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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 2h

Met my ex-husband on MySpace.

Yeah, it didn’t end well, but I still wouldn’t trade that experience for the direction I‘d been heading before him.

Wait, stop laughing. MySpace was cool back then.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 2h

Don't worry... you'll enjoy it... 😈

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h

It is amazing how much the brain does when you tell it to take a break and go on a walk.

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 5h

When I struggled with something writing-wise I take a walk. And 100% of the time I end up figuring out the solution. I would never, ever, ever, ask a machine to do that for me. Wtf.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 6h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 5h

Right!? Like, how do you make "I feel dead inside without emotion or will" feel like a real and relatable character with a compelling reason to be doing plot things?

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🖤💚 D.Marie (she/they) 💚🖤 @dmarie76.bsky.social · 7h

The Curse

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Joy is ✨querying✨ 🥀🪦 @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 5h

When the line between friendly and deadly cryptids begins to blur, Elle discovers her crush is hiding some monsters of her own. One that might just take the clinic, and Elle’s heart, down with her if she doesn’t finally risk letting her own inner monsters out of the closet.

#DVpit #YA #H #R #LGBT

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 5h

a young girl in a striped shirt is covering her face with her hand

Alt: a young girl in a striped shirt is covering her face with her hand. She screams. Unclear if excited or upset.

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 5h

I agree. His caring is endearing, as is his defiance and the way his honesty sometimes gets him into trouble. He’s simultaneously too pure for this world and somehow too real. 🥰
Every time I read a snip of him Im just “Awe, Lawcket!” 🤦‍♀️❤️

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 6h

I hope Nora will grow on folk.
Her abrupt/stiff manner combined with how sternly caring she is for the folk around her... and her weirdly fun drill-seargeant way with kids.

Bayle is just a sweetie. As a gentle-giant who is cheerful and optimistic 🥰

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 7h

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

What is your character's most endearing/compelling trait?

What is something about them that you think will make a reader invested in them and their story?

Is it also the thing you like best about them?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 7h

When an ambitious student heads to Berlin to learn German, a mix-up lands her w/ a single dad reeling from a wrecked career.
In the mellow summer of ’97, initial tensions melt into friendship—and blazing chemistry.
It can only be a fling: her future’s in Paris; secrets tie him to Berlin
#DVPit #A #R

Moodboard. Center photo: A man and woman embracing (design by Freepik, freepik.com), overlaid with the word "romance". Surrounding it are 8 squares, arranged clockwise: 1. The word "heartfelt" on a grey background; 2. A street sign reading "Pariser Platz“ in front of the Brandenburg Gate (photo by Dietmar Rabich, 2013-11-23, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed); 3. The word "spicy" on a black background; 4. Wannsee beach (photo by Asif Masimov, 2018-04-22, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en); 5. The word "destination" on a white background; 6. A DJ playing at the Tresor nightclub (photo by Angie Linder, 2015-08-20, licensed under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en); 7. The word "retro" on a black background; 8. A young boy sitting cross-legged and looking up (photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash)

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Suzanne Miller @activistcalleds.bsky.social · 11h

After their fight over hospital money drives a key donor away, middle class PT Adrienne & secretly the son of a billionaire surgeon Neil must team up to put on a fundraising gala to get the money back before the hospital shuts down—but they might lose their ❤️s in the process.
#Dvpit #CR #A #JV

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Suzanne Miller @activistcalleds.bsky.social · 10h

Jay's family only understands trophies, so he's going to win quiz bowl state. When a prank gone too far means he must fake date a rival player to avoid expulsion, their connection makes him question if true winning is a trophy or being seen by the people you love.
#dvpit #YA #CR #JV #ND

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Suzanne Miller @activistcalleds.bsky.social · 9h

In a healthcare reality where $ is increasingly scarce, always-gets-it-done PT Adrienne & bad-ass ortho surgeon Neil's fight over the hospital budget causes a big donor to walk. They must work together to raise the money or lose the hospital the community depends on.

#dvpit #A #CR #JV #ND

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Suzanne Miller @activistcalleds.bsky.social · 8h

Bex: Patrilineal Jew whose dad died
Jay: Feels alone at Temple youth group
Both: Must win quiz bowl
To avoid expulsion for a prank, the rivals fake date. They bond over their complex relationship w Judaism & fall in ❤️, then must decide what means more: ❤️ or a 🏆?
#dvpit #YA #CR #JV #ND

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Suzanne Miller @activistcalleds.bsky.social · 7h

Eldest daughter PT Adrienne will get the $ her dept needs & will fight the arrogant new surgeon to do it. When the fight makes a key donor walk, she & the surgeon team up to get the $ back & fall in ❤️. Can ❤️ survive public failure if only 1 gets the $ they originally wanted?
#dvpit #A #CR #JV

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

If you mean "One idiot lesbian and her inability to express emotions" you might be on the mark 😆

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

Talia has a little blue hatchback, an archeology degree, and an ambition to make it as a PI. When a client is murdered, she has to team up with her former best-friend-turned-rival to trace a series of ancient artifacts before the killer can come for her smokin-hot new client.

#DVpit #LGBT #A #Mys

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 8h

Helena's only friends are the gargoyles on the Grim old chapel, but they can't help her with her secret magic.
When demons attack the school, she embarks on a journey through a technicolor Hell to save it, and her friends, from an epic monster.

If she can face her own demons.

#DVpit #LGBT #YA #F

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 9h

Disgraced archeologist, Talia, hopes to jumpstart a new career as a PI. When an ancient Egyptian knife turns up at an Illinois site, she must turn to an old frenemy.
Can they put their differences aside when the case turns deadly?

Fortune Favors the Dead x Old World Murder

#DVpit #LGBT #A #Mys

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 11h

An ancient knife turns up at the wrong museum, and a PI turns to an old frenemy to put his hyperfixation to use on the case.

When her client is killed, a web of secrets and lies begins to unravel. Now they must race to protect the archeological record... and stop a killer.

#DVpit #LGBT #A #Mys

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 12h

When troubled goth-girl Helena falls in love with a gargoyle and Hell spills into the school, she must find a way to unleash a dark power to stop warring monsters from destroying everything she's come to love.

"Wednesday Addams goes to Oz"

Sapphic YA Urban Fantasy

#DVpit #LGBT #YA #F

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 14h

Talia must work with an old frenemy to find out how a priceless artifact snuck INTO a museum.
Then her client is killed. Is she next?

Sapphic Archeologist PI
Platonic Grumpy x Sunshine
Buddy-cop vibes (minus the "cop" part)
Noir inspired
Unraveling colonialism

#DVpit #LGBT #A #Mys

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 15h

A lonely goth-girl must unlock a dark power and face her own demons to save her new friends... the gargoyles.

Sapphic MC
Mental health
Technicolor Hellscape
Darkness is not evil
Haunted chapel
Coming of age

Don't Let the Forest In x City of Bones x Daughter of Smoke and Bone

#DVpit #LGBT #YA #F

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

#DVpit pitches all in one place!

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👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 7h

👻Scarlet🎃Mitchell☠️ @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 8h

Helena's only friends are the gargoyles on the Grim old chapel, but they can't help her with her secret magic.
When demons attack the school, she embarks on a journey through a technicolor Hell to save it, and her friends, from an epic monster.

If she can face her own demons.

#DVpit #LGBT #YA #F

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