Tiffany E. Taylor · @TiffanyEAuthor
477 followers · 233 posts · Server toot.community
Michael Kazarnowicz · @kazarnowicz
657 followers · 1493 posts · Server unstraight.club

- The days on my alien species' home planet are ~60 hours long

- Their eggs always hatch around dusk or dawn, giving the individual their moiety …

- … because the first 30 hours shape their future development a lot.

- it is in adolescence these differences become pronounced

- The eggs need a certain fungi in the ground to survive, growing roots to do so. Sometimes two eggs in the same nursery intertwine, giving rise to their version of 'twins'

#5thingswip #writingcommunity #amwritingscifi

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Michael Kazarnowicz · @kazarnowicz
594 followers · 1213 posts · Server unstraight.club

- The aliens speak English due to over a hundred years of research and translation.

- In the 19th century (Earth), humanity was all the rage among the Kia'l because …

- … sapient life is rare, especially life that could reach First Contact status well within the life span of young Kia'i

- Khalana, an alien MC, has created the latest "dictionary"

- It allows one of her species to pass as human within weeks or months instead of years.

#5thingswip #writingcommunity #amwritingscifi

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Grand Admiral Shaun Duke · @shaunduke
733 followers · 6069 posts · Server wandering.shop

A bit of for the day!

1. Evil live oak trees.
2. Florida's plantation history.
3. Mysterious murder and disappearances of wealthy socialites.
4. Thunderstorms and snake omens.
5. Something lives beneath the oak trees...

Wee!

#5thingswip

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Michael Kazarnowicz · @kazarnowicz
425 followers · 881 posts · Server unstraight.club

1. Although it is a space opera, the first book takes place only on Earth.

2. Locations most readers won't have heard of, but which exist include Socotra, Malå, and the (IRL dilapidated) Haileybury house.

3. In books one and two, I explore a greater question of the process of separating timelines (it takes hundreds of years for universes to branch)

5. It is hard sci-fi exploring the universe in Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.

#5thingswip #writingcommunity #amwritingscifi #consciousness

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Etaski · @etaski
37 followers · 194 posts · Server mastodon.online

Five things in my WIP (Book 9 in a continuous series):

1) long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror

2) machinations throwing down tripwires for everyone

3) a horny and playful Dragon

4) coming out of the woodwork for the next big kaboom

5) desires fulfilled. Lots of them.

#foundfamily #machiavellian #inspired #DnD #dungeonsAndDragons #dragon #darkelf #writingcommunity #epicfantasy #fantasy #5thingswip

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MJones · @MJones
212 followers · 142 posts · Server creativewriting.social

I'll bite!

1: Takes place in Ontario in 1976. Coffee shops are far and few between.

2: The far north is flat out bush country. Like today.

3: Weird research grant given to pretty, rich Masters student. Poor friend did all the work.

4: There's a monster in the woods. And a boor in the house.

5: Lack of social media (or even a phone line) makes everyone super reflective. Not all people are deep. But they are tasty.

#5thingswip

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RS · @sfwrtr
9 followers · 35 posts · Server eldritch.cafe

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.

#5thingswip #5thingsaboutmywip

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TamaraSellman · @tamarasellman
37 followers · 71 posts · Server zirk.us

@sbarolo

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

5 things about my WIP:

1️⃣ Ecofeminist cli-fi w/magic realist framework
2️⃣ COVID frontliner quits job, flees to family farm to sleep and feel human again
3️⃣ animals talk
4️⃣ the attic window is a live feed to the past
5️⃣ there's a mouse who crosses the kitchen floor at precisely the same time every night

BONUS: This story originated as a dream 10 yrs ago

#5thingswip #magicalrealism #clifi #ecofeminism #writingcommunity #amwriting #bookstodon #speculativefiction

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RC Hopgood · @rchopgood
109 followers · 336 posts · Server mastodon.world

🕐 MC: 65yo Latine queer nomad woman
🕑 Antag: Her white, billionaire, megalomaniac, juvenated, 100yo dad.
🕒 He's leader of new religion based on allegedly magical book.
🕓 Settings: 1990s SanAntonio flophouse to, 2040s Mexico’s Copper Canyon and Houston during US War of Division.
🕔 Epic, queer, kaleidoscopic, genre-bending, and voice-driven. 

 

#5thingswip #writingcommunity #amquerying #speculativefiction #bookstodon

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Michael Kazarnowicz · @kazarnowicz
400 followers · 860 posts · Server unstraight.club

- My advanced alien civilization collectively underwent a genetic procedure

- it extended all 12-year-olds' lives from ~82 -> ~308

- before, their life stages were similar to human

- after the Restoration they designed new life stages: childhood, maturation, first adulthood, second adulthood, (optional third for overachievers), second childhood

- only childhood and maturation are biological and tied to age. The other are merit-based.

#5thingswip #writingcommunity #amwritingscifi

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Jeremy Sony · @jeremywrites
47 followers · 13 posts · Server toot.community

Not sure I'm doing this right (reminds me of playing "Big Blue Moon" on the band bus in college), but here's an attempt at a :

1. It's a novel adaptation of one of my plays
2. It's also a reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s most famous work
3. It takes place before, during, and after Alice's famous adventures
4. There is no Alice in my Wonderland
5. It's a story about sisters

#5thingswip #writing #adaptation #playwriting #novelwriter #YoungAdultFiction #wonderland

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timrcovell · @trc
31 followers · 48 posts · Server halifaxsocial.ca

@sbarolo
5 things about my WIP:
1️⃣ Contemporary romance set in downtown Halifax
2️⃣ falling in love while posing for romance novel covers
3️⃣ bi hero, ex-model
4️⃣ A road trip to Ontario includes burning one car and stealing another
5️⃣ The road trip also encounters 'only one bed'

#5thingswip #romance #writingcommunity #amwriting #bookstodon #romancelandia

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Abby Kemske · @mad_silentist
12 followers · 11 posts · Server mastodon.world

My first :
☕️ A confrontation at a coffee shop.
🥮 Spite ordering all the caramel rolls.
🟩 A chartreuse blazer.
☠️ A curse.
💨 Traveling on the breath of the wind.

#5thingswip #wip #writingcommunity #amwriting #speculativefiction #shortstory

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Gregory Sherrow · @gregorysherrow
93 followers · 141 posts · Server writing.exchange

Here's my first attempt for a project I'm frantically editing for a deadline but need a distraction from to prevent insanity.

🔥 Pre-apocalyptic setting in the very near future
🏳️‍⚧️ Strong MC with identity critical to plot (inspired by and created with the help from my own family members)
✊ Social revolution sub-plot
🏃‍♀️ Thrill-a-minute action
🧠 Imagine a Neal Stephenson where the best characters were trans, gay, and POC

#introduction #writingcommunity #wip #technothriller #trans #5thingswip

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Tiffany E. Taylor · @TiffanyEAuthor
315 followers · 565 posts · Server mastodon.lol

:

🔥 A powerful butch .
🔥 A mistrustful femme .
🔥 Healthy power exchange.
🔥 A toxic, abusive ex.
🔥 The hottest club in Florida.


@SapphicFiction

#5thingswip #dominant #submissive #queer #bdsm #amwriting #wip #erotica #writingcommunity #butchfemme #SapphicMigration

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Zoe, Trans TTRPG Designer · @thewispsoftime
61 followers · 43 posts · Server dice.camp

Ooo this'll be fun, throwing out some hints.

1. The Fire Emblem Framework (Actively posting about it on so follow if you wanna see)
2. A setting guide that's been taking me way too long
3. 2nd Edition
4. amogus villagers
5. double double toil and trouble

#5thingswip

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Zoe, Trans TTRPG Designer · @thewispsoftime
61 followers · 43 posts · Server dice.camp

Ooo this'll be fun, throwing out some hints.

1. The Fire Emblem Framework (Actively posting about it on so follow if you wanna see)
2. The Neighborhood Watch Source Book (It's taking a lot longer than I'd like, but it's on its way, I promise)
3. The Neighborhood Watch 2nd Edition
4. A Hidden Role game about defending a village from invaders
5. A party game about witches trying to make their own potions all in the same cauldron

#5thingswip

Last updated 2 years ago

Almost missed

1. Rowboat pirates
2. Anti-capitalism
3. Underground queer culture
4. Art deco
5. Goats. Not ghosts. Goats. Well, okay, ghosts too.

#5thingswip

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Michael Kazarnowicz · @kazarnowicz
376 followers · 839 posts · Server unstraight.club

@cstross if you like Le Guin, and Mass Effect this is entertaining: unstraight.club/@kazarnowicz/1.

It can even work if you're fan of just the one.

#5thingswip

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