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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hello, I'm Lyra, currently finishing up the first draft of my near-future sci-fi romance about smooching an android. In my spare time I like playing games, making art, and sometimes teaching math to teenagers. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #SciFi #Romance #amWriting #BluePit

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Me trying to write an ending to this book: “But what if we just abandoned this entirely and wrote a dozen more beginnings instead?” #WriteSky #amWriting #BookSky #scienceFiction #romance #author

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The holidays kicked my ass productivity-wise, but I swear I'm going to get back to it. ...tomorrow. ._.

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Wishing the neighbors whose half hour of fireworks woke my very angry toddler last night a very miserable New Year. 🖤

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Stephanie Binx 😈 HELLBOUND @stephwrites.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Do you like books? Do you like deals? 👀 Because @barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% pre-orders and WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, Hellbound is available for pre-order. 🔗 in bio! #booksky #bnpreorder

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is for the Oxford comma to be cherished, loved, and respected.

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Today in toddler life, I am grateful to have the type of neurodivergence that makes me well-prepared for listening to the same song over and over forever.

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Another evening, another load-bearing placeholder for my future self to deal with. #WriteSky #BookSky #amWriting #amDrafting #Author

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Finish the ending of my AndroidWIP, then go back and rewrite everything that needs to be changed in the zero draft (which is… most of it. ._.). Then, MAYBE, show it to some people! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #booksky

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Hazel meets Jen, head of the robotics company interviewing her for a ~*mysterious*~ summer research position. (What would a robotics manufacturer want an anthropology grad student for? 👀) #WIPSnips #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #amwriting #WriteSky #BookSky #romance #sciencefiction

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“We have all the equipment to do our fabrication in-house,” Jen says conversationally. “Of course, we send larger orders to outside shops, but when we’re in the design phase it helps to be able to make incremental adjustments on the fly and iterate ideas as many times as we want. And I’m sure there are some employees who will try to tell you that I’m a control freak, but I prefer to think of myself as having high standards.” She glances back at me with a sheepish look. “I promise I’m not terrible to work for, and you won’t be doing anything with production, anyway.”
“I actually wasn’t super clear on what I *would* be doing,” I say, almost succeeding in not saying it like a question. All of the materials that I’ve gotten during the interview process have been more than a little cagey about what exactly the project they want me for actually is, and the tasks they’ve had me doing seem almost totally random. I’ve submitted some writing samples, and completed a bunch of surveys and questionnaires—a couple personality tests, a weird moral questions test almost like they do for job interviews but way more intense, and then one on categorizing facial expressions and body language, of all things—that they paid me for, but have still left me scratching my head.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

oh my god

Jeopardy answer: "A literate spider on a farm sends messages to her non-Japanese friend who is obsessed with Japanese culture"

Jeopardy contestant gets the right question, which is "What is 'Charlotte's Weeb?'"

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I really love the idea of Zeke meeting a dog for the first time and being completely smitten. Plus since this draft probably won’t include his POV it would be fun to do that. #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #BookSky #amwriting #WIP #scifi #romance

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Nothing even close to "clay" in current WIP, so went looking in the drive again today. This is from my first attempt at writing a fantasy romance. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #fantasy #romance #writesky #booksky #sff

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*I guess I’m on my own, then,* she thought. *Not that that’s anything new.*
She lowered herself down to a sitting position. Wherever she was, the floor was solid, although almost as cold as the empty air around her. She held up her hand in front of her face again and narrowed her eyes at the faint outline she saw there. If she concentrated…
Despite herself, Alia closed her eyes, and tried to summon up what she could of her power. She tried to concentrate, to slip into what her grandfather always called the Open Place, where one could welcome in their powers. She imagined a hollow inside her chest, underneath her sternum, imagined shaping it, pulling the form of it out like clay on a potter’s wheel. Her power nestled there, swirling around in a whirlpool inside the space she made for it, growing as she gave it more room. Her power glowed, and when Alia opened her eyes, she was glowing, too. She held her hand in front of her face again, wiggled her fingers and gave a sharp laugh of relief to see the trails of light they made through the darkness.
Alia stood up and looked around herself again. The darkness was still there, the void still pulled at her, the cold still leeched the heat away from her skin, but she could at least see now. She walked forward into the darkness, leaving a trail of light behind her as she moved.

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"Soggy" was the closest I got, from a scene that will probably end up cut. I like it, but it doesn't really fit the plot, and also feels out-of-voice for Hazel. But you get to enjoy it anyway. 😜 #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #writesky #booksky #romance #sciencefiction

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“I brought you your choice of water, apple juice, or Gatorade. Which one do you want?”
*You are the most beautiful creature that has ever existed on this godforsaken planet,* I think, but all that comes out of my mouth is a wet gurgle. I clear my throat and try again, this time managing to croak out a petulant semblance of my regular voice. “What flavor of Gatorade?”
“Blue.”
I stick out a hand and make grasping motions in his direction, and am rewarded with a perspiring plastic bottle whose cap has already been loosened. Which is good because I’m reasonably certain that the slightest amount of adversity at this point would crumple me like a soggy toilet paper tube. I swallow half the bottle in one go, keeping my eyes closed the whole time. I bring the bottle back down into my lap, briefly uncertain if it’s all going to come right back up or not, but once I’m fairly certain that I’m not going to turn my bed into a Smurf crime scene, I crack an eye open and look up at Zeke. He’s got a pleasantly neutral expression on his face, but who knows what that actually means. *Like I don’t have enough trouble determining other people’s emotions.*

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Me sowing: Man, it’s so great having a toddler who will eat stuff like chickpea tikka masala! Me reaping: OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT SMELL???!

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Macaron (マカロン) @a-macaron.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Losing a hyperfixation and leaving a fandom feels both like being dumped in a very embarrassing "why was I ever with them" way AND breaking up with someone you loved and losing half your friends in the divorce

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Charlie Sloane is ❄️ Drafting ❄️ @charlie-sloane.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Me trying to write a scene I dont want to

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Repost because I quoted the wrong day! 😅 I don't actually have anything for this one from my current project, but I did a quick search of my drive and found this sentence hanging out by itself in an otherwise blank document: #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #YourGuessIsAsGoodAsMine

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

If you like: -Dark horror-adjacent fantasy -Deals with demons -Morally grey characters -Disaster bi protagonists -Shadow Daddies 😈🌶️ You should preorder HELLBOUND!

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

When your best friend sees through everything. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #writesky #amwriting #sciencefiction #romance #booksky

$Screenshot of text reading: “So,” Ziya finally says after a couple blocks of idle small talk. “An android, huh?” “Uh—” I start, brain scrambling to come up with anything at all to say in response, but she cuts me off. “Oh shut it Hazel, we both know you can’t lie to me.” “But— I just— how?” I finally manage. My voice sounds pathetic, even for me. She starts ticking points off on her fingers. “You suddenly have a boyfriend who you didn’t tell me about, despite the fact that you tell me EVERYTHING. Said boyfriend looks like he stepped off the set of a Superman reboot, yet drinks half a bottle of soju without complaint or apparent effect. You’re interning for a robotics company that I know has been working on human-based models. And lots of tiny things that anyone who hadn’t spent the last five years working on robotic prosthetics wouldn’t notice. Plus I found his charger under the bed in my old room.” She pauses for a second while I make indignant noises about her snooping, then adds: “Also I’m pretty sure I designed his hands.” “I knew you were up to something when you demanded to read our palms!” “Yeah, well, you don’t spend a month working out a dynamic fractal generator to create unique palm creases without learning to recognize your own work.”$

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Kill Bill Vol. 1. It came out when I was in high school and everyone I knew acted like I was crazy for hating it. I never saw Vol 2, but I did watch about 10 minutes of Reservoir Dogs in college, which was when I realized that what I REALLY hate is Quentin Tarantino.

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Innovations in anti-hostility architecture.

Two cats on a couch separated by a haphazard pillow construction. One cat has long white fur with a black mask, and the other is a grey and white shorthair with a cow pattern. Both cats look slightly bemused by the pillow arrangement.

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Today’s out of context line where I made myself laugh: “Come on, it’s not fair to compare *any* wedding to a fantasy wedding put together by two 13 year old girls.” #writesky #amwriting #romance #booksky

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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/12/2025

this has become a very important video to me

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Charlie Sloane is ❄️ Drafting ❄️ @charlie-sloane.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Writing is hours upon hours alone with your thoughts and hoping to the gods something you've written will be even slightly interesting. It is constant rejection and self-doubt while wondering if anyone will even care while being completely creatively vulnerable. It's a masochistic hobby. (2/2)

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I kept a LiveJournal pretty regularly throughout high school and a big chunk of college, and taking the time to write something every day definitely helped me as a writer. …LJ also served as my formative lesson in internet privacy when my mom found it and read all my angsty teen complaining. 🙃

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I decided that instead of trying to come up with new tech for my near-future sci-fi romance, I’d rather just make the world have things I want. So far we’ve got: -Bullet trains! -Trans rights! -Sexy android! -Actually addressing climate change!

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Boosting this incredible book, that I may or may not have personally bullied @stephwrites.bsky.social into writing. 😈

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Lyra Is Writing @lyracurley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Some days it feels like I know what I'm doing, and some days... less so.

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