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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Planned to spend this week of my maternity leave catching up on beta reading (I’m behind) but unfortunately my toddler’s daycare is closed for an indeterminate amount of time so I may not get as far as I hoped

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Somehow in the midst of the sleepless nights of being up with a newborn while on maternity leave, I finally finished my plot outline for my rewrite and I’m so happy! So tired too but also so happy

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I desperately want to read and write but I’m so mentally exhausted after work that the moment I have free time I just lay there like a log. It’s been months and I know it’ll get better but it feels endless and I’m tired.

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Everybody clap I wrote the first paragraph of my rewrite this morning after weeks of nothing. But don’t clap too loud, I promised myself I’d write a synopsis before I started working on the actual book and there’s still no synopsis in sight.

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I really wish I was one of those people who was cool and mysterious about writing and just showed up to my betas with a finished draft as a surprise. But unfortunately I cannot keep a secret for a second and also I basically constantly need people to talk things out with

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The amount of superstitions I have related to what WIPs I allow myself to write and when is probably unhealthy…. But therapy isn’t available so YOLO

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Started to crochet a crayon (or crayololo according to my 18mo) and I thought it would be a simple little project to get back into crocheting. 3 nights in and this thing still isn’t done because I underestimated how big it is.

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Jayme Hunt 🪶 @authorjaymehunt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The Narratess indie book sale is officially live!! This weekend only, you can get over 200 indie books on sale! Check out the sale at indiebook.sale 🔥 (And if you haven’t snagged my books yet, the first of my series is available with this sale for only 99c!) Happy reading. ❤️ #booksky 📚💙👀

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Learned something new about myself today! I’m super oblivious to everything going on around me at work. I zone out the entire time I’m there.

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Chitra @thespiralswing.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Okay, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor

A side by side of Dean and Jess from Gilmore Girls

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Woke up at 2am with a really cool line AND I immediately wrote it down so I wouldn’t forget. Rereading it back now, it’s good but doesn’t fit into my draft anywhere. So that’s a bummer

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Writing descriptions are my downfall. If it were up to first draft me. Everybody would be a blank slate in a background less world with no smells or anything

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

marketing for those of us who suck at graphic design be like

a graphic of will smith thrusting out his hands with text that says 'please! buy my book!' with hearts around it. there's a silly crown above will smith's head.

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Karen Jensen, MLS @tltkaren.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.

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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 🍃 @charscrawls.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

⚽️ ted lasso x you've got mail 💌 hester and leo. stevie and jace. a love unknowingly found and a love sadly lost. brought together by chance, the four tackle the fissures they currently live in to find what they've been missing all along—each other. #questpit #W #A #LF #CON #R

a moodboard detailing nine images related to my work in progress godlesswip. in order they are: a dragon, an art gallery, london, a woman wearing a leather jacket and a band t-shirt, a couple embracing, someone playing football, a woman using a typewriter, a vinyl record and finally, a man smoking.

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Tortured Poets Dept but w/ Faeries Ft: ✨A girl trying to end her family curse ✨A boy with PTSD from a monster attack ✨A secret society using fae magic ✨Estranged exes working together to get through their trauma & save people because they know firsthand fae magic has repercussions #questpit #ya #f

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#Questpit! I present to you, for your consideration (and with improved graphics) SUNDERED GALAXY! #W #A #SF

Graphic for a pitch slide, showing a planet, moon with sun peeking out behind moon and starship.
Text reads: "An agents guide to SUNDERED GALAXY"
"A Space Opera Novel and the first of a series, currently standing at 146K words."

On a background of a half shrouded red planet, a block of text reading:
THE PITCH
Last week Anthony was just like like every other average guy. Now he's on a stolen alien warship with a small crew of alien prison escapees, an extra set of skin keeping him alive, and a mysterious and powerful fleet of unknown adversaries after him. All he wants is to just go home.

On top of a background showing a red nebula:
Comp titles listed as NOPHEK GLOSS X FARSCAPE, with title images for each one.

Tropes list, detailing:
•Fish out of water MC
•Space Odyssey
•Befriending the AI Android
•Diverse aliens, locations, FTL travel and space battles
•A galaxy divided by war.

On top of a background of a starry night sky:
An excerpt reading:
"Dozens of such empires die every century, often in the same manner as this. There are thousands of empires, unions, alliances, dominions or nations, or whatever variant of galactic government you'd care to mention, and they all shift and change and die. New ones rise up all the time. They are all like trees in a rain forest, quick to sprout and grow given the right circumstances, quick to fall and die and their corpse scavenged by everything around them."
- Kenam Suldaray, former operative of the confederacy of Vigilant Systems, on the nature of the galaxy.

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#QuestPit! For your consideration, I present a new project i've been working on. TIDES OF SOURCERY #W (very much so, first draft so far only) #A #F

On a background of a starry night sky, a dark forest canopy and a shooting star, text reading:
Proudly Presenting
TIDES OF SOURCERY
A very early stage fantasy currently at 110K words.

On a background of a dark, spooky forest at night, text reading:
THE PITCH
Ten years ago the world we knew changed, flooding with magic and monsters we thought were mere stories. Now Gracelynn, one of those afflicted with magic powers during that terrible day, must take a dangerous mission to find her long lost brother, with the hope of asking forgiveness for that terrible day. But is the quest for old family worth risking her new one?

On a background of our planet earth surrounded by a glowing cloud of magic and a parson looking at it while standing on a cliff, text reading:
EXCERPT:
“The Celestial Council has decided. A world has been chosen, and the process has already begun,” a female voice said.
Relief flooded Kr'alda'ur.
“Which world?” he asked, the traditional inquiry for this ritual exchange.
“A human world, in the Arm of the Vanquished Goddess. Further details will be provided via official Council Degree within the day. The Celestial Council offers its congratulations,” the female voice said.
“I am thankful for the words of Direction, and of the opportunity. My House is at the Celestial Council's service as always,” Kr'alda'ur said in reply, finishing the traditional exchange.

On a background of a wizard casting magic in a glowing enchanted forest, text reading:
PRELIMINARY COMPS
The Witcher X Dresden Files

Tropes
• Magical Outcast FMC
• A new magical Earth, Guns meet Elves
• A multitude of magic portals
• elves and Orcs, Robes and Cloaks and so much more
• Mythical creatures
• A forbidden forest
• A Quest!

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Officially starting my first revision pass. Currently this book is sitting at 112,023 and I’d like to get it under 110,000… after adding descriptions and more interiority and other details to make it flow better. Sounds doable

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/02/2025

when you self-publish, 80%+ of your income is likely dependent on Amazon. unless you can figure out how to sell direct, which usually involves PayPal (no problems there!) and giving Meta ridonk $$$ for facebook/IG ads.

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Seeing all those FastDraftFeb posts on Twitter makes me want to start something new. Iliterally just finished drafting Memory WIP a few days ago though and I haven’t even read through it yet…

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Mentally this week has been super stressful but I think the thing that just put me over the edge was when I was explaining to my supervisor how many files I had left to deal with and she looked at me appalled because I shouldn’t have that much work. …but…I do?

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’ve reached that point of writing my book where I’m just straight up obsessed with working on it just because if I keep working on it, it’ll finally be finished

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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hi #YouDeservepIt! Talked myself into doing a lil share about my introspective sci-fi #WIP 🛸 • Decolonized science-mystic system • Found family • Sapphic in space • Own-voice ND rep • Trauma reconciliation (or not) • Non-human, ultra-terrestrial characters #W #A #SF #ND #DIS #LGBT #POC

An image with text overlayed over it. The image is an abstract illustration by the artist Dhiyanah Hassan with batik, galactic, and geometric themes. The text box overlaid over it carries a pitch or synopsis for the story that Dhiyanah is writing and showcasing for this pitch event. It reads: Frida's given a lifeline when her dream of space travel comes true. Everything she knows begins shifting with the discovery that there are more of her kind, thriving in a hidden community within the Petirian solar system. But finding ways to belong will take her deeper into personal and collective memories she was never prepared to face.

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Lauryn Hall @authorlaurynh.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A whimsical trilogy about mages fighting for their freedom from the humans that enslaved them. What they didn’t know was that a ruthless cult have been hiding in the shadows to free their twisted master to destroy the world. Can they join forces to stop this darkness? #YouDeservepIt #SP #F #YA #WIP

a mood board of 9 images of two people hugging, to people dancing, a group of soldiers fighting with swords, a girl with magic, dragons, and a couple by the lake side.

A book promo with the book at the center called "Secrets of Magic" which has the cover being a pool of water in a cavern with floating colorful lights surrounding it. Words surround the book cover to describe it like adventure, epic fight scenes, high stakes, magic and mystery, found family, & high fantasy. Along with the words of "Order Now!" and "Amazon and Barnes & Noble"

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Lauryn Hall @authorlaurynh.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It's 1937 & Ruben is struggling with the burden of one day taking over his father’s mob while trying to figure out who he is. Things take a turn when Ruben is pulled into another realm, being told he is meant to save it. Can he step up to the task & discover who he is? #YouDeservepit #F #WIP #YA

A mood board of 9 images. Pictures of a young man, a teen, crystals, a girl with pink hair, a mermaid tail, a boy in a mirror, red magic with swirling around, and a crystal castle

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Yavanna Brouwer ✨ Writing Age of Sail Romantasy @yavannabrouwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Roan, a selkie, is forced aboard a pirate ship. A god offers to free him if he sabotages the crew. The problem? The captain is as captivating—and dangerous—as the monsters in the sea. #LGBTQIA+ romance | action-adventure | found family #OFMD x Irish Mythology #WIP #YA #romantasy #YouDeservepIt

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Tortured Poets Dept but w/ Faeries Ft: ✨A grieving girl trying to end a curse ✨A boy with PTSD from a monster attack ✨A secret society using fae magic to make their dreams come true w/ “no strings attached” ✨Estranged exes working together to get through their trauma #YouDeservePit #WIP #YA

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Yavanna Brouwer ✨ Writing Age of Sail Romantasy @yavannabrouwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When homebody Ondra accidentally becomes a death god, her ambitious sister Ray is tasked by the Empire to fix her. Gravity magic & climbing | shadow mommy | politics | action-adventure | romance | #LGBTQIA+ Cinder Spires x Witchlands #Q #A #F #YouDeservepIt #amquerying #writingcommunity

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Good evening, #YouDeservepit. i present to you, for your consideration, Sundered Galaxy, the first story in what will be a series. #WIP #A #SF

Collage of nine pictures.
Top left: Flying spaceship with exploding station in the background.
Top center: Three shadow aliens in different primary colour shadings.
Top right: Large, convoluted space station.
Middle Left: Several civilian space ships approaching planet.
Middle: Red planet with planetary asteroid belt. Has text over it reading "How do you search for a home when no one knows your kind even exists?".
Middle right: Starship lifting off of planet towards two fiery volcanic moons.
Bottom left: Many-legged ground walker, pilot holding flag.
Bottom middle: Space Station in orbit of blue planet covered in clouds.
Bottom right: Hostile alien in body armour in aggressive stance, standing inside alien ship.

Slide Two: The Pitch.
Picture in background of planet surface, moon in distance, sun peeking out from behind moon.
Text of pitch reads: "Last week Anthony was just like any other average guy. Now he's on a stolen alien warship with a small alien crew of prison escapees, an extra set of skin keeping him alive, and a mysterious and powerful fleet of unknown adversaries after him. All he wants is to just go home."

Slide Three: Comps and Tropes.
Same background picture as slide two.
Comps: Farscape and Nophek Gloss
Tropes: Fish out of water MC
Space Odyssey
Befriend the AI Android
Diverse Aliens, Locations, FTL Travel and Space Battles
A Galaxy Ravaged by War.

Slide Four: Excerpt.
Same background picture as slide two.
Excerpt text: "Dozens of such empires die every century, often in the same manner as this. there are thousands of Empires, Unions, Alliances, Dominions and Nations, or whatever variant of galactic government you'd care to mention, and they all shift and change and die. New ones rise up all the time. They are all like trees in a rain forest, quick to sprout and grow given the right circumstances, quick to fall and die and their corpse scavenged by everything around them"
-Kenam Suldaray, former operative of the Confederacy of Vigilant Systems, on the nature of the galaxy.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 20/01/2025

Also request them from your local public library. Write to your state gov't demanding them. Write to your federal reps & demand them. Invest in them for your local free little library or mutual aid group. Suggest them at your book clubs. Make it known that gov't is censoring them.

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gradybridges.bsky.social @gradybridges.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Someone should just live stream their Tik Tok on YouTube.

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Well TikTok just stopped working so I took a screencap of the last video that worked for me before it wouldn’t let me scroll anymore.

A screencap of a tiktok of different pictures for different zodiac signs

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Authors! let’s start a chain of posts of your FIRST published book. q/p the cover, a link and some words about it. here is mine: Teenage monster hunter with mommy issues and a bad attitude a.co/d/0nq484S

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A nice way to end a stressful work day is to unwind with a drink, some goldfish crackers, and editing a rough chapter and laughing at some of the dumbest attempts of jokes I’ve come up with!

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Maybe the publishing world is a hypercompetitive hellscape for YOU. Skill issue. My writer pals and I are all over here reading each other's stories and crying. I am in all of their fan clubs. If y'all aren't hyping each other up, what are you even doing?

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

From Memory WIP Caroline is a mono red planeswalker and Ian is a plaeswalker of the esper shard

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I finally discovered EPIC: the musical. I haven’t stopped listening to it all week. Holy crap I need to talk to somebody about how amazing this is!

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

$675 back in 2014 and then the next year it went up to $750 and then the owner died and his son and daughter and law became the owners and they tried to hike it up to $975.83 They never responded to my requests to fix my dish washer and every few months the kitchen would flood. Fastest I ever left

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

“There’s no such thing as a good cockatrice joke” - the phrase I keep telling myself while I proceed to write the worst cockatrice non-joke imaginable

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Consider this my #startingoffwrite accountability thread for my Memory WIP. I’m gonna finish this book this month if it’s the last thing I do! Starting with a very rambly 755 words

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Maybe in 2025 I will try actually marketing instead of basically pretending my book doesn’t exist!

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Walked into work today thinking it would be chill and quiet because last week was. Today has been the funniest and most absolutely insane day in a while. People say the funniest things when they’re demanding things right before the end of the year!

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

2024 was such a weird rushed year but I knew that would be the case going into it. 2025 is about getting back to creativity. Writing, painting, and redoing my space to feel more like me.

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Alyssa Frace @alyssawrotethis.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I’m like 3/4 done with my book and I woke up this glorious Christmas morning and came up with a wayyyy better way to rewrite my whole middle. Is this a Christmas gift or a Christmas curse?

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