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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

One of the things I love most about my worldbuilding is the isolated pockets of civilization that have had enough time separated by wastelands to develop completely unique cultures, and thus, stories. Perfect for a series of standalones! #CRPBrimstone #CampRevPit

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hi I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you do not have to pay a membership fee or subscription to write with and get feedback from other writers 📢 #writesky #writingcommunity

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Though I didn’t get chosen for #RevPit this year, this community has been so encouraging and getting a shortlist email was such a boon. Congrats to all of the winners!

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

“Sanjiin was not conscious of what immediately followed. All he knew was that when he opened his eyes, his head throbbed and he couldn’t feel his lip. He had been propped against a wall, slumped forward so that bloody drool dripped into his lap.” #wipsnips

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Wouldn’t have guessed my favorite book character (so far this year) would be a crow named Shit Turd but somehow that just feels appropriate to the times #2025reads #booksky

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

!! Super late to this prompt !! I initially wasn’t going to share since this is still a WIP (half of Sanjiin’s personality aka projected glowing fists are missing) but my friend convinced me to share anyway. I’m dang proud of how this is turning out ☺️ #revpitwaiting

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Everyone do yourselves a favor and get yourselves some beta readers who are as honest, supportive, and serious about the craft as @katevwrites.bsky.social @aswiftauthor.bsky.social @alexishatcher.bsky.social @jgiordano.bsky.social & @giannagirone.bsky.social Day 15 #revpitwaiting

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Listen, we’ve had our share of night-adjacent shadowy boys in romantasy. It’s time we got some queer rep! Introducing: the night sky, trapped as a mortal by an ancient alchemist, who is also a gay disaster ✨❤️ #UnhingedPit #A #F #LGBT #Q #Own

Images of Pippin and Aragorn from Lord of the Rings in discussion with added text.
Pippin: “What about a night-coded love interest?”
Aragorn: “We already had it.”
Pippin: “We’ve had shadow daddies, yes. What about a shadow enby?”

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Ah project ALBE 🖤 Currently redrafting my YA fantasy/mythical tale about how a maidservant became a god. Day 12 #revpitwaiting

Moodboard with mostly black nighttime images and one image with light peeking through closed fingers

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

“The rippling tendrils of Chaos retreated, ripped from his body as if inhaled by the lungs of a god. Then, darkness.” - Project WMOD #WIPSnips #WritingPrompts

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Brain has been on full edit mode for a year. Going into drafting mode AND in a completely different tense has been a rough transition. #5wordsperminute #writingcommunity

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

How do I distract myself from #revpitteasers?? That’s hard. 📖 Reading mostly 🧗‍♀️ Often climbing 💃🏼 Dancing (salsa/swing) 🧶 Sometimes knitting 🍜 Is cooking a hobby? #revpitwaiting

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A (non-exhaustive) pile of my favorite books: Day 8 of #revpitwaiting

A Gentleman in Moscow, Piranesi, Six of Crows, Exhalation, Gideon the Ninth, Strange the Dreamer, The Last Unicorn, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Bridge of Birds, The Poisonwood Bible

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Post the mood board I just created? Don’t mind if I do - #Revpitwaiting #RevPit

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

While I can’t tell you what happens next in my story, I can tell you the history of wooden crates 👍

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Multi POV: Prof. Tinley (55) is tired of the magical elite’s BS and is going to find a scientific solution to the storm even if it hurts his already small ego. Archie (29) can’t summon magic yet makes a living through magic shows. Just not enough to bail his sister from jail. #RevPutWaiting 1/2

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I’m so excited to volunteer for the 2025 Chesapeake Writing Workshop on Saturday, March 22! I attended last year and left full of enthusiasm and actionable ideas. Very happy to be able to give back this time around and meet fellow writers ☺️ #ChesapeakeWW

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Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

UPROOTED x NAUSICAÄ 🪲 A naïve natural historian in desperate need of a guide through the cursed forest. 🌌 A non-binary rogue who will do anything to rescue their family. 👀 A plot to trap the rogue brings them together. ❤️ Their hearts will draw them closer. #WSPit #WSPitQ #A #F #LGBT

A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hi! For new and future writing friends, I’m a: 🗻Small town mountain girl living in the city 🌆 ✍️ SFF writer 📚 Reader of all genres 💼 Works in intl education 💃🏼 Loves dancing & languages 🐀 Rat queen Part 🇨🇳 Part 🇩🇪 All 🇺🇸 ✝️ believer 🏳️‍🌈 ally Free 🇵🇸 #revpitwaiting #writingcommunity

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN X ARCANE A MultiPOV climate fantasy w/ 🔬Science + Magic ❤️‍🔥 Enemies -> found family -> lovers 🐀 Postal rats & pet spiders 😇👿 Morally gray characters ⛈️ Environmental consequences 👊 Class conflict ❤️‍🩹 Complex sibling dynamics 👯 Ragtag crews #A #F #CliFi #SFF #LuckyPit #PopUpPit

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Rulers won’t let Prof. Tinley research the solution to a Chaos storm caused by their own overuse of magic. Enter: a fake magician, a disgraced soldier & Rayna, the Chaos witch he was tasked to 🔪. Though seen as a villain, Rayna may hold the key to the Prof’s research. #A #F #LuckyPit #PopUpPit

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

SIX OF CROWS X ARCANE How to fight a Chaos storm caused by the overuse of magic? Sanjiin’s fists won’t help. Neither will Rayna’s Chaos. But together, Prof. Tinley believes science can be the glue to bind enemies and magical forces to save the last Haven city from itself. #A #F #LuckyPit #PopUpPit

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J Giordano - Writer @jgiordano.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Sundays are for several cups of tea and trying to fold laundry between writing sprints ✍️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“I assume you came with a half-baked plan involving a lock pick and some form of diversion?” “Lock pick and diversion, yes,” Archie admitted. “But I’d hardly call our plan half-baked.” - Project WMOD #WIPSnips #WriteSky

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Massively grateful to #RevPit editors who are taking time out of their lives to edit whole ass manuscripts pro bono. Even if I don’t get chosen, it’s such a gift to the #writingcommunity.

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Took a big leap and submitted the manuscript of my current science fantasy to #RevPit! Now we wait and pray to the writing gods🤞🏻 #writingcommunity

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Alison 林 Roden @rodenwrites.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Getting back into the flow of writing is not easy, but two things I ask myself always help: 1. What needs to happen and how can I make it more exciting/interesting? and 2. How can I make this character shine in this scene? Also not spending more than 5 min on one sentence/phrase 👍

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J Giordano - Writer @jgiordano.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Ariadne X Last Night at the Telegraph Club Aia = 🙏🏼😓🏳️‍🌈 👩🏻 City = 🏜️⛲️🧱 Gods = 🔥 🌊 👹 Parents = 😡🗣️🆘 Best friend = 🧸✨👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Hot god = 👏🏼🏜️🥵 They demand her life. She says no. They steal her memory. She wants it back. #P2Ppit #YA #W #F

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J Giordano - Writer @jgiordano.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Ariadne X LNatTC Aia is dutiful to gods and family (even when they’re cruel) ✨ but her loyalty to the Temple is tested when her death is demanded to appease the desert deities💧☀️ she escapes to bargain her life with the gods ☁️ and decides if her life is worth another’s 🏜️ #P2Ppit #YA #W #F

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A. Swift @aswiftauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

ACOMAF x ONE DARK WINDOW Tamlin versus Rhysand, except one is the playful lead scientist of the desert magic drought 🏜️ and the other is the enigmatic, sharp-eyed immortal who bends magic to his will 💫 Who is truly helping Ocelia heal her brother...and who is obstructing her? #P2Ppit #Q #RF #F #YA

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A. Swift @aswiftauthor.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

ONE DARK WINDOW x SHADOW & BONE Ocelia must free her brother from a magical degenerative disease, even as his cruelty threatens her own mental health. To stop the illness from spreading, she tracks down the help of a magic-manipulating immortal who might just be behind it 🥵 #Q #RF #F #YA #P2Ppit

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