Fellow #writers and #conlangers! A reminder that #ConlangApril is coming right up! The first prompt card should now be scheduled to go out at midnight Eastern!

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#TimeTravelAuthors April 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: as a knock-knock or other joke) 3. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? 5. Games in your story 7. How seriously do they take time travel? 9. Will your characters admit they're wrong? 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: point) 13. Silliest character 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: sink/sank) 17. How do you feel about story structure? 19. Any authorities in your story 21. What kind of coffee/caffeinated beverage do your characters like? 23. Do your characters test time travel? 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: alert/observe/observant) 27. Message/moral of your story 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

Next month's proposed prompts #TimeTravelAuthors! I got and used a couple of suggestions this month. Please let me know if you see any errors.

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#ConlangApril hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social 1. Introduce your conlang. Who speaks it? 2. Purpose. Everyday? Lingua franca? Ceremonial? Magical? 3. Dialects and language family 4. Sources of inspiration? A priori or a posteriori? 5. Phonemic inventory. The sounds or gestures of your conlang. 6. Orthography. Script or transcription. 7. Weekly prompt: fog 8. Phonotactics 9. Allophonic variation and sandhi 10. Morphology. Analytic or synthetic? 11. Alignment. Nominative-accusative? Ergative-absolutive? 12. Tenses and aspects. How does your language conceive of time? 13. Word order 14. Weekly prompt: horn 15. Prosody 16. Questions, negations, orders 17. Dependent clauses 18. Formality and registers 19. Language evolution. Sound/gesture changes and semantic drift. 20. Common expressions 21. Weekly prompt: play 22. Borrowings from other languages 23. Words formed by mimicry (e.g. onomatopoeias) 24. Cultural influence/references 25. Taboos 26. Important texts or oral traditions 27. Individual speakers' idiolects 28. Weekly prompt: cut 29. Challenge: The North Wind and the Sun (translate as much as you can) – or free day! 30. Reflection

Hey fellow #writers and #conlangers! I hosted #ConlangNovember last year, and it's coming back, but as #ConlangApril! The prompt list, below, is mostly the same, but I made a few edits and changed the weekly prompts.

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In truth, you still won't see me around much AT ALL, for personal reasons, current events get under my skin easily, so I barely scroll ANYTHING at all, even when I have a bit of time. But I might get a few #writingqs (especially if I need to distract myself, lol)

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#TimeTravelAuthors March 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional word: luck/lucky) 3. Are your characters protecting anything/one? 5. Apologies in your story 7. Saturday excerpt (optional word: quiet/loud) 9. Explain your story's time travel method with emojis 11. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: leaf/leaves/leave) 13. Cultures in your story 15. Does anyone have fun (or want to have fun) with time travel? 17. Patient or patience in your story 19. Servants in your story 21. Saturday excerpt (optional word: march/step) 23. Something that surprised you about your story 25. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: brief/short) 27. Alternate timelines in your story? 29. Characters' eye colors 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn.bsky.social or @juliebihn.mastodon.social

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! If you write, wrote, or will write time travel, I hope to see you then! (Other projects like comics, games, movies, etc. are welcome too.) #WritingCommunity #WritingQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ

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#TimeTravelAuthors February 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: use the word "love") 3. Is your work a standalone or a series? 5. Languages in your story 7. Saturday excerpt (optional word: love) 9. Does your story get "political"? 11. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: hug) 13. Love in your story 15. Comp titles? 17. Does your world have the butterfly effect? 19. How honest are your characters? 21. Saturday excerpt (optional word: listen) 23. A work of time travel fiction that your characters did or would enjoy 25. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: glow) 27. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social or @juliebihn@mastodon.social

Next month's proposed prompts #TimeTravelAuthors! Please let me know if you spot any issues. #WritingQs #WritingCommunity #HashtagGames

#TimeTravelAuthors January 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: start with "First..." or "At first…") 3. Saturday excerpt (optional word: deal) 5. What projects are you working on? 7. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: name) 9. Your goals for 2026 11. Time travel tropes you love 13. How realistic is your story? 15. The cost of time travel 17. Saturday excerpt (optional word: work) 19. A character's goal 21. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: count) 23. A favorite moment in your story 25. Problem/difficulty you had with time travel 27. Medical care in your story 29. What trigger warnings would you give? 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social Questions? @juliebihn@mastodon.social

Proposed questions for next month's #TimeTravelAuthors. Let me know if you see any problems! #WritingQs #WritingCommunity

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#TimeTravelAuthors December 2025 1. Introduce your story (optional: start with "'Twas the night before...") 3. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: decor/decorate) 5. Do any of your characters have a fantasy? 7. How did a character get their name? 9. A time someone failed 11. Does anyone keep things under wraps? 13. Saturday excerpt (optional word: far) 15. How many days/months/years back do they travel? 17. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: room) 19. A character who's naughty 21. A character who's nice 23. Nostalgia in your story 25. Does anything happen at midnight? 27. Saturday excerpt (optional word: gift) 29. Any time travel cliches? 31. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social

I made a list and it was checked at least thrice (though only once by me).

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! My holiday wish is to see you then! #WritingCommunity #WritingQs #HashtagGames #WritingPrompts #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs

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#ConlangNovember hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social 1. Introduce your conlang. Who speaks it? 2. Purpose. Everyday? Lingua franca? Ceremonial? Magical? 3. Dialects and language family 4. Sources of inspiration? A priori or a posteriori? 5. Phonemic inventory. The sounds or gestures of your conlang. 6. Orthography. Script or transcription. 7. Weekly prompt: feather 8. Phonotactics 9. Allophonic variation and sandhi 10. Analytic or synthetic? Agglutinative? Isolating? Fusional? 11. Alignment. Nominative-accusative? Ergative-absolutive? And noun cases. 12. Tenses and aspects. How does your language conceive of time? 13. Morphology. How does your language mark case, number, tenses, etc.? Grammatical gender, if it has it? 14. Weekly prompt: stand 15. Word order 16. Questions, negations, orders 17. Recursion and dependent clauses 18. Formality and registers 19. Language evolution. Sound/gesture changes and semantic drift. 20. Common expressions 21. Weekly prompt: bone 22. Borrowings from other languages 23. Onomatopoeia 24. Cultural influence/references 25. Taboos 26. Important texts or oral traditions 27. Your characters' idiolects 28. Weekly prompt: say 29. Challenge: The North Wind and the Sun (translate as much as you can) – or free day! 30. Reflection

Here are the prompts for #ConlangNovember! I've been busy lately, but I hope I'll still have time to host it.

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#TimeTravelAuthors November 2025 1. Introduce your story (optional: include the word "thank") 3. What would your characters do if they could travel forward in time? 5. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: meal/food) 7. Sports in your story 9. Strangest research you did for your story 11. Does time ever fly? 13. Desserts? 15. Saturday excerpt (optional phrase: what if) 17. Does anyone read in your story? 19. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: thank) 21. Something you're thankful for in your writing process 23. Do any of your characters act like turkeys? 25. Shopping in your story 27. A sentence from page 11 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like!

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! This month with extra servings of "thanks"! (I'm thankful for all of you!) #WritingPrompts #WritingQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #WritingCommunity

It's a Free Friday for both #FantasyIndiesSpooktober and #QueerPrompts, so I'll use it to promote #ConlangNovember, which will be my first attempt at hosting a hashtag game! We'll see how it goes.

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12 Ways Not to Start a Novel How do we start a novel? So much needs to go in an opener. But some openers have been done to death. So here are 12 ways not to start a novel

Revising your novel's beginning? 12 types of opening that tend not to work (so rethink) @annerallen.bsky.social annerallen.com/2025/09/12-w... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writingqs #storytellers #skywriters

#TimeTravelAuthors October 2025 Answer as a character! 1. Introduce yourself and the story 3. Your first appearance and/or line of dialogue in the story 5. Why are you important to the story? 7. Something odd/weird you've experienced 9. Favorite person 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: most) 13. What does someone else in the story think of you? 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: give/gave) 17. What life advice would you give? 19. Proudest moment 21. If you got to write the story, what would you change? 23. Tell us about your enemies 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: back) 27. How do you feel about time travel? 29. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: now) 31. Character's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! Answer as a character! Or multiple characters if you like. Hope to see you then! #TimeTravel #WritingCommunity #WritingQs #WritingPrompts #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ

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#TimeTravelAuthors September 2025 1. Tell us about your time-travel story (optional: from a sidekick's POV) 3. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: smooth/soft) 5. How many people are aware of time travel in your story? 7. Smartest character in your story 9. Tone of your story 11. How do you keep up urgency in your story? 13. Saturday excerpt (optional word: fire) 15. Any miracles? 17. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: strange) 19. Any reference to other time travel works in your story? 21. How sincere are your characters? 23. Anger in your story 25. How do you picture your story world 50 years in the future? 27. Saturday excerpt (optional word: pleasant) 29. Author's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social

Next month's prompts #TimeTravelAuthors! #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #WritingQs #WritingCommunity

(October will be something like answering them all as characters. Goodness help us all!)

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Available now at your favorite digital store! Writing plots with drama, depth and heart: Nail Your Novel by Roz Morris

Lots more about finding the right opening for your book: Writing Plots With Drama, Depth & Heart. Nail Your Novel books2read.com/nynplot #writingcommunity #writingtips #writinglife #writingqs #skywriters

How to self-diagnose the storytelling problems in your manuscript. The Nail Your Novels www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGC6S9Q... #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingqs #skywriters

What Makes a Story "Bad"? A Guide to Why Your Narrative Isn't Working What makes a bad story? The answer may surprise you. Here's what really makes a story fail—and how to fix it.

What makes a story unsatisfying or makes you put the book down early? Analysis of 5 common problems by @KMWeiland www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/what-makes-a... #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingqs #authorcommunity #skywriters

I’m the Word “Just” in a Piece of Writing, and I Just Want You to Give Me a Chance By Kerry Elson  Hey. It’s just me, the nemesis of creative writing teachers everywhere. You know … “just.” Teachers tell you to just delete me, cross me out, excise me from your short story, e…

Just not necessary. Or is it? A little word that's often overused - @KerryElson at @dintywmoore.bsky.social #skywriters brevity.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/j... #writingtips #writingqs #writingcommunity #creativewriting

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Available now at your favorite digital store! Nail Your Novel: Draft, Fix & Finish With Confidence. A companion workbook by Roz Morris

Should your novel be seeking answers... or asking questions? Nail Your Novel Workbook books2read.com/nynworkbook #writingcommunity #writingqs #authorcommunity #creativewriting #skywriters

Anchor and Practice: Diaries and Journals I think I was about 9 or 10 when I first discovered the practice of keeping a diary, but my earliest childhood diary that survived my mother’s instinct for getting rid of things is one from when I …

Learning to tell it to the page - I love this personal story of a lifelong diary practice and the evolution of a writer @sophiemasson.bsky.social at @writerunboxed.bsky.social writerunboxed.com/2025/06/20/a... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #storytelling #writingtips #writingqs #skywriters

Available now at your favorite digital store! Nail Your Novel - Why Writers Abandon Books and How You Can Draft, Fix and Finish With Confidence by Roz Morris

To go with my previous:
If your subplots are running riot, you're not sure of the POV, you're editing for ever, you need a friend. Nail Your Novel - 'a writing buddy in a book' books2read.com/nailyournovel #writingqs #writingtips #authorlife #storytelling #writingcommunity #skywriters