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Lyra Is Writing
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She/her. Wannabe polymath from the PNW, currently working on a book about smoochin' a robot, and sometimes other things. Mother to three children (two cats and a baby). If you post GenAI, I will block you. 😘
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Dear Santa:

All I want for Christmas is for the Oxford comma to be cherished, loved, and respected.
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today in toddler life, I am grateful to have the type of neurodivergence that makes me well-prepared for listening to the same song over and over forever.
December 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Another evening, another load-bearing placeholder for my future self to deal with.

#WriteSky #BookSky #amWriting #amDrafting #Author
December 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Finish the ending of my AndroidWIP, then go back and rewrite everything that needs to be changed in the zero draft (which is… most of it. ._.). Then, MAYBE, show it to some people!

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
#booksky
#pretendpanel, I can't believe it's only been a week, it feels like longer! Tell me...

December 19th: Is there a tangible achievement you want to reach in 2026?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hazel meets Jen, head of the robotics company interviewing her for a ~*mysterious*~ summer research position. (What would a robotics manufacturer want an anthropology grad student for? 👀)

#WIPSnips #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #amwriting #WriteSky #BookSky #romance #sciencefiction
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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oh my god
December 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I really love the idea of Zeke meeting a dog for the first time and being completely smitten. Plus since this draft probably won’t include his POV it would be fun to do that.

#WritingPrompts #WriteSky #BookSky #amwriting #WIP #scifi #romance
For your WIPs or published stories, if you were asked to write a "bonus scene" outside of the main plot, what would it be?

#WritingPrompts #WriteSky
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Nothing even close to "clay" in current WIP, so went looking in the drive again today. This is from my first attempt at writing a fantasy romance.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #fantasy #romance #writesky #booksky #sff
December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"Soggy" was the closest I got, from a scene that will probably end up cut. I like it, but it doesn't really fit the plot, and also feels out-of-voice for Hazel. But you get to enjoy it anyway. 😜

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #writesky #booksky #romance #sciencefiction
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Me sowing: Man, it’s so great having a toddler who will eat stuff like chickpea tikka masala!
Me reaping: OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT SMELL???!
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Losing a hyperfixation and leaving a fandom feels both like being dumped in a very embarrassing "why was I ever with them" way AND breaking up with someone you loved and losing half your friends in the divorce
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Me trying to write a scene I dont want to
Me: I want to challenge myself to grow as an artist
Me 5 minutes into challenging myself: this is awful I hate this why am I doing this to myself 😭😭😭😭
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It’s meeeeeeeee! So excited to yell about this amazing book. 😈

#booksky #darkfantasy #urbanfantasy #romance #horror #preorder #coming2026 #seeyouinhell
Very excited to announce the Hellbound street team roster! These amazing humans are in for a hell of a ride.

#seeyouinhell
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Repost because I quoted the wrong day! 😅

I don't actually have anything for this one from my current project, but I did a quick search of my drive and found this sentence hanging out by itself in an otherwise blank document:

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #YourGuessIsAsGoodAsMine
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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manifesting:
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🕯 🕯
🕯 ai bubble 🕯

🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯

🕯 for all involved 🕯
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December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If you like:

-Dark horror-adjacent fantasy
-Deals with demons
-Morally grey characters
-Disaster bi protagonists
-Shadow Daddies 😈🌶️

You should preorder HELLBOUND!
It’s TIME.

Pre-orders for my dark contemporary romantasy HELLBOUND are live! Link in my bio. 💜
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Kill Bill Vol. 1. It came out when I was in high school and everyone I knew acted like I was crazy for hating it.

I never saw Vol 2, but I did watch about 10 minutes of Reservoir Dogs in college, which was when I realized that what I REALLY hate is Quentin Tarantino.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Innovations in anti-hostility architecture.
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Today’s out of context line where I made myself laugh:

“Come on, it’s not fair to compare *any* wedding to a fantasy wedding put together by two 13 year old girls.”

#writesky #amwriting #romance #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM