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Adregem ཐིཋྀ

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Professional science writer. Unprofessional novelist. Mom with half an empty nest. Insomniac. She/her. That is not me in the picture.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · Jul 12

When a mortal woman with a cosplay sword storms a dark fairytale realm in search of her kidnapped brother, she becomes the linchpin in a war between a monster king and a demigod who plans to smother the sun. ཐིཋྀ THE MOTH KING (109K) ཐིཋྀ #AgentGuide #AgentGuides #Romantasy #Fantasy #AmQuerying #Writers

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Cleora Alienaria Moth (BilliBhai) • Cracked Earth (Patrick Hendry) • Full Moon in Fog (Dinkun Chen) • Sword (Rama) • Samal Fruit Bats (Ranieljosecastaneda) • Lighthouse (Martin Belam) • The Redwood Sunbeams (National Park Service) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 19h

Sunday has just become the Moth King's prisoner #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AuthorSky #AmQuerying

One of the schrats wears a wide leather bandolier outfitted with skeleton keys dangling from brass rings. He looks like Chewbacca if Chewbacca was dumpy and a janitor. Every step he takes makes the keys clink.
At least we’re going upstairs, which can only mean I’m not about to be put in a dungeon.
We enter a long corridor lined with identical, plain wooden doors. Key Master Schrat unclips a key from his bandolier and unlocks one of them. I listen for the sounds of prisoners begging for food or death, but it’s quiet as a church on Tuesday.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 1d

Second this!

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 1d

When you're trying to convince your client that your guard isn't a ridiculous oaf #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #DarkFantasy

“Win is a competent guard,” I said. “I couldn’t do my job without him.”
“She flatters,” Win said without taking his eyes off the sky. “She actually only keeps me around because I’m so pretty.”
Tova’s gaze shifted back to me. “I don’t doubt he is.”
“See?” Win preened. “Even Tova thinks I’m pretty.”
“Gods,” I muttered. “Don’t judge him by his ridiculous sense of humor. He’ll make sure we stay safe. That’s his job.”
“I wasn’t joking,” Win complained.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 2d

Fairy tale creatures also experience hangovers #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AuthorSky #AmQuerying

A vaguely female creature shaped almost exactly like a mushroom blinks at me with wet, glazed eyes before laying her spotted head down on the wooden table very close to a puddle of something I cannot and do not wish to identify. A tall man with skin like a birch tree lays sprawled and silent on the floor half under one of the tables. I guess I missed the party.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 3d

From Opus Eternal: Tess has the worst possible encounter with the worst possible person while out for a run #WIPSnips #WIP #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AmQuerying

By the time I get back to the Frank & Martha’s, I’m beat. I slow, stop, and lean against a nearby tree to catch my breath.
And then who should come out of the store carrying a bag of groceries but Lorcan Fucking Harte.
I’m drenched in sweat. He looks fantastic.
“Thessaly,” he says with a kind of dismay in his voice. “Are you quite all right?”
“Of course I am,” I say with as much indignation as I can manage in between gasps for oxygen. “I’m running. People run, Lorcan.”
“From what?” He seems genuinely perplexed.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 4d

Happy #Caturday from North and this turkey feather. #CatsofBlueSky #Gato #CatsLife

A lynx point Siamese cat sitting in a window next to a turkey feather

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 4d

It was either another bear-related snip or this one from Miraculous Horrors, wherein Yago's mindless chatter finally reveals an interesting detail. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SciFi #SpecFic #SFF

“Hey, you want to know an interesting fact about cacus?” said Yago.
Riven looked pointedly at the window and wondered if saying “no” would make any difference.
Yago seemed untroubled by her silence. “They hunt in packs, and they make a sound like wind chimes.”
“Wind chimes?” She’d heard that detail before, from a child who’d survived the crossing. Music monsters.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 5d

I also have an older WIP that features a bear, so apparently bears are a running theme for me even though I hate them for eating my chickens. No "hibernate," though. Here's "asleep." #WIPSnips #WIP #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AmQuerying

At some point I fall asleep, but I have no idea how long I stay that way because my phone is dead and apparently it’s never occurred to anyone in the Evernight to invent a clock.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 5d

She’s using dark magic so no real skills or knowledge necessary

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes I get disproportionately determined

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 6d

I had a boring snip about salmon tacos from something I wrote 10 years ago or this one in which "trout" stands in for "salmon." Spoiler: Tova is lying about how she catches fish #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #DarkFantasy

Tova kicked her boots off, rolled up the legs of her trousers, and waded out into the river. She returned with a grin and a pair of blue trout, one in each hand.
“What the hell?” I said. “Did you raid someone’s trap?”
“Oh no. Fishing is one of my talents.”
I pulled my knife out and slit the biggest one from head to tail. “With your hands?”
“Yes. I’m quick.”
Tova sat down in the dirt and watched me gut the fish with the unmoved stoicism of someone used to seeing innards.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 7d

I’d like to start fresh! It was the NaNoWriMo way. 🙂 But if I don’t have an idea by the middle of the month I’ll probably just try to wrap up a current WIP

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 7d

The Moth King was my 2024 NaNoWriMo novel and probably my favorite thing I’ve ever written so I’m going to spend this November working on another novel. Though at the moment I have two WIPs and like zero ideas for something new. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning #WeeknightWriters! Welcome to #FirstDraftFall. What kind of project will you be working on?

These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...

Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning
What kind of project are you working on for #FirstDraftFall? A short story? A novella? A novel? A script? Something else altogether?

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 7d

#FirstDraftFall has officially started!!! We are SO excited to write alongside all of you!!

If you're looking for more support than the Bluesky prompts + chats, join our Sustaining Membership Program for access to the Pro Discord with weekly write-ins, monthly socials & more

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 7d

I had lots of "rivers" across every WIP except TMK, none of them great. Here's one from Miraculous Horrors, just before all hell breaks loose. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SciFi #SpecFic #SFF

The sky rumbled, and a flash of light illuminated the clouds.
“Shit” said Yago. “If it starts raining, visibility is going to be ass”
The words were barely out of his mouth when a large drop of water landed on the windshield.
“Fuck,” he said, turning the wipers on. The drop turned into three drops, then steady rainfall. Seconds later, the rainfall was so heavy Riven could barely see the rail bed, and the cheerful, late morning light had turned into near darkness. Water ran into the cab through the open window and flowed into the grooves on the floorboards, making tiny rivers around their feet.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 8d

This one is a trifecta of #WIPSnips words: paw, bear, and flurry (which I literally added the day after the prompt was flurry). Don't worry, this bear that Win has just de-pawed is basically a zombie bear. #WIP #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #DarkFantasy

The bear righted itself, roaring, and raised its huge foot for a second strike. Win swung hard, his sword arcing in a powerful half-circle, and the creature’s paw flew from its body.
It howled in furious outrage and gathered its hindquarters as if to charge, then collapsed onto its face in a flurry of flying dust and matter. Grunting, it lashed out with its other paw, clawing at the packed road surface as if trying to drag itself forward. Its back legs scraped impotently at the ground behind it.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve lost way more chickens to bears than foxes. Foxes grab one and run and bears rip the entire coop apart

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you! 💛

Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 9d

Bears feature prominently in two out of three of my WIPs, and I don't even like the chicken killing bastards. Here's Sunday quizzing MK about the bear that tried to eat him. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AmQuerying

My mouth starts spewing nervous snark. “So did the bear have rabies or something? I didn’t know you could contract shadowy monster syndrome from a bear. They left that part out of The Revenant.”
He raises his eyebrows. I guess he’s never seen The Revenant.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 10d

The lady doth protest too much #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AuthorSky #AmQuerying

Why did I come here again? The last thing I need right now is to feel empathy for Moth Creep. I start my car and turn the music up so it’s almost painfully loud.
I picture the Moth King in all his horrifying Moth Kinginess. One hundred fifty years is plenty of time to lose all your humanity. Once human does not mean still human.
I remind myself that the Moth King has a collection of decapitated heads and that he once tried to drown me in supernatural black ink. He does not deserve my empathy.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 11d

Haha I am a big Evander fan

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 11d

Soryl, Win, and Tova are casing the joint. Also, I may have changed "fast" to "swiftly." (From my dark fantasy Death & the Dreamer) #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #DarkFantasy #AuthorSky

Two square towers topped with turret roofs soared over both sides of the dome, and behind that, shorter but heftier forebuildings surrounded a massive, multi-towered keep. The whole structure was set into the mountainside, behind the vicious, white waters of a swiftly moving river. The only way in was across a long, six-arched bridge.
I frowned at a roll of rough linen and said, “I’ve seen enough.”
Win, who was busily pretending to be put out by our lingering interest in fabric, muttered, “Thank the gods,” and led us back through the narrow streets, B-lining for the butcher.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 12d

I love my villains. My favorite character I've ever written is Hadrian Deplante, the antagonist in my sci fi novel Miraculous Horrors. I also really, really love Macsen, the antagonist in my current WIP Death & the Dreamer. #pretendpanel #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Writers

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · 13d

I've gotta know, #pretendpanel...

September 26th: Do you have a favourite character that you've written?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 12d

No "mire" but here's "swamp." Lorcan ordered everything on the free breakfast menu and Tess is a little irked. #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AuthorSky

“Oh, I’m not eating all of it,” Lorcan says. “I just wanted a taste. You’re welcome to share.”
There are at least three different ways that’s offensive, and now I’m even less dazzled. I bite back a mean desire to give him a numbered list. “I hope you slept well?” I say instead.
He slathers strawberry jam onto a piece of toast. It seems one packet wasn’t enough for him because he opens up a second one and uses its contents to turn the slather into a strawberry jam swamp. “I did not,” he replies, still grinning. “The mattress in my room is dreadfully lumpy, and the sheets are scratchy.”

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