iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Actually crazy that I just got engaged on the rooftop of the Vienna Opera while we were there to watch an opera written by Mozart in the 18th century. Like it actually could not have been more perfect 🥲🥲🥲

490

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I am doing an unhinged amount of prep work for my revisions, and it ALL BETTER PAY OFF because my brain has been eggs for a week.

020

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Keeping up with posting on bluesky is so hard wow. I always forget it exists 😔 Doomed to forever only be able to focus on one (1!) social media platform at a time.

140

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Honestly my author dream isn't to have a lot of money or fame, it's to be read *just* widely enough that I get to write what I actually want to write instead of constantly worrying about it being marketable enough to sell.

020

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hit 100k on my WIP ✨️✨️ it took me TWO YEARS to get to this point with my last book, but I hit 100k with this one within five months. Let's gooooo!! So excited for the future of my Baroque art magic fantasy, all about love and creation and candlelit betryal

2150

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

One thing I learned that has changed my brain chemistry when trying to write active characters is to make sure every major plot point happens because of your MC's decisions. The major plot points cannot just be happening to them, THEY are the ones who have to make them happen.

020

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Does anyone else have an absolute bonkers file for their WIP on their phone's notes app that's just pages upon pages of 4am thoughts, hastily jotted down plot notes, quotes, names for people and places, and random research facts all complied together with no rhyme or reason?

390

Reposted by Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

aclu.org

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU

Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

138110116349

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

There is something so unmatched about going to your local Barnes & Noble and finding one of your dearest friends' books 😍😍😍 also had to buy it because you can never have too many copies 🤌🏻

020

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Leave positive comments while beta reading! Critique is super important, but it's arguably just as important to tell the writer what is working about their book. They need to know if the beats are hitting and the correct emotions are coming across. All negative is never helpful.

090

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Does anyone else every write sections of their book that they KNOW are going to get cut immediately upon revising? Idk sometimes I just have to add some unimportant stuff to get the words flowing, even if it's entire scenes.

130

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Nothing hurts more than spending hours writing a 3k long chapter only to realize the next day that it's completely irrelevant, and the entire thing can be deleted.

3120

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

How do people actively post on social media multiple times a day???? I can barely manage to post once a day 😩. I'm not cut out for this marketing myself as an author lifestyle just let me live and write my books in peace I beg.

030

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I love girlie pop characters so much. Girlies who love dressing up and who know they can save the world and be unapologetically feminine at the same time. The characters who are happy to be just like other girls. Please keep them coming because I can never get enough ♥️

040

Reposted by Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀

Chelsea Abdullah @chelsabdullah.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

*clears throat* My sequel, THE ASHFIRE KING, is now available to request on both NetGalley & Edelweiss! 💙 I've been immersed in this new world for a long time, so it's very exciting for me to finally share it with others! See below for some of the things you'll find in these pages... 👇

Graphic with the 3D cover of THE ASHFIRE KING and the text: "Now available to request on... NetGalley & Edelweiss"

55716

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

PSA for authors: if you have never studied screenwriting, start TODAY. I'm so serious. Read screenwriting craft books. Read blog posts and listen to lectures by screenwriters. Read screenplays!!! There is a 100% chance that it will help the way you write novels so much I PROMISE.

030

Reposted by Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀

julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

hello friends! my colleague, the brilliant Lorna Hemingway, is on the hunt for new projects! she represents everything in the children's space from board books to YA and is specifically looking for: - contemporary romance - coming of age (especially BIPOC) - gorgeous, punchy graphic novels #mswl

16618

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"I really need to cut thousands of words on my first revision pass of this book because it's going to be WAY too long," I say as I add in a 2k+ chapter that I thought up on a whim that completely diverges from my plot notes.

050

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Wrote 3.2k today and feeling pretty proud of myself as a turtle writer ngl

030

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Does anyone else have to carefully plan out their big writing days? Not because of responsibilities, but because writing completely consumes every facet of their being once they get into a groove, and they cannot think or function like a normal person after a big writing session?

140

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Is anyone else's first drafts always just The Most Dramatic Thing Ever™???

270

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

For those taking the leap and querying for the first time this year, here are a few things to remember: - Do NOT sweat about miniscule typos/mistakes. - Only query when your book is READY - Treat agents with respect and remember you deserve to be treated the same. - Stay positive! You got this 💕

030

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Honestly, my writing goal for 2025 is the same as it is every year: just keep going and don't give up.

1285

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Local author devastated to learn that she forgot the bomb-ass line she came up with in bed one night that she didn't write down because she was CONVINCED she would remember it later 😔

6423

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think everyone in the writing world underestimates how huge of a motivator pure, raw spite can be.

2200

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

So wild that when I first started writing for publication, I would show my work to anyone and everyone. And now that I have years more experience, an agent, and an MFA degree where I was awarded most outstanding graduate student of my year, I do not show my work to ANYONE but my betas and agent lmao

140

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I love reading a book by a highly acclaimed fantasy author when they give an explanation for the way a certain thing in their world works, and it's literally something like, "idk just because." And it's fine!! Sometimes "idk just because" really does work

020

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I fear I'm in my book buying era again after two years of holding out to finish the books I already own. Writing a new genre has opened the floodgates for me, and I can't stop devouring fantasy books 😩 But!!! At least it's helpful for my writing (I keep telling myself to justify the purchases).

230

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My evening: wine and the CUTEST DIY set my partner got me for christmas. I've said, "This is soooo cute" approximately 500 times.

070

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I am 100% of the mindset that publishing is not a race and taking your time is MUCH better than rushing to get a book done, but damn I'm also constantly terrified of a book with similar themes/plot to mine coming out before mine is even done and then publishing not wanting mine anymore 😩😩😩

1192

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Spending Christmas in the tent I got for my boyfriend that we set up in our living room, having a movie marathon and snack party 🥰🎄✨️

040

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Filing this under things that sound absolutely unhinged when you take it out of the writing context.

020

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

First day of winter vacation and I SPRINTED to a cafe to have a cozy cafe writing morning. (Feat. an eggnog latte and white chocolate peppermint scone because tis the season 🎄✨️)

030

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I adore my book, let me make this clear, but I'M SO OVER DRAFTING. I WANT TO BE DONE. I'm so tired of making messes!!!!! I just want to be at the stage where I fix those messes!!! Please!!!

2100

Reposted by Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀

Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

5553521752

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Writing fantasy as a previously historical fiction writer is craazzyyy because I just had to think of a place for my characters to have an important interaction I just MADE SOMETHING UP that worked with the world instead of having to research hours for a real location. I feel like I'm cheating!!

4251

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I love seeing posts with tips to help querying authors get signed by an agent, but a *lot* of these posts fail to mention that a huge part of getting signed is luck. Being in the right place at the right time with an agent who happens to want what you happen to be writing.

5201

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The best and worst thing about growing as a writer is the more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. I miss the days when I was so blindly convinced my writing was ✨️amazing✨️, but it's also nice learning I DO have faults and can now work to fix them.

1150

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Two seconds. I stepped off my walking pad for TWO SECONDS.

040

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I realized I reached 72k in my that WIP I wanted to complete at 110k AT MOST, and I *just* finished the midpoint, so....

3170

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I've been feeling sick and burned out the last few days, so I made my partner watch Lion King II with me tonight because it was *the* movie I watched on repeat as a kid, and I realized THAT MOVIE started my lifelong obsession with the "I have to kill you, but I'm in love with you" betryal trope!!!

140

Reposted by Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀

Evey Winters @eveywinters.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

16515113

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The longer I write this book, the more I realize how much work and time it's going to take to make it shine. It's definitely going to take longer than I anticipated, but this book deserves everything, and to rush through it would be a huge disservice. I'm in this for the long haul 💪🏻

1120

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Sneaky book writing when you should be doing something else just hits different

060

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Transitional scenes are truly the smelly armpit of the writing process.

041

Reposted by Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀

cassiopeia (cath) ☀️ @lagunabayfables.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

i only had one publication this year, but i made it count 🖤 maiden, monster, muse, my short story set in 1920s manila about an artist who traps his muse in a cycle of murder and resurrection is out now in the death in the mouth 2 anthology! check it out: sloane.bigcartel.com/product/deat...

66424

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Now that a lot of writers are making new connections on Bluesky (which is great!), it's important to be VERY wary of people who spend their "friendship" in a one-sided competition with you. There is a huge difference between a genuine friend and someone who forms friendships to feed their own ego.

1110

Reposted by Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀

Chelsea Abdullah @chelsabdullah.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Only 4 months left until my sequel, THE ASHFIRE KING, is out! ❤️ I'm excited to share more news in 2025, but if you know anyone who might be interested in an Arab-inspired fantasy following a ragtag team on a perilous quest…well, I like to think now is the perfect time to read THE STARDUST THIEF 😌

Two copies of THE STARDUST THIEF (hardcover and paperback) atop a keffiyeh with colors of the Kuwaiti flag (Black, red, white and green).

1164

Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

One thing my MFA professor told me that I think of ALL THE TIME is that to *make sure* your character is being active in the scene, just replace them mentally with a lamp. If the scene can go on normally with your MC as a lamp, they are not being active enough. You *never* want your MC to be a lamp.

130