Tessera

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️

@n-a-writes.bsky.social

309 Posts155 Follower 130 Folgt

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 3h ago

Two books that really influenced the way I saw and wrote disabilities in my own work #PitchDis

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · 7h ago

Day 10 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Today's question: What is your favorite book that includes a disabled, neurodivergent, or chronically ill character? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply and search the hashtag to see the replies of other participants.

KatherineMcRea @listentomelovelett.bsky.social · 19h ago

Unhinged writing tip of the day: paint your nails with sparkly polish as an incentive to write because it’s fun to watch the sparkles go flashy flash when you type.

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 5h ago

Hi hi #PitchDis I think it's a tough call between the Broken Earth Trilogy and the Red Space Trilogy. Both have disabled, ND and technical chronic illness. It's nice seeing representation in my favorite genre. #SciFI #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · 7h ago

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 13h ago

#PitchDis The answer is yes. There's multiple people and you get all of their POVs even the villians get stage time sometimes 😂😭 #WriteSky #SciFiWorldbuilding #CULLING

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · 4d ago

🎵Whoooaaa, we're halfway thereeee🎵 Ahem, okay. I'll stop singing now. But we're on day 6 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Today's question: Is your story written from a single point of view or multiple points of view? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply.

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · yesterday

Saw @julesanew.bsky.social do this and now I want to jump in👀 It depends on how many likes I get

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

book asks:
1. book you've reread the most times?
2. top 5 books of all time?
3. what is your favourite genre?
4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?
5. where do you buy books?
6. what books have you read in the last month?
7. is there a series/book that got you into reading?
8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself?
9. when do you tend to read most?
10. do you have a guilty fav?
11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?
12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?
13. do you have a goodreads?
14. do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?
15. recommend and review a book.
16. how many books have you read this year?
17. top 5 children's books?
18. do you like historical books? which time period?
19. most disliked popular books?
20. what are things you look for in a book?

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · yesterday

Two lyrics really influenced the creation of this story: Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground 'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn & But even statues crumble if they're made to wait I'm so afraid I sealed my fate Want more? Here’s a full playlist: tinyurl.com/7s9f7tuk #PitchDis

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · yesterday

Day 9 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Today's question: Is there a song that reminds you of your book? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply and search the hashtag to see the replies of other participants.

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · yesterday

Hello #PitchDis It's a Sci-Fi Space-opera so it HAS to be Silent Planet at least! It's a close call between OffWorlder by Silent Planet and Armageddon by Ashes to New #SF #CULLING youtu.be/Pi81RThE7NU?...

Silent Planet - Offworlder (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Silent Planet

youtu.be

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · yesterday

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · yesterday

Hi #PitchDis (I need to catch up) I'm Noor, a Sci-Fi writer with AuDHD, RA and chronic migraines. Funny enough I'm also a scientist irl. I like books, games, art, and my cat! (CAT TAX INCLUDED)

Calico cat sitting on a gray arms chair with a blanket behind her

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · last wk.

Welcome to Day 1 of 12 Days of PitchDis! Here's the first prompt for the event - Introduce yourself! Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply and search the hashtag to see the replies of others participating.

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · yesterday

DRAFTING! revising is not as bad, but nothing matches the high of drafting and building things! #PitchDis

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · 2d ago

We've made it to day 8 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Today's question: Do you like drafting or revising better? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply and search the hashtag to see the replies of other participants.

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 2d ago

A new character joined the server and they want to bring everyone's dirty laundry to the stage! #WriteSky #Scifi #Worldbuilding #CULLING #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/noor0wri...

AUDIOCAST TRANSMISSION QRY-041U

The QU?RY SHOW

open.substack.com

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 2d ago

My substack accidentally becoming supplemental materials for my books is actually funny. It started as a place to post short/Flash fiction stories #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 3d ago

#PitchDis Probably creating a whole galaxy, planets, alien races, different cultures, religious practices, technology and customs? Also the main characters bantering!

#PitchDis@pitchdis.com · 3d ago

Day 7 of 12 Days of #PitchDis! Today's question: What’s your favorite thing about your book? Make sure to include the #PitchDis hashtag in your reply and search the hashtag to see the replies of other participants.

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you like horror! Do you like monsters? What about a bug-horror story with cicadas which I wrote? You can now pre-order Southern Monsters for release on the 13th of August. I can't wait for you to meet Eli! #horrorwriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #horror www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBXW8QP...

First page of short storyTENERAL STAGE
BY GALEN DAVID BUNTING
WHEN ELI FOUND the black snake dead behind the chicken
coop, he knew what he needed to do. The black snake was a sign of
bad luck until it was dealt with, and he was just the one to deal
with it. His hands were long and clever, and he held the snake
between them, with his fingers working over its scales as though to
soothe it, even though it was dead. The black snake had lived in the
soil underneath the chicken coop and kept the pests away, the rats
that might have eaten their chickens up. He hadn’t given it a name,
but it had been a neighbor and it deserved a good place to lay with
the last rays of the sun still in the sky.

K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · last wk.

How you know your scene hit... #amquerying #querying #A #F

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two university degrees in science, an ND super interest in space since childhood and countless hours spent consuming Sci-Fi come in clutch when worldbuilding. And CULLING was born. #Writesky #WritingCommunity #Scifi #Worldbuilding #CULLING open.substack.com/pub/noor0wri...

XENOBIOLOGY ENTRY FILE 001

SPECIES: [KORRES]

open.substack.com

Noor is ✨️Querying & Drafting✨️@n-a-writes.bsky.social · 2w ago

JUST An FYI When I mention Al in my writing I mean actual Sci-Fi artificial intelligence. NOT GenAI!!! Thank you for coming to my ted talk. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SciFi

B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊@brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 2w ago

BETWEEN FRACTURES OF LIGHT “When the Darkness ate the Sun, the Stars wept.” THE STARLESS SEA X HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ☀️ romantic portal fantasy 🌿 nature-themed magic ✨ strange world 🖋️ interwoven folktales 🌸 mental health/neurodivergent rep 🌙 queer rep #QuestPit #A #F #R #FR #W #Q

Drawing of a man with long red hair and a scar running down his face and a woman with dark way hair. they have their foreheads pressed together and the girl's hand is on his cheek. He is gently holding her arm. There is an aura of sadness despite the tender image. A golden sun is behind them.

Text: Between Fractures of Light

Frankie | Querying & Drafting @byfrankiejoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Earth is recovering from agricultural collapse. Scientists travel to another planet in hopes of a compatible soil microbiome. Only Izzy finds herself not just studying soil, but thrown into Tzio’s labor organizing. 💜 ace rep 🔥 slow burn 🦎 cat-sized geckos 🐓 chickens in space #QuestPit #W #A #SF

Green background with light green text. Photos of: barren fields, a galaxy, custom art by croverfield of a green alien, green fields

Text:

WORK IN PROGRESS:
THE NEW FARMER’S ALMANAC FOR EXOPLANETS

Isabel Meyer
Agronomist
Unit 5

File folders: soil samples / almanac archive / chickens 101 / ütska dictionary

Objectives: study soil to ensure viability for implantation on earth / learn from native farmers / keep chickens alive

Planet name: Mtskhütska
Alien name: Tzamarkh

❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨ SIX OF CROWS X ARCANA ACADEMY✨ After an ancient prophecy resurfaces mid magic trial, six artists must uncover who is trying to enact calamity. This Adult Epic Fantasy features: 📜Deadly Deals 😈Ravenous Monsters 🤫Secrets Best Left Unspoken 💔Rivals to Allies to 👀 #questpit #F #DF #R #A #Q

An Artistic Deception - An Adult Sapphic Epic Fantasy - A girl dancing in an abandoned church

Enemies to lovers
Sapphic
Sentient Magic School
Indigenous Diaspora
Can Your Fate be Changed?

Martyred by her people, a priestess awakens as a refugee displaced through time to find her sacrifice in vain.

Agni attends a magical college to build a new life, but when the past resurfaces, she must either embrace martyrdom again or flee, leaving behind the life she’s built and the woman she loves. before fate claims another kingdom.

Reads like Hozier’s Yell

Putting the con in economy - The lies of locke lamora
a deadly education - my school is trying to kill me
six of crows - ensemble cast x found family
witch hat atelier - magic consequences for me like 💀
arcana academy - so you like pining?

Character art of Agni and Fala

“Can’t you ever do as you’re told?” Fala snaps.
“No.” The word rolls off my lips, sweet as candy.
“Impudent.”
“Arrogant,” I bite back.
We are toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose, her amber irises trembling.
“You know nothing.” Fala seethes. I laugh, drunk on her wild temper on I can ignite. That may have been true at the beginning of term but not now.
I know all about the woman I’ve spent the year ruefully falling in love with.

Gabriel Morgan is querying @gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2w ago

An #agentsguide to COVENANT, my gothic gaslamp romantasy! Post is pinned to my profile 🥰 #questpit #A #RF #Q #agentguide ##amquerying 💜👻🌑✨️🕯🥀

Gabriel Morgan is querying@gabrielmorgan00.bsky.social · 2w ago

A MARVELLOUS LIGHT X PENNY DREADFUL When a mysterious being heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter exes who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #questpit #Q #RF

Gothic Gaslamp Romantasy
Adult standalone
109,500 words

Pitch:
After their one-night stand ends in hurt, hedonistic occultist Rowan and repressed poet Darshil never want to see each other again. That plan is ruined when a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, and they are the only two witnesses.
Forced together, Rowan and Darshil plunge into London's occult underbelly in search of answers to the apocalypse. But as the Veil between life and death slowly thins, and old passions reignite, Rowan realises the truth lies in memories he swore to forget, and that the past is a shallow grave, easily unearthed.
Comps:
The Magpie Lord: gaslamp world, occult magic, big spooky house
A Marvellous Light: opposites attract, magical bonds
The Gentleman and his Vowsmith: second chance, steamy romance
The Resurrectionist: historical setting, self discovery
Penny Dreadful: Victorian gothic, seduced by darkness

DH Strange @dhstrange.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE FIFTH ELEMENT x HOT FUZZ After a job gone wrong, data thief Enmity and space cop Mirek end up handcuffed together, at the center of a political coup, and on the run from space thugs, disco-dancing assassins...and catching feelings for one another. #questpit #OS #AG #A #SF #R

Florrie Auclair - Querying and Drafting @florrienne.bsky.social · 2w ago

MONK & ROBOT X EMILY WILDE When a blight strikes, an optimistic archivist must track down her hero's fabled garden with the help of an archaic engineer—but secret origins and disillusionment lurk between hard drives and petals. ☀️ Solarpunk 🌷 Floriography 💚 Enby LI #QuestPit #W #A #SF #R

Floral background with the text Mending Glass. By Florrie Auclair. Solarpunk Romantic Sci-Fi

Character portrait of a blond woman making a heart with her hands. Juniper Penrose. An archivist specializing in botany. She idolizes the old world botanist, Miriam, who helped lead the resistance centuries ago. Optimistic and a little reckless, she seeks to uncover the past and find Miriam’s garden. Her drive to help people, sometimes comes at her own expense—like the reason for the mechanical leg she now cherishes.

Next to that is a character portrait of a nonbinary character with light blue eyes and duotone hair in black and blonde. Eli Winter. An aloof engineer who specializes in old world infrastructure programming trying to prove their skills are just as important as the nouveau programmers of the city. They leave their home and grandfather to help Juni break into archaic servers and hard drives—and often pull her out of trouble.

Comp slide with Horizon Zero Dawn, Emily Wildes, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Violet Evergarden, and Fruits Basket. The text pointing at the various media are Ruins of a fallen industrial world, Solarpunk, Flower Motifs, Traveling to help others and find self discovery, Joyful but melancholic character connections, and Sunshine MC x Sunshine Protector

Data is as fragile as flower petals. That’s why Juniper, an archivist in a recovering solarpunk world, wants to immortalize the past in the Glass Archives. Safe from time’s decay, unlike the archaic hard drives of the old world. Specifically, information on her hero, Miriam, a botanist who legend says grew a garden of resistant plants—ones that could survive the blight ravaging their crops. But to find it, Juniper will need the help of Eli, an engineer who specializes in old world technology. Together they traverse ruins and follow a trail of flower language from village to village to unearth what led to the dark age of information. But Juniper starts to question her identity when they uncover that the woman she modeled herself after was not the hero she believed.

Blythe Gilpin @blythewrytes.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE STARDUST GRAIL x MOSS’D IN SPACE ☀️The Sun is dying ahead of schedule. 🏺Roan, an expert in dead coding languages, finally has a chance to go to Earth and excavate artifacts before the Sun swallows anything of value. 👀 But is she truly alone on the doomed planet? #QuestPit #A #SF #R #Q #LGBT

A collage of photos with text in the middle saying “Archaeologists will date any old thing.” The other pictures include a circuit board, archaeology tools, a record player, a museum interior, an astronaut looking at San Francisco buried in sand, a man holding a dark rose, a person reaching out to a ghostly figure, and an espresso machine.

Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚@galenbunting.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elia doesn't want to take holy orders. But after he enters the convent, his visions are confirmed when a murderer begins to move through Venice. THE STARVING SAINTS X THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH X ANATOMY A LOVE STORY: #Questpit #W #YA #H #HF #LGBT #WIP coming to the query trenches

A banner for Elia in Isola, Young adult, Gothic horror, venice 1600s, and a young nun novice folding his hands before a dark archway and has a gold halo, as well as the grand canal, as well as the caption querying soon. red tulips are in the background.

A banner for Elia in Isola. Comparative titles, showing The Starving Saints, "otherworldly occurrences in a claustrophobic historical setting," The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Historical Fiction: trans man must hide his identity and his gifts to survive in a hostile world, anatomy: gothic setting with anatomy and medical history at the center of the mystery and in the background, an oil painting of the grand canal

A banner for Elia in Isola, The pitch, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background. Elia has always been plagued with ecstatic, disturbing visions. It doesn’t help that he’s secretly transmasculine. Either way, he is an embarrassment to his Venetian family- and thus, ineligible for marriage. When he turns sixteen, his parents give him over to the convent.

But it is Carnival, and Elia longs to step outside the cloister walls.

Then he stops to speak to the masked Rosalina, and discovers that someone has been murdering young women like his new friend. He’s been told his whole life he needs to be less. Now, as a cloaked presence moves through the convent by night and the murderer strikes close to home, he might have to attract attention to draw out the murderer, to save Rosalina, the other novices- and himself.

A banner for Elia in Isola, first line, oil painting of boats in the grand canal. red tulips are in the background. The quote: On his last day of freedom, Elia Malesco watched the dawn bathe Venice in its pale tones and wondered if he'd ever see his beloved city again.

Celine Kos - amQuerying 🩷💜💙@cl-kos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do you like ⛰️ quests, ⚔️ battles,💜 found family, & 🌌 multiverses? Features #F tropes turned on their heads, including: 🚶excessive amounts of walking 🏛️a fraught council meeting 🧝token elves and dwarves (hobbits not included) How about a #SFF POV? WEB TRAVELER: A Meme Compilation #Q #A #QuestPit

@amberjollyauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jack Frost (1998) x Sweet Home Alabama YULE ALWAYS FIND ME is a holiday paranormal romance with: 🤍second chance romance 💀murd.er 🤍fake dating ❄️frosty magic 👯‍♀️sister bonds 🐶a cute pet sidekick 🎄Christmas festivities 🔼love triangle Would you read it? Art by @mknzgmbn #questpit #wip #P #R #A

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

"It's not a cult!" Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A dystopian romantic heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #questpit #W #NA #D bsky.app/profile/elis...

Elise Rustøen@eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Scream Queens x Divergent in PROJECT GLITCH A romantic dystopian heist with 🕷️ Rival gangs 👾 Cyberpunk setting 🫆 Forced proximity 🖤 Morally grey characters 🕸️ A lethal, cult-like girl gang #QuestPit #W #NA #A #D Querying this fall <3

List of tropes:
Dystopian, romance, heist
Teenage lovers to unaccounted for for many years, to rival gang members actually trying to kill each other to reluctant allies to lovers again???
Idk, it’s complicated..
Cyberpunk
Forced proximity
is it a gang or is it a cult?
Anything can be a murder weapon if you try hard enough
tending to wounds

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

All that stands between Aranea and her initiation into the Coven—the gang of women notorious for killing corrupt men and their own ex-boyfriends—is a bullet in her own ex's brain. Only, when her first boyfriend suddenly turns up alive after seven years with no trace, killing him doesn't prove entirely as easy as the rest. But when it's revealed that he's part of a rival gang and leading a heist to steal vital information from a famously impenetrable city–with the potential to save or obliterate their corrupt world–she must first infiltrate the heist and take the information for her own gang. Without letting old resurfacing feelings threaten the mission.

Opening lines:
Eyes on the target. Awaiting orders to shoot." I tighten my grip on the rifle.
The breeze sweeps some brown stray hairs over my eyes as I follow the target through my scope—Raymond, 25, male, with dark shaggy hair and a bag slung over his shoulder. Also known as my second ex-boyfriend.
"Awaiting orders to shoot," I repeat. My trigger finger burns to move.
The traffic drums in the background—car horns ring through the dirty air between dilapidated skyscrapers. Raymond dabs up one of the bouncers across the street. I track his every move; when he steps back to let a group pass by, when he scratches the five o'clock shadow on his chin, when he nods towards the entrance door two steps ahead of them. All that stands between me and my official initiation into the Coven, is one bullet in his brain.

"I fear the withdraw of us will be worse than any drug."

Books similar to Project Glitch:
Butcher and Blackbrid by Brynne Weaver
Coldwire & These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Scion by James Islington
To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Divergent by Veronica Roth

Elise Rustøen @eliserustoen.bsky.social · 2w ago

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses in A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK A Cozy Medieval Romantasy 🍰 Barbie for adults 🌸 Arranged marriage 👑 Princess x Prince 🕯️ Dual POV 🩷 Lovable family chaos #questpit #W #NA #A #RF

A DUTIFUL PRINCESS’S HANDBOOK

A Cozy Medieval Romantasy

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses x The Princess Knight

The Pitch:
No one likes an arranged marriage, but when Prince Alaric is grounded from his adventures until he can find a bride, he accepts his fate and puts a ring on the first princess he can find. Princess Genevieve would rather marry a plant than a prince, so in a desperate attempt to make him call it off, she must become the most insufferable princess Alaric has ever had the displeasure of meeting. Yet as the wedding inches closer, and devious mental games are played, perhaps not all arrangements are as bad as they initially seem.

The last rays of sunshine still linger over the garden as I clutch onto my skirts and haste across the lawn. And just as the sun sets I sink onto my knees before the statue of Inessa, folding my hands as I throw a last glance over my shoulder for any of my sisters. Then I purse my lips as I wait for the words to come, my head bowed in prayer.
“Dear Inessa,” I start, and shudder at the sound of my own voice in the empty air. “Please don’t send me into a loveless marriage. I don’t want a life at court and I don’t want to meet a supposed soulmate today, so if you could just call it off an make sure it doesn’t—”
“I knew I saw someone lurking around the corner.”
I yelp as I spin around, fall over and scrape my palms on the cobblestone.
A masculine chuckle chimes as I push away the curtain of hair before my eyes, my face heating with every note.
“My apologies, I never meant to scare you, I simply saw someone rush by and had to know if I was missing out on anything.” His cerulean doublet becomes unmistakable as he offers his hand and pulls me up before I can protest, or run away, or fall into an endless hole somewhere in the the earth.
“You’re here with the Cordellian prince, aren’t you?” The words stumble out of my mouth. He looks even better up close—sea blue eyes with a circle of green near the pupils that sparkle with life and firm hands around mine, speckled with sunspots and veins.
His eyebrows knit together for a moment. “I guess you could say that.”
I pull my hands from his and tuck them away behind my back. Manicured hedges shield us from spectators, but with him here who knows where the prince might follow.
“Now what are you doing here, alone on the ground?” he says with a boyish grin.
I bob my mouth open and closed like a fish, stepping in front of the statue of Inessa like it’ll shield the tall marble from view. “Touching the grass?”
“Touching the grass?” His brows furrow in disbelief.

Char @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social · 2w ago

You know what? Let's do a silly one. Wanna read a fairly neurodivergent and even queer fantasy book about a trans nobleman, his autstic alchemist boyfriend, and the moon taking down the government in a way that boils down to this meme? Watch this space. #questpit #Q #A #RF #HF #LGBT #OwnVoices

Meme of a gundam shooting over a person's head. The person looking at the gundam says "wow!! We must build solidarity because none of us are free until all of us are free." The text flying over the person's head reads "the sun is evil and i miss trees."