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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻
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I'm just a girl who likes animals, music, reading, writing, & soon a published author who has a bookshop named Dragonfly Night Books. Currently preparing for self-publish a few books. Host of #WIPPIT and #Cupit
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I'm currently reading For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn. I love it because not only is it amazing, but also it's the prequel to her tiktok story Hell's Belles that I was already in love with.
January 8, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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#cupit @cupitch.bsky.social is February 14

And

#GhostPit @ghostpit.bsky.social is October 30 (also July 5 - 11 we are hosting a weeklong question Summerween kickoff event.)
January 7, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Made the goal and I am 13 chapters deep in the wip I started this month. Im going to keep writing through the end of December to meet the 50,000 goal I set for the whole month but Im half way before reaching the halfway mark of the month. This makes 166,933 words for all of First Draft Fall.
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I finished the November projects and now Im working on another project to at least get it started. Im on chapter 4 of that one already.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I'll be real: I completely forgot WIPPit was today. :V

But also! I think pitch event burnout is growing increasingly common on this platform. We had a *lot* of them this year, sometimes back to back. I know I'm taking a break because it's a lot, and I'd rather focus on drafting. 🫠
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When Isla's school visits a history museum she is enchanted by The Unicorn Tapestries, but she never imagines they will change her. She must save herself from the hunt while also protecting the secret that she holds within her.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT
Black background. The top 2 corners are pictures of Moon Falls in Oregon and between them is the title The Secret of Moon Falls. In the middle are two quotes and between them is The Forest Maiden by Anne Stokes (A unicorn in a forest being held by a girl in a green dress with a butterfly over the back and a rainbow beside it.) The quotes are: “We may never know precisely when or where or how the legend of the unicorn began. It pervades recorded time and may be dimly visible even in the clouds that hover just above history's sunrise. The mystery of its origin... is one of the legend's most evident charms.” Odell Shepard, "The Gorgeous East," The Lore of the Unicorn, 1930 “I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.” Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn The bottom is another picture of Moon Falls in Oregon, The Captured Unicorn tapestry, and 2 hunters in the forest.
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When Bonnie hears whispers from the Loch she learns to whisper back and may just discover the secrets held within its depths.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT
Top 2 pictures: The 2 Kelpie heads at Falkirk, Scotland, and a little girl in a white dress on a dock putting little paper sailboats in water. The kelpie picture has a quote: “When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord, An' float the jinglin' icy boord, Then water-kelpies haunt the foord, By your direction, And 'nighted trav'llers are allur'd To their destruction.” by Robert Burns Middle 2 pictures: A Fjord with an old castle looking building and a yellow flowering meadow in the Scottish Highlands. The fjord picture has a quote: “In the depths they await to hear the children's whispered calls.” - The Children who Whispered to Water. Bottom Picture: An art picture of a kelpie with glowing white eyes coming out of the water to a shore of a forest. At the bottom of the pic is the title in green in a watery font The Children who Whispered to Water. There is a quote: “No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless as feathers falling.” From Molly Hunter’s, The Kelpie's Pearls
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When a mysterious voice is heard coming from the lake, Eva's parents forbid her from going back, but how can Eva stay away from what's calling to her soul even if it's the very thing that threatens to drown her?

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT
A blue background. Left side topis a lake with fog and a foggy black shore, below that in a purple square is a quote there is a reason we are drawn to gazing at the ocean it is said the ocean provides a closer reflection of who we are than any mirror. Below that is ice with cracks in it. Below that is a purple and blue box with a quote sometimes it takes only one song to bring back a thousand memories. Bottom left is a woman sitting on rock in a river in a tan dress holding her right arm up on her head behind her and all the way down to her are waterfalls big and very small and they continue past her where the river has cut into the stone. Top right is a word in curly font part of the title Singing the other part is at the bottom Lake, so Singing Lake put together. Below singing is a stormy lake with a storm on the outskirts and a boat caught in the choppy waves. Below that is a small stormy lake scene with the words sometimes I feel if I stop and think I'll drown in a sea of grief. Below that is a girl sitting on a dock by a lake crying. Below that by lake is a small box with words she had the sea within her soul continuously.
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

When Melody faces a trauma that leaves her mute she must find her song within her once more to be able to sing with her choir again. Through her journey she will learn more about herself than she ever imagined.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT
A red background. Top left pic is a choir singing and being Directed. Top right is sheet music with a red rose on it. Below that in neon white is the title in curly font A Lullaby of Silence. Middle left pic is a child in a red shirt with a grey striped blanket holding a reddish monkey. Middle middle is a cardinal on a tree branch in front of wild grassesand snow and fog with red words that say use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. Middle right is a little girl looking down and away sadly and dragging a large white bear on stones with a moon and clouds in the background. Bottom left is a building of white stone with cut outs where white stone statues of gods and goddesses stand. Bottom right pic is a mute symbol of a sideways white bell with a red line through it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

Devin is obsessed with Sasquatch. So when one shows up in his hometown he must find it if he wants to prove they're real & protect everyone.

#W #MG #F #WIPPIT
Black background with grey Bigfoot prints from bottom left to top right. Top left pic is sasquatch in the forest. Below that is a black and white Bigfoot in the forest sticker with the words When nobody believes in you believe in yourself. On the right is a half a white boy face and one blue eye. Next to that is a Bigfoot and tree in A yellow moon with Not all who wander are lost around it. Below that is the title in green Tracking Sasquatch. Below that on the right is bigfoot in the forest with the words leave no trace when camping, if bigfoot can do it, so can you. On the left and down a little is searchers in orange vests in the forest. Below the Bigfoot on the right is a boy scout camping and looking around with binoculars.
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The Bailey School Kids x Dragon Girls x Animorphs

Brie loves flowers & now she's old enough to compete in floriculture, but when plants start reacting to her in strange ways she will have to try to keep her new power secret while also vying for what she wants most.

#W #F #MG #WIPPIT
Black background. Top left pic is pink flowers. Top middle is a grey background with tan flowers to the side that reads that dream was planted in your heart for a reason. Top right is kids putting flowers in glass vases. Below those the left pic is a table with an FFA table cloth and a big horseshoe and flower arrangements in a classroom. The right pic is the words in pink shades of Dream it, Believe it, Achieve it. Below those is the title in pink Of Mushrooms and Flowers. Below that on the left is red cap mushrooms in a field and on the right is a partial of the FFA logo. Below those at the bottom left is a hedge with white wood letter reading dream and the right is a bunch of different pink and purple flowers growing together.
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