iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 27/08/2025

For all the writers who've felt this way over the past months:

A screenshot from Tumblr user novelconcepts which reads: "Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important. You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic 'I want to want to' you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into a reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise."

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 12/07/2025

When the spammers don't even try

The image is a screenshot of an email which reads:

Good morning, there

Hello, my name is FIRSTFROMNAME, and I'm with Build Your Socials, a digital marketing agency. We diligently search Instagram for accounts that are truly thriving and could benefit from our genuine, organic assistance to grow even further.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 06/06/2025

If you're a writer who struggles with descriptive passages, this tip always works for me! #writingcommunity

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 05/06/2025

The office is coming along! Bottom shelf is all clients and critique partners (and my lil novella). Looking forward to adding more to it this year ✨

Two long shelves on a dark wall with books, plants, and trinkets. The titles are all science fiction and fantasy. There framed pictures of fantasy scenery hung around the bookshelves, but a lot of blank space remains.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 31/05/2025

Update: the dark blank corner of the office that I never show anyone is coming along nicely. I'm thinking about buying strip shelving to put above the Kallax for showing off my favorite LPs. Thoughts?

The corner of Cee's office is relatively small and set between a window and a door to the hall. There are hardwood floors, and the window has a thick, white curtain embroidered with a tiger. It's daytime and light is coming through the window. The wall color is a very dark blue-black, and there's a new IKEA Kallax cube furniture unit against the wall with the door. It's mostly empty, but has a record player on top and Cee's small vinyl collection stored in it. In front of it is a leather reading chair with a foot stool.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 24/04/2025

Look at this cat and tell me he didn't think he was the center of the universe. He passed in my arms outside at the vet, and as soon as I felt him go, all the birds in the yard started chirping. I just know he bolted out like a rocket, all "you can't escape me now, birbs!"

Gizmo T. Cat reclining in Cee's lap, on his back, serving face, nested on soft blankets, looking very much like he thinks someone ought to be fanning him and feeding him treats.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 08/04/2025

If your protagonist isn't the one driving a major plot point, you can prevent them from getting sidelined by ensuring that their actions/decisions prior to that plot point have a major impact on how that event shakes down. #writingcommunity #writesky #amwriting

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 06/04/2025

There's no such thing as a word you should never use! Words are tools in a writer's toolbox, and some tools are multi-purpose while others are only useful sparingly. Part of growing as a writer is learning which tool is most effective and where. #writingcommunity #writesky #writingtips

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 03/04/2025

Mastering psychic distance is like developing the power to wield a narrative zoom lens. Free indirect style is the macro setting on that lens. #writingcommunity #writingtips #writesky

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 02/04/2025

Editing for stage direction (without bloating wordcount) is all about choosing which specific images and actions are meaningful & necessary, expanding on them, and weeding the rest. #writingtips #writingcommunity

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 25/03/2025

#writingcommunity - how do you figure out whether you've started your story in the right spot? This is one of the exercises I do to help me find my opening scene, and I hope it helps you, too! #amwriting #booksky

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 17/03/2025

Let's see if the Bsky gods bless me with a video that actually plays with sound 👀. This one's for the new novelists who are trying to write their very first book in 2025, but don't quite know where to start.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 24/02/2025

So @ellieabouttown.bsky.social just sent this to me, and I'm pretty sure my life has been forever changed. 💨 #writingcommunity

A screenshot of a Thread. The first post is by karissakinwordwrites and it reads, "Going through line edits realizing I do not know the difference between further and farther has been humbling." The reply to this post is from authorjesswisecup and it reads, "WANNA HEAR MY TRICK? IT'S VERY STUPID. Farther has the word fart. You know about farts via proximity. Farther = proximity. That means further is the other one = theoretical."

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 21/02/2025

The data entry process is slow, but I get instantly rewarded for inputting each worldbuilding doc into Obsidian when a new dot pops up on my worldbuilding web. I'm REALLY looking forward to my character web.

A web chart showing the linkages between about twenty Fantasy place names and worldbuilding concepts.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 08/02/2025

Publication isn't what makes a writer, a writer. #writingcommunity

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 30/01/2025

If you see this, skeet a pic from your device without explanation

A bronze owl lantern, standing about a foot high, sits on a fireplace mantel wearing a novelty set of plastic coke bottle glasses with a silly nose attached. A lantern on the wall casts the owl in dramatic lighting.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 27/01/2025

An oldie but a goodie. Fantasy writers -- what do families look like in your world? Do you use the nuclear family as a unit? What would change about your world if you didn't? #booksky #writingcommunity

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 20/01/2025

Three tips for getting unstuck while writing the first draft of your novel! (I'm long-winded and don't have much content under a minute, but I'm doing my best to find some 😅)

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 19/01/2025

I'm fucking exhausted. Here's a picture of my cat.

Cat with large ears and green eyes lounging in Cee's lap

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 19/01/2025

introduce yourself with one book 📕 one film 🎬 one album 💿 one show 📺

Movie poster for the fellowship of the ring picturing the fellowship in boats on the anduin rowing towards I argonath

Album cover for funeral by the arcade fire depicting a hand holding a quill with many swirly feathers

Kirk and spock from star Trek's original series

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 18/01/2025

For @authorlatucker.bsky.social who asked about how to effectively write a blurb. #writingcommunity - sound off in the comments if you have any more advice on blurb writing, or if you think I missed a point! (Had to cut the vid in two to upload. Second half is below.)

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 14/01/2025

Friends I'm not even on Red Note and I'm starting to pick up some Mandarin by proxy. I have such a love/hate relationship with this timeline. Anyway. zhè shì wǒ de māo

A picture of a tabby cat lying on a couch in the sunshine

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 13/01/2025

hahahaha oh my god someone put me out of my misery

a screenshot of literal hundreds of TikTok videos downloaded to a folder, all of which feature Cee's face

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 02/01/2025

Are you a self-publishing author about to embark upon the delightful and frustrating journey of learning how to make your own covers out of curiosity or financial necessity? Here are my three tips for beginners (and a few pics of covers I've designed for myself as 'evidence'): (1/11)

A book titled "Salt, Steel, Silk" next to a kindle and a phone, also displaying the book cover. The cover is blue with white flowers and some nautical imagery like coral and a sailboat stuck into the bouquet. There's a long dagger running down the center. The title is overlayed on top.

A picture of a hardcover book on a wooden desk with leaves artfully arranged in the background. The book has silver and copper designs on the front in concentric circles like steampunk gears. There's a dagger running down the center of the cover. On top, the title reads: Silverweaver.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 28/12/2024

Without downloading any pictures, what energy are you bringing into 2025?

A skeleton in bed holds a bottle of ibuprofen while saying, "This can fix me."

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 19/12/2024

Meeting those writing goals be like

Me: how many words have I written? Is it a million? Two million?

Word counter: 409 words

Me: LIES

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 19/12/2024

Another #wipsnips from the nautical fantasy novel. I've backburnered it coming into the holiday season a lil bit, but I'm hoping to get back on the horse (boat?) in a week or two. Are you able to work through holidays, or do they merc your daily wordcount? #amwriting #queerwriters #writesky

Sailing was the closest Leo had ever come to freedom. And if two months in the shipyard withered him down to his roots, he couldn’t imagine how Heris felt.

“We’ll get you sailing again,” he promised.

More quiet greeted him. It took active effort not to fill it, for though his words always bubbled beneath the surface, Heris’ took longer to compose. Not everyone had the ability to open their mouths and have sentences pour out.

Perhaps they were smarter for it, too.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 18/12/2024

The weirdest part about today's #wipsnips is that it has detailed setting description. Usually, setting lands solidly in the second-draft-problems category for me, though I guess there are exceptions! Do you have any story elements you underwrite during draft one? #amwriting #queerwriters #writesky

Leo found Heris perched on the edge of the main courtyard’s fountain, feet dangling in the water and trouser cuffs getting a much-needed soak. Water lilies bobbed around his swishing feet. In deference to Wralin’s mid-afternoon heat, he’d found the one corner of the fountain where willow branches cast dappled shadows. They formed patterns on his drooping shoulders and backlit the halo of flyaways escaping his queue.

“You look exhausted,” Leo said, joining him at the waterside.

Heris must have heard his approach, for he didn’t startle. “Lost in thought, I fear.”

“And what’s more exhausting than getting trapped in one’s thoughts?”

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 10/12/2024

Weird, my cat seems to think Mariah is singing this: I don't want a lot for Christmas There is just one thing I knead I don't care about the presents I will swat the Christmas tree I just want a tube of goo Full of fish and chicken too Make my wish come true Mama all I want for Christmas Is Churu

A tabby cat with white paws curled up on his side and half asleep

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 06/12/2024

Today's #wipsnips reminded me that, on days when writing is difficult, I make no attempt to correctly punctuate anything in my rough draft. Punctuation is ✨vibes✨ until I'm forced to put my revision hat on, alright? There's a reason I'm not a copyeditor. #amwriting #queerwriters #writesky

“Do you remember that time during Second Moon—what was it, two years back?—when we were south of the Xahaetian archipelago?” Leo asked.

“When Jasker misjudged the tide after visiting his lover and spent the better part of two hours rowing in place? Terrible business.”

“Was it? As I recall, you were on watch and spotted him a boat length off our stern, then let him row like a dog until slack water.”

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 05/12/2024

As a writer, it can be scary to have your manuscript out with a developmental editor. I hear that. But in the same way that public speaking gets easier when you picture your audience in their undies, I hope it helps to learn that this is what I, an editor, look like while working: #writingcommunity

Person wearing a flannel print snuggie and blue light glasses with the hood up while drinking coffee in a dark room

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 03/12/2024

I've been humbled by find+all re: how many times I've used "fist tightened" in my WIP 🙃. This #wipsnips is from the opening two paragraphs of my 🌈nautical fantasy. Yes, I have a notebook full of naval battle drawings where I chart out tacking angles. I am a dork. #amwriting #queerwriters #writesky

Leovander Kastri, captain of the Skylark and bastard prince of Fanoch, didn’t believe in no-win situations. If he did, he’d have sent the white flag of surrender up his mast an hour ago.

“Too late for that,” he muttered and tightened his grip on the helm. Surrender wasn’t an option—not when they first spotted Gambric warships on the horizon, and certainly not now—but that didn’t stop him from adding, “Fuck, this is bad,” for good measure.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 01/12/2024

Brb, updating my website and all of my marketing copy to read "a friendly beacon for lost writers, guiding them through the fog of self-doubt with a sprinkle of glitter"

Squad Check🌟
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The Encouraging Editor

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Warm, witty, and oftentimes a little chaotic; Cee keeps discussions lively, with an occasional detour into memes.

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Cee’s presence in the Bluesky community is like a friendly beacon for lost writers, guiding them through the fog of self-doubt with a sprinkle of glitter.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 01/12/2024

Yet another #wipsnips from my 🌈 nautical fantasy, ever-so-slowly posting to Patreon. #amwriting #queerwriters #writesky

Instead of falling into another rant, Leo changed tacks, uttering a phrase Heris would have heard far too many times in the years they’d spent shipboard together.

“I’ll think of something.”

“Is that a promise, or a threat?”

This time, his laugh spilled out unencumbered by guilt. Heris had the fleet’s most implacable blank face, but the tease was unmistakable. And maybe, in spite of everything, they had reason for good humor.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 30/11/2024

I got read for filth, but it's all true 😭. Istg I told one (1) anecdote about accidentally drinking out of a vase and blueskyroast *fixated* on it. It also bodied me over loving em dashes, then proceeded to use about a thousand em dashes in its roast. Is this meta humor? I'm shook

A roast of Cee from blueskyroast.com which reads "Cee Taylor: Where Fantasy Meets Fabulously Awkward. A whimsical journey through fantasy writing and the occasional chaotic life moment. Picture a cat-loving editor riding a tall ship while sipping tea from a decorative vase--welcome to Cee's world!"

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 29/11/2024

12. I danced so hard at my wedding that I started drinking directly out of the water pitcher on my table. This is the moment I confused a decorative vase for a pitcher and drank out of that, instead, immortalized by a very quick and cheeky shot by the photographer.

An extremely intelligent bride drinks out of a glass vase, not realizing there's an electronic floating candle inside.

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Cee | SFF Editor @ceemtaylor.com · 29/11/2024

11. I'm not a good visual artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I have an obsessive desire to learn enough about graphic design and typography to do all of my own book covers. Here are the mockup covers for the WIPs I most frequently post for WIPSnips:

Three digital images of book called Salt, Steel, Silk by Cameron Montague Taylor. One image is a mock-up paperback. The others are of a tablet and a phone showing the book cover. The cover has flowers and nautical imagery on it along with a dagger.

A mockup of a paperback book titled These Vacant Stars by Cameron Montague Taylor. Floral scrollwork frames the cover. In the middle, a chalice sits amongst a starry background, and a falling star looks like it's filling the chalice with light.

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