Willow_Writes
@sassquatch96.bsky.social
Willow 🏴 she/her
MAnth 👩🏼🎓| aspiring writer (horror, fantasy, sci-fi, romance)
| INFJ | Humanitarian | 🍉
Cthulhu's favourite child | Lolth's Little Princess | Vault Dweller | former Hackett's Quarry counsellor
MAnth 👩🏼🎓| aspiring writer (horror, fantasy, sci-fi, romance)
| INFJ | Humanitarian | 🍉
Cthulhu's favourite child | Lolth's Little Princess | Vault Dweller | former Hackett's Quarry counsellor
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Willow_Writes
@sassquatch96.bsky.social
· Nov 17
"Wow, look at all those unfinished drafts!"
*starts writing another story*
*starts writing another story*
Describing characters through the perspectives of their LIs was one of the best things I've done
November 29, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Describing characters through the perspectives of their LIs was one of the best things I've done
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🌌🛰️👾 SCI-FI NOVELLA 👾🛰️🌌
🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🫂 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🪱 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈⬛ a rescue cat
🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🫂 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🪱 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈⬛ a rescue cat
🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
November 28, 2024 at 6:09 PM
🌌🛰️👾 SCI-FI NOVELLA 👾🛰️🌌
🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🫂 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🪱 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈⬛ a rescue cat
🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🫂 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🪱 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈⬛ a rescue cat
🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...
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Time for another #SimmondsWritingTips (busy day today so getting this one done early).
Let's talk about using all 5 senses to bring your descriptions to life. This is the next level to the 'How to describe characters' thread I wrote a while back.
Get comfortable. This is a fun one...
Let's talk about using all 5 senses to bring your descriptions to life. This is the next level to the 'How to describe characters' thread I wrote a while back.
Get comfortable. This is a fun one...
a woman says i have a fifth sense in front of another woman
ALT: a woman says i have a fifth sense in front of another woman
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Time for another #SimmondsWritingTips (busy day today so getting this one done early).
Let's talk about using all 5 senses to bring your descriptions to life. This is the next level to the 'How to describe characters' thread I wrote a while back.
Get comfortable. This is a fun one...
Let's talk about using all 5 senses to bring your descriptions to life. This is the next level to the 'How to describe characters' thread I wrote a while back.
Get comfortable. This is a fun one...
Post a movie gif from the year you were born.
November 23, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Post a movie gif from the year you were born.
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Many scammers cheat authors by selling what looks like conventional publishing or marketing or agenting--except that it's a scam. But sometimes they just make shit up. Here's an example: a mythical thing called a "No-Objection Certificate", supposedly to ensure compliance with copyright laws.
November 22, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Many scammers cheat authors by selling what looks like conventional publishing or marketing or agenting--except that it's a scam. But sometimes they just make shit up. Here's an example: a mythical thing called a "No-Objection Certificate", supposedly to ensure compliance with copyright laws.
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Book intro: BLADE OF THE CROWN
👑 a princess struggling with her magic
⚔️ a royal guard with too much ambition
🏝️ an ambush that strands them on a strange island
💘 falling in love at the most inconvenient time
🗡️ a revelation that could topple the throne
tinyurl.com/bladeofthecrown
🌈📚 #sapphfic
👑 a princess struggling with her magic
⚔️ a royal guard with too much ambition
🏝️ an ambush that strands them on a strange island
💘 falling in love at the most inconvenient time
🗡️ a revelation that could topple the throne
tinyurl.com/bladeofthecrown
🌈📚 #sapphfic
November 20, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Book intro: BLADE OF THE CROWN
👑 a princess struggling with her magic
⚔️ a royal guard with too much ambition
🏝️ an ambush that strands them on a strange island
💘 falling in love at the most inconvenient time
🗡️ a revelation that could topple the throne
tinyurl.com/bladeofthecrown
🌈📚 #sapphfic
👑 a princess struggling with her magic
⚔️ a royal guard with too much ambition
🏝️ an ambush that strands them on a strange island
💘 falling in love at the most inconvenient time
🗡️ a revelation that could topple the throne
tinyurl.com/bladeofthecrown
🌈📚 #sapphfic
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UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke
November 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke
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🏹 sci-fi / dystopian
☣️ post-apocalyptic
👑 a tyrant king
🧪 a mysterious illness
🔥 slow burn romance
⚔️ enemies everywhere
📚 five book series
👾 book one is an SPSFC semi-finalist
❣️ ebooks are ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/rSMw0
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/series/26074...
☣️ post-apocalyptic
👑 a tyrant king
🧪 a mysterious illness
🔥 slow burn romance
⚔️ enemies everywhere
📚 five book series
👾 book one is an SPSFC semi-finalist
❣️ ebooks are ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/rSMw0
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/series/26074...
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 AM
🏹 sci-fi / dystopian
☣️ post-apocalyptic
👑 a tyrant king
🧪 a mysterious illness
🔥 slow burn romance
⚔️ enemies everywhere
📚 five book series
👾 book one is an SPSFC semi-finalist
❣️ ebooks are ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/rSMw0
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/series/26074...
☣️ post-apocalyptic
👑 a tyrant king
🧪 a mysterious illness
🔥 slow burn romance
⚔️ enemies everywhere
📚 five book series
👾 book one is an SPSFC semi-finalist
❣️ ebooks are ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/rSMw0
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/series/26074...
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🏹⚔️🏰 SHORT STORY 🏰⚔️🏹
🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
👥 second pov
❣️ only ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
👥 second pov
❣️ only ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 AM
🏹⚔️🏰 SHORT STORY 🏰⚔️🏹
🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
👥 second pov
❣️ only ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
👥 second pov
❣️ only ✨99c!✨
🔖 book link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
November 19, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Authors, keep yourselves informed on what your publishers are doing re: AI & talk to your agents & Soc of Authors. lithub.com/harpercollin...
HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.
On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…
lithub.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Authors, keep yourselves informed on what your publishers are doing re: AI & talk to your agents & Soc of Authors. lithub.com/harpercollin...
Post a perfect album for the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
Girl Power!
Girl Power!
November 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Post a perfect album for the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains
Girl Power!
Girl Power!
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Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
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Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.
There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.
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👀 pitching is difficult. This could help.
So how can you do this? Well, I'm teaching this course tomorrow and there are a few places left so you can have the full answer there. In the meanwhile I will share a snippet of what worked for me and how thinking 'hook first' got me an agent in 3 days and a TV deal!
raindance.org/courses/from...
From Pitch to Product: How to Write a Story Pitch First
Hone your story into the perfect elevator pitch and know you're on to a good thing before you start writing so your script can go from pitch to product
raindance.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
👀 pitching is difficult. This could help.
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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 16, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
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Dragon Age Veilguard is WILD
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Dragon Age Veilguard is WILD
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Writing is a lonely hobby/profession, and it’s hard to meet others. A lot of new writers have joined Bluesky. Are you one of them? Looking for readers? Looking for other writers to collab with? Post below who you are, what you write, then surf the thread to find new folks to follow and share with.
November 17, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Writing is a lonely hobby/profession, and it’s hard to meet others. A lot of new writers have joined Bluesky. Are you one of them? Looking for readers? Looking for other writers to collab with? Post below who you are, what you write, then surf the thread to find new folks to follow and share with.
"Wow, look at all those unfinished drafts!"
*starts writing another story*
*starts writing another story*
November 17, 2024 at 5:03 PM
"Wow, look at all those unfinished drafts!"
*starts writing another story*
*starts writing another story*
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A monstrously deformed 5th ninja turtle approaches.
"What are you doing out of your cage, Picasso?" says Splinter.
Then he sees the gun.
"What are you doing out of your cage, Picasso?" says Splinter.
Then he sees the gun.
November 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
A monstrously deformed 5th ninja turtle approaches.
"What are you doing out of your cage, Picasso?" says Splinter.
Then he sees the gun.
"What are you doing out of your cage, Picasso?" says Splinter.
Then he sees the gun.
This 👇🏻
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 17, 2024 at 2:29 PM
This 👇🏻