What’s a boy to do whilst my book’s with beta readers? Alright I COULD get on with my next project buuuuut do you know what else sounds fun? Digitising 10+ years of handwritten stuff pertaining to my PREVIOUS book! #WritingCommunity #Booksky
James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~
@jamesfinegan.bsky.social
Wannabe Author. Writes a lot of fantasy and a thruppence of sci-fi. A lover of Shakespeare, space, and sudoku. Married to an absolute lad. He/him jamesfineganauthor.com
Proofreading complete! Now I just need to correct the errors on… every one of the 222 pages 😅 most are minor, shouldn’t take too long before my beta readers finally get it! #BookSky #WritingCommunity
![A printed manuscript on a wooden table with a pen. Not Technically Ghosts. James A Finegan. Scrawled on the cover is: ‘Readed[sic] it - 21/7/26’ along with a doodle of two ghosts holding hands with a heart.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjx3tnrgnr74b4ba4xrk4asp/bafkreihcia752gemx5zzbgjogj5o3m4jfojfzpiyayjcbiblnup2d6icca)
THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back, and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #F #LGBT #DIS
MAGICIANS+DREAMSCAPE Nerdy film student Felix is an inept psychic who’s unlucky in all things. His loner existence is upended when he joins a lucid dreams based campus sleep study. Here, he meets an odd crew of coed psychics who protect the dream realm from a soul-stealing being. #BluePit #Q #SF #NA
Walt Disney: If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It
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#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 I see pitch events firstly as a chance to find new people/projects to follow! Study pitches that catch your attention and ask yourself why it does. Reduce your plot to one (usually terrible!) line, then build on it until you run out of words. Helps par down what’s important. #BookSky
#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
#BluePitHype Alas I’m not much of a graphic designer and even less of an artist, but here’s Not Technically Ghosts’ moodboard, ‘movie-poster’ (that came out better than expected!) and random doodles on the bottom of some 3-year-old notes! #BookSky #WritingCommunity
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the third day of #BluePitHype! It's only 3 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is Art Share Day and also our #AltTextHelp day! Add the hashtag and the community will help you write some! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype The protag of my previous project is quick-thinking and inventive. So when writing Ryan I deliberately wanted the opposite! Less naturally academic and more feels-based. Then Albert became a perfect foil to that, but still different to my previous characters. #WritingCommunity #BookSky
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the second day of #BluePitHype! It's only 4 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is Character Q&A Day! Question 3/3 - You! Join us tomorrow for our first ever ALT Text Help/Art Share day! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype The semi-abstract concept of History itself, is our villain. History accidentally allows Ryan and Albert to meet. But when these disastrous homosexuals keep making paradoxes, History may or may not take matters into its own hands to keep them apart… #WritingCommunity #BookSky
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the second day of #BluePitHype! It's only 4 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! Today is Character Q&A Day! Question 2/3 - Antagonist(s)! Final question will be posted in 30 minutes! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype My co-protagonists Ryan and Albert kick off the plot by pure chance (and an unforeseen lapse in the fabric of History)! But once they find their connection they’ll stop at nothing to keep it alive. #WritingCommunity #BookSky
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the second day of #BluePitHype! It's only 4 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A! ts Today is Character Q&A Day! Question 1/3 - Protagonist(s)! Next will be posted in 30 minutes! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmQuerying #GameDev #Comic #TTRPG
#BluePitHype Ahoyhoy! I’m James - I write fantasy and sci-fi that’s always at least a bit queer. Currently finishing edits on my cute YA mm paranormal-romance, Not Technically Ghosts 👻🏳️🌈
#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event@bluepit.bsky.social · 4w agoWelcome to the first day of #BluePitHype! It's only 5 days to #BluePit on July 13th! So, join us for our Q&A. Today is Introduction Day! Tell us who you are! Make some new friends! We can't wait to meet you and your stories! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic #AmQuerying #Writers
Printed out Not Technically Ghosts for proofreading! Armed with a red pen and audio-description reading the words aloud, let’s get this thing ready for my beta-readers! #BookSky #WritingCommunity #editing
We. Are. Done!!!! A year to the day that I finished the first draft of Not Technically Ghosts, my cute YA gay paranormal romance, I’ve just finished its first round of edits - and just in time for the end of Pride Month! Stay zesty guys 🏳️🌈👻 #WritingCommunity #editing #BookSky
Sure James, entirely rewrite / add a new ending to Not Technically Ghosts… on the day you want to FINISH the edits!! This book MIGHT still be done today. Come onnnnnn #WritingCommunity #editing #BookSky
THIS is editing! The notes on this scrap of paper mean nothing to anyone but me, yet solved weeks (months?) of editing woes! #BookSky #WritingCommunity #editing
Aaaand that’s Part 3 edits done on Not Technically Ghosts! I’m off work so if I crack on could I finish Part 4 and have my cute gay romance finished in time for the end of pride month?!? It might just be possible… #BookSky #WritingCommunity #editing
Ok I THINK that’s the last new scene I’ll need to write in this round of edits!! It was a big one, but represents the last of plot-tangles. Not to jinx myself but… smooth sailing til the end now? #BookSky #editing #WritingCommunity
Edited some more lines. … … … … God I’m so good at social media
Slightly hard-going how all these rewritten scenes currently amount to: 'Hey Ryan, remember how you're failing school and you're hiding it from everyone and your future is screwed? Doesn't that make you feel annnnnxious?' Poor kid! (It gets better, I promise) #WritingCommunity #writesky #editing
Working on it for a bit but guess I should finally announce my new side project (graduating to main project once edits are done on Not Technically Ghosts): GILLIMONEY QUAIL’S TOTALLY LEGITIMATE WITCHING SCHOOL WHERE ABSOLUTELY NO ONE GETS EATEN Pitch below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Interesting (likely basic!) writing exercise recently which has really helped me figure out some problem characters! Picture your character 20 years after the story ends. Are they happy? How did they end up there? Was it an accident? What actions that got them there? #WritingCommunity #writesky