Writes character driven adult fantasy.
WIP: Brother’s Keeper, epic fantasy sibling story
Lives with bipolar - @siegeofthespirit
Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Mountain backcountry horsewoman
🚫politics
Every trail’s the one true home.
Two brothers—one accursed, one gifted—struggle with the Power of an empathic bond unseen for centuries. As Rushak seeks to escape his curse, Drisal must wield it as evil arises to threaten the world. But the prophesied Power can return only once, and the Shining One is … somebody else. #WIPPIT#F#A
Pt577
Maurice brushed Ang’s hair, then picked up his straightening rod. Ang #started in surprise. “What’s that?” she croaked. Everyone else in the room—even Rose—laughed.
“What? Did I #spook you, my little country rustic?” Maurice twittered.
“Don’t mind her,” Moira pooh-poohed.
#vss365#WIPSnips
There’s a lovely little found family in Brother’s Keeper. The core group meets others during the invasion of the holy land. Most dialogue snips showing them all together are spoilers but I do have these sweet ones. #lithodgepodge
1. After the group has been through a traumatic event, Cerel gives🧵
Spooky --> terrifying
From CultWIP first draft. The Seekers have raided the Rekshimyr compound. Natalia offers to guide Callix around the place, and they end up in Rowan’s room. #WIPSnips#writesky#writingprompts#writingcommunity
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Word of the day is ‘spooky’, which I don’t have so I’m using ‘scared’ for vibes
From my short story, Drifting Waves 🌊 🧜♀️
-Our narrator, Eli, wants to know James’ story.
#WritingCommunity
October 27th: "spooky"
Well... we're doing vibes today!
#DuvacOC meets 𝗮̶ 𝗰̶𝗿̶𝘆̶𝗽̶𝘁̶𝗶̶𝗱̶ #JudahOC.
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts#SteepedInShadow#Romantasy#UrbanFantasy
(I'll have more to share soon, as I plan on diving back into the grind in November!)
G'morning #WIPSnips!
I gots your spooky right here! It may be a bluff to get the fuzz to bugger off, but it does sorta come true by the end of the book.
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A flash lunges, flying at me, sharp hands and sharper sneers, wild hair and wilder eyes. A bundle of apparitions vying and scrambling for me, agony and anguish ripping from their incorporeal throats, threatening to swallow me whole.
- Water's Edge (currently 99¢: a.co/d/0i5x8SEB)
#WIPSnips
Good morning, #WIPSnips!
Today, together, Frogbo and Bunibo say farewell. For now.
🐰🫶 🫶🐸
content warning: acrophobia
#FrogboAct1#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts#AmRevising#Frogbo#QueerWriters
This is a long one. Day 2 of Murders Erode 2 an unasked for #wipsnips exclusive mini story (that I'm pantsing daily) set aboard a messed up version of my space ship, The Tartarus. What is the Space Vampire up to today?
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#sff#StatuesErode#MurdersErode2
October 27th – spooky
Fox is learning to navigate the Stream. She just met a new friend! 😁😈
#DawnsBlood#WIPSnips#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
#fantasy#WritingCommunity#WriteSky#WIPSnips#spooky -> eerie
Boating conditions are less than optimal.
- Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
#fantasy#WritingCommunity#WriteSky#WIPSnips#claustrophobia vibes
In a tight spot.
(Reworking what goes on in this box. Don’t know how much of this part I’m keeping, but it works for this for now!)
- Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
#AwesomeCharacters
For me, a love-to-hate villain has some layers to them - very committed to their antagonistic actions but also has thoughts, internal conflicts that make them interesting AND show the flawed premise on which they base the “rightness” of their actions. I can root for them to 1/2
Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters
Today feels like a technical question day!
What separates a character you love to hate, from one you just hate?
A villain you may not feel sympathy for, but enjoy nonetheless?
Which do you like to write?
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
fail and laugh at their foibles.
A character I just hate is a bit more one-dimensional in their antagonism. Whether they’re having fun or not, they’re single minded in their purpose. They may still be a good character but I hate their evil.
I like to write both and have both in my WIP.
Sir Corbyn: The only time I haven't told the truth is when I haven't said anything at all, but I will when all are ready to hear it.
Ata: If you don't care to be trustworthy, no one cares to trust you.
Here is Sir Corbyn's lie of omission.
#LitHodgepodge#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#Raven+Bear
Ari slipped outside. The wide, open expanse of darkness was all too eager to welcome her. She wouldn't have minded it before. She would have sought it out in comparison to the cramped walls and claustrophobic gathering, especially after such a night.
- When Morning Comes
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Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
#LitHodgepodge#WritingCommunity
Rushak: I do value honesty, and strive to be so, though I fail. I will speak small lies in the pursuit of knowledge and white lies to spare the feelings of others.
Perhaps the question of greater dishonesty is one many practice: that of masking one’s feelings,🧵1/3
indeed pretending the opposite, which we all must do to ensure personal safety and respect for others. Some live in this state constantly. I must shelter everyone, especially my brother Drisal, from the storm in my heart at all times. Do we all live a lie in this masking we do?
My worst lies are 🧵
Pt576
This room made Ang feel more #claustrophobic than her medical cell had under the stables. How far underground were they? Ang wanted to hurry things up. She was ready to snatch Rose & make haste, travel as quickly away from The District as they could.
#vss365#WIPSnips
Tiri compares the subterranean laboratory of Hyperion’s training academy to her home crevasse on the other side of the Crag’s cordillera, where night brings suffocating darkness.
#WIPSnips#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts#Fantasy#Laboratory#SFFNovel#Science#Justmountainthings
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
#WIPSnips 26. "Claustrophobia"
I don't use the word, but here's Nitara's claustrophobia rearing its head.
#ChroniclesOfTheRealms#CaptainNitara#Ashtara#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#QueerWriters
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
Happy spooky week everyone! 🎃
I don't have the word for today, but I think the vibes are there. From CultWIP first draft.
TW for panic attack
#WIPSnips#writesky#writingprompts#writingcommunity
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
#WIPSnips
Word of the day is ‘claustrophobia’, which I don’t have so it’s ✨vibes✨
From Dust and Shadows
(I think I shared this before)
-Peter gets uncomfortable when the other Lost Boys surround him
#WritingCommunity
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
October 26th – claustrophobia
Things are a little tense between Mikiva and Av’ry right now.
#DawnsBlood#WIPSnips#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
#fantasy#WritingCommunity#WriteSky#WIPSnips#claustrophobia vibes
In a tight spot.
(Reworking what goes on in this box. Don’t know how much of this part I’m keeping, but it works for this for now!)
- Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
Welcome to spooky week for #WIPSnips!
The #WIPSnips word for October 26th is "claustrophobia"
Remember, use synonyms, variations or ✨vibes✨ if you don't have the word!
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
Apologies but the next week’s words post is going to be delayed today. I’m on the road and forgot to do it before heading out. I thought I could do it from my phone but my signal is giving me a fit.
It’ll get posted but it’s gonna be late today!
#AwesomeCharacters
Yay! This is a great day because I get to share Rushak’s first-ever art!
Thanks so much to @solarisstory.bsky.social for this dramatic rendition!
For the full impact, please take a moment to zoom in on this face for that heartbreaking expression up close! 💔
Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters
It's International Artist Day! 🎉🎉
And we haven't done an art share day in a bit! So, please share with me any art you have of your characters!
A doodle or picrew works too! Help me picture them!
(Please no AI)
#WriteSky#WritingCommunity#WritingPrompts
#lithodgepodge
I’m probably cheating here with my not-art, but this young man is the spitting image of Cerel, a hunter and scout who is my MC Rushak’s best friend.
What does he reincarnate as?
#fantasy#WritingCommunity#WriteSky#WIPSnips#breeze
Lord Deran cross-examines Rushak after the latter’s report to the clan about something he was sole witness to.
POV Drisal. The three are alone.
- Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power
#AwesomeCharacters
I’ve never described these in detail but I’d love to dress up as one of the Kudrum priestesses!
Shapely body-fitting leather armor, skirts and ornaments. The terrifying hideous face. The imposing headdress. The wand.
It would help me better conceive their details!
Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters
Ok everyone! It's just over a week to Halloween which means there is still time to make this happen!
Which of your characters would you most want to dress up as for Halloween?
Assume money is no object!
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#LitHodgepodge 21
Two snips to show two of several ways I like to work verbs hard. First one: descriptors. In this case they function multiple ways: appearance, emotion, and to evoke the quality of health in the setting.
Second: dredge: human action, effort and emotion simultaneously.
Pt571
Fear was #fueling her, Dawn knew, & fear wasn’t a strong space to act from. Dawn knew the trip wasn’t going to be a #breeze, but the druggies in the Outlands were even worse than the rumors let on. There had to be cookshacks tucked away all over the woods.
#vss365#WIPSnips