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My husband picked up some books for me from the library today morning and this fell out of the Hollinghurst. So I’m going to try and see if I can get a new bracelet out of this. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #authorsky #litfic #booksky #bookerprize #5amwritersclub

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bluesky post, Instagram picture carousel, Substack note and article, Reddit replies, emails and pitches, Discord events, and wait...what am I missing, what am I missing? Oh yes, my fucking manuscript. #amwriting #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #authorsky #writerslife

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hurtling into the insanity armed with a horror anthology for 2027. Theme: POV Stories told by the family pet, the neighbour, the oldest tree, the flying chocolate wrapper, the security guard, the ghoul that lives in the fridge. #writingcommunity #horroranthology #horror #shortstories #litmag

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why do we need two-factor authentication for my electricity and gas account? Like, who exactly is trying to hack into them to pay my bills? And can they hurry up? #5amwritersclub #amwriting #writingcommunity #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's just me and my Canva Pro battling against the whole wide world. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #amwriting #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A domain has been bought, a site design has been signed off on, three books are being worked on, freelance designers are being negotiated with. My brain is going hazy with what I cannot tell you. I will see myself out now. #amwriting #writingcommunity #smallpress #authorsky #indieauthors

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Excited Little Girl

ALT: Excited Little Girl

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And we're live for short stories and flash fiction for those of you who write horror, speculative, supernatural, literary, coming-of-age, slice-of-life, humor, surrealist, experimental, troubling, weird, and dark stories. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingcommunity #smallpress #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy Monday morning to those who set high writing goals on Friday last week and have done fuck all over the weekend! And a happy week ahead to #5amwritersclub! Here's an accurate photo of me trying my best. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky

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Fire Writing Meme

ALT: Fire Writing Meme

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tiny peek into a craft essay I've been drafting on non-western narrative structures. I keep oscillating between keeping it casual and being all lecture-y and experiment-y. #amwriting #craftessays #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #personalessays #authorsky #writingpractice

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quick snippet from my horror novella WIP, that has strong SE Asian folklore, body horror, and toxic romance elements in it. The word "crisp" for #SundaySnips! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #HQPress #AuthorSky #WritersCommunity #Horror #5amWritersClub

The word "crisp" for #SundaySnips!
Quick snippet from my horror novella WIP, that has strong SE Asian folklore, body horror, and toxic romance elements in it.

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #HQPress #AuthorSky #WritersCommunity #Horror #5amWritersClub

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Them: Are you writing a novel? Me: Yes. A novel. One. One novel. Them: What? Me: What? #amwriting #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #writerscommunity #authorsky #novelist

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excerpt from an uncanny little short story I'm working on. Happy weekend you lot 🎉 #amwriting #writingcommunity #shortstories #horror #5amwritersclub

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Make lace out of my heart By pelting your bullets into my chest Because I'd rather you kill me Than your love - #writingcommunity #poetry #authorsky #amwriting #writerslie #writerscommuntiy #poems I have secret news #5amwritersclub but will take a bit of time to announce.

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What are we reading everyone? Are we loving or hating it? Hump day and I’m starting with a book that could potentially be a comp for my current novel WIP. Recommended to me because of the braided narrative and multi-POV work. #5amwritersclub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #booksky

The God of The Woods by Liz Moore.
What are we reading everyone? Are we loving or hating it?
Hump day and I’m starting with a book that could potentially be a comp for my current novel WIP. Recommended to me because of the braided narrative and multi-POV work.

#5amwritersclub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #booksky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Going to feature pieces on Asian/South Asian women, diaspora too, who are writing in any genre based on Asian/South Asian mythology, folklore, history, religion etc. If you belong, or know someone who does, please connect! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #womenwriters #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have this fear where the authors of all the books I've hated show up to hate on mine when it is finally published. Any remedies to cope? #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #writerslife #authorsky

Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hiya #5amwritersclub, I'm late today, but what are you currently reading? My June-July-August TBR and ARC pile is now complete! #amwriting #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #booksky #writerslife

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the kind of niche stuff I slide down the drain into at 3 am on the weekends. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingpractice #writerslife

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Arwyn talks about the different faces of horror & about starting to write difficult stories at an young age, how she's evolved as a writer, and her position on AI in creative spaces. Ep10 is now out on #TheDeepList 🎧 tinyurl.com/arwyn-sp #bookpodcast #horrorstories #smallpress #amwriting #booksky

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The Different Faces of Horror

Author Arwyn Sherman on Episode 10 of The Deep List

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hiya #5amwritersclub, an excerpt from my account of being an angsty 22 year old in Mumbai. On my personal column I mostly whine about my writing life, talk about craft, food, and occasionally I'm funny. 👉 tinyurl.com/mumbai-terra... #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writing #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hello #5amwritersclub, haven't been showing my face here for a bit, because the WIPs have come down on me like an avalanche. I've done the opposite of a self-insert so hard, now finding it difficult to get inside my MC's head again. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity #writesky #authors

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"The calm was like a balm. My hyperphantasia cooked up all the stories—the wings, the hope, the gays, the friendships, the filth, the whole indiscriminate range—for nobody but myself." Latest from the personal column. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky #writerslife #essay

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Maladaptive Daydreaming on Mumbai Terraces

How to be an angsty twenty two year old writer with range

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hi #5amwritersclub. I'm lazy about naming male characters so I regularly pull them off my male friends. Recently, I've had the pleasure of receiving feedback from them on what happens to some of those characters in the WIP, and it has been hilarious! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have come to the realization that at the core of whatever I write will be a love story. Doomed or quiet or unrequited or disastrous or sweet or not so sweet, but it will exist. I also need to not resist writing that way. #amwriting #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The most perfect first sentence ever. No notes. 💯 Move over Moby Dick. I am this cow. This cow is me. Came across on my feed, from The Cow in the Dark at Night by Jess Hannigan. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #authorsky #writerscommunity #firstlines #writingtips

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Morning #5amwritersclub, what are everyone's writing goals for the next two days? This weekend for me is going to be about craft and studying great sex scenes, starting with these two. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writerslife #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Look at that cover! Steven Gibbon's debut novel (via Dark Matter Ink) and its half-goat-half-man, troublemaking protagonist is the topic of discussion for Ep09 of #TheDeepList podcast this week. @stgibbon.bsky.social #smallpress #readingcommunity #books #booklover #indiepublisher #urbanfantasy

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Dark Urban Fiction vs Game Design

Author Steven T. Gibbon on Episode 09 of The Deep List

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay, couldn't help it 🙈. Paid homage to Anna Morrison in ink & copic markers, by re-imagining my MCs for an #agentsguide. Fulls are still out. Don't know where I'll end up. Share your covers and character art #5amwritersclub #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky

Okay, I couldn't help it 🙈. Paid homage to Anna Morrison in ink & copic markers, by re-imagining my MCs for an agent's guide. Fulls are still out. Don't know where I'll end up.

Share your covers and character art #5amwritersclub

#amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hiya #5amwritersclub. Just excited about @xtinehlee.bsky.social's Venn diagram on non-Western storytelling structures. Does any of this apply to you and how? Her series on it 👇 christinehlee.substack.com/p/what-happe... #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorsky #writerslife

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Don’t fear the rewrite. No, I don’t mean edits. I don’t mean heavy edits either. I mean rewrite. You’ve written it once, you can write it again. No fear. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #writerscommunity

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hello #5amwritersclub, what the start of a reverse outline looks like. Still a few scenes to write for the first draft, but I'm staring early on the reverse outline because this novel has four goddamned timelines. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #novelist #writerslife

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Morning #5amwritersclub! Are you messy desk writer or a clean desk writer? Do you have a photo of your working space? Because I'm nosy. At 60K with the WIP, coffee, a 4-day weekend, and recording two podcast interviews today. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fibbing about my piano playing prowess (purely inspired by the musical genius of Annie) I wrote my first story at the age of six. Fresh out the oven on the personal column. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity #authorsky #writersky #timcurry #dollyparton #writerslife

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Tim Curry, Annie, and Telling Lies

Or the first story I ever wrote at age six

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hope Engel 😍 chats with me about her debut novel "At Your Pace", using voice recordings to draft (which I'm a failure at) and the next books in her romance series, right here: tinyurl.com/hope-stack #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writingpodcast #podcast #romance #indieauthor

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hello #5amwritersclub! I remember Tim Curry as Rooster Hannigan in "Annie". As a 5 year old, I watched that movie so many times that I often broke into song in the middle of first grade. My teacher called mum to say I was being "disruptive in class". #timcurry #amwriting #moviesky #writingcommunity

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Super excited about Hope's interview going up on The Deep List this Friday. We talk male POVs and mental health representation in romance! Stay tuned at oratoriamag.substack.com 😍 #amwriting #booksky #readerscommunity #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #bookpodcast #writingpodcast #indieauthor

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every time I open up book awards lists, I scour them to see if my half-done first draft, that no one in the world has ever seen, has somehow shown up on the list. Happy hump day #5amwritersclub #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife #writesky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Which part of your current project are you most afraid to get wrong? In my case, the braided structure. My betas struggled with it in the first novel. The story had two timelines. My current WIP has...four. Why make it easy for myself, amirite?🤜 #amwriting #writingcommunity #writinglife #authorsky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wrote this one more than a year ago. I think an updated version is required because this year I've seen some more acceptances and rejections, and talking numbers always makes the sting of rejections easy to tackle. #amwriting #litmag #literaryjournal #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky

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A Brief History of Rejections

And how some of my short stories got published.

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Loving the whole Christopher Nolan adapts The Odyssey, Emily Wilson writes a scathing criticism of it, then another critic writes a scathing criticism of Wilson's piece, and another criticizes the criticism piece, then another critic... #amwriting #theodyssey #writingcommunity #movielover #writesky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hello #5amwritersclub. What are your toxic traits when it comes to writing? What practice have you tried to change unsuccessfully? Mine is thinking my work will be praised just because I'm sincere with storytelling, ignoring timing and luck. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writesky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Morning #5amwritersclub, anyone rejected from anything lately? Rejections don't bog me. Been writing a long time, so I collect them like playing cards. But a recent one attacked a part of my skill I have blind confidence in and it's left me shaken and hungry. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not worked on any of my WIPs in the last three days. Busy instead focusing on lit mag admin with Jake O. and look how pretty he's made cover of Oratoria's website 😍 For the curious - oratoriamag.substack.com #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #litmag #smallpress #booksky #booklovers

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hello #5amwritersclub! Was so cool to chat with Hope Engel, Steve Gibbon, and Arwyn Sherman over the last week! Can't wait to publish their interviews. Give me recommendations please, of indie authors and their books for Season 2. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #booksky #writesky

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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Episode 07 with Rory Say and his horror stories, is up! He talks of his debut collection, and the ever elusive list of ideas that an author can or can't pick from. #amwriting #smallpress #indieauthor #indiepublisher #booklovers #booksky #writingcommunity #writingpodcast #writesky

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