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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In which my MC gets hit with yet another riddle connoisseur regarding the scary woods at the edge of town, rather than giving him a straight answer regarding the case he's trying to solve 🙃 #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

The boss thought over his words as he sipped the dark, amber liquid which swirled in his glass. “And what of the woods?”
“I… I’m sorry?” the question threw him off guard.
“Do you know what they’re called?”
“Briar Woods?”
“That is the technical name, I suppose. Isaac, what do the locals call the Briar Woods?”
“The superstitious ones refer to it as the Devil’s Forest. They say at the darkest hour is when the demons and monstrous beasts lurk through the trees. Your Mrs. Wayle must not have been a superstitious woman. Those who step too close, or wander its depths alone, always run the risk of forever disappearing into the night’s star specked embrace.”
“Are you a superstitious man, Mr. Herron?” Felix asked.
He raised the glass to his lips and gave a knowing grin. “There’s a few creatures who haunt the nights which I believe in the existence of.”

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm a day late, but I think I came across a good snippet for #meddle Or, my MC trying to work through the consequences of his meddling by talking to his faithful orange cat companion, Shirley 🐱 #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Felix paused his vocal thoughts, pressing the back of his head further into the cracked, leather chair. “Oh Shirley, I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place,” he sighed. “There’s too much going on that have to work through. A rise in kidnappings, an underground crime organization, my department that would rather look the other way when things get too superstitious, a rebirthed cult that’s seeking immortality, vampires? What’s next? Ghosts? Frankenstein’s monster? Or maybe you’re secretly a shape shifter, seeking refuge in my home from some unspeakable deed.”
Felix removed his glasses, then rubbed his hands against his face and muttered, “All this because I decided to follow Jasper one night instead of listening to stay put for once.”

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I found this on Facebook from the Writing Workshops page and thought I might share it here in case anyone relates 🐻 #FatBearWeek #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

"You need to focus on your writing."
My priority this week:
Words "Fat bear week" overlaying a rainbow with a cluster of five extremely fat photos of bears cropped together.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A stick. There's a scene where my MC stupidly wandered into what the city has proclaimed 'The Devil’s Forest' without a weapon, despite the supernatural danger, and decided carrying a stick found on the ground was the best way to defend himself. Spoiler, it didnt work. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing like traumatizing my main character as he hides under the bed within an old abandon cabin in the woods as he realizes the murderous cult he disbanded five years prior never truly died. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

The detective pressed a hand against his mouth to mute his sudden panic, watching as the figure’s cloak came to rest just outside the edge of his hiding spot. The crimson fabric began to fold in on itself as the figure knelt down to inspect under the bed. Even through his blurred vision, Felix could still recognize that mask. The crude markings which resembled a twisted smile, carved onto the pale wood, enveloped in the cloak's shadows.
All those years ago, he watched as the last of those masks were burned in front of him, signaling the end of the cult. He could still feel the fire as the department burned away every last trace of them. Or so he thought.
The masked figure tilted their head as they analyzed the detective’s frightened figure before placing a gloved finger to their crooked smile, mimicking a show of silence. With their other hand, the figure delicately placed the glasses on the dusty floor between them. Felix remained frozen as he watched the mask disappear from slight, and the fabric unfold, carrying the figure out of the room, out of the cabin, back into the moonlit night.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my favorite very specific tropes is a doctor turned into a vampire, and the moral turmoil such an event can potentially cause. So I figured why not have my main character interact with an individual who holds such a trope #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Soft colored light bulbs were lit against the walls in holders modified from where candles once rested. Even the trim where the floor met the wall held an intricate, swirled design which added a subtitle tie-in to the vampiric hallway. “You must be quite the connoisseur of arts with all these paintings,” Felix noted, taking a moment to study one which, to the detective’s untrained eyes, looked to show a man drowning in the river while his farm burns in the background.
“Oh these,” she gave a light laugh as if they were part of some inside joke he was not aware of. “Most of them are gifts, or forms of payment. Like I said, I’ve earned my status through community, and sometimes bartering goods or service is just as formidable of payment as money.”

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks to a really neat drawing I found by Edouard Joseph d’Alton within the public domain, I was able to piece together an advertisement/concept cover of sorts for the next steps of finishing my 1920s horror/fantasy novel 🐇 #WritingCommunity #writesky

Text reads 'The Rabbit in Detective Wear' over a mock book cover with an orange background and rabbit skeleton emerging from the bottom left corner to center

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dang, the eclipse tonight is looking a little too much like the one my main character nearly died under 😬 those pesky cults using lunar events to seek immortality... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Full moon's red shaded eclipse taken through a telescope

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

240 comments, 2 full chapter re-writes and hundreds of highlights to fix a sentence later... and draft 2 is finally complete. 🐇🔍 #amwriting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

New year, new draft. The resting period is finally over after draft one and I can now start the editing/re-writing of certain parts to begin draft two 🥳✍️ #amediting #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Me several days after finishing my first draft, knowing letting it settle for a few weeks will give us both time to breathe before the revisions begin #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Louis staring at a prescription bottle that says 'starting the 2nd draft' with a great need to give into the need

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hello #WritingCommunity! Show me your favorite cup for those coffee/tea breaks. Here's mine 💚

Rainbow colored coffee mug which depicts the different time periods throughout Earth's history starting at the haden era when Earth formed, to the anthropocene era where we are now. Sketched images of fossils are added to several of the lines.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

1964 X HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY After an overly curious assassin learns the truth about his people, he quickly finds there’s nothing he can do but smile and pretend he’s still faithful to their cause; if only Lady Luck chose him to be a safety inspector instead. #BluePit #Q #SF #A

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