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Aliona Pires Diz

@jupelpupel.bsky.social

I write fantasy about memory, decay, and impossible men. Artist in exile. Tea drinker. Probably emotionally compromised.

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Scary Story Challenge on October 16th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/scary

Scary Story Challenge — nycmidnight

The Scary Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create scary short stories based on assigned prompts in 48 hours.

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ok, NOW we talking😂

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Me after realizing the first three books weren't just a bunch of things happening, but one massive character arc I'd accidentally been building all along. 😂 Now I just have to make sure the readers can actually see it. Bring me the conspiracy board. I need some red string...

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Two-Story Writing Challenge on July 30th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/two-story

Two-Story Writing Challenge — nycmidnight

The Two-Story Writing Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create two original short stories in 72 hours.

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We went to Candellight! The whole experience was just amazing. It's not hard to imagine yourself in a movie. However, I realized I was imagining the wrong movie. When I caught myself sitting with the face of Hannibal Lecter, thinking about how to improve the sound of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I sent my story to the second round of the Short Stories competition yesterday. I think I got screwed over, because the combination of genre, theme, and main character was just insane. Well, In the second round, I'm a bit overwhelmed - the unbearable weight of expectations is oppressing🤣

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I wrote a story about how my cat's ashes weren't allowed to leave Moscow airport. This romantic and utterly false story tells of a girl who flew to emigrate with just one piece of hand luggage (OH IF ONLY), and even solved all the problems on her own (WELL, WHAT A GIRL!).

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

At Short Stories at Midnight, I made it to the second round (the one where they select 5 people from the crowd)! 🤲 Second place in the group 🙂 Wow, I really didn't expect this 😅 This is even cooler than getting through the Red Light-Green Light challenge in Squid Game 😅😂

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

oh, btw I sent my text to the Novel Beginning Contest. It's my second novel in work, so I gave it a chance. Meanwhile keep editing first one... So much work, I think I just wanted someone to see it, to feel less lonely in my writing escapism ahaha😅

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 500-word Fiction Challenge on May 29th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/500

500-word Fiction Challenge — nycmidnight

The 500-word Fiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create short stories based on genre, action, and object assignments in 48 hours.

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Well, yes, I'm doing a lot of writers contests lately... It's really helps to improve my writing, and think have some real feedback will be nice. Just hope I will not be depressed if the feedback will be bad ahaha😅

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Flash Fiction Challenge on May 1st! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ffc

The Flash Fiction Challenge — nycmidnight

The Flash Fiction Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, location, and object assignments in 48 hours.

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The sun blazes fiercely. Squinting, I step outside to close the shutters - that light stabs straight into the monitors. I slip back into the half-dark, power up the computer. My ancestors are cave dwellers, creatures of the dark. I open the text. Why go outside, when here I travel so much farther?

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Up for a tiny writing challenge? The 7th annual 100-word Microfiction Challenge by @nycmidnight.bsky.social kicks off on March 20th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/100

The 100-word Microfiction Challenge — nycmidnight

The 100-word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create very short stories based on genre, action, and word assignments in just 24 h...

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Okay, I’ve submitted a short story for the first round of the contest. Not sure what pushed me to apply — I’d only recently written a few flash fiction pieces for a marathon, and I guess I just wanted to keep going. If it doesn’t work out, I’ll still have a story I’m happy with.

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Up for a writing challenge? Join me in the 20th annual Short Story Challenge by @nycmidnight.bsky.social on January 23rd! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/ssc

The Short Story Challenge — nycmidnight

The Short Story Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

new post in my rat club - about #blnovells #bookreview #writersky open.substack.com/pub/alionapi...

When BL Gets It Right — and When It Doesn’t

A deep-dive into the emotional logic of BL — what makes it work, and what makes even the most loyal reader give up halfway.

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Please, let me further, past what’s safe to name; admit me inward, where the borders flame— to touch each scratch, each bleeding seam in you, as deep as hurt, as close as hurt can do. #verse #poem

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I got carried away with writing a new story, so I’ve been a bit off the radar. It feels like the antidepressants are finally doing their job, and I can be at least a little creative again! #amwriting #writesky

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

I decided to explore the theme of horror. I watch so many horror films and true crime, but coming up with a truly disturbing story is difficult for me. I tend to empathize with what’s supposed to be frightening. It’s hard to be afraid of a demon once you know its thoughts and vulnerabilities...

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

Today in #wipsnips one of my favorite beasts🥰 From one of my recent short stories. #writingcommunity #amwriting #wordbuilding #fantasyauthor #writesky

A mudhorn — a swamp-dwelling monster, captured alive and brought to the capital.
The creature rivaled the city’s civitram transports in size, and if you counted the jagged, triangular horn crowning its head — a head armored like a bone-plated battering ram — it stood even taller. Nearly four meters, at least.
Its broad chest and front limbs, each equipped with wide, flat claws for tearing through bog soil and tangled roots, barely fit inside the cage. Unlike the other floats, this one hovered visibly lower — the beast’s sheer weight had forced it down.
Its small, black eyes spun wildly, tracking the shimmering shapes and whistling sigilic lights flaring above. Used to the quiet isolation of the deep marshes, the mudhorn was clearly terrified — its breath huffed in heavy, grunting blasts from wide nostrils.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · last yr.

The #WIPSnips word for August 23rd is "horn" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
August 23 - horn
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

As for descriptions, including the highly specific ones—my icon is Janet Fitch. What she does in White Oleander makes me want to reread it forever, and then try literally everything she mentions. #summerofstory #bookrecomendations

Charlotte Francis@cfranciswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello #SummerOfStory! Day 22: Specificity Disclaimer: This is a prompt game to discuss common writing tips & techniques, not an attempt to tell people how to write. Over to you: Do you write stories that pile on detail, or do you to let the reader’s imagination fill the gaps? #WritingPrompt

1: Title, Date, & Prompt Introduction

This slide features a large torn piece of lined paper with the text 'August 22nd' at the top and the writing prompt 'Specificity' in big script letters. There is a typewriter in the corner with a note saying 'TOOLS not RULES'. On the right, there is a speech bubble with prompt questions, a Bluesky butterfly, and a palm leaf background.

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August 22nd
Specificity
What's your take on this writing technique? Have you used it before — or do you avoid it?
Share your thoughts, drop a snippet, or tell us how you'd use it in a scene.

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

Missed couple of days but here I am! #wipsnips with my favorite boys🥰

The train glided smoothly along the tracks, the rhythmic clatter against the rails a soothing counterpoint to the luxurious silence of the private carriage. Morveiyn leaned back in his chair, sinking into the plush velvet upholstery with a satisfied sigh. Beyond the window, rolling hills and dense forests blurred into a serene green mosaic—a world that seemed laughably distant from the damp, suffocating pit he had recently escaped.
Of course, he could have taken an official Protectorium transport—Wyrm, his assigned private train. Or even saved time by using an omnimobile. But that would have meant jumping straight back into duty, and after what he had endured, he wasn't about to grant his father the satisfaction of seeing him march off like an obedient hound.
No, he wanted time. Time to let his body fully recover, time to gather his thoughts and prepare for whatever awaited him in Te Aroed. The slower, more comfortable journey served his purposes well. And if his father fumed over the unnecessary delay, all the better.
But the real victory was forcing the Protectorium's logistics department to finance his personal affairs. A private, reserved carriage, complete with velvet seats, warm meals, and a view far more agreeable than the inside of a cell—it was, in his opinion, the very least they owed him.
He stretched lazily, letting the weight of the past days melt away. The fact that he had managed to secure the entire compartment for himself? Just a cherry on top.
Well… not entirely for himself.
Deiyn sat opposite Morveiyn, his long legs stretched out and crossed at the ankles, peeling the skin off an apple with the deft flourish of a stage magician. The smooth, unbroken spirals curled in his fingers as he worked, his expression caught somewhere between idle amusement and quiet determination.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · last yr.

The #WIPSnips word for August 22nd is "recent" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
August 22 - recent
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

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Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

hey, my story took third place in a writing competition on @writersblockds.bsky.social shared third, so it kinda feels like fourth. joy is sharing the place with a bit of disappointment. still, proud of the piece and grateful it resonated with readers. #jupelwrites #WritingContest #AmWriting

Raise the flags of the motherland!…
From the fire escape came the measured, orderly, staccato beat of footsteps.
Boots.
Heavy, sturdy boots—the kind the Motherland issued to soldiers and police. These days, no one could mistake that sound. Its orderliness and inevitability were meant to strike fear in wrongdoers and pride in law-abiding citizens.
I remembered it from childhood—Victory Day parades, ranks of mirror-bright boots coming down hard on warm asphalt—Wham! Wham!—echo snapping off the walls, mingling with balloons and the triumphant blare of trumpets beneath streaming flags…
And now I—who’d never done anything worse than paint on a wall—felt my heart pounding in my throat to that same rhythm, threatening to leap out.
"They won’t have me," flashed through my mind—a desperate, defiant thought, as if I were about to fight them. The brave guardians of order, packed into black armored suits, their faces hidden behind impenetrable helmets. Those helmets made each of them look like faceless terracotta warriors, buried with their emperor in some distant antiquity. And the sound of their steps was just as heavy, inevitable, as if each of them were made of stone…

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

This week for the #reedsy prompts I wrote two stories. They turned out quite different, but in both I’m playing around with the theme of #horror. Though so far it never gets past the foreplay stage. You can read them on my page! #amwriting #shortstory blog.reedsy.com/creative-wri...

A Hare in the Woods

I crept up to the hut early in the morning, slipping like a shadow past the fishnets—still damp, hanging from wooden stakes. A startled cat arched its back, dropped a half-eaten fish tail, and darted under the house to hide. Look at him, all skittish! As if he’s any better—black as soot himself…The old planks of the porch groaned under the pointed hooves, and I, catching myself, quickly pulled on the boots strapped to my belt. I’d better check on her, then sweep the path out front with a broom. No sense leaving tracks behind.

Decree 772-A
People crowded nearly the entire length of Imperial Avenue, the widest and longest street in Teak-An, the proud capital of the Confederation of Allied Regions Naitheren.The festively dressed crowd laughed, chattered, danced, and celebrated with abandon.A young boy, perched on his father’s shoulders could see far into the distance, taking in the full splendor of the parade.His father’s firm hands held him securely by the knees, so he wasn’t afraid of falling.Beside them walked his mother, cheerful and radiant in a flowing sky-blue dress.

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

Have you ever created a character who ended up completely reshaping the plot you had originally planned? What did you do — did you follow where the character led, or did you "make" them do what needed? what’s easier: changing the plot, or a character who’s already too willful? #writersprompt

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

Tried Shadow and Bone because everyone raved about it. I made it to page 7 and went to die in the pit. As a Russian-speaking writer… Not sure what hurt more: misspelled Russian words — or what she did with them. People say it gets better by the second book.. should i give it a chance? #amreading

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

True story, that's how I burned out haha

tonči zonjić@tozo.today · last yr.

weekend means personal nonsense program only

Li Chen @exocomics.com · last yr.

happily ever after 🥰

Aliona Pires Diz @jupelpupel.bsky.social · last yr.

One thing about my writing — someone’s always quoting poetry. It might be a romantic haiku, a filthy folk rhyme, or a lullaby, but if the moment allows it, you can be sure a verse will slip in. I’m no great poet, so the verses are almost always short — but I’m helpless to stop myself. #AuthorSky

Daryl Marez@darylmarez.bsky.social · last yr.

I've realized my writing carries a few unshakable habits… a shop door will have a bell, leaves will rustle in the breeze, colors stay vivid, and there's always a clock on the wall. These are my constants that make a world feel like home What are yours? 🌈✒️ 📚💙 #AuthorSky #WriterSky #WritingCommunity