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#Blackwriter Writer of broken worlds and aching characters. YA fantasy rooted in African mythology, rebellion and quiet rage. Debut book in process.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Jun 30

Hi Bluesky👋

I’m Walyda, a writer currently working on my debut novel inspired by African mythology. My story follows a forgotten girl raised in a shrine, chosen as a sacrifice to silent gods in a world unraveling from rot, rebellion, and lies.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 12h

Some books leave you haunted, not because they’re scary but because they understood you, like you are speaking to your soul.

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Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 17h

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve traveled to places that don’t exist and met people who never lived, yet somehow they changed me.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 3d

These are the books that no matter how many times you read them, it always feels like the first time

Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 3d

That moment when a book leaves you staring at the wall.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 3d

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 24d

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 26d

We should normalise not liking something because of the hype, Everything has its target audience. If you don’t get it, it’s okay.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · 26d

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
— Stephen King

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Sep 18

I promised myself I’d write today. Instead, I alphabetized my snacks and stared blankly at my screen 📚💙

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Sep 1

The emptiness you feel when you finish writing a book that lived in your head for half your life…. it feels like closing a chapter of yourself 📚💙

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 31

Loving my fictional characters more than actual people…

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kj is ✨querying✨ @kjsilver.bsky.social · Aug 6

❤️‍🔥 THE HEALER WITCH ❤️‍🔥

If you thought coming back to the place you hate the most was bad, imagine getting tangled in a Healer’s dodgy business AND constantly putting your life in danger in the process.

The odds are not in their favour, but the Gods are.

#agentsguide #questpit #Q #A #F

Purple and orange flames over a dark background. White text reads: The Guardians of Melya present, The Healer Witch. A Bewitched 97K Adult Fantasy by K J Silver

Purple and orange flames over a dark background. The white text reads: The pitch - Captain Onwyn Storm's life changes the moment he agrees to work for General Redwood, though he will soon learn just how much. While trying to prove himself and fulfill the bargain he's made to be rid of his father's corrupting influence once and for all he is forces to work with Lunary. A Healer Witch who has more secrets than he can keep track of and could very well cost him everything he has worked so hard for. Or his life, if he's not careful.

Purple and orange flames over a dark background. White text reads: The Prologue - And so Ylluriel had endured centuries of watching how they destroyed each other. Over land, resources, family feuds. The reason didn’t seem to matter, for they always found another excuse to turn against one another. The greed, the hopelessness. The anger and blood lust. The jealousy and despair. They had all infected the lands of Melya like a plague that no one could stop. Ylluriel had easily grown tired of staying aside. Of having the power to change things and not do anything to help the children that she loved so fiercely. Her love was so great that she was willing to go against Melya herself, the Mother of all. Her grandmother.
It wasn’t the first time she had defied her, after all, and she was sure it would not be the last. Especially not when a child, so desperate to live, had found her way to her realm.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 5

Its like you plan the book to go A but it goes z

Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 4

People think writers know the whole story from the start.
No.
We just show up with vibes and chaos, and let the characters take over, do whatever they want.
By the time the story reveal itself, the author is no longer the same.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 4

I have no idea the challenges…

Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 4

non-writers: “just write it!”
writers: “do you even understand what kind of emotional war that is”📚💙

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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) 🦋 @sashakielman.bsky.social · Aug 3

My "at least one sentence every day" streak since Monday, June 23 continues! I finished a new short story, edited two others, and made 11 short story submissions in July! #HotWritingSummer

C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · Aug 2

My July wasn't the best, but I DID write almost every day.

(I started by tracking 2 chapters per day and ended up just counting "2" as "I wrote more than 100 words" because burnout's a bitch)

How did your July #writing go?

A July calendar with most of the days in green and a few in black

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 2

Sometimes, the loudest things I feel
are held in what I do not speak of,
the ache and emptiness behind my ribs
the truth hidden behind smiles.

There’s wisdom in the quiet parts,
in things too heavy to confess.
The silence knows the shape of me
the chaos I have learned to hide.

#Poetry #booksky

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 1

Days gone by,
The bright sun vanished
Shrouded in endless darkness.

Chaos waits to break,
Amid maddening silence.

Cries of vultures fill the sky,
A haunting call of death.
No hero to call,
No savior left to save.

Just endless cries
Of pain and agony,
Endless cries
Of death and hunger.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Aug 1

A yellow grass,
Among green grasses,
All alone like a moon in the night sky,
Never been part,
Never been among.

Like a missing puzzle piece,
Never fit in,

Hope that one day
It might be green,
But each day drags,
Until hope is but
A distant dream.

Wrote my first poem ever today!
#poems #booksky

Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Jul 30

My TBR pile is a tower of ambition and denial, yet I keep adding more books, knowing there’s never enough time to read all the books I want 📚💙. Sometimes I just wish I would disappear and read all those books.

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Jul 27

Writing is 10% typing and 90% staring at the screen whispering, ‘what happens next?’

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Walyda @walyda.bsky.social · Jul 22

My characters have better writing skills than I do and they literally stabbed each other.

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