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Zero Point Games @zero-point-games.bsky.social · 1d

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 12h

#writinglifemonthly 8

I mean, not really? I guess City of the Dead from the Fallout OST kinda reminds me of Dumu from my upcoming story, but that's about it. It's not really something I think about.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 08 📚

Is there a song that instantly makes you think of your MC?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 08 If your main character had a theme song, what would it be?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 1d

#writinglifemonthly 7

My least favourite part of the process is the whole "having to prioritise your works" thing. I wish I could just work on all my projects at the same time.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 07 📚

Okay, so yesterday we did our fav part of the process, now tell us what you wish you didn't have to do...

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 07 What's your fav part of the writing process?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 2d

#writinglifemonthly 6

Drafting, I'd say. Just the process of sitting down and writing out the story really engages me. I enjoy research too, so long as it doesn't eat into my writing time, and editing to me is just the process of getting the draft to read the way it was supposed to read.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 3d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 06 📚

There are always parts of a job we love more than others. What's your fav part of the process?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 06 What's your favourite part of the writing process - drafting, editing, or researching?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 2d

#writinglifemonthly 5

I think most of the characters I've written are insufferable in one way or another, and the last people on Earth I'd hang out with. Maybe Valorean from A Soldier's Lot or Dumu from my upcoming story, but I can't imagine we'd have much in common.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 4d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 05 📚
Tell me the truth, do you write characters you'd love to have in your life? I know I do. Who would you pull from the page to hang out with and why?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 05 Which one of your characters woyld you want to be friends with IRL & why?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 3d

Writing Update:

Clanless - Gonna try sending that to an editor this week.

A Matter of Faith - Getting peer reviewed, very very slowly.

She-Devil - Taking it out of my short story collection and making it its own thing. It's becoming too complicated for this format and I want to do it justice.

Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 4d

#writinglifemonthly 4

Oh, I wouldn't want to be any of my characters. All of them are in bad situations.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 5d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day04 📚

You write amazing characters, if you could be one of them for a day, who would you pick?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 04 It you would turn into one of your charactes, who & why?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 5d

Could probably do with a dust

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 6d

#writinglifemonthly 2

I haven't been reading much lately, but the last series I read was A Song of Ice and Fire. I especially love the dialogue between the different characters and the fact that we're never going to get closure on how the series ends.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 7d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 02 📚
I've been updating my bookshelf recently, shifting from digital to physical copies. My new copy of @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social The Night Circus. This book is one I spend a lot of time daydreaming about. Yours?
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October #writinglifemonthly Day 02 What's a book you can't stop thinking about?
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 6d

#writinglifemonthly 1

This month I'm going to do what I *should* have done last month: Get Clanless edited and write the first draft for She-Devil. And I'm going to be doing this while trying to move out of home.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 8d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 01 📚

What are you getting stuck into this month?

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October #writinglifemonthly Day 01 This month's writing goals
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 8d

#writinglifemonthly 30

Uhhh... (looks back at the twin behemoths of Silksong and Deltarune that have dominated my last four weeks)

...I probably could've spent a bit more time on my writing, I suppose.

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 9d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly September Day 30📚

Here we are again. Did you meet your goals this month? What worked, what held you back, what can you do differently next month?

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September #writinglifemonthly Indie Publishing Day 30 Monthly Goal Check-In
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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 9d

#Septopolis 30
I think this was really helpful for figuring out the aesthetic for Cova Sydnoras (as well as the name). It's really gonna help when it comes time for me to actually start writing a novel set in this place.

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 9d

#Septopolis 30

We're at the end! For this last day, I'll leave it as a free space or for your closing thoughts! Did this do what it needed for you? Did you learn a lot or make friends? :3

(I'd also appreciate feedback to improve for next year, maybe. 👉👈)

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 30: FREE SPACE! Or, what did you end up accomplishing with this prompt? Did you get what you wanted out of it?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you very much! It's been fun developing it over the course of this, though I kinda fell off the wagon after the halfway mark.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 9d

Of course, huge shoutout and thanks to @khonri.com for hosting this challenge!

And a shoutout to @traceyleewrites.bsky.social , from who I got introduced to Bluesky writing games to begin with.

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 9d

#Septopolis 29
My shoutouts are both the people who've followed my drabblings and those who've own entries for this challenge I found intriguing!
@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social
@greethewriter.bsky.social
@zeewhitaker.bsky.social
@coricatchthorne.bsky.social
@professoremily.bsky.social

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 10d

#Septopolis 29

It takes a village! Or floating city, underground hideout, star fleet...

Anyways, a single person isn't running a show by themselves, nor do we create alone. So, today, give some acknowledgement to those who inspired you in some way on your journey.

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A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 29: Give a shout out! Whether it be another participant, a motivator for your work, or your inspiration for getting into worldbuilding from the start.

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

(AESIR: Agency for Extraterrestrial and Supernatural Intervention and Reconnaissance)
(5/5)

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

...investigation into the suspected theft of an unknown piece of Dominion tech. An investigation that may involve those three that the city put out an alert for...
(4/5)

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

AESIR has a habit of poking its nose into government business whenever it's least convenient, performing "investigations" and interfering with the procedures of local police and officials. Recently, a pair of AESIR secret agents have shown up in Cova Sydnoras to "assist" with the...
(3/5)

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

...more like a barrier to them, actively taking steps to stop the ou'shar from doing whatever they want to the human populace. One would expect the Dominion to have torn the organisation down years ago, but for some reason, they allow it to persist.
(2/5)

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

#Septopolis 27
There's a couple of groups that give the Dominion grief, but the biggest one is AESIR - a paramilitary force specialising in espionage and supernatural investigation. The public perception of AESIR is that they're basically international cops for the Dominion, but they're...
(1/5)

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 12d

#Septopolis 27

What people or groups are making the biggest splash here that's plot relevant in the most or least spoiler-y way possible? Who's your Giovanni and his Team Rocket?

(Look, I'm a big Pokémon fan; first thing I thought of.)

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 27: Are there forces—internal, external, or both—working towards a significant change in the settlement for better or worse? Who are they, and what is their goal?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 10d

#Septopolis 26
An alert has gone out to all citizens of Cova Sydnoras, warning them of three individuals wanted for treason, breaking and entering, and trespassing on Dominion property. Darren Wen, Lenah Buragazi and Christopher Papoutsis; all newly declared Cova Sydnoras' most wanted.

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 13d

#Septopolis 26

Thinking more on current events here... what's going on RIGHT NOW here?

What are your (or your players') characters about to walk into like they've just come back with pizza and now everything's the Darkest Timeline (or not)?

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A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 26: What kind of unusual activity is happening right now?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 12d

...but they've let it continue, seeing it as relatively harmless. And in uncertain times, it's agreed by most Australians that keeping Anzac Day alive is fiercely important, more so than ever before.
(4/4)

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 12d

There's no festival with Anzac Day. No day off of work, no fireworks, just an observance of a minute's silence at 10:30 in the morning and the laying of wreathes and red poppies at the various memorials placed across the city. The ou'shar dislike any display of unity among their subjects...
(3/4)

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 12d

There's one particular event that still recognised in Cova Sydnoras, though calling it a 'holiday' isn't really accurate. And that's Anzac Day, on the 25th of April: a day spent in remembrance of the Australian soldiers who died in the Gallipoli campaign of World War 1, over a century ago.
(2/4)

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Sprouting Nonsense @sproutingnonsense.bsky.social · 12d

#Septopolis 25
Public holidays are kind of a thing of the past under the Dominion. They entertain a couple of globally-recognised holidays like Christmas, if for no other reason than to keep people from rioting, but most others they've clamped down on and outlawed.
(1/4)

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · 14d

#Septopolis 25

Moving into current events! Feel free to talk about multiple if you'd like to, but first and foremost I want to know what the characters might get to experience some R&R and fun times (this might tie into tomorrow's question, for maybe not so fun times!).

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 25: Are there any unique festivals or public holiday events held here? Which would the characters within your plot end up a part of?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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