Thank you everyone for spending Valentine's Day with me. I hope you had wonderfully amazing days. If you have a success story from today or last year please share it here. We will see all of you next year. Keep an eye out for my other pitch events #WIPPIT and #GhostPit.
For my #WIP which has a #litagent interested (eek!) I've got something new cooked up for tomorrow's #Questpit 🤫
It'll be the third one of my four pitches. I'm excited to share it but if it goes unnoticed I can always recycle it for #WiPPit 😅
#amquerying #amwriting
MAY 4 #IndiePit @Indie_Pit (X)
MAY 23 #WIPPit @wippit.bsky.social
MAY #PitDark @PitDark_ (X)
JUL 24 #questpit @questpit.bsky.social
SEP 15 #LatinxPitch @latinxpitch.bsky.social
OCT #KidLitGN @kidlitgn.bsky.social
NOV 4 #questpit @questpit.bsky.social
#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 7.: What future writing goals are you working towards with your present work?
3) On May, start preparation work on a new Urban Fantasy WIP (Title TBD) while doing the new #WIPPIT challenge before their next pitch event.
(4/6)
#Writingcommunity
#Writesky
Apparently! If you look at the top posts for #wippit you will see a very dramatic difference between the top two posts in terms of overall engagement. I think based on quality of the pitch, the only way to explain the difference is buying bot likes
A very interesting #WIPPit yesterday. Always fun to see what people are working on.
Seeing someone's pitch break containment and get visibility outside the writing community was especially unique.
I have a guess what happened algorithmically, but it's just very fascinating.
Happy Monday #writingcommunity!
Loved seeing the activity for yesterday's #WIPPIT. Can't wait until these creative works are in print! 📚
I'm a day late (no excuse, just the weekend), but my #WIP features a women's retreat in ME gone horribly wrong. Beware of ancient creatures of the sea! 🌊
#Spec
Thanks for the love on the #wippit posts. I rarely get too much traction during pitch events, so it’s gratifying to see my stuff resonating with a few people. Plan on looking through the tag and notifs for other cool people and projects to follow in the next couple days
It was really fun to participate in #WIPPIT today!! ELEVATION is still far from ready, but it was good practice! I enjoyed discovering amazing stories and writers all day! See you at the next pitch event 😃
It's nighttime on Trinity Street in Cambridge, UK, and the sky is cloudless. In the middle of the street, a circular portal opens onto a field of ferns, planted in rows, with a partially cloudy sky. This depicts a scene from The Dragonblood, although some artistic license has been taken, as the scene as written takes place in a dark alley off the beaten path, rather than a major street, but I wanted it to be at least somewhat recognisable as Cambridge. The portal is also described to warp the image of what's behind, but I simply drew the portal as overlaid on the background and fading at the edges. Made in Krita. The scene of Trinity Street was drawn from reference.
The Toronto skyline, viewed from Lake Ontario. This is the main setting of In Reverse. Made in Krita, from reference.
I wanted to share the artwork I made for #WIPPit to use as backgrounds for #TheDragonblood and #InReverse, since the versions there were desaturated and darkened, with text overlaid. Here they are in full glory.
#Art #DigitalArt #Krita
Cover mockup of Through the Cracks. The title is written at the top, and the author, @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social, is written at the bottom, but I would replace this with my name in the final version. Station 14, an ERSSHO (Enormous Rotational Space Station in Heliocentric Orbit), and one of 126 making up the ALCEFS. In the background, the constellations of Orion and Taurus can be seen, as well as Venus, Earth and the Sun. The cylindrical space station has one of its flat faces pointed at the Sun, which if shown, would be covered in solar panels. The opposite face, which is visible, has the space dock at its centre, surrounded by red text that reads 'ALCEFS' and 'Station 14', along with the anarcho-communist flag and the flag of the ALCEFS. A spaceship is currently taking off from the space dock, with a pair of glowing red heat radiators on either side. Around the rim of this face is the lookout area, a large window where residents can look out at the stars. There are more windows scattered around the curved face of the station, which would be transparent panels in the floor, again for residents to look out at the stars. Surrounding the station is the flywheel: two rings, one surrounding each circular face of the station, connected by beams (probably around five, although only two are shown). The flywheel rotates opposite the station to stabilise it. The station is around 50 km in radius, although the image is not to scale, and some aspects like the size of windows or the size of the spaceship relative to the station may not match this. Made in Krita.
Through the Cracks -Hard utopian sci-fi -If Star Trek: DS9 had the tech level of The Expanse -LGBTQ+, polyamory and disability rep -anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, anti-ableist message Setting: The ALCEFS (Association of Libertarian Communist Employment-Free Stations) -Solar System-based space stations -anarcho-communist -values sustainability -fully-automated and jobless -focus on human creations -liquid democracy -near-utopia with a tumultuous history MC: Skylar -37 yo special ed teacher -nonbinary -aroace -has vitiligo -devoted altruist Antagonists: Kye Peterson and Erron Colborne -villains at odds -individual bad actors who fell through the cracks -both ableist in opposing ways -methods: exploitive deals and propaganda campaigns, respectively Status: 1 chapter in, a long way to go yet Check out #ThroughTheCracksIntro for more info, or follow #ThroughTheCracks for random tidbits!
Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. There are no barriers to housing, food or any other essentials; everyone just receives what they need for free, without having to prove they deserve it. And so Skylar is surprised when they meet a homeless woman. A woman who gave up her home in a coercive deal with a self-styled businessman. But that is not all; Skylar will soon uncover a threat from another angle: a delegate using every trick in the book to promote themself and accumulate proxy votes. As it turns out, even in the idyllic ALCEFS, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks.
“Hi Nelly. You like it out here in the gardens? Or just couldn’t get a place in the camping grounds?” “The gardens are nice,” Nelly replied. “But yeah, the camping grounds were booked solid until tomorrow.” “The camping trip really couldn’t wait, could it?” Skylar meant it lightheartedly, but could see by Nelly’s reaction that they’d hit a nerve. “No, it couldn’t, but –” Nelly started, frustrated. “It’s not a camping trip, okay? I just need somewhere to sleep.” “You got kicked out of home?” Skylar asked. “Why not stay at the temporary shelter?” After all, it’s there for people who need a place to stay while they apply for a new home. “That’s where I was staying for the past two months,” Nelly replied. “That is, until I got into an argument with someone there and, well, we agreed to put some distance between us.” “Two months?!” Skylar repeated, shocked. “It doesn’t take that long to get a home approved.” A couple days, at most. Usually they have it done the same day. “For a supplementary home loan?” Nellie remarked. “Apparently it does.” “Supplementary?” Skylar asked. “What about primary?” If you were entirely without a home, Skylar couldn’t imagine any reason you’d apply for a loan instead of permanent housing. “Oh, I didn’t apply,” Nelly admitted. “Why not?” Skylar pursued. “If I did, I wouldn’t be able to get…” Nelly started. “It was part of the deal, okay?” “A deal? You mean someone bribed you to leave your home?” “No, it’s not like – Okay, it is that. But –” Nelly took a deep breath. “You know Kye Peterson?”
#ThroughTheCracks: Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. Everyone gets what they need for free. Yet even here, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks.
#UtopianFiction #SF #LGBT #A #WIPPit 🚀🛰️🧪🟥⬛
Squeezing in this second work in progress: #A #RF #WIPPIT
a devout moon priestess (not) falling for the Daemon (hottie🔥) while saving the world.
❤️🔥 allies-to-lovers
🥷 secret identity
🛏️ always two beds (but he gets cold)
🙋🏾 dude in distress
🔪touch her, ☠️
👿/🌞 she’s the grump, he’s mr. shine
with that, they absolutely deserve to shine. I just ask that you allow the wips to shine in #wippit and refrain from posting query ready or published books. We have lots of events for those projects, you can check @thewriterscalendar.bsky.social for dates, I'll do my best to keep them up to date.
are not longer counted as wips, at least by us, others may have differing opinions and that's fine. #WIPPIT was started to allow the works in progress to shine as they often don't get that chance in other events where people often look to the query ready and published works, there's nothing wrong...
While scrolling through to like and share I noticed some querying pitches and while I'm not upset, nor will I call anyone out, I want to use this as a moment to remind everyone to check the rules before you post your pitches. #WIPPIT is for works in progress books. Once books are query ready they...
A statue of a man in armor holding up a dagger
A woman shrouded in black holding a flower and wearing a crown
A statue of Poseidon holding his trident
A mood board for Divine Damnation including: a limo, a group of paparazzi flashing pictures, the Greek gods standing around a dial, Mount Olympus, rain on a window pane, a long ornate hall with white marble, pillars, and gold adornments, a burning pyre and an altar
🏺DIVINE DAMNATION🏺
A Touch of Darkness x Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Most would kill for power, an honored place among the pantheon and the promise of eternal youth—but when the price is almost certainly perdition, who will pay?
#WIPPIT #NA #RF
A quick guide to Artificial Sunflowers, an adult Sci-fi Romance
The pitch, featuring images of a lab, solar panels, and a vintage car
Tropes and Themes in Artificial Sunflowers
An excerpt from Artificial Sunflowers
ARTIFICIAL SUNFLOWERS includes:
🪶 A Native American Protagonist
🔫 A Lab-grown Super Soldier Love Interest
🧪 Women in STEM
🫂 Female Friendships
🌿 Cyberpunk to Solarpunk setting
💋 Enemies (?) to Lovers Romance
#WIPPIT #A #SF #R #OWN
In Reverse -Time travel with reversed time a la Tenet -Sapphic romance -Fast-paced action scenes -Deals with adjusting to and accepting disability -How To Build a Time Reverser book with sadistic instructions -Set in Toronto MC: Meg -Deafened by a gunshot -Ends up in reverse to save her life -Pan, demiromantic, grey ace -Past trauma with bigoted mother -Trying to get control over her life Love Interest: Harriet -Loves to tinker, builds gadgets that help Meg adjust -Queer black woman -Married (it'll all work out, I promise!) Status: 2-3 chapters in, a long way to go yet Check out #InReverseIntro for more info, or follow #InReverse for random tidbits!
After getting shot in the chest, Meg is on death’s door. Shortly before the end, she is saved with the help of a device which reverses the direction she travels through time, so that shooting her again heals her instead of harming her – a plan apparently orchestrated by her identical twin sister, Gem. Now, she must live the rest of her life in reverse, from the future to the past. All the while, she starts to form feelings for the married woman helping her adjust to this new life.
Gem sets a bag on the table in front of her and takes a few things out. Two of them I don’t quite recognise, but the third is a gun, which she inspects thoroughly before setting it down on the table. I did not know she had a gun. Where the hell did she get that? The man who shot me seemed to think he recognised me, even though I’d never seen him in my life. He must’ve mistaken me for my sister. What did she do to piss him off? The doctor looks at her, his eyes wide. Gem backs onto the bed where I am lying and takes a seat. She looks down and stares at something in astonishment, but I can’t tell what. With a pained expression in his eyes, the doctor picks up the gun from the table. I hear the muffled pow of a gunshot as he turns around and shoots Gem in the chest. She sits there in confusion for a moment or two, unmoving and bleeding out. My vision is very blurry now, and I feel on the brink of death. I try to think through the brain fog. If I’m going to die, then so be it, but I won’t just lie here while this psycho doctor shoots people. Adrenaline now coursing through my body, I rip out the tube attached to my arm. Gem slowly turns to lie face down on the bed right beside me. I reach for her, but my arm seems to pass right through her and I roll over onto my stomach. For a moment I wonder if she vanished, but no, she’s just on the other side of me. I painfully push myself up and reposition myself to be sitting on the side of the bed. I stare as the pool of blood from where she was shot trickles upward towards me, towards the wound in my chest. What is going on? The doctor sets something down that emits a dim glow, and points the gun at me. I hear a whap as something tugs me forward. I feel searing pain for a moment, and then nothing. The blood on my chest is gone and even my dress looks intact. How – ?
#InReverse: After getting shot, the only way to save Meg's life is to switch the direction she travels through time using a Time Reverser. Meanwhile, she starts to form feelings for the married woman helping her adapt to life in reverse.
#TimeTravel #Action #R #SF #LGBT #A #WIPPit
🕓🕒🕑🕐🕛
Drawing Timelapse for my #GraphicNovel ‘s cover
Lore Olympus x TV show LOKI x High School Musical
👩❤️💋👩 #Sapphic #Romance
📖Greek #Mythology
🌧️ #GrumpySunshine☀️
🧂(light) #Fantasy #SciFi
🎒H-School Crush
#WIPPIT #YA #K #GN #R #F #RF #SFF #LGBT
#authorilustrator #litagents #kidlit #agentguide #amquerying
A trans teen run away from home, only to wake immortal, feral, and consumed by bloodlust. Can he trust himself and others?
🧛 Vampire politics
🔪 Ancient family feud
🏠Found family
🏳️⚧️& 🏳️🌈 rage
💊 Us vs. Normies, anti-cure vibes
🩸 Bloodlust as addiction
🍷New Orleans gothic
#WIPPIT #F #NA
Fevzi's world quite literally just came crashing down around him. In the wake of a powerful storm, he will traverse alongside his ex gf's best friends to find her, unearthing secrets the nation of Julip buried deep centuries before…all while trying to hide secrets of his own.
#WIPPIT #LGBT #YA #F
A dark background with the title Candyland and the following text- People always talk about “getting chills” when they’re scared, but right now my terror would burst into flames if I let it.
FANTASTICLAND X FIERCE JUNGLE
Disaffected Gen Z heroine goes from fighting boredom to fighting to survive when active shooters take over the derelict amusement park where she works.
#wippit #a #na #t
Movie poster for The Monster Squad
A group of tweens stumble upon an ancient gem that grants them the power to turn into classic film monsters. They now must protect the gem from an ancient sorcerer determined to reclaim it and take over the world. Dracula and friends become superheroes! 🧛 #TheMonsterSquad #WIPPIT #MG #K #OWN #FBW
![A graphic. Over the blurred picture of a white woman with redish brown hair in armour on her knees, holding a sword pointed down, reads: “you don’t want me.” “But i do.” [italics] “There is blood [circled in red] on my hands [underlined in red].” “On mine too.” [underlined in white] “Do you know what they call me?” “The betrayer…[highlighted in red]”. Theres a muddy green boarder with vines.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:33jk6ixyky5dgk3focwmoy3h/bafkreid7c7lk55w7qb74j4pldya7o3d5nasr6qidugbt4zbagr3g4ftemq)
A graphic. Over the blurred picture of a white woman with redish brown hair in armour on her knees, holding a sword pointed down, reads: “you don’t want me.” “But i do.” [italics] “There is blood [circled in red] on my hands [underlined in red].” “On mine too.” [underlined in white] “Do you know what they call me?” “The betrayer…[highlighted in red]”. Theres a muddy green boarder with vines.
When Saint Opelli comes looking for a sword guardian Enryn refuses; she’s done with that life. But when the magical saint finds herself in trouble Enryn cant deny her training or instinct to help, and agrees to protect Opelli until she finds an adequate sword guardian.
#WIPPit #Fantasy #A #Sapphic
Black Santa, black elf, alien
Xmas Eve. Santa kidnapped. N Pole under alien occupation. All elves held hostage except timid, black nerd elf Elfin. He has less than 24 hours to free the elves & save Santa/Xmas before the aliens can use Santa’s magic and tech to take over the Earth. #WhoBetrayedSanta #WIPPIT #MG #K #OWN #FBW🎄🎅🏿👽
Neurotypocalypse cover mock up. Title in black against a yellow background with a darker yellow biohazard symbol.
#WIPPIT #SF #FBW
Survivor Song X Speed of Dark
As a deadly virus sweeps across the world, the few survivors begin to realise they are all neurodivergent. If these remaining Mis-Shapes make it through the Neurotypocalypse, can they build a new world, where they fit in, to benefit everyone?
I just joined Bluesky for reasons like this. So far I've enjoyed #WIPSnips and #novmemeber. Already found two beta readers, so it's been fruitful so far! Will see what #WIPPit is all about....
A nine-image moodboard arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top, left to right: a photo of a white teenager with long brown hair looking at their phone; a photo of a person draped in a nonbinary pride flag; and a photo of a South Asian boy looking at his phone. Middle row, right to left: a photo of a white person washing their hands; a photo of a phone displaying the Discord logo; and a photo of people fencing in full fencing suits. Bottom row, right to left: a photo of the top of a person's head bearing a crown of electric candles; a photo of the pansexual pride flag; and a photo of the back of someone's head wearing a kippah.
My latest WIP has
❤️ a two-person love triangle
📚 made-up fantasy series
📱 online fandom
🌃 teenagers up past bedtime
🧠 mental illness rep
🏳️⚧️ gender feels
🎓 the pressure of honors classes
😎 a smart-but-chill LI
✡️ High Holy Days
🇸🇪 St. Lucia Day
🫂 supportive siblings
#WIPPit #YA #R #LGBT
A fantasy mood board. Written over the top: My dear Saint if you wish to survive the maddening you must rely on your sword, your shield, your voice, and your heart. 16 images 4x4. Starts light and bright from top right corner and gradually darkens to bottom left corner. Images: 1. A black woman in a white gown. 2. Sun shining across grassy hills and trees. 3. Horses. 4. The back of a cloaked person with a bow and arrows. 5. A grassy field and trees. 6. Ppl in white robes holding light in their hands. 7. A woman in a white robe knighting a soldier on their knees. 8. The head of a massive stone statue on a forest. 9. A bulletin board with posters. 10. A white woman in armour kneeling with a sword. 11. Three dark cloaked figure holding swords upright. 12. A dark barren forest floor. 13. A knights shield. 14. A dark green forest. 15. A barren land. 16. An old dark crumbling castle wall.
In a post empire world where everyone grapples for power, a magical Saint & her four guardians—
a disgraced sword🗡️
a craven shield🛡️
a cannibal heart🫀
& a false voice💭
—set out to ascend to higher power & quell the maddening in an attempt to find their path to redemption
#WIPPit #Fantasy #A #Sapphic
Ahhh i didnt realise #WIPPit was on let me scramble something together for new wip real quick!!
