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🇵🇭 SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW-Out Now! DoFaF July 2025. Author & Chemical Engineer riding the edge of the explosive limit 🇵🇭🇨🇿🇺🇸🏳️🌈rep'd @PinaRamona
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DAUGHTERS OF FLOOD AND FURY Cover Reveal Book Look!!! Coming out July 2025 with
@TitanBooks
. Big shout out to
@missnatmack
my amazing book designer!!!
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✨Publishing News✨
I'm thrilled to announce I'm now Rep’d by
@PinaRamona
of
@bookendslit
! SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW is an anti-colonial Filipino fantasy written for all the angry girls who grew up into well behaved women with too sharp teeth. 1/8
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The Cat's out of the bag!! SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW my 🇵🇭 Filipino epic fantasy will be coming out from
@TitanBooks
in June of 2024!!!!
"This is a world full of magic, of vengeful goddesses and women who are no longer willing to wait for justice."
@TitanBooks
has signed
@GabriellaBuba
's "stunning" Filipino-inspired fantasy duology.
Read here:
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Hi
#WritingCommunity
I'm Gabriella, a mixed 🇵🇭🇨🇿🇺🇲 author and chemical engineer in TX keeping explosive pyrophoric materials safely contained in pressure vessels or the covers of my books
I write to center the stories of bold, bi, brown women. SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW is OUT
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@loveisradical
I was recently talking to a 20yo who asked if I was doing botox and what age I started, because her forehead lines bothered her. I was like baby girl I am 29??? and I have done no work on my face, you too will look like this at 29. please do no work on your totally normal face!!!
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Shamelessly plugging my Filipino fantasy SAINTS OF AND SORROW
Honestly, there aren't enough bisexual books with POC
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So
#WriteOwls
music or no music when you write? I find I write better no music but edit better with music
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I can't tell you how exciting it is to see my book deal in Publishers Marketplace! My Filipino epic fantasy Saints of Storm and Sorrow is gonna be on shelves June of 2024! (And I got to yell about it just under the buzzer 🤣)
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Me: I'll finish my witch WIP by the end of the month probably
The husband: And then I'll get you back???
Me: haha no no, no, my sweet summer child *opens the back cupboard revealing hundreds of red-eyed plot bunnies, just waiting for thier time in the sun * THEY HUNGER
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So
#WriteOwls
I've switched the font of my MS to comic sans and suddenly its not my writing. I can see when I'm too long-winded and where words can be trimmed. Something about the neatness of TNR was letting me gloss over the wordiness. Share your fav editing tips and tricks!
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@originalspin
In university all the Asian girls used to swap IDs with other Asians who were over 21 to get into bars and buy alcohol even though we all looked nothing alike. If white folks gonna be blind we were gonna party.
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@AuthorGaylord
You're not a real writer unless you startle the last of the radishes
You heard it here get out there frighten those radishes
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I'm excited to share my cover reveal Book Look for SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW
If you love diverse southeast asian fantasy & angry bi women clawing for space in the world you need this book.
Biggest thanks to Nat Mack my amazing cover designer
We are thrilled to reveal the stunning cover of Gabriella Buba (
@GabriellaBuba
)'s Filipino-inspired fantasy debut, SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW.
Coming June 2024 and available to pre-order now:
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
what's the one thing about you that gets injected most strongly into your MCs?
I realized most of my MCs are mixed race like me and struggle with what that means to them in different ways
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An Iron Widow
#BookLook
inspired by
@XiranJayZhao
I knew as soon as I saw these red and gold silk pants they needed to be in a book look
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#WriteOwls
I have a question, is there a theme that is in all your stories/books? Is there a message or a moral or an idea that fascinates you?
Across dozens of short stories and 5 MSs I come back to this, kindness has power, and it is not without teeth
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So
#WriteOwls
let's talk character naming, do you use generators? Baby name sites? Is name meaning important?
I'm terrible with names most of my drafts have characters labeled with acronyms big bad wizard guy BBWG until I sit down and brain storm it out with my husband
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#WriteOwls
I was asked where I get the ideas for my stories, and like the incredibly gifted wordsmith I am, I said and I quote "I ummm... dunno" *shrug*
So tell me where you get the ideas for your stories! maybe I can figure out how to craft an elegant answer of my own
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Every Real Writer has
- 5000 slightly altered drafts of the same MS that they're stubbornly still calling draft 3. Draft 5679 doesn't have the same ring
- 10+ different kinds of tea/coffee in thier cabinet but only 1 they drink in times of editing crisis
- buckets self doubt
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
how much do your MC's cuss? I'm used to fantasy made-up words. I just wrote a blowdown knockout fight btwn a pair of sisters in my contemp and the trucker mouths on these two assholes. I love it, but how many F-bombs am I allowed on pg1 before readers bail?
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#WriteOwls
where are my
#fantasy
writers? How are you finding that balance between an engaging opening and backstory enough to avoid confusion? I have half my betas on one shoulder confused and asking me to flesh it out more and half on the other telling me to hold the info-dump
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Check it out!!! My Bi-colored Filipiniana bolero is finished 💖💜💙
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I did it. AND THEY CALLED HER STORMBRINGER my Filipino Epic Fantasy is a completed first draft in 34 days at 110,245 words.
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Check out Bookish Brews for for the full recc list!
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Elevator coworker who chats with me for 2min everyday: "How goes the writing?"
Me: "I finished my WIP actually!"
Him: "How cool! Now what?"
Me: My eyes go black, the screams of the damned echo through the elevator, time slows, my mouth unhinges at the jaw, "NoW wE MUst REVISE"
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A VERY EXCITING UNBOXING Video!! Saints of Storm and Sorrow has arrived!! I cannot believe that my filipino inspired epic fantasy will be out in less than two months!!
I didn't think it was possible but she's even more beautiful than the ARCs .
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I run a very writing focused twitter & I debated (longer than I should have) if it was off-brand to post my
#BlackLivesMatter
support vocally. Since doing so I've lost followers for the 1st time. To those folks, good riddance. Silence isn't neutrality, it supports the status quo.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
I'm traveling today for work
So tell me do your MCs travel anywhere in your stories?
Mara takes a road trip to a state park near her
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SAINTS RELEASE DAY
I can’t believe it’s finally here! OMG A PRIDE BOOK LAUNCH CHRISTMAS! Huge thank you to everyone who participated in my Saints Pride Advent Calendar of Events leading up to the Launch of Saints of Storm and Sorrow
Buy link:
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It’s almost time!!! Keep your eyes on this space because on January 2, I’ll be able to officially reveal the cover for my Filipino Epic Fantasy SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW. You are not ready for how magical this book looks. I am going to be talking about nothing else.
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the writer // the tropes ⛈️🌊🔥
SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW
Is available for preorder AND this month I'm running an ARC giveaway just check my linktree!
the writer // the tropes 🖤🪦⚔️
IMMORTAL CONSEQUENCES is almost at 3k adds on Goodreads 🤯! If you haven't already, please help out by adding or sharing. You will be awarded with my eternal devotion 🫶
(also feel free to qrt with your own version of this!)
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
does your antagonist trust anyone? do they have allies? or is it them against the world?
My antagonist in Stormbringer has many allies, but he only really trusts one of them. Their relationship fascinates me.
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✨Vague ✨Filipino shrieking tonight
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The
#PitchWars
Showcase is Live for SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW!
Filipino EMPIRE OF SAND X POPPY WAR an Adult Romantic Fantasy
#OWN
#POC
#LGBT
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Well
#WritingCommunity
it's official my company's told all employees who can to work from home. Me and the husband are reevaluating the home office setup, kinda psyched I've missed working with him.
Your MC and LI must work from home for the next 8 weeks. How do they do?
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Would you read?? 👀👀👀
(Coming June 2024 with Titan Books)
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Y'all!!! I did it! Hit my
#PitchWars
editing goal of getting my word count under 100k!! AND I didn't have to cut my favorite side character
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#WriteOwls
I gotta thank you all, I finished my final climax scene.
Now tell me how do you write endings? Is it different for a stand alone vs a series. Do you tie it with a bow or leave tantalizing questions?
I'm a cliff hanger by nature but trying to train myself better.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
let's talk fashion! How fashionable is your MC? Any signature item of clothing?
Natani Mara's LI, is very fashionable, she wears white almost exclusively and has a white silk capelet she's almost never seen without
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
your MC is attacked while peacefully asleep. How do they react?
Asking for a friend who may have yeet the cat across the bedroom at 4am
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
What's your niche interest/specialty that drives you up the wall when people write it wrong?
I'm a botany nerd and its like sand in my eyes when people get the plants that would grow in their particular ecosystem horribly wrong.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
explain to me why so many writers want to see our books as movies?
Is it an exciting mark of success/popularity? Is it for the broader audience? The money?
It confuses me if we wanted to see our words on the big screen wouldn't we write screenplays?
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I wanted to remove 1000 words from my MS today, I got 600, but I also cleaned the kitchen, did laundry, and cooked so I'm calling it a win
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
can we talk names? I'm 75% thru an outline on a new novel and not one of these guys has a name. They've got initials DS (doctor sister) MW (ministers wife) etc. I'm good at fantasy names how do you contemporary peeps name your MCs?
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
tell me what does your MC do when they're bored? Are they go getters lots of hobbies they keep themselves entertained or do they get cagey and irritable?
Llani is used to long stretches of nothing to do if she's not allowed to go train she will meditate
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
let's talk hair, how important is it to your character or culture? How is it special?
In my world elaborate hair styles are a sign of rank and masteries in various studies/arts. Even men grow thier hair long because of this
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As the product of an interracial marriage who is myself in an interracial marriage with another biracial individual, may I just say, EVERY person and their uncle commenting on what BEAUTIFUL babies we'll make is creepy as all get out. Stop calling my hypothetical children exotic.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
I'm wearing heels today which is a rarity for me, how tall are your MCs? Do you tend to write tall people? Short people? People your own height? Do you think abt your MCs height?
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I think I might be dreaming, can some pinch me??? Wow, I am so excited to work with
@Mic_Domenici
to make Saints of Storm and Sorrow the very best it can be!!!
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I HAVE FINISHED IT!!! My first pass of revisions on my
#PitchWars
MS Saints of Storm and Sorrow is complete!!!! There will be so much to tweak and trim and polish BUT!!! Some good bones are in place. I'm so excited to make this draft beautiful again
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So
#WriteOwls
what are concepts in your books you worry about handling well? Which do you work the hardest to get Right?
I spend alot of time giving my bilingual/non-english speakers authentic sounding dialogue, but then struggling on if/how to seamlessly provide translations
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
I'm reading a fairy tale retelling that has taken a hard left into straight up horror. What are your favorite genre mashups/twists? I enjoy fantasy that reveals the gods/magic was science all along
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
how snarky are your MC's?
Grace gets a kick out of tap dancing on people's last nerve so the answer is very
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#PWParty21
Day 1:
Hi, I'm Gabriella! I'm a chemical engineer by trade doing my best to keep explosive pyrophoric material safely contained in pressure vessels or between the covers of my books.🇵🇭
SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW the adult romantic fantasy MS I revised for
#PitchWars
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Me: *talking about murdering some characters*
My husband: "Their free trial on life expired already?"
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today I'm hosting a Great British Bake Off in my kitchen and hosting High Tea with the results
Tell me can MC's cook or can they burn water? Are they camp cooking or do they have a restaurant quality kitchen?
Llani is a great souschef just give her a knife
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
how well are your characters dealing with trauma? Grace has decided to sink deep into alcoholism in the grand old tradition
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So
#WriteOwls
tonight's
#WritingQ
How do your MC's feel about killing? Never? only in self-defense? whenever they feel like it?
Does their stance evolve over time?
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
keeping track of what characters work what shift at my hospital is driving me bonkers, what's a fiddly detail that you've got to track for your story?
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
I've got a weekend of trip planning ahead of me
Do your MCs like Travel? Any dream places they want to visit?
Mara wants to go back to the Philipines and see the country her grandmother and mother are from, maybe connect with the family who didnt emigrate
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Okay I'm currently living for creative curses, my current fav is - Sweet mother Fuck and all her fucklings
Your turn!
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So
#WriteOwls
tonight's
#WritingQ
What inspired your current WIP?
Gator 911 was partly inspired by a ballad I heard a few years ago
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The husband says I have 3 laughs and he can tell if I'm just humoring people
My "actually funny belly laugh"
My "reveling in the misfortune of others cackle"
My "public polite interest fake laugh"
I apparently used fake laugh on him and he is wounded. Is this his superpower?
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#WriteOwls
I have a question, it's a bit abt writing and a bit abt imposter syndrome.
When will you/did you decide to call yourself an author? 1st book published? Do short stories in anthologies count? 1st writing thing you got paid for?
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
Do you have a "back burner" WIP or writing project you work on when the main one is blocking you?
I have a folder of short story and essay ideas that I go to when my brain just won't let me work on the WIP
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
we've nearly made it to the weekend!
So tell me do your MCs ever have weekend plans?
Dinah is Jewish so she works very hard to be home with her wife and kids by sunset Friday to observe Shabbat as a family
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
let's talk pov are all POV chatacters MCs? Do you have any small sections from minor characters?
In several of my series I'll include a small section of a minor characters POV if I know they have a larger role in later books as a toe in the water
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
Villain POV's yes or no? Do you write them? Do you like reading them? Do you think they're overdone?
I write them in almost every draft but more often then not I ultimately delete them
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#WriteOwls
tonight's
#WritingQ
No judgment here- do you prefer to read/write dark/gritty stories or heartwarming stories?
I admit that despite most of my writing leaning dark I've been consuming heartwarming romcoms like my life depends on it.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
I'm writing a locally based contemporary fantasy, it's getting me out of the house exploring my community alot more than I have in years. Went on a bog walk yesterday, 15 min from my house
Tell me how you've conducted story research lately?
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#NewProfilePic
Did I way overdress for dinner with my in-laws? Maybe. Did I look absolutely fab in my new cataleya orchid tambourine earrings and red and gold filipiniana? Hard Yes.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
headed to my local
#WomensMarch
this morning!
So tell me what's an issue that would get your MC out in the streets protesting?
Dinah would be out at her local pride march being visibly lesbian and Jewish and proud of it.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
What would your WIP be rated in Movie rating guidelines?
I think Witch WIP was gonna come in at PG-13 except I use the F-bomb uhh... 11 times.
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Where my Zuko girlies at? I've got a Love Interest with elemental magic desperate to prove himself to a cruel father asking the impossible, obsessed with honor and duty, who throws all that away to do the right thing (for love)? Meet Alon 🌊⛈️🔥 from SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
in light of my NYE indulgence
Would your characters ever over indulge and get a hangover? Or if they dont drink would they eat the whole bag of gummy worms and make themselves sick?
Mine in the comments
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My parents on skype hearing my husband sneeze: Do you have life insurance on him?
Me: Mom!
My husband yelling from the kitchen: I'm not planning on letting her cash in on her widowed strangely young aesthetic for a few more years
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
Do your characters dream?
Ari has bad dreams, that worry Grace
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
is your MC a good or bad liar? Do they have a tell? Is there one person who always knows if they're lying?
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
Do you give your characters nicknames?
I notice I'm way more into nicknames in my contemporary stories. I'm currently debating if my fantasy nanowrimo MC Lunurin would shorten to Luna or Rin or not at all
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#WriteOwls
I'm writing what is essentially an epilogue, in my Witch WIP. What are our thoughts on epilogues? love them hate them? necessary to give closure? I can't quite decide who in this big cast of characters I've created to give screen time with MC for the epilogue
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
Pre- inciting incident what's your MCs biggest concern?
Mara's just worried about passing her coven witch licensing exam at the end of the semester
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
my cat was being unbearably cute this morning so tell me about your MC's animal companion
Mara has a familiar that's a cactus cat. Datura absolutely lives up to her cryptid reputation
Miso does his best
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
my phone decided to unexpectedly brick to black for 2 hours this morning, I got it back with some fiddling, but panicked a bit
So tell me how dependent is your MC on technology? What are they most attached to? What lack would they feel most keenly?
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#WriteOwls
tonight's
#WritingQ
Do you track word count as you write the first draft?
I find it helpful, I'm a massive overwriter so eyeing my WC as I write keeps me from turning out 200k drafts. In other news after 2 weeks of writer's block I finally had a good writing day
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
Whose your favorite character who only makes side/cameo appearances in your story?
I have a young black woman running for county DA in a small town in East Texas and she's really cool
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Showing off some of my
#FilipinianaSummer
looks!
This is one of my options for my cousin's wedding in October
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
How do you introduce your MC?
I'm contemplating a chapter 1 re-write to something that puts the MC doing something more engaging and will let me introduce the setting more thoroughly
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First time applying makeup since quarantine started- Everyone praise me for managing my cat eye on the 3rd attempt
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So
#WriteOwls
let's talk hair! How do your MC's style their hair? Do they go for the same style every day? Or do they even style it at all? are there any cultural hair customs you want to share?
Grace is in a bit of a funk so it's wet hair braided back
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Come support ALL women's wrongs
I wish books about angry BIPOC girls got the same hype/love as books about angry white girls
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Just threw my hat in the ring for
#RevPit
!! In the meantime checkout this killer mood board I made for And They Called Her Stormbringer my Mongolian inspired Adult Fantasy!
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
What was your MCs childhood like?
Grace and Ari grew up with thier cousin Enzo and properly terrorized the town running amuck
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@leemandelo
Coming from engineering this is so wild to me because any engineer with their salt knows the whole thing comes crashing down the minute an engineering tech or admin goes on vacation because no one else knows how to use the ever evolving systems.
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So
#WriteOwls
we talked about endings what about beginnings? Do you know where your story will start from day 1? Do you re-write it a dozen times? Tell me about your opening lines.
Most of my stories start with one very intensely crystallized image
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
How much time do you spend in your antagonists head or letting them diatribe so the audience knows thier motives?
I'm currently hotly debating doing a single chapter from the antagonist's pov.
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#WriteOwls
tonight's
#WritingQ
Who is your MCs closest friend?
Outside of family Grace would probably pick her neighbor/coworker Sonia who makes sure she doesn't live on protein bars and doesn't harp on her for her drinking habits like her family
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Please ignore the frizzy curls but marvel at the fresh henna hair dye. I love the red glow I get in the sunlight
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#WriteOwls
I'm reworking the bio of my query. How are we introducing ourselves?
I’m a chemical engineer who likes to keep explosive pyrophoric materials safely contained in pressure vessels or between the covers of my books. I write the stories of bold, brown, bi women, like me.
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Hey
#WritingCommunity
today's
#WritingQ
Do you write from the antagonist's POV? Do you find them easier or harder to write?
I'm about to dive into revising my antags 1st pov chapter and I'm still very much debating deleting his POV entirely
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