it in the trash.
Day 2: I've figure it out! The one thing that's wrong!
Day 3: There are so many things wrong.
Day 4: All I need to do is rewrite 3/4 of it.
Day 5: Begins new WIP.
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing #Writesky #writing
August 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Editing, in summary...
Day 1: This is so bad I should throw it in the trash.
Day 2: I've figure it out! The one thing that's wrong!
Day 3: There are so many things wrong.
Day 4: All I need to do is rewrite 3/4 of it.
Day 5: Begins new WIP.
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing #Writesky #writing
Day 1: This is so bad I should throw it in the trash.
Day 2: I've figure it out! The one thing that's wrong!
Day 3: There are so many things wrong.
Day 4: All I need to do is rewrite 3/4 of it.
Day 5: Begins new WIP.
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing #Writesky #writing
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How about my #DarkFantasy #FreeBook sequel, The Van Helsing Resurgence? After ninety years, Clara falls to Earth to find a lost soul. Alone in a shattered world, she learns that while the Roaring Twenties are long gone, a heroine’s work is never done.
bit.ly/2XvgFQF
bit.ly/2XvgFQF
August 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
How about my #DarkFantasy #FreeBook sequel, The Van Helsing Resurgence? After ninety years, Clara falls to Earth to find a lost soul. Alone in a shattered world, she learns that while the Roaring Twenties are long gone, a heroine’s work is never done.
bit.ly/2XvgFQF
bit.ly/2XvgFQF
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13. My SFF Mt. Rushmore: Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Margaret Atwood, Madeleine L'Engle.
#SFFChat #writingcommunity #reading #books #SFF #ursulakleguin #terrypratchett #margaretatwood #madeleinelengle
#SFFChat #writingcommunity #reading #books #SFF #ursulakleguin #terrypratchett #margaretatwood #madeleinelengle
August 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
13. My SFF Mt. Rushmore: Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, Margaret Atwood, Madeleine L'Engle.
#SFFChat #writingcommunity #reading #books #SFF #ursulakleguin #terrypratchett #margaretatwood #madeleinelengle
#SFFChat #writingcommunity #reading #books #SFF #ursulakleguin #terrypratchett #margaretatwood #madeleinelengle
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Either the scene under the weeping flame maple in which Myra & Arzhang exchange their first kiss or during Myra's engagement party to the emperor where Myra and Arzhang dance. First one is filled with so much sexual tension, the second with bittersweet longing. #PosterPit #writingcommunity
Hello #PosterPit pitchers! It's time for the eighth question of our🍿10 Days Of Q&As🍿 event!
"What scene from your book would you be the most excited to see remade in real life?"
"What scene from your book would you be the most excited to see remade in real life?"
August 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Either the scene under the weeping flame maple in which Myra & Arzhang exchange their first kiss or during Myra's engagement party to the emperor where Myra and Arzhang dance. First one is filled with so much sexual tension, the second with bittersweet longing. #PosterPit #writingcommunity