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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

2024 writing wrapped 🤍 started writing fiction again 🍊 wrote my first ever novel ✨ edited it and fell out of love 🪐 wrote 75% of a new novel 🌊 wrote 46k of a different wip 📚 read some (not enough) books 🥂 met some incredible new writer friends

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#writinggoals2025 ✨ finish writing 🪐 ✨ start & finish writing 🫧 ✨ finish writing 🌊 ✨ find a dream agent 🤍

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

oh conclave is actually incredible

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catherine (晓琳) is ✨publishing✨ @smolcatwrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

commission of my #wip fmc 🥹🥹🥹 she turned out so stunning

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

heartbreaking when you listen to breakup songs and sad christmas songs and think of your mc and their parents

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catherine (晓琳) is ✨publishing✨ @smolcatwrites.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I am officially represented by Maddy Belton at @mmagency.bsky.social for WHEN THE SEA BURNS RED ❤️ I cannot wait to work with her on sharing this love story with the world ✨

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I'm not convinced that the politics of the killer matter more than the politics of the act.

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

broke through my writers block tonight!! and this tweet @alliewritesalot.bsky.social sent me helped so much 🩵

a tweet that says:

you're in his dms i'm in his apartment blurring the lines between intimacy and friendship in ways so confusing and beautiful u wouldn't even comprehend

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

my spotify wrapped being ruled by the succession score for two years in a row is so silly to me

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

for christmas this year i am gifting each family member a different book i read this year and loved so i can force literary discourse throughout 2025

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

literary aspiration and chaos is actually my whole being

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

there’s nothing i love more than a cab ride home from the airport the city is so pretty across the water

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

hoping to get back into writing tomorrow but it’s so hard to find the flow again after a break

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

BoS🌞🌙: To clear her mother’s name, girl from London plays the reluctant hero of a magical world until magic begins to corrupt her. VietMythWIP🎭🪭: When the spirit world suddenly turns hostile, a cursed princess and a fake shaman must journey to the realm of the gods to find answers.

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Elior and Linh from my agented YA Fantasy BLOOD OF SILVER!!! 🌙 SPIRITED AWAY vibes 🌞 Sun & Moon are rivals (loverboy x hatergirl) 🗡️ Viet FMC corrupted by magic (It’s not an Allie book if the MMC doesn’t get stabbed by the FMC at least once) Artist: @ciancy-an.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

also still thinking about sally rooney’s article for the irish times from saturday and highly recommend it. as always her writing is succinct and pertinent. t.co/RiELFNJ0rH

“THE IRISH TIMES
unequal nations. In practice, a handful of voters in US swing states have more power to determine the speed and scale of planetary overheating than billions of other people on Earth. American colonists famously rebelled against the practice of "taxation without representation". Is environmental devastation without representation any different? Even if carbon emissions were thoroughly democratically determined - which they are not - why would voters in the world's richest countries have the right to poison the air, sea, soil and rivers for the entire population of Earth? Carbon emitted in the US and Europe wreaks havoc in Pakistan, in Haiti, in Somalia, in the Philippines. But the people of these nations have no right to vote in American or European elections. As a way of arranging our collective political life, that looks less like democracy and more like another political system familiar to us here in Ireland: empire.”

written by Sally Rooney

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

i haven’t written in days i’ve been so sleepy but hoping to write on my flight home tonight

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

found a new song for my wip and it’s wild horses and i think this is the first time i’ve found literary inspiration from the rolling stones

lyrics from the song wild horses by the rolling stones on a red background.

No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

@surrealwritings.bsky.social's lit fic is totally giving me this vibes 😭🫶

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catherine (晓琳) is ✨publishing✨ @smolcatwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A quote from page 27 of my #wip to celebrate turning 27 ♥️

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Snippet from the latest chapter of my #VietMythWIP 🎭🪭 What if we’re enemies who commit a terrible crime together and now we trauma-bond while still hating each other?

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

thinking of doing a long weekend in a hotel in january for a little break post holidays (and to write completely uninterrupted)

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

i just looked at my outline and it says “they kiss at the aquarium” and yet i wrote them discussing politics and gerrymandering at the aquarium

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

Vincent D'Onofrio &
@vincentdonofrio
Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure
this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and
see the stars for the first time.

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

gave up and restructured my entire book by adding more chapters and the new perfect length for each chapter to hit my goal is an angel number 🤍

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My WIP features a cursed princess🪭 who traps a fake shaman🎭 in an arranged marriage to exploit his gift, but when the spirit world suddenly turns hostile, they’re forced to work together to save those they love. #writingcommunity #booksky

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catherine (晓琳) is ✨publishing✨ @smolcatwrites.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Accountability & Snippets Thread #wip 🍃 THE RITUAL X EMILY WILDE 🌱 A naturist sent to study lands for conquest loses his path in strange woods where a woman hiding among the trees may be his only way out. 👄 the forest has a mouth 💔 careful who you fall for 🩸 he is her plaything, she is his…?

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I am querying/revising my YA/NA vampire romantasy (left image) and my YA horror romance (right image) that got me my SmoochPit mentor. My book guides are pinned if anyone wants to know more than what is depicted in my trope maps.

Trope map for vampire royal story with Indigenous rep, tense ballroom dances, chaotic Bisexuals, libraries, one-sided enemies to lovers, Powerless and Red Queen vibes, forced proximity, The Vampire Diaries and The Originals vibes, secrets abound, gothic castle, court intrigue, and got but annoying vampires.

YA horror romance trope map with Cannibalism as a metaphor for love, monstrous romance, Indigenous rep, touch her and die, unrequited love?, Southern gothic vibes but Canadian prairies version, toxic friends (possibly more)👀, cult town, and sapphic pining.

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

contemplating major changes to the structure of my book (like cutting the timeline in half) but holding myself back from implementing them until draft two

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

wrote 1k this morning and forced myself to finish writing the spicy scene in public bc if not in my favorite cafe then where

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

feeling less and less confident about hitting my thanksgiving goal (i am so sleepy i want to nap not write)

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I got an agent for my Spirited-Away-inspired book about a teen girl playing the reluctant hero of a magical world until magic turns her mad and the voice in her head becomes her downfall. The Sun🌞 and the Moon🌙 are rivals and doomed lovers 😌 #writingcommunity #booksky

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

wrote 1k this morning after waking up an hour late

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

i’m manifesting a beautiful sunday full of writing and groceries and holiday markets 🤍

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

post a picture you took with no description to bring some zen to the timeline

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

woke up this morning and wrote 515 words and now i get to watch ohio state football 🥰 what a beautiful life

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

every time i go to my bodega i buy six energy drinks and two candy bars and spend ten minutes explaining that i indeed do eat real food occasionally

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The author // the characters Meet Kỳ An the fake shaman and Xuân the cursed princess from my VietMythWIP. She traps him in an arranged marriage to exploit his gift while he tries to sabotage her. Jude/Cardan vibes except that she’s the cruel one, because we love evil women 🥰 #writingcommunity

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

just rewrote a scene that in my head is set to “harvest moon” by neil young 🤍

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Here we go! Staking claim to a date because I’ve been thinking about this since May for a 🦋 #WIPSnips adjacent event. Full guidelines forthcoming. There will be a #WIPSnips twist. It is “author hype” so all stages will be welcome to participate. Mark your calendars! February 26, 2025

Announcing #WIPSnipsPit an author hype event
February 26, 2025
If it’s Feb 26 in your time zone it counts. I’m not the time zone police.

Make your calendar. Full guidelines coming soon.

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

BoS🌞🌙: The night Vara Phạm died, she went out to buy a cake. VietMythWIP🎭🪭: The boy’s corpse stared back at me as I placed the pearl inside his open mouth. #writingcommunity

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Allie Nguyen (updates only) @alliewritesalot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Sometimes baby girl is a manipulative and psychotic little princess who unapologetically ruins men’s lives for simply disagreeing with her 🤷🏻‍♀️ Giggling and kicking my feet at @surrealwritings.bsky.social’s comments 🤭✨ #WritingCommunity

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

reading pages from @alliewritesalot.bsky.social’s wip this morning and absolutely losing my mind over how brilliant of a writer she is

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emma @surrealwritings.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

SIGN OF THE TIMES x SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS the two main characters of my love story at the end of the world as cats. a special little pitch for other cat lovers. 🩵 🌊🪐🥂🪼💫 #UnhingedPit #A #LF #DS #W

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