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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 12h

Maev is a false prophet and the hero since she lies about divine intervention for a “good cause.” Ren is 100% the rebel. Damaen is the loyalist. And Taiyun is the ultimate shit stirrer. #LitHodgepodge

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Leah Rambadt 🦊🌸 @leahrambadt.bsky.social · 20h

It’s almost time for the #RevPit #10Queries mini event! Submit your query package (first 5 pages + query letter) for the chance to have it reviewed by a professional editor. Submission window is Friday, Oct 9 until 11:59 ET! #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #Writers reviseresub.com/mini-events/...

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 21h

My villain is the way that he is because no one believed he was ever capable of good. No one ever cared for him, and subsequently, he never cares for anyone else either. He wants to be powerful enough that he'll never have to. #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 21h

#WIPSnips #WriteSky The spoiler here is that the FMC lost her voice.

My heart beats so hard I can hear the pound in my ears. I start toward Taiyun, to grab him, to push him against the wall and make him stop it. To kill him
so that I can set Ren free and get my voice
back.
But before I can reach him, he slips
through the door and slams it shut.
So I scream, but no one can
hear it.

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 21h

I'm writing 530 words a day until the end of the year to get this draft done. Currently at 33k words and hoping to end around 80k for the first draft. #FirstDraftFall

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Introducing SEAMFALLEN, a YA Fantasy crossover. Princess Mononoke meets Joan of Arc in a kingdom infested with spirits that steal human features. A courtesan claims divine intervention and trades her corset for a crossbow. #agentguide #writesky #amquerying

The Pitch: Seventeen-year-old Maev refuses to die a courtesan.
After killing a soul-stealing spirit, she lies that a
goddess guided her and earns a place in the
all-male spirit corps. But when Maev discovers
the spirits can be healed, she must decide
whether to protect the kingdom that
never protected her —or expose both
its lies and her own and risk the
freedom she’s fought for.

Themes & tropes: girl infiltrates an all-male institution, spirits that steal human features, freedom vs. being caged, morally-grey rebellion, lies her way to power, magical artifacts

Comps & inspirations: Princess Mononoke (intricate world-building & unique spirits), The Scorpion and the Night Blossom (magical artifacts& enemies-to-allies), Joan of Arc but she's a fraud.

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well it's been almost a year since I've posted. I found out about a year ago that I was pregnant. I have a thriving, beautiful, happy little girl. I love her so much, but I'm also excited to get back into writing and the community here on bluesky🤍

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Revise & Resub @reviseresub.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Announcement! RevPit's Fall into Fiction is back and it will all take place here on Bluesky! We hope to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for fiction writers who are drafting, editing, or querying a novel this fall (11/3-21) #RevPit #RevPitFiF

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Fall into Fiction 2025

In November, RevPit is hosting Fall into Fiction, a minievent to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for f

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Using AI in your work makes you stupider and lazier. That's it. That's the post.

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

All her secrets start to unravel, and while she "gets" what she wants, she starts to lose something she didn't expect... #PlotTober #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This is a throwback, but I'm cheating and using "The Magic Treehouse" series, since we can go everywhere they went. And because I was obsessed with that series as a kid. #WritingLifeMonthly #BookSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I get the initial idea for a character, and create the world, then create more characters. My world-building and characters influence each other. It is a process, and a lot of it changes by time I get to the drafting process. #WeeknightWriters #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hey #WeeknightWriters ! I’m Emi. I’m a teacher with too many houseplants and books. I’m querying an NA Romantasy with moon-magic and mythology. My WIP is a YA Fantasy with spirits, courtesans, and a whole lot of secrets. #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Maev finds Cal, dead from a yurma (snow leopard spirit) stealing his soul. In her anger, Maev kills the yurma. When interrogated by the court, she reveals that she killed the yurma, but lies that she did so with the goddess Agna's help: from courtesan to goddess-chosen. #PlotTober #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#WIPSnips #WriteSky Amulets, which come from defeating or freeing a spirit, have some sort of magical properties. But they take just as much as they give.

That is the other risk of amulets. Just as spirits crave something human, amulets all have a catch. It’s why they go straight to the crown for mending. The shamans aren’t only finding their use, but what they might take. Just as the amulet Nehru used to become stronger and stronger, it decayed his soul.

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My LAST page is 334, so here is the last two paragraphs. #HumpDay #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Rasa looked down at it. Her breath caught, and for a moment, she wondered if it was a trick. For the scar was the perfect teardrop shape, and purely white.
And as the sun sunk over the horizon, and night fell over the island, no moon goddesses visited the sky. Maras took it, but for once, the darkness did not unnerve Rasa.

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Ronin.ka @roninka.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Today’s #WIPSnips Sometimes I forget what I have written and I think “Whoa! I wrote that?” 😵‍💫 #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts #lgbtbook

“He would have to take care to not indulge the desires of the guests. He would not want to mislead anyone unintentionally. It was going to be a long and tiring night. Jack already wanted to crawl into his bed and forget about it all, but the thought of catching a conversation with Nicholas stopped him.”

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My midpoint is a little different. I want to create a false sense of victory that starts around the midpoint and crashes at the All is Lost. The MC reaches her goal at the midpoint and is finally recognized for it, but it has contradicted what she has learned on the way. #PlotTober #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

As a fantasy writer, I always make my own worlds but inspired by real places. For this WIP, the main kingdom is heavenly inspired by the Himalayas. The elements of wind, water, flame, and stone keep humans safe from the spirits, so humans have to live in high altitudes. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky

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Richard Pearman @graptopetalum.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#WIPSnips October 14th ultimate Tenacious and his friends are getting unwelcome attention from a strange police officer named Bland. From "Tales of Midbar: Exiled Angel" - www.inkitt.com/stories/624474

Background: A ruin on the edge of canyon.

"Anyway," said Generous, "they've produced a few anavim, most of whom have relocated to other sephirot but Bland, and probably the royal family, thinks they've been disappeared by the XT's. Therefore, he thinks that Beauty has some strange relationship with the XT's because she's the oldest of the anavim they've bred who hasn't disappeared and she's employing drop-offs and has a history of being
interested in them. It seems by their reasoning that Freethinking should also have disappeared but for some reason Bland thinks he's different from Beauty."
"The fake drop-offs were the only people I got on with!" said Beauty. "Later, I befriended some of the last real drop-offs to help fake drop-offs act realistically. By the way, all the real drop-offs I've met have been naviim and as far as I know, they all married naviim, often other drop-offs and formed a true-breeding navi extended family."
"It sounds like they're doing the same thing as us," I said. "Only nibeyim can't teleport."
"They can go through wormholes," said Freethinking.
"That's very dangerous," said Breeze, "and requires difficult magic."
"It's more likely they're just coming from off-world or perhaps the Big Sea," said Fascinating.
"But none have come in the last forty years," I said. "And now a bunch have disappeared, including descendants of the ones from forty years ago."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

They are all my beloved children and I'm excited to write all of them BUT if I have to pick one, it will be my FMC. I am having a lot of fun diving into the mind of a courtesan who fakes spiritual divination. I'm so super excited to write the villain because I love villains. #FirstDraftFall

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Of all the characters in your story, who are you most excited to write about? These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...

Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning
Of all the characters in your story, who are you most excited to write about?

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Maliveth | NYCC #H21 @maliveth.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

strange witch, laying in a pond & hiding from her mom #dragonage #morrigan #art

digital illustration of Morrigan from Dragon Age, laying on some fluffy grasses underwater, with fish and lily pads above. Water reflections on her skin look like raven wings. The illustration is framed by two dragon silhouettes.

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Since I want to make this a duology, the ending will end on a cliffhanger. Maev gets what she wants: she's not a courtesan and a respected captain on the spirit corps. However, the theme of freedom has a cost comes back, and while she might have everything she wants, none of it is sweet. #PlotTober

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Hammering out all the fun in the fun & games part. I have some general scene ideas but need to work on connecting them and threading through all the subplots. Writing is so much work. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I love Save the Cat and Story Genius. I'm so character-driven that my external plot will take a hit if I can't reign it in and run wild just on my characters. So both help me stay organized. BUT I'm a firm believer that everyone needs their own process. #WritingCommunity

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible. Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!

Mentors Part 1:
Molly McDonough
Deena Helm
Julie Lew
Megan Bontrager
Seren Kilig
Natalie Kikić
Deandra Davis
Christie Curry
Eunice Kim
Carmeline Melchior
Corvin A. Doupagne
Rachel Kitch
Samantha Chong
Fatiha Rais
Shepard DiStasio
Thea Liu
Damara Allen
Karis Rogerson

Mentors Part 2:
Julie Hafsa Derbal
Tali Shammas
Lilly Lu
Cassy Klisch
Camille Chong
Bayley Mae
Amanda Helander
Libby Kennedy
Taylor Pitts
Shaina Cordas
J.D. Myall
Asia Murphy
Grace Morrow
Meredith Mooring
Ellen Mulholland
Chantel Pearson
Stephanie Kim Johnson
Caitlyn Averett
Sabina Martin

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Hal-Lou-een 🐈‍⬛ @louellastone.com · 13/10/2025

#WIPSnips “Pushed” Javawocky - 🩷 #writingprompt #amwriting

Feelings were starting to form, something she wasn’t sure she wanted to put a name to because the last time she thought she felt this deeply about someone it only ended in pain. She pushed the thoughts away and focused on her food and Beckett.

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Marat's Invisible Man is Alive 🫀 @maratearendel.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

When the vampire transformation gets surrealist and poetic 🩸 #wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

It all starts with one drop.
Amidst a puddle of blood filled with countless others, one single drop wants to be different. Needs to do different.
It chooses the path to the black maw calling to it in the distance.
It drags and crawls.
Rolls and slithers.
Wields the effort of a lifetime to fulfill its most desperate need.
The blackness calls to it like the sweetest song.
Like a piper.
It pushes through a sea of its peers. They laugh and jeer as it passes, ridiculing its efforts.
But the drop doesn’t listen. The drop doesn’t look.

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Mx. Nash @nashbirdwrites.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I had multiple uses of this but this one was the coolest in terms of drama lol Chapter One, scene one, sentence one, draft zero 🤭 WIP: May Death Find You Alive #WIPSnips

Shaky hands, a lighter in one hand, and a white chalk in the other. These were all that stood between him and a dangerous life-altering decision... if it worked. Most people would chalk summoning demons to urban legends. For him, he knew it could be done. He knew it was real. However, his family, the people that could mentor him in such a task, no longer spoke to him. It broke his heart to know they cut ties over something so stupid, but what was done was done. He was forever shunned from his circle. He had to find a new way to get what he wanted, no, needed. So, he drug the chalk across the grass, leaving a shaky white line. He meticulously looked back at his notes, making sure to dot all his i's and cross all of his t's, metaphorically speaking. The candles on the pedestals were lit next. All that was left was the chant. His vocal cords slammed themselves shut at the thought of actually going through with this. But, if he really wanted this, he needed to push forward.

He stood at the edge of the circle; Moonlight bright above him. The wind blew so casually that it chilled the sweat running down his back on the warm summer night. Clearing his throat, he started,

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I do have a plan for one scene (yes, only one) from another character's pov. I know this is "breaking the rules," but I've always been a rebel and I'm doing it anyways. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

These are good points! I'm going to add that writer's block isn't how it appears in the movies. It isn't so much that you can't get words out and need inspiration, but rather you know something is off about the plot or a character that you just can't put your finger on. #WritingLifeMonthly

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

There are three main things I want to show in the first scene: 1. Maev and Namura's friendship 2. Spirit lure 3. Maev's goal to get out of being a courtesan I'm thinking it starts with Maev and Namura on the roof of the palace away from everyone else. Maev is secretly hunting spirits. #PlotTober

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober The only thing spooky about my shelves are the quarantined plants. Not to worry, I adopted them from the clearance section and they are getting some great new growth.

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

As the daughter of a courtesan, Maev only got to see her mother in the mornings. When an iruva (bird spirit) took her mother’s voice, they had to communicate in looks since her mother was illiterate. Sometimes, Maev still hears her mother’s voice, but from the spirit that took it. #PlotTober

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I got my first full request!!! And right when I was about to change my opening pages. Keep your fingers crossed for me🤍

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages! It’s free!

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Flaws and fears based on backstory that can be overcome in the end The MC in my WIP is terrified of a certain spirit that stole her mother’s voice, but when she kills one, she doesn’t feel any better. Then she frees one by healing it, mirroring her own life of being a courtesan. #WeeknightWriters

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Q1: It’s a mix. I start with a general idea of the story that inspires the characters, but once the characters are developed, they inspire the story. #WeeknightWriters

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hi ya’ll! I’m Emi. I’m querying an NA Romantasy with moon magic and mythology called Fate & Her Atrocities. I’m drafting a YA fantasy inspired by Joan of Arc but with spirits that steal human features called Seamfallen. #WeeknightWriters

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Maev grew up in the palace. She only got to see her mother in the mornings when her mother wasn't working as a courtesan. Madam Diya helped raise her, but the person she learned most from was her best friend Namura, who shared all her books, lessons, and toys with her. #WeeknightWriters #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

1. She is a daughter of a courtesan, and thus born into that life. 2. She turns eighteen in three months. Once she's eighteen, she'll go from a courtesan-in-training to real courtesan. 3. She had a plan to get out of it, but it crashes and burns in the third chapter. #PlotTober #WriteSky

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Emi Lou Lockett @emiloulockett.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I have a whole playlist but the last one I listened to was Easy by Le Sserafim #WritingLifeMonthly

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