#5thingsaboutmywip
Meet the characters of my #cozyfantasy short story collection
1. Cerass, a necromancer who had fallen in love with her spirit guide.
2. Leomaris, a young merman living a not so enchanted life under the sea.
3. Seasaidh, a young woman on a spiritual journey seeking the Triple Goddess.
4. Talia, a noblewoman on a quest to find The Sleeping Son.
5. Little Red, an adolescent wolf taking a meal to her ailing grandmother wolf gets more than she bargains for.
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1. Falling for someone and his imposter leads to strange bedroom consequences.
2. It matters little if you are a criminal if someone in power needs you.
3. Being someone's tool makes choice difficult.
4 If you stay true to your principles, others will notice. Whether that's good or bad...?
5 Knowing that the world may end in 603 days if you don't do something is very motivating.

Mood board for my current #wip Survive: The End of it All.
Here are #5thingsaboutmywip
1. Eva is the leader of a werewolf pack trying to survive the zombie apocalypse.
2. Other supernaturals come out of hiding seeking alliances to fight against the zombie hordes.
3. The oldest pack member came to the Americas over the Beringia ice age land bridge.
4. Eva is helping Riley, a young were, reunite with her parents.
5. A reversed person is responsible for the zombie apocalypse.

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#5ThingsAboutMyWIP

1: 2021 looks calm...when you compare it to 2020 and 2022. (Everything is relative.)
2: Having a zombie master in your setting means never having to say you're sorry when you kill a bad guy.
3: Giant monsters vs. giant robots is never not cool.
4: Dogs. Monkeys. Bears. Oh my.
5: Sumerian mythology is interesting. And weird. But I repeat myself. 😎

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1. Literary fiction
2. Novel in stories
3. Includes a sestina, a folktale, and a Greek chorus
4. Takes place in a supermarket
5. Contains a draft of an academic journal article and a one-act play

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1. Soul replacing prosthetics.
2. Tasty soy-based artificial meat kebabs.
3. Sweet track shoes.
4. :transgender_flag:
5. Quantum computer-based AI

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1) #Teenagers, friends and frenemies, and their parents (written for grown-ups)
2) #ArtSchool and lovably pretentious weirdos who go there
3) #Christmas parties, performances, gifts, and food
4) #Humour, sometimes at the gentle expense of the narrator
5) #Beatles and lots and lots of other #Music

I'm enjoying reading these, so here's mine! #5ThingsWIP #5ThingsAboutMyWIP
#NaNoWriMo22

1. Look, the Nexus of All Planes is older than Ohio; it's not our fault it happens to be in Ohio now
2. Sometimes being thrown in a dungeon is just what you need
3. Beware accepting jewelry from the nine-foot-tall librarian with pointy teeth; she's wicked good at politics
4. The truly scary demons are the ones who can convince you to get naked
5. Ok but hear me out: Pet. Slenderman.

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(I've been loving reading these... so here's mine)

1. A queer gothic horror story
2. It takes place post-Civil War in Illinois on the banks of the Mississippi
3. It will contain two very distinct parts (I think...)
4. It involves a mysterious estate that's sat on the bluffs since before Illinois was a state
5. I'm having to do loads of research for the first time and it's both making me nervous and excited.

#5ThingsAboutMyWIP (well, about my book out on Dec 1):

1. Ace protagonist
2. Arthurian legend
3. Rich teens at a lakeside resort
4. CW: Disordered eating
5. Swords

I’m not sure I know #5thingsaboutmywip but let’s try:

1. The Gates all go to one place.
2. Endnotes. Like, Pale Fire levels of Endnotes.
3. A poem for every world. A world in every poem.
4. When the War came, no one was ready.
5. The editors may be in slight disagreement on some of the above.

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(this is totally the same as actually writing said WIP, right?)

1. A current war that broke the world open.
2. Why end things gracefully when you could become the vengeful embodiment of an entire biome?
3. GAY
4. Bones for the desert, breath for the living.
5. Coyotes. Mostly.

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1. Sci-fi across a multiple-species universe that actually get along
2. Large friendly sapient spiders who see/feel/hear the world as musical and connected
3. Small, fuzzy bear-like techs who like making things that go boom
4. Old wood tree beings, flexible feisty roving ferns
5. Biracial, bisexual, biomechanical lead named Li Ling Shock

#5ThingsWIP ? #5ThingsAboutMyWIP ? Sure!

1. Maybe that monster that's been stalking us has some useful observations? What if we left breakfast out for it?
2. Dudes doing emotional labor to keep each other afloat through the worst.
3. A veteran's story doesn't end when they come home, even if you write "THE END" somewhere.
4. The abyss doesn't give refunds.
5. Who told you one sacrifice would stop a whole war?

Here are #5thingsaboutmywip.

🌲⛰️ We got forests and mountains. It's a historical fantasy set in 1870s Appalachia.

🧓🪄 We got grannies with magic. Appalachia is steeped in the traditions of Celtic, Germanic, and Native peoples.

🧚‍♀️🐉 We got fairies, dragons, and more. Cryptids have long been a part of these hills.

🧣🥧 We got lots of coziness and food.

🤗🫂 We got family. Found and otherwise.

I'm excited. :)

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1. your magic is the gift of a patron god. your patron god is the god of the postal service. your magic is tracking the mail.
2. oh no the dapper genderqueer with a shiny car is hot
3. time to dress up and infiltrate a fancy party
4. you mean I should... trust people sometimes?? sounds fake
5. spy shenanigans

Found some cool people to follow through #5ThingsWip, and now I'll share mine 😁
1. Two species of humans
2. A mythical animal making music with its entire body
3. Activists and non-hierarchical movements
4. Shamanic ceremonies with mind-altering plants and mushrooms
5. Real friendships
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1. A gothic castle containing portals to fairyland (or just the pub next door)

2. Fancy Georgian fae (and *two* fairy godparents)

3. A gay MC who makes his own clothes

4. A tragic masquerade ball

5. A dropped thimble

#writing

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1. Sometimes a villain can decide to stop doing villainy via a healthy amount of self-reflection.
Sometimes this happens in Act II and causes a great deal problems for the heroes.
2. Just gals being pals*

*they're bisexuals Harold
3. Croquet interrupted by attempted assassination
4. Story is the language we speak to understand each other and ourselves. But language can always also be used to lie and harm and hurt.
5. Stormwhales??

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1. Blurred gender lines
2. Regency-style society politics
3. Repurposed generation ships
4. An alien war that humans blundered into
5. A MC extremely far from her comfort zone