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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

THE ARCHIVE UNDYING x LEVIATHAN WAKES 🧠Mind Links 🚀Generation Ships 🪴Plant People 🤖Social Butterfly AI ♠️Aro/Ace Human 👑Space Nobility 🗡️Just So Much Betrayal 🕸️A Whole Dang Relationship Pentagram™️ 💔Nice Job Breaking It, Hero ⛓️Overcoming Trauma Bonds 🌱Building a Better Future #WIPPIT #SF #A #LGBT #FBW

Body Text:
Whit nodded. Thumb to mouth, puffing up a storm, they seemed impossibly far away, and the blood red patterns swirling across their face spoke to a preoccupation with one detail or another. Eventually, they returned Ezra’s stare. “We’d best get started then.”

Title: prelapsarian
Subtitle: a far future scifi wip

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Ezra, scion of a sacred human lineage, needs a hacker to tip the scales on energy rations, and Whit, an escaped bioshell for the AI holding civilization together, is perfect for the job. Well... until the noble behind Whit's escape comes to collect on his investment. 🌔🌓🌒 #WIPPIT #SF #A #LGBT #FBW

Mood board (left to right, top to bottom):
Yellow-tinted starry sky
City skyline at dusk
Ice cave
Young man with curly hair looking to the left
Pink-ringed eclipse with the word "prelapsarian" superimposed over it
Person with illuminated body decoration and hands held near their face
Rocky mountain face
Person walking down a neon-lit street in the rain
Glow worms hanging from a cave ceiling

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

🔥The hot mess relationships of THE ARCHIVE UNDYING x the equally messy, sociopolitical web of LEVIATHAN WAKES ☄️ A straightlaced Dyson sphere architect and a them fatale AI conspire to help energy-poor outposts. Meanwhile, an exiled patriarch returns to even the score. #WIPPIT #SF #A #LGBT #FBW

A mood board with several images, arrows, and text.

Stock Images from Canva (left to right, starting in the upper left corner):
Multicolored liquid oozing over a black background
Green digital rain
Purple and blue skyscrapers
Comet streaking toward the horizon at sunset
People throwing their hands up at a rave featuring green strobe lights
Eye with what looks like a camera lens at its pupil
Black-and-white aerial view of a man walking toward a light source
Ice cave featuring massive icicles at its entrance
Silhouette of a man looking to the right
Cigarette smoke
Aerial view of fog rolling into a city
Knife on top of a tree stump

Text:
Cursive: prelapsarian
Subtitle: Working Title
Blurb: The sun is a white dwarf, and what remains of humanity has recolonized the star...
Floating Text: Shared Consciousness, Letting Go of Unsustainable Ideals, Life After Trauma
Tags: space opera, heist gone wrong, dyson sphere, sublight speed, nanotech, forced proximity, noir, unreliable narrator, ticking clock, posthuman, dark romance deconstructed

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

From a flash piece I've been tinkering with this month. It's currently sitting at 723 words, and I'm targeting about 1,000 words total.

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

All of these prompts have been a blast, but this one made me giggle to myself while channeling early 00s décor and making sly references to story elements.

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

"I buried my oar in the silt, and over the bush crickets’ thrumming, I hollered for her to repeat herself. Her kid pulled his hands from their shellfish basket, wrapped them around his mouth like a horn, and echoed the claim. A fish eater." #WritingCommunity #FirstDraftFall #Novelember

Text and word counter box over a red and pink sunset at the beach.
Text is as follows:

First Draft Fall
word count
010,000
of 50,000 (crossed out)
Whatever I Get Done
Rough month, embracing self-care

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

This year, I'm diving into a combination of short stories and novel rewrites. Let's gooooo! (૭ ｡•̀ ᵕ •́｡ )૭ #WritingCommunity #FirstDraftFall #Novelember

Text and word counter box over a lightning storm.
Text is as follows:

First Draft Fall
word count
000,000
of 50,000
First Day!

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

I'm running a bit behind this week, so I've acquired the Swamp Monster of Distraction badge. That said, finishing Ada Palmer's Too Like The Lightning? Worth it.

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

@clarionwest.bsky.social Still rocking the #clarionwest Write-a-thon. Thanks to overshooting so many daily writing goals, I hit that weekly goal early and acquired both the Overachiever and Running Robot Badges. (Eyeing another sprint this evening for that final 15!) Happy Friday, happy writing!

Most Recent Update:
06/21/2024

Badges:
Flying Mermaid Overachiever
Running Robot

Green daily progress bar: 88% (105/120 minutes)
Turquoise weekly progress bar: 105%
Magenta Write-a-thon progress bar: 17%

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Clarion West's 2024 Write-a-thon starts today! My goal is to spend at least two hours a day revising or rewriting, and thus far, I'm off to a good start. 😊 Project Information: secure.clarionwest.org/erratawrites #clarionwest #writeathon #amwriting #speculativefiction #writingcommunity #goals

Most Recent Update:
06/16/2024

Green daily progress bar: 125% (150/120 minutes)
Turquoise weekly progress bar: 18%
Magenta Write-a-thon progress bar: 3%

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Free to Submit ☑️ Paying Markets 💰 Flame Tree Publishing: blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth... Underland Press: www.underlandpress.com/the-emptines... Blue Planet Press: blueplanetpress.net/guidelines/ #writingcommunity #SFFwriters #litmags #opensubs

A Few More Places to Submit

Flame Tree Publishing - until 6/23
myths, gods, and immortals anthology; circe
short stories between 3,000 - 4,000 words

Underland Press - until 6/25
horror anthology; cozy cosmic
short stories up to 5,000 words

Blue Planet Press - until 6/30
science fiction anthology; deep space
short stories between 6,000 - 10,000 words

Find links above

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

What a fantastic experience! Great panels, great tips, and great people. Can't wait for next year. #WriteHive2024 #writing #writingcommunity

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

The WriteHive free writers' conference starts this Friday! 👀 www.writehivecon.org #writing #writingcommunity #authors #indieauthors #WritingTheFutureWeNeed #writehive

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Clarion West is hosting a Write-A-Thon this summer, and registration opens today! 🤩 clarionwest.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/20... #writingcommunity #sff #writeathon

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

"Like fish, the candied specimens darted between dark-bodied patrons, enticing them toward dimly lit holes in the wall or flashing stalls, where their counterparts demonstrated cheap gadgets with glowing hands and turquoise smiles." Success! 🎉✨💫 #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

"Across that upper sprawl, countless lit windows glittered, turned on, turned off, and the effect evoked a memory of starlight." Home stretch! #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Free to Submit ☑️ Paying Markets 💰 MudRoom: www.mudroommag.com/submissions Briefly Write's Briefly Zine: brieflywrite.com/2020/05/12/s... Plenitude Magazine: plenitudemagazine.ca/submit/submi... #writingcommunity #litmags #submissions #opensubs

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

"... the Union’s bargaining power served as a punchline for several company jokes. Likewise, most Union colonists privately referred to Tellus as the solar parasite: the sun's devourer." More on the editing side this week, but still on track! #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

"He traced the panel's engraved map of the solar system. Holes drilled through the metal became twinkling stars, and from under millimeter-thin ridges, that same light illuminated the inhabited worlds." Eight days in and going strong! #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

So my writing goal this April is 20,000 words of a scifi novel. Tell me yours, and I'll cheer you on. Here's to day one!💫 #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

After taking time off to enjoy the holidays, it's back to writing. Here's to tidying up last year's NaNoWriMo!

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

It's the last day of NaNoWriMo! Congratulations to all participants for taking the plunge. Every word written is one word closer to bringing your story to life. 💫

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

That's a wrap! This year's NaNoWriMo is in the bag.

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

Celebrate a NaNoWriMo milestone with me and share your own snippet. 💫

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

We made it to the official halfway point for NaNoWriMo! Congratulations to every writer who's managed to wring out some words! ✍️✨

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Celebrate a NaNoWriMo milestone with me and share your own snippet. 💫

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Celebrate a NaNoWriMo milestone and share your own WIP snip. 💫

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Em @erratawrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

"... she slapped her palm over his desk. It wasn’t supposed to respond to any genetic signature except his own, but her hand glowed blue. Her veins lit up like a circuit board and pulsed in time with his drive." Celebrate a NaNoWriMo milestone and share your own WIP snip. 💫

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