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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

#WritingCommunity good news!!! The snake-wrangler romance from which ive been posting my #WIPSnip ‘s was picked up by an incredible small press & will come out March ‘27! Stay up to date- subscribe to my (very infrequent) newsletter 💕✨ nataliegoodwinn.podia.com #Writesky

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Need a fun short story to start the year right? Visit nataliegoodwinn.podia.com/ead23dfa-f78... and I’ll send it to you! 🌝

My story (arrow to) your inbox. Cinderella but shes drunk on a plane. A modern (almost) fairy tale

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#WIPSnips “nice” A moment of peace after an evening spent with a friend from Catch Snakes #WritingCommunity

Baby Inez rested her head on Erica's
shoulder, sending a warm, contented feeling through her chest. Alison's back door stood open, letting in the breeze and a partial view of the starry night sky. The rhythmic sound of crickets chirping stirred sweet memories of
being outside past bedtime. It was nice. This whole new life was nice. Erica had found herself a simple job that could easily be described in two words: Teach English. She was happy now to live a life she could wrap her head around, sink her teeth into, and truly
understand.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Writer’s-got-talent style first page critiques!

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

if the audience is undergrad age, i would keep the characters in undergrad. I would only age up if the content feels too mature for undergrad, personally!

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What age group do you think will be reading your book?

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 24/10/2025

BREAKING NEWS 1) It's my birthday 2) My book comes out today Good planning, right? Because now you want to buy my book (because it's awesome) AND you want to do a nice thing for my bday?! Right?? We've Come for Your Eggs = fantasy satire goodness mybook.to/dragoneggs 😄😄😄😄🫠

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Yay have fun!! Love the cruise post!! Bless travel writers like you. So helpful

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My girl acts shallow but she’s very observant. She would probably analyze the penguins actions and subconsciously mimic them lol. Then she’d take a pic to so she could show her fav coworker when she brags about it later #WIPPITStickyNoteQuestions

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

1) lightning lane multipass is worth it, a fair trade of money for time... let the mouse swindle you 😅 2) dont plan too many table service meals. They overfeed you and take all ur time and money. 3) be a kid & play along. Pretend the characters are the “real” ones from the movies.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Well done!! I was totally immersed in this little scene

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

#WIPSnips “second” Ruby’s twin confronts her about paying her portion of the rent on time 🫩 what’s a fake princess to do?!? #Writesky #WritingPrompts #Writingcommunity

Ruby blew out a heavy breath as numbers on bank statements flashed through her mind. Low numbers. “Okay, so you want me to be more timely with the rent. I’ll try, I mean, you know how it is in the princess game,” she gestured to her dress. “It’s like, feast or famine out there. I might have to get a second second job,” she said with a chuckle. Her first job being acting, which was a joke.
“Yeah,” Jade said. Ruby winced, not expecting her to agree so quickly. “Or get better about, like, budgeting.”
Ruby’s heart plummeted, but she felt her own head nodding in agreement, anyway.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“Soft springtime daylight warmed the workshop” 😍

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Back to my chef WIP! #WIPSnips field >> yard This is the second paragraph of the book 👸 #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts

At least she was off the clock, with only a half-mile of hilly, suburban sidewalk separating her from her van. She had just spent her afternoon as an unbranded princess, the hired entertainment at a child’s backyard birthday party. It wasn’t glamorous work. It wasn’t what she’d ever envisioned herself doing. But, for the first time, princess-work was beginning to look less like a temporary source of income, and more like her entire future. And at that, Ruby felt a strange, strong sense of relief.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#WIPSnips We’re playing fast and loose with the vibes here today Dodge>> ignore Snip from a short story I’m working on, I call it: Cadaver Lab Daydreams. Rachel’s not gay…. Right?!? RIGHT?? #writingcommunity #writesky

When a more dramatic, romantic, sweeping song came on, Rachel might allow the tip of her toe to cross into fantasy territory. She imagined touching Adeline’s face, connecting all of her freckles, tracing the line of her angular jaw. She imagined Adeline cupping her face; a gentle touch from a powerful hand. She knew well enough what Adeline’s hands looked like, the unpainted square fingernails, so short she must have bitten them as a child.

When the music descended into a sweet, tinkling piano, she might imagine Adeline feeling the pounding beat of Rachel’s pulse, which would make her chuckle softly and whisper something like, “It’s okay, it’s just me.”

I wish you would, Rachel thought, over and over and over again.

She didn’t know what word came after “would.”

I want you to, she thought, having no idea what it meant.

Fantasies were nice, but no one could ever know. So Rachel tried to ignore her sixth sense, the one that was excruciatingly aware of Adeline at all times.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#WIPSnips “might” Just admiring a man slicing tomatoes 🤤 maybe nsfw? Because of one word. nothing juicy happens lol #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts

She watched his hands move deftly, at impossible speeds, so thorough and accurate it was almost obscene. Like she was watching porn, and not a guy slicing and salting tomatoes. Short nails, wide hands marked with tiny white scars that came with years of kitchen burns and cuts. The edges of a tattoo visible at the edge of his rolled white sleeve, a traditional moth, maybe. If he hadn’t been so deeply in the zone, she might have tried to talk more, if only to watch his dimples deepen in his stubbled cheeks again, or to see if she could get him to roll those dark, handsome eyes.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#WIPSnips “care” Ruby worries her unlikely protegé, Brynn, is about to be dumped from a talent show dance number. Of course, Ruby is going to project her own anxieties onto the situation— which may just sabotage the little girl she’s grown so fond of. #WritingCommunity

"I don't know," Ruby said, looking back at Brynn just to remind herself who she was speaking to. Eight years old with no idea just how cut throat and conniving her competition could get. Ruby wished that she could guard her little heart from the shattering that was surely on the way. "Hey, but don't tell them you suspect anything. And if they do kick you out, you have to act like you don't care. And definitely don't tell them about what we're doing."

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#WIPSnips going with “finally” The sous chef at Ruby’s work helping her jump her car after a closing shift 😬😏 #writingcommunity

"I don't know, did I? You're the one
out here smokin' all night."
He looked over his shoulder to give
her an amused smile. She grinned back. "Nah,
I don't think you left anything on," he
admitted. "When was the last time you got the
battery replaced?"
"Never," she said.
"Hmm, well. Let's see if this works."
"It should, right?"
"Yeah, yeah," he said in a higher pitch
than usual. "Let's try it."
He started his car, and a few minutes
later, she tried hers. Nothing. They tried it
again. He rechecked the cable connections.
"It's dead," he finally said. "Let's give
up. It's almost two. I'll drive you home. We'll
get you a new battery tomorrow."

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

So far i’ve enjoyed writing him trying to impress her with his artistic plating & finding something to clean near her whenever she’s in the kitchen 🥹 so far its been a lot sweeter than i had intended! Not quite as on-the-nose spicy. Gotta let all these flavors get to know each other in the pot 🤣

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Haven’t done a #WIPSnips with my new project yet! Here’s our melodramatic fmc dreaming up a sympathetic breakup story for an interview.. #WritingCommunity #Writesky #WritingPrompts

“Okay, fine,” Ruby said, searching the ceiling for her answer. “Oh. He fell out of love with me. It was devastating. There I was, thinking I had found it, the kind of love that people write songs about. We laughed at the grocery store together. Sat cuddled up to each other in restaurant booths with no one on the other side. His nieces and nephews called me ‘Aunt Ruby.’ It was perfect, until it wasn’t. I don’t even know which of my dumb jokes was the last one he laughed at. But suddenly, I wasn’t enough. On the weekends, he’d always look for an excuse to —“

“Jesus, Lord, that’s enough. Do not say all that. You sound like you’re still in love with him,” Jade snapped.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Looks like a great time!! I can’t wait until my son is old enough for this kind of book

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Offering query package editing services! I just got an enormous medical bill, and as you all know, i’m unemployed due to my health. But I love editing query packages, and I’m pretty good at it too. Please DM me if you’re interested! Shares are welcome.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

While Snake Country awaits review in agent inboxes, I’m busy with a juicy new project 🤭spicy contemporary romance set in a restaurant kitchen, inspired by my time in the industry. i love this feeling when the ball starts rolling and you’re just overwhelmed with ideas 🤩✍️ #amwriting #amquerying

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I see contemporary romance defined as romance that takes place 1945-now. But on the shelves, i see a something much more specific. ie dual pov,present tense, super tight premise, conversational narration style. is this what publishers are looking for in contemp romance? Or is this a sub-subgenre?

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I recently got a personalized rejection on a full and im letting that feedback sink in before driving myself crazy implementing it. Also waiting on a couple more replies AND playing with a new WIP 💡 We had company all week who just left and now kids and i are just trying to remember how to exist 😅

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

love this interpretation for balance ♎️

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Having fulls out is wild, because what do you mean i cant look over their shoulders and read along with them?! 😭😭 #amquerying #writingcommunity

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Great weekend at the New England Writer’s Workshop!! To my fellow #amquerying authors, If you ever get a chance to do the “writer’s got talent” style first page critique - do it. so enlightening. Mine didn’t get picked for critique but listening to the feedback on others was worth it in itself

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying Erica tags along with Will as he relocates a cottonmouth. She’s got other things on her mind.

He was back in the car, shutting the door. “All right, I think he’s happy. Shouldn’t be bothered by any more screamin’ girls out here.”
He cranked the engine and started down the road.
“You all right?” He said. She supposed she was oddly quiet.
“Do you wanna come inside? We can hang out,” she said. It was a pathetic thing to do.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Forgot alt text! Its a photo of the book cover “The Rise of Issa Igwe” by Shanna Miles.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

@srmilesauthor.bsky.social yours is one of the first accounts i followed on bluesky so of course i recognized this title at the library today. I was like “omg i know her” 🤩

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Listen, I’m serious: if you’re angry right now, please read this novel. Many thanks. Go ahead, share what you love! www.amazon.com/dp/0316584797/ bookshop.org/p/books/coyo...

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Im still early in this #amquerying business and still havent figured out how to give up my delusional belief that TODAY WILL BE THE DAY (every day)

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 17/07/2025

A short story writing pacing primer. Do we really need to know the color of the drapes? buff.ly/OgSQD8M #writing #writingcommunity #writingadvice #protip #litmag #literary #writingcommunity

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Happy world snake day, to all who sssselebrate 🐍 Reposting a pitch for Snake Country, my adult contemporary romance complete at 90k words Because havent we all wanted to fall in love with a snake wrangler? #amquerying #writingcommunity #booksky

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Wait i literally just switched tabs from the kindle sample of this book to bluesky and this was the first thing i saw🤯 its a sign

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I feel you 🥺 hearing kurt approach this struggle with both honesty and humor is so refreshing

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

For my #amquerying project, Pretty Pimpin’ by Kurt Vile “I woke up this morning Didn't recognize the man in the mirror Then I laughed and I said "Oh silly me, that's just me"” #WritingCommunity

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Kurt Vile - "Pretty Pimpin" Official Video

YouTube video by Matador Records

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Its hard to shift your brain between entire worlds!! 😅

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I’m buying this book when it comes out

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