Za’chary Westbrook, author
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New novella! ‘The Mask of Olympias’ is a thrilling, spicy adventure for fans of ‘The Mummy’ and Indiana Jones.
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Make your verbs the most important words.
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Go look up dependency grammar, or keep reading.
Everything in your sentence hangs from your predicate, which is usually the main verb. Because everything hangs from it, readers grasp your meaning faster if the meaning… 1/4
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Go look up dependency grammar, or keep reading.
Everything in your sentence hangs from your predicate, which is usually the main verb. Because everything hangs from it, readers grasp your meaning faster if the meaning… 1/4
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Make your verbs the most important words.
#writingadvice #writesky #author
Go look up dependency grammar, or keep reading.
Everything in your sentence hangs from your predicate, which is usually the main verb. Because everything hangs from it, readers grasp your meaning faster if the meaning… 1/4
#writingadvice #writesky #author
Go look up dependency grammar, or keep reading.
Everything in your sentence hangs from your predicate, which is usually the main verb. Because everything hangs from it, readers grasp your meaning faster if the meaning… 1/4
“I’m a criminal, but I’m not a monster” energy.
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“I’m a criminal, but I’m not a monster” energy.
Guys, you’re not supposed to control voters. Voters are supposed to control the country.
"Mainstream" libertarians see shit like this from the Libertarian Party chapter in the most libertarian state in America and conclude the only real racism in America is against white male millennials.
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Guys, you’re not supposed to control voters. Voters are supposed to control the country.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.
#FrankenOpening #booksky
#FrankenOpening #booksky
December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.
#FrankenOpening #booksky
#FrankenOpening #booksky
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I’m giving speaking tests today and…Madam, I can hear you typing. You are upper management at an international company. It is weird that you think you can get away with this.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I’m giving speaking tests today and…Madam, I can hear you typing. You are upper management at an international company. It is weird that you think you can get away with this.
December 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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#WIPSnips December 14 "line"
The Writing Machine The "war on drugs" meant that people like Nick, groomed, trafficked and homeless, were given no mercy by the law, while those who became rich on him were untouched. This theme has grown even more poignant.
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The Writing Machine The "war on drugs" meant that people like Nick, groomed, trafficked and homeless, were given no mercy by the law, while those who became rich on him were untouched. This theme has grown even more poignant.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#WIPSnips December 14 "line"
The Writing Machine The "war on drugs" meant that people like Nick, groomed, trafficked and homeless, were given no mercy by the law, while those who became rich on him were untouched. This theme has grown even more poignant.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The Writing Machine The "war on drugs" meant that people like Nick, groomed, trafficked and homeless, were given no mercy by the law, while those who became rich on him were untouched. This theme has grown even more poignant.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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#WIPSnips December 14 *line*
From A Very Whimsy Christmas, the sapphic romantic suspense, touch-her-and-die novella of the Whimsical Dreams series.
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From A Very Whimsy Christmas, the sapphic romantic suspense, touch-her-and-die novella of the Whimsical Dreams series.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters #ButchFemme
December 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
#WIPSnips December 14 *line*
From A Very Whimsy Christmas, the sapphic romantic suspense, touch-her-and-die novella of the Whimsical Dreams series.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters #ButchFemme
From A Very Whimsy Christmas, the sapphic romantic suspense, touch-her-and-die novella of the Whimsical Dreams series.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters #ButchFemme
“Long padding”
Nice $1,000 sleeping bag, Grace. Why are you still shivering?
Nice $1,000 sleeping bag, Grace. Why are you still shivering?
The Uggs belong in 2008.
Cary Grant in THE BISHOP'S WIFE.
Cary Grant in THE BISHOP'S WIFE.
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“Long padding”
Nice $1,000 sleeping bag, Grace. Why are you still shivering?
Nice $1,000 sleeping bag, Grace. Why are you still shivering?
As a kid, I didn’t understand why Kermit Cratchit was so scared when Ebenezer Caine showed up at his door. As an adult…dude’s boss showed up unannounced at his house! Shit!
December 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
As a kid, I didn’t understand why Kermit Cratchit was so scared when Ebenezer Caine showed up at his door. As an adult…dude’s boss showed up unannounced at his house! Shit!
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Bluesky is failing me. Why did nobody tell me that the heckler from yesterday's Kristi Noem hearing was a Catholic priest chanting the phrase "The Power of Christ Compels You" - famously associated with exorcisms. 🤣😂
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Bluesky is failing me. Why did nobody tell me that the heckler from yesterday's Kristi Noem hearing was a Catholic priest chanting the phrase "The Power of Christ Compels You" - famously associated with exorcisms. 🤣😂
“For reasons Madison couldn’t speculate on at 6am, her bathroom now had two doors.”
#notrealopeners
#notrealopeners
Friends!! I checked my calendar and somehow it's Friday again!!
Anyone wanna do some more #notrealopeners? 🫣
I'll go first:
"Linda couldn't decide if she wanted ghosts to be real or not as she stared at the spreading bloodstain on her carpet."
Who wants to share one??
Anyone wanna do some more #notrealopeners? 🫣
I'll go first:
"Linda couldn't decide if she wanted ghosts to be real or not as she stared at the spreading bloodstain on her carpet."
Who wants to share one??
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“For reasons Madison couldn’t speculate on at 6am, her bathroom now had two doors.”
#notrealopeners
#notrealopeners
The sky above the port was the color of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
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#frankenopener #writesky #booksky
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The sky above the port was the color of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
#frankenopener #writesky #booksky
#frankenopener #writesky #booksky
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...he'd be awarded a damn medal. It would be like crushing a cockroach. Not even a cockroach. Those could be difficult to kill. A wasp. Universally despised, of no value to anyone, everyone grateful when they're brutally disposed of.
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'crush' for 'smash'
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'crush' for 'smash'
The #WIPSnips word for December 12th is HULK SMASH.
Okay, it's just "smash" but I couldn't miss my opportunity.
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Okay, it's just "smash" but I couldn't miss my opportunity.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
...he'd be awarded a damn medal. It would be like crushing a cockroach. Not even a cockroach. Those could be difficult to kill. A wasp. Universally despised, of no value to anyone, everyone grateful when they're brutally disposed of.
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
'crush' for 'smash'
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
'crush' for 'smash'
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December 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Reposted by Za’chary Westbrook, author
December 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
11k words deep on this section of the project and realizing I want to gut like half of it.
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
11k words deep on this section of the project and realizing I want to gut like half of it.