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✍🏼Winter Simpson

@winterandwords.social

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🏳️‍🌈 Writing character-driven queer fiction 🌆 Altered states and liminal spaces 📚 My stories, blog and community https://patreon.com/winterandwords 💻 Links to everything https://winterandwords.social

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 15h

Writing stuff was good this week. I hit both my goals - keeping up with daily #LGBTQWriteAThon posts and planning my Patreon context for the rest of the year.

I hope everyone else had a good week 💜

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 18h

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 11:

Check in day! How was your week?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 11: Check in day.
BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 15h

Potato looks so cuddly 😍

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 15h

That's so lovely!! What a wonderful reputation to have 💜

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Sass Everett @sasseverett.bsky.social · 1d

My novella The Hand That Feeds still makes me very happy! I loved writing these characters so much
books2read.com/u/4APvDq
sasseverett.itch.io/the-hand-tha...
#lgbtqwriteathon

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Dahlia Donovan @dahliadonovan.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10:

What will you find in my Skeleton Crew cozy series?

- Chaos Kittens
- Found Family
- An adorable autistic vampire + their witchy girlfriend
- Knitting
- a cozy paranormal world filled with magic and mystery

readerlinks.com/l/4105779

#CozyMystery #ParanormalRomance

a photo collage including the book cover for A Curse for Samhain, A photo of tacos, a raven, a roll of yarn with knitting needles, and a tarot card reading.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Oh my god, I LOVE your big anti AI sign right at the top of your website 💜

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Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon I talked about Lemon Balm last time (which is still on pre-order and comes out on Halloween!)

This time, let me talk about my art. I do commissions for bookish art, graphics, and formatting, and I keep my prices low in order to be more accessible to indies.

Check me out here!

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Your knitting project is so lovely!

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Jax Wolff Writes @jaxwolffwrites.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon The penultimate chapter of The Infinite Sadness goes out today, containing the kiss and a magic fight set to "Come On Eileen," for FREE.
jaxwolffwrites.beehiiv.com

Happy Bonus: My writing partner, who's modeling the first knitting project I've ever completed (and stealing my tea).

Beenjamin, OP's plush bee (and writing partner/rubber duck for rubber duck plot debugging), hovers over a red cup full of tea. He's wearing a red, gold, and gray scarf. Behind him is a computer; on the screen, Scrivener sits open to a document (for The Nameless Song), still on chapter 7.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Dogs and nature are very high up on my list of things that make life worth living.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Congratulations!!

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon

It's out today!

I'm in it!

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Nona is making me happy too. That's such a cute photo 😍

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

No photos for this and it's not a promo, but something that makes me REALLY happy is being part of communities - here and on Tumblr - where I feel like I actually belong instead of just being a conditionally tolerated exception.

Thank you all for being who you are 💜

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 1d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10:

It's promo Friday! Today, share something that makes you happy! Don't forget to boost others' posts!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 1d

Had to stop scrolling here because the animated bi flags are hypnotised me. Also, the bi *disaster* flag should look exactly like that.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 2d

I'm totally cracking up over "token cishet blonde guy" 😄

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 2d

These are beautiful moodboards!! Also I am so here for the trans Monster cans and bi streetlights.

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 2d

Totally lacking the energy to hunt for images today, so here's the emoji version...

Tobie, the MC of Project Darwin: 🧡🤍🩷

Rafe, the MC of Miles From Morning: Sort of 🩷💜💙 and also mostly 🖤🩶🤍💜 but also also it's *very* complicated and is violence an orientation?

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon (pride flags)

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 2d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 9:

Share pride flags or pride flag inspired moodboards for your WIP today!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 2d

🔫 NAME FROM NOWHERE chapter 34 is now live!

💜 I've been so excited about posting this chapter since I started posting Name From Nowhere and today I got to do it. Yaaaaay!

🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/140833...

🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon

Promo graphic for Name From Nowhere, cyberpunk fiction by Winter Simpson.

The background image is of a dark-haired woman wearing visor-style sunglasses and a black coat is standing in front of a pink and blue patterned neon sign. The colours from the sign are reflecting on her skin and sunglasses.

The tag at the top of the graphic says patreon.com/winterandwords. The rest of the text says "That’s the beauty of being no-one, wearing a name from nowhere, as invisible as the seams in your once broken bones, shedding your past like skin."

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 3d

Project Darwin is lit fic and Miles From Morning is cyberpunk. I found it's good for my brain to have WIPs in completely different genres because it's refreshing to switch between them when one gets too obsessy and overwhelming.

🏷️ #LGBTQWriteAThon (genres)

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 3d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8:

What genre is your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

🌃 Miles From Morning is set in an alternate (diverged post WW2) near-ish future

🌄 Project Darwin starts in the early 1990s and runs until 2009 (let's pretend I didn't have to open the timeline doc and check that)

🏷 #LGBTQWriteAThon (setting time period)

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 4d

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 7:

What is the setting and/or time period of your WIP?

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

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✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

Good luck for the exams! 🍀

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

"dedicate myself more to my reconnecting with nature journey"

That sounds so lovely!!

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

The writing retreat sounds fun! I hope you have an awesome time 😊

✍🏼Winter Simpson @winterandwords.social · 4d

Being kind to yourself is a very important goal to have, especially when you're recovering from burnout 💜