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Zulu8Davis
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#Amwriting author of Speculative Fiction
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

I’ll have one more writing session before I call it a night.

My werewolf protagonist is returning to the haunted house where he's been terrorized by specters.

I must heighten the tension & render several grotesqueries 🤔

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December 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Last night I finished the opener to CH23 👊🏿

Today, I need to reintroduce a character who transports my protagonist from our world to the spirit world.

It’s a transitional scene, so blocking & imagery are important.

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December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

Progress on my horror manuscript has stalled 😐

Currently, I'm working on the 2nd draft of CH23, but I’ve been rewriting the opening for 7 days.

👉🏿 My aim tonight is to aggregate my notes so I can complete CH23 & move on.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Yesterday’s writing session left me rather dissatisfied w/ CH23.

For today, I’m roving about my domecile trying to awaken my subconscious.

I need to capitalize on this time before I’m disrupted by Thanksgiving.

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November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Today, I’m working on the second draft of CH23.

I’ve officially crossed 200 pages for my manuscript

Most of my work has focussed on streamlining text & refining language.

Ideally, I’ll finish CH23 in 5 days 🤔

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November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Last night I finished CH22 of my manuscript’s 2nd draft.

Today, I’ll spend my time analyzing my outline, & consider ways I’ll change CH23.

Good momentum, so I need to continue making strides before Christmas break.

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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Today, I'll complete CH22 of my horror manuscript.

Quite glad to realize that my 2nd draft is more psychological, & mean spirited.

👉🏿 It helps me show how the werewolf befouled my protag's soul, & he remains unaware.

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November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

I am 200 pages into the 2nd draft of my horror manuscript.

For CH22, the weight of continuity has begun to impact my narrative.

My work is turning philosophical while I amplify the violence & the supernatural elements 🤔

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November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

About to start my writing session.

Need to pick up the pace w/ my revisions as I’d like to begin querying in December.

With that in mind, my 2nd draft revisions are working out splendidly.

Feels like a different book 👨🏿‍🚀

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November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Watching Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, & I’m quite disapointed.

His aesthetic is dull, which is uncharactristic of his filmography.

Worse, it feels lazy.

The movie is passionless & trite, hitting plot points at predictable moments.

#Netflix
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Close to finishing CH21 of my werewolf manuscript.

The 2nd draft has allowed me to expand the roll of a character who empathizes with the protagonist's lycanthropy.

👉🏿 I anticipate finishing my line edits by tonight.

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November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing Crew ☻

Today’s goal is to finish CH20 before the clock strikes midnight.

👉🏿 For my 2nd draft, it’s been imperative for me to clean up transitions, & composition.

The main beats are fine, & the gore is a joy to re-read. 😎

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October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

I’ve finished CH19 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft 👏🏿

Tomorrow I’ll finish it by line editing.

I conclude my night w/ Alexis Henderson’s HOUSE OF HUNGER (2022).

Such a treat. Her work’s is what I aspire to do. 🫡

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October 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Addendum ☻

Fortunately, during my morning regimine, I decided upon an approach.

I believe that horror, i.e. shock & gore, feeds into the drama, but the genre also relies on setting 🤔

Based on my outlook, I'll use setting to transition my next piece ✍🏿

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October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Last night, I started CH19 of the 2nd draft.

I’m about 191 pages into the werewolf manuscript 👨🏿‍🚀

The initial pages are going well.

I only stopped when I couldn't figure out how to transition into the next set piece ⑴

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October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Addendum ☻

🤦🏿‍♂️ I anticiapte similar problems when I begin CH19

I’ve decided to cut the middle that I composed for my 1st draft: I need to tweak my antagonist’s motivation for harming, & then helping, my protagonist 🤔

Will spend my morning ruminating (f)

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October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

On Friday, I finished CH18 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft 😤

Curiously, most of my difficulties arose from a renegade paragraph where the vampire’s voice didn’t sound authentic to their experience ⑴

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October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Addendum ☻

I’ve spent 5 days retootling that vampire scene, and, finally, I may have broken through 🙋🏿‍♂️

During my morning walk I enountered a quartet of hummingbirds.

Something about that fits.

Will play with that during my afternoon writing session. (f)

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October 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Good afternoon, Sky writing crew ☻

Still working on CH18 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft.

I’ve been stuck on the scene that introduces my vampire 🤔

Creating their presence is more important than the battle that ensues. ⑴

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October 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Addendum ☻

After re-reading Audre Lorde, I’ve begun journaling about my vampire & the power of eros.

I need to discern how they weaponize joy ✍🏿

While cogitating, I’m spinning a CD set that I’ve neglected.

Haven’t heard Today's “Him or Me” in a decade.

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October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Last night I re-wrote the first exchange between my werewolf & vampire

To render their excchange metaphorically, I’m re-reading Audre Lorde’s timless rumination, “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” (1978) ✍🏿

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October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

About to start my 2nd writing session for my werewolf manuscript.

👉🏿 For CH18’s 2nd draft, I've reimagined my vampire as an assemblage of subjectives, rather than a lord, a punk, or a goth.

Will begin by freewriting 🤔

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October 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Good evening, Sky writing crew ☻

Finished editing CH17 of my werewolf manuscript’s 2nd draft.

My writing is denser & more provocative than my work from my 1st draft 😤

Ending my night w/ one of my favorite films, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN. (1943)

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October 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Top of the morning, Sky writing crew ☻

Today, I anticipate completing CH17 of my werewolf manuscript.

✍🏿 While I'm having a lot of fun w/ the 2nd draft, I worry about CH18.

My redraft compels me to balance combustable personalities w/ coercion & violence 🤔

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October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Addendum ☻

CH17 has lots of werewolf action, so I felt like I needed to consider how he would’ve lived if he weren’t cursed.

I consider his ideals as well as his belief systems.

Despite his condition, he doesn’t believe in fate, or luck.

Good start. (F)

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October 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM