Monday Mindfulness Woman sitting cross legged on the ground meditating
Today's affirmation: Keep going. Somewhere out there, a reader is waiting for the chaos only you can write.
Remember to relax the space between your ears. And as always, drink your fucking water.
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Cool cool cool just dropping in some little foreshadowing seeds for book 2 into some of these new book 1 chapters. 😈 #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
I yelped and dug my fingers into his wrist as he nearly exposed me to the room, his knuckles pressed into the soft flesh of my breast as he bared the glamours to them, the evidence of his ownership. “Soren, please …” I begged.
Just wrote a scene so intense I literally gave myself a headache. 🥴
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Been a minute since I've participated. Now that I'm on draft 6.4, I've got some new material to work with. No "signature" but I do have "sign."
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Just wrote the weakest pillow fight in the history of ever, and now I'm giggling like a fool. 🤭🤭🤭
This is such a fun question, because it does become a somewhere relevant plot point in book 2.
Maeve would absolutely watch, and pretend she wasn't, and pretend she wasn't absolutely turned on by it.
Soren would just chuckle with amusement and move on -- unless he was with Maeve. 😈
When the FMC starts name-calling the MMC, that's how you know it's love. 🥴
Good sign when the banter makes you giggle and kick your own feet as the author, right?? 🤭
Sorry I'm so quiet around here lately. DEEP in revisions (as per usual it seems), and even though it's 1am and I should be in bed 2 hours ago, I'm drafting a whole new chapter and worldbuilding political history because Maeve decided to go undercover and steal a thing. So.
Yup! I typically tweak inside of scenes or chapters I feel pretty confident are going to stay because small details like that wreak havoc on my Virgo brain. 🥴
Being a parent who writes dark fantasy is wild.
Last night: -drafts a scene where characters negotiate CNC-
This morning: -engages in a full on argument about Paw Patrol yogurt- 🙃
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Just revised a pretty explicitly D/s coded negotiation scene and this version got INTENSE, and now I feel like -I- need some fucking aftercare. 🫠
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Monday Mindfulness Woman sitting cross legged on the ground meditating
Today's affirmation: If your writing feels a little unhinged, good. That’s where the interesting stuff lives.
Remember to relax the space between your ears. And as always, drink your fucking water.
#monday #motivation #relax #breathe #water #shadowsparkpublishing #booksky #writesky 📚🪐💙
I feel like I'm having one of those "discovered 10000 ways how not to make a lightbulb" and .... it's both a relief and incredibly frustrating that I spent a week and a half trying to fix a chapter that was probably fine to begin with. #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
I am still literally tweaking this fucking chapter. I swear to god, I'm about to just write "and then she woke up and everything was shit" and call it a goddamn day. 🙃😭
Yeah, feels that way sometimes. 😅
Oops, my MMC just called the FMC a miracle. 🥺 #CourtOfGildedShadows #DarkFantasy #DarkFantasyRomance #DarkRomantasy #VampireRomance #Romancelandia #IndieAuthor #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadingCommunity
A nine-panel image collage of Kermit the Frog dolls in distressed situations, with the center image caption reading: me when i’m writing. Images include Kermit with tears, lying on fire, and using an oxygen mask.
Literally on the 9th version of this chapter and I think it's FINALLY right. 🙃🙃
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After writing the Soren POV chapter, I realized he says "fuck" in his head A LOT. 🙃 Especially when he's hangry (which is basically all the time).
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Been in revision hell for a week. Can't figure out how to bridge this scene, so, trying something new to give my writer brain a different perspective on the chapter. Fun bonus content for readers, methinks? ;) #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmRevising #IndieAuthor
Meme of a person looking in the mirror. Text labels the person as "Writers." The bottom of the image says "Stop dwelling on your trauma and give it to your characters instead."
And there certainly is trauma to go around. 😂 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Draft 6 Maeve breaks shit.
Kind of don't hate her.
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Working on some early morning revisions. ✍️✍️
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me and the mutuals are giving some minor characters rich inner worlds later if you wanna pull up. yeah its gonna be all day.
When @eremitagray.bsky.social and I get to chatting
Had an AMAZING conversation with one of my beta readers last night and draft 6 of Court of Gilded Shadows??? It's getting DARK. 😈 Thanks again @amalicule.bsky.social !
Also, she needs beta readers for her MM YA romance so go check her out!
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Oh man, dusting off draft 1 manuscript to pull some axed scenes and I'm excited to bring them back. Some of my favorite darlings live there.
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It also seems to be tradition that I get sick every time I start a new draft.
Time for a brain break. Maybe I'll finish my paint by numbers. 🤧🤧
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Revision time! 😁😁😁
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Got my first bit of beta reader feedback in and I am BUZZING!!
And basically I get to write more of my favorite scenes in revisions. 🤭🤭🤭
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Why is this the most relatable thing I've ever read? 😂