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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 5h

#OctoberThrills

In HermitageWIP, the Milton coat of arms (the family that became the Berton family) is centered with a knights helmet.
It was changed to an astronaut’s helmet later, and deep-space hardsuits stand like old suits of armor in the halls, equating explorers with knights.

Octoberthrills day 12 any knights or generals?

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 6h

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 4h

yes, but how can you actually tell if it was the writer or their best friend GPT? hmmmm?

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 5h

#SFFChat

A spot of blood presages an uncomfortable conversation.
😬

Chapter 22

“Blood, Mr. Chevaliet.”
“Sir?”
“There’s blood on your glove.”
Bayle pulled his hand back from the dinner tray, noticing the bright scarlet stain between his fingers.
“I’m so sorry, sir. I’ll take care of this immediately.”
“Cut yourself in the kitchen?”
“It must have come through the bandage. Would you like me to bring you something else for dinner?”
“No, no, don’t bother. I’m sure it’s sanitary. Just go ahead and get yourself cleaned up.”
“Thank you, sir. My apologies.”
His employer waved him off. After a thorough clean, a new bandage, and a fresh pair of gloves, the doctor was already nearly done with his dinner.
“It’s a good soup.”
Bayle heard an undertone beneath the compliment that worried him slightly.
“Thank you, sir.”
“I have enjoyed your cooking for the past six months, I really have.”
Uh oh

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Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 4h

yes, is it real or is it an AI generated image?

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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry folks no spoilers. You’ll have to read the real thing to have the names revealed.

Which you can do here:
www.christianakins.com/grimportents

#writingcommunity #WIPsnips #Writesky #booksky #writing

"So instead, you would condemn every soul in
existence?"
"No-I would fight for every soul. I would
fight so that everyone, even SPOILER
could have a
chance for redemption."
"Have you heard nothing I said?" Ansiel shouted. He reached down and grabbed me by my collar, lifting me to his level. "We could lose!"
"We could win!" I argued, dangling in his grasp. "You've spent all your days in paradise and somehow, you lost hope for the future. So, how about you go to Hell, where hope is the only thing that gets you by."
My friends stared at me, bewildered. I felt
good. Terrified, but good.

Grim Portents banner featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life…

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ElfQuest - Fantasy with Teeth! @elfquest.bsky.social · 4h

A new fan reacts to ElfQuest at #NYCC!

@globalcomix.com @darkhorse.com

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Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 4h

i understand her excitement. i met Wendy back in 1985 in Philadelphia. We were cosplaying long before it was even a thing. She loved my Nightfall cosplay.

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The Dicepool Tavern @thedicepooltavern.bsky.social · 18h

#WIPSnips 12/10: Hope

'Staring for a moment, Manson’s brain actually short circuited for a moment, before hope flourished in his heart.' - #WitchChild

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 6d

Here are the #WIPSnips words for October 6th through October 12th.

They're not quite as fun as last week. 😂

Sorry for the super late post.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The WIPSnips words for October 6th through October 12th.

October 6 - miss; October 7 - safe; October 8 - dungeon; October 9 - battery; October 10 - prize; October 11 - welcome; October 12 - hope

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Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 5h

October 12th – hope

Today we are in Anthropomorphic, my urban fantasy.

Ray is trying to arrest a suspect. It could be going better.

CW: violence

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I noticed the smell first, a heavy, pungent, petroleum stench; then I saw the bottle at her feet. Lighter fluid. From how intense the smell was, she had dumped the entire bottle into the carpet while I was distracted. This fire bug had come prepared to do more than burn a little skin this time. She had been planning to immolate her next victim. She might still manage it.
I reached for my gun, but the lighter was already falling from her hand. I covered my face with my arm and turned away as flames erupted from the carpet. I looked back up to see her running for the door. The flames weren’t that bad, yet. I could go after her, but if I did, the unconscious bus boy would likely burn. Shit.
I grabbed the boy under the armpits and dragged him towards the kitchen. The room froze as I pushed through the door. I passed the unconscious employee to the man nearest me. “There is a fire in the hall. Take him outside and call 9-1-1. I’m going to go and get…”
I left the thought unfinished as I sprinted from the room. They were all too stunned to ask questions at the moment, but that would change if I stuck around. Besides, if I had any hope of catching up to Carla, I had no time to waste.

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MidnightRose Artist @midnightrose838.bsky.social · 16h

#AwesomeCharacters

Lawcket is very practical, & is used to making do with little space & few belongings.
He's simple. If he needs something it has a place where he can easily access it for use. He doesn't keep anything that's not necessary. It make organization rather simple, - 1/?

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Is your character organized and methodical, or more chaotic?

Do they prefer to plan things out carefully, or be spontaneous and improvise?

Do they keep their belongings neat and tidy, or are they a bit messy?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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L.M. du Plessis 🇳🇦 🇺🇦📚💙 ‪✨Drafting New Project✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 11h

#WritersCoffeeClub 12/10: Do you prefer to use real-world settings or to invent new ones?
Invent new ones. Can be so much more inventive like that.
#writingcommunity #Writesky #Writing

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It's Helga Again @helgaastrophysics.bsky.social · 7h

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BREAKING🚨: It's Official. There's a Black hole on the loose in the Milky way galaxy
Astronomers have officially confirmed the first-ever rogue black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy!

Using data from Hubble and Gaia, scientists spotted this cosmic ghost not by its light (it emits none)

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Jim Already a Vampire @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 11h

Black box retrieval service: Great rates. Instant quotes. Tight spaces are our speciality. Awkwardness is free of charge.

#WIPSnips
#WriteSky
#WritingPrompts
#WritingCommunity
#SciFiWriters
#Sff

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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 11h

Murple Hurkull is summoned, not too eloquently, it seems …

From ‘The Big Feat’.

#WiPSnips

“You must come with me, Mistress Hurkull.” The owner of the voice stepped forward, noticed they had stepped in blood and stepped back, shaking their foot. “You must come with me, or you will be late.”

“That a threat or summat?” Behind the figure, Murple could see glints of sunlight shining off metal on two other figures.

“Oh! My dear! No! No, of course not!” The figure stepped to the side, waving an invitational hand. “It’s Continental Luncheon Day at the commissary and they stop serving at two bells of the afternoon.”

The commissary. Only one place had a ‘commissary’. Everywhere else had cafeterias or canteens. And a more sordid hive of scum and villainy she could never hope to meet.

She was going to the seat of power. The centre of Brutish politics. She was going to Partliment.

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Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 6h

hydrogen is what made the Hindenburg blow up. Theröz developed it and it was redesigned with solar power and helium.

Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 8h

heh that would be all of my romances then. My ex burned me so bad that i became aromantic and anti relationship. My characters have very successful and loving relationships because mine never were.

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Hope Engel 📚 @hopeengel.com · 20h

How about a section called “we’re even now” where you call out people whose treatment of you inspired some element of the novel or the motivation to be successful out of spite? #amwriting

Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 21h

#booksky

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Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 21h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Is your character organized and methodical, or more chaotic?

Do they prefer to plan things out carefully, or be spontaneous and improvise?

Do they keep their belongings neat and tidy, or are they a bit messy?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Braxton and Ellen are pretty similar.
both passionate, loving, loyal and pragmatic.
#WritingPrompts
#DieselPunk #SFF #HistoricalFiction

Lord Braxton Hemsmore from the diesel, pro drama, “airship dreams”

Ellen Hemsmore from the steampunk drama, “airship dreams”

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Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Borias and Master Joanis are twins
#Swtor #StarWars #theOldRepublic
#WritingPrompts
Polar opposites, but still family. Lord Borias is pragmatic, balanced and passionate.
Joanis is uptight, rule oriented and stubborn

Master Joanis Domvar from Star Wars the Old Republic

Lord Borias Wownomore from Star Wars the Old Republic

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

Does your MC have any siblings? Are they part of the story? What are they like? #WritingPrompt

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Count Professor Wakahisa Sensei Esq. the Impaler @wakahisasensei.bsky.social · 1d

#char_roleplay day 11:

MK: “Burnt out isn’t the word I’d use. More frustrated. I was raised by peasant farmers, and I had no talent for farming. Or maybe no interest and that became no talent in result.” ✅

Count Professor Wakahisa Sensei Esq. the Impaler @wakahisasensei.bsky.social · 11d

#char_roleplay character list

The characters I’ll be working with this month are gonna be geared towards my many monsters.

MC: Demetre the Lich ✅

SC: Game Master from WIP 2 (demon lord of Greed) ✅ (*see note below)

Antag: The Monster King form WIP 1 ⚠️

BC: Ghost, an AI from WIP 3. ✅

The prompts for #char_roleplay for the month of October

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Carla Hennes ❌ 👑 aka Radiation Rosie @tempestteapot.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy 💙📚 🪐📚

From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Desparation forces Kahyla to bargain with her enemy.

Wrapping anger around her grief, her breath shuddered as Kahyla stepped through the noble's arch to the Council chamber. Faces turned and conversations stopped.
I fought a demon-mage and won. I can win the next fight.
Spotting Bizal near the petitioner’s circle, Kahyla descended the stairs. Tapping a Gooseport sword cane, Despard limped behind her. Heavy and unfamiliar, Grath’s long sword clonked loudly against the step before she balanced it with her forearm. She threaded her way through the desks, the other barons moving back amid a murmur of speculation. Wearing minstrel blue with a turquoise ribbon pin, Malgrim pointed Bizal in Kahyla’s direction. Bizal’s attention bounced from her sword, to her Grath purple jacket, to Despard beside her.
“May Parkith welcome your [redacted] into His Eternal Summer,” Bizal drawled lazily.
Her illusion of strength slipped and she stumbled, steadied by Despard’s arm.
“By His Flame, may it be so,” she choked.
“I release you from your oath, child.” Bizal waved a lavender-soaked handkerchief at her. “If you wish, you may validate your father’s marriage and claim the Grath title.”
Despite the Grath household thirsting for new leadership, she couldn’t give it to them. Not when Tamrin was her last bargaining chip.
“I wish to hold you to your oath,” Kahyla said. “To protect my household.”

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Lord Braxton Hemsmore : Adorable Gay Fluff Monster @tracerleo1967.bsky.social · 1d

happy coming out day everyone. let’s see your pride flags. #Transmasculine #Nonbinary #Enby

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