Jen Pawol has made MLB history as the first female umpire to work a regular-season game.
The moment completed a journey that took Pawol more than 1,200 minor-league games — and took women more than a century. 🔗:
The beginning of this WIP will be the death of me.
It is a sunny day therefore I cannot work on this ~fall vibes~ WIP. I don't make the rules.
(I do make the rules and I am procrastinating)
😄😅
BUFFY x CLUELESS
17yo "Best Dressed" Evangeline must uncover why she was turned into a vampire during her summer vacay—before her newly minted vampire hunter BFF discovers her blood-drinking secret first. Friendship breakups sure do suck.
#QuestPit #YA #F
A photo collage set against a light pink background. The main photo depicts a white, blonde woman crying with the words “baby tooth” and “roses have thorns, girls have teeth” written across it. Other photos include a woman biting into a flower, a hand with red painted fingernails touching a broken mirror, and a close-up of lips covered in dripping red glitter. There are illustrations of pink and white flowers framing the pictures and a blood splatter across the middle.
When fame-obsessed Ellie is killed off her TV show, she is forced to return to the dark and glittering world of pageants. But when her co-host turns out to be her childhood devil, Ellie must fight for her stardom and her fragile sanity, as he tries to claw his way back into her life. #T #A #2025Pit
Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.
KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan finds her new brother is enamored with her after she cleans up a murder he commits. For fans of female rage, serial killer fiction, and V.C. Andrews. Comps: My Sister the Serial Killer, A Certain Hunger, Blood Sugar. #2025Pit
Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible. Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire. Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's. Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses. Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest. Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky. Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.
GIDEON THE NINTHxFFXIV
When magicless Mick agrees to be an adventuring partner for Eleanor, his mage best friend (and crush), a mishap turns him into a dragon and binds him to the gods' dead adversary. Now they're rushing to break his curse before his existence triggers a war. #2025pit #F #R #A
Image from a medical textbook of a man with his arm extended, with the text "an agent's guide to SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines," an #agentguide #agentsguide for an #amquerying manuscript.
PITCH: (dark STEM academic science fantasy, 108,000 words) When Institute grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—and stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience? For fans of: the grounded and ugly magical academia of BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, BABEL, and THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI; the criticism of tech venture capitalism of RIPE; the obsessive acespec yearning, body horror, and unreliable narrator of DON'T LET THE FOREST IN, and the corruption of tech and its makers of ARCANE.
A painting in the background of a blond man viewed in profile, head bowed, with an X drawn across his face through which an xray of his skull and spine is visible. The text reads THEMES: ivory tower classism & egos manipulative relationships neurodivergence as power grey ethics in technology academic power abuse consent in medicine code-switching in the lower right hand corner in dark text, it reads (there was only one bed)
Image: a silhouette walking up the stairs, head haloed by a lit chandelier. EXCERPT from SEE IN ME THE WOLF by Gwendolyn Vines/@gwenvines This time, though, it was not Six whose face was bathed and baptized by light. It was Bash’s, his lone gold hoop gleaming amidst his curls, the spindly shadows of his lashes stretching over his dark eyes, and the sleeve of his linen robe where it draped from his arm rendered translucent by the sun’s rays. It was Bash who sat atop his regal, woody throne and passed judgment upon Jim. Jim, his blond hair set aflame not by Kontrolle or diffuser but by the sun’s fleeting gift, stared back, waiting. Unlike Etienne, the King Reluctant, Jim had never been told he was the best. Unlike Six, the King Desirous, Jim had never needed to be the best. Unlike Bash, the King Apparent, Jim had never been the best. Jim’s calling, his compulsion, was to be of use. That is all he had ever needed, wanted, or been. And it was Bash, now, to whom he wished to be useful.
DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BABEL
Jim's graduate research was meant to bring salvation to rural regions like his own. Healing, with a simple telepathic command. Growth. But not all growth is good for the body—or soul.
Lucky for Jim, botanist Bash is *excellent* at pruning.
#2025pit #A #F #SF 💙📚
It's raining for the first time in months, so time for a little Gothic read by the fire.
Research for the next WIP 👀
Sometimes you use a pen that turns out to write way better than you thought it would and oh man that’s the good stuff
Moodboard in tones of yellow, featuring equations, an image of an eye looking sideways, a man in a wool coat and glasses looking off camera, a man supporting another who is stumbling, a stack of books, raised hands lit in a spotlight, two men embracing.
RIPExBLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN
When grad student Jim invents a device that could revolutionize medicine, his intoxicating suitemate Bash warns him it could be weaponized—& stops at nothing to make his point. Are Jim's degree & the lives he could save worth staining his conscience?
#P2Ppit #Q #A #SF #F
Revision done and sent off to my WTMP mentor. Now to collapse into a heap of "did I even make this better" and other worries 🫠
Oh my God, this email I just got from Lego.
“These are the bricks of a killer, Bella.”
camouflage
The major plot edit is done yayyyy.
Now to inject some additional setting details and then it's time to ✂️ ✂️ ✂️
#writesky
Sharing the playground today with a family from LA who is escaping the smoke-filled air by coming down to SD.
My heart breaks. You are all welcome down here.
Back to ballet and my calves are not ready.
Only 3 chapters left of this edit woooooooo
#writesky
customer: your lightest roast please
barista: that middle part you’re wearing makes you look like a founding father
Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034
At least you'll be laughing?
Writer’s block? Change things up. Go for a walk, write by hand, or skip to a different scene. Creativity isn’t linear—let your mind wander and reconnect with your story. #writing #writers #inspiration
2/3 of the way through this revision and I can see the light of the tunnelllllllll (she says, knowing full well the last third requires the most work)
Trying to be more active on here for 2025 to build up my #amwriting friends!
So far, the day has included reading and baking bread and pretending I don't have to work tomorrow. Crushing it.
Introducing the 5yo to Home Alone might have been a bad idea.
Oh, she loves the movie. But now she has a concept of "traps" and only one adult to try them on. Parenting is a fun time.
Self-imposed deadline of finishing this revision by 2025 is, uh, not going to happen. I really overestimated how much I can edit in a week off with kids at home 🙃
Ahahaha I love this monthly breakdown from Spotify Wrapped because it reflects which WIP I was working on at the time.
August was BarbieCore Vampire Book editing month.