#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event
@bluepit.bsky.social
A BlueSky exclusive storytelling hype/pitch event designed for storytellers to uplift and encourage one another and connect with industry professionals. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage they are in. (https://bluepit.carrd.co/)
Thank you everyone for a wonderful #BluePit yesterday! The next pitch event we're aware is coming up is is #QuestPit on JULY 24TH! Follow @questpit.bsky.social for rules and announcements! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #LitAgents #AmAgenting
questpit || next event: NOV 4th@questpit.bsky.social · 12mo ago
Thank you everyone for a wonderful #BluePit yesterday! The next pitch event we're aware is coming up is is #QuestPit on JULY 24TH! Follow @questpit.bsky.social for rules and announcements! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #LitAgents #AmAgenting
questpit || next event: NOV 4th@questpit.bsky.social · 12mo ago#BluePit is wrapping up soon! The #WritingCommunity here at BlueSky is so supportive and we've had amazing participation! Over 2000 pitches today! Thank you all! FYI, we keep the Published feed open for 7 days after the event! So, #BookSky users can find pitches for stories they can get RIGHT NOW!
It's been a fantastic #BluePit so far! There's little over an hour left to get a pitch out there! For any #LitAgents following, we keep our Querying feed open for up to 7 days after the event! After that, you'll have to use the hashtag! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #AmAgenting
My last book was inspired by the painting Dido Belle. I was lucky enough to see the original at Scone Palace. The other inspiration was the John Singer Sargent exhibition at Tate Britain and especially Doctor Pozzi. #BluePit
I have skipped this because I'm new at pitch events, though I watched some unfold in the past few years. I don't have any advice but am rather here to learn this time, so thanks everyone for sharing tips and tricks 🫶 #BluePitHype
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the fourth day of #BluePitHype! It's only 2 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is ADVICE SHARE day! Share your best advice for pitching! We also have our own tips to share for #BluePit! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
Somewhat chronological and very narrow list: Fairytales and Legends - I loved them so much I reread the ones I had until the spines fell off. Sailor Moon XENA The land before time The Neverending Story, The Three Musketeers (the movies first, the books later) - + #LegendsOfAzdiera🌈🐉 #BluePitHype
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype #amquerying Fun research books: The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, Peter T. Leeson The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire, Jack Weatherford Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages. Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
Every project is born from different inspiration! For my current wip, I was inspired by the energy of Princess Diaries 2! (Zero plot similarities, purely vibes) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BluePit #BluePitHype #romcom #romance #R
Anne Hathaway Stomps in Princess Diaries
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
I draw a lot of inspiration from Tamora Pierce who I read everything from in my youth. This particular story also has inspirations from Holly Black, Rainbow Rowell, and Emily Henry, all of whom I read a lot while drafting. Also from Avatar the Last Airbender, Spirited Away, and Princess Mononoke
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype I wrote a thesis project on The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon: the way she crafts fantasy into impermeable worlds that necessitate our crossing feels fundamentally queer to me. This potential of fantasy's queerness always inspires me towards my next book!
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
The cheater answer for ##BluePitHype is, well, everything. Most of the games I play, good or bad. Most books, too. Being in nature. The state I live in and its biodiversity. Being queer. Being disabled. Being mentally ill. It all finds place in my works.
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
Knowing that it took many novels before Rebecca Yarros had her big hit. Inspired me to start, because even if my first novel doesn’t take off, it builds a foundation!
Gonna be a weird one, #BluePitHype. Thucydides Herodotus I, Claudius Romance of the Three Kingdoms Every PG Wodehouse novella John Schwartzwalder Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen series Raymond Chandler Vonnegut The Origins of Totalitarianism The Guns of August Kim Young-ha Yi Sang
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype Terry Pratchett's biography. The man so clearly had ADHD, and it was just inspiring to hear the story of this career man becoming a writer. I thought for the first time "I could try being funny" and then I had a dream about a vampire gas station. 🤣 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
It's all TSR's fault, I swear. I discovered Dungeons & Dragons at the same time as Anne McCaffrey & Ursula K. Le Guin. It gave me a terminal case of the "what if"s, as in "what if dragon lore was done with beholders instead of dragons? #BluePitHype #BluePit #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype My other pen name's character wanted a sex scene. I wrote "Good Boys Don't Howl" as practice, both in rebuking the shame and celebrating my queerness. Also, a random guy muttered "Hello beautiful" under his breath seeing me once, and damn it felt good. 😅 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
Dracula was actually an inspiration for the very scifi “Unintended Designs”! The concept of being hosted in a man’s isolated domain and slowly realizing things are wrong… there are secretly others here… he’s keeping things from you… It’s great! Also, queer subtext! I’ll make it text :) #BluePitHype
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype I was so young when I started writing that I don't remember what sparked my desire to write, but I can say Warrior Cats, HP (sadly) and video games like Golden Sun and Expedition 33 have all contributed to my continued passion #writesky #writingcommunity #writers
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
I've always loved reading and horror. I'd say inspiration comes from places like Anita Blake, Supernatural, and artists online. For my current WIP, Mademoiselle Boleyn, The Tudors, and Boriga showed me how interesting court life actually was when framed with interpersonal relationships #BluePitHype
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype How about I list, in chronological order, things I have been obsessed with enough to dream up fanfiction: Shakespeare (specifically Hamlet) ER The X-Files Revolutionary Girl Utena David Bowie I rarely wrote these fics down, but they left their impression.
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
My inspiration come from a couple different places. My dad instilled my love of fantasy in me by reading me Lord of the Rings when I was like 5 or 6. And I grew up on anime like Sailor Moon and Digimon. Plus that class I took on Arthurian literature in college 😘 #BluePitHype | #BluePit | #Writesky
Run Lord Of The Rings
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
Back in 2001, after reading all the Harry Potter books up to that point, I discovered HP fanfics. Then after reading some, I was inspired to write my own fanfic, hence my writing career began.
Harry Potter Waving His Wand
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype My biggest inspiration has always got to be Discworld. That unique combination of funny, smart, heartfelt, and epic, is what changed me from a fantasy reader, to someone who wanted to WRITE it. More recently I’m loving the rise of so many HopePunk and QueerJoy works! #BookSky
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#bluepithype inspiration I’ve been an avid lifelong reader and urban|paranormal|contemporary fantasy are my favorite genres! I wrote BB&D to fill the gap where black, 30+ women, and mothers are often left out from these adventures. Representation in this genre inspires me. #writesky #ov #poc
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype For when I first wanted to write? I'd say Tamora Pierce's books and The Legend of Zelda. But more currently, my inspiration came from jRPGs like the Tales series and anime like Fullmetal Alchemist and Pandora Hearts. I also think my style was heavily influenced by Fruits Basket.
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
I have a certain...taste...in books. If you are trying guess the kinds of things I write...look no further. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #BluePitHype #Books #BookSky
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
My current WIP was inspired by a perfect combination of documentaries. A deep dive into Hurricane Katrina was followed by the Titanic. From there my story was born. #Bluepithype #Amquerying #TheLastLifeboat
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
I don't have a set list. I mostly draw inspiration from my education, my experiences, old jobs (worked in schools, corporate hells, retail, hospitals of various kinds, courthouses), and media (books, movies, shows, music, games of many types, etc). #BluePitHype #WritingCommunity #Writers
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype SO much. Definitely The Neverending Story (book), American McGee's Alice, Silent Hill is a massive piece of inspiration for Savage as You, believe it or not. Legend of Legaia, Legend of Dragoon, Ecco the Dolphin. Countless games, books and movies are the inspiration for SaY.
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 3w agoWelcome to the final day of #BluePitHype! It's only 1 day to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is INSPIRATION DAY! Share what art, stories, games, etc. that made you decided to start creating stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG