Yes I've lived here six years. Yes I still get heart eyes at this view every time. 💚

DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE 🩺One grouchy med student ☀️One nosey journalist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿A beautiful Scottish city 💥A highly inconvenient curse 👀Meddling, chaotic flatmates 🤫An ill-advised fake dating pact 💕Yearning, family secrets and far too much whisky... #QuestPit #R #W

DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE 🌞Dad Friend x chaos gremlin 🤫Fake dating 🧠OCD rep 💜bi4bi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish setting 🌈Queer found family 💕Yearning at a ceilidh dance 🚿"Just once to get it out of our systems" 💥Chaos magic as metaphor for anxiety 💛The love is requited they're just idiots #QuestPit #A #R

A BRUSH WITH LOVE x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE Local journalist Carrie is desperate for a story. When she watches grumpy Max vanish in plain sight, she thinks she's found it. But she never expected to fall for the man behind the headline that might jumpstart her career… #QuestPit #A #R #W

A BRUSH WITH LOVE x DO YOUR WORST 🩺An anxious (and cursed) med student 🗞️The sunshiney journalist determined to learn his secret 🎆Fake dating in the Highlands for New Year's Eve 🤙🏻Meddling flatmates 💕Unspoken feelings 🥃Quite a lot of whisky What could go wrong? #QuestPit #A #R #W

I'm gearing up to do #FastDraftFeb again next month as I found it a really fun way of holding myself accountable to write regularly while also keeping the zero draft, it doesn't have to be perfect mentality - anyone want to join me?

Saving this for later because poor old Tiberius gets so many wild injuries for comedic effect

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @ Megaplex C9@cometkins.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Share a snippet of a fucked up injury from your book/wip! Remember to use appropriate content warnings or I'll blast you with laser beams #WritingPrompt

the agony of listening to a writing craft podcast and realising your last project hit every! single! one! of the points they are making soooo well, and your current messy first draft really doesn't... Well, not yet, at least 💛✨

Can't wait for a whole weekend of zero plans aside from 💙painting my flat💙 and ✨WRITING✨

DO YOUR WORST x BUSINESS OR PLEASURE 🥃He's a med student with OCD & a teleportation curse 💛 She's the journalist who saw him vanish and is set on uncovering his secret 🎇Their drunken Hogmanay fake dating plan sounds like a recipe for disaster - but could it be happy ever after? #QuestPit #A #R #W

RADIO SILENCE x THESE WITCHES DON'T BURN 🔮Cat has anxiety & unwanted premonitions. The last thing she needs is to: 🚗Run someone over 🔥Get her best friend cursed with deadly fire magic 👀Have visions of her friends being hunted for their powers ⚔️Stab the boy she likes And yet… #QuestPit #YA #F #Q

A BRUSH WITH LOVE x DO YOUR WORST 🩺An anxious med student with a teleportation curse 🗞️The sunshiney journalist who saw him vanish 🎆Fake dating in the Highlands for NYE 💕Unspoken feelings 🤙🏻Chaotic flatmates 🧠OCD rep 🏳️‍🌈Bi disasters 🥃Quite a lot of whisky What could go wrong? #QuestPit #A #R #W

LOCKWOOD & CO x HEARTSTOPPER 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀A himbo boy with messed-up healing magic 💥A magical curse spreading through a sleepy English town 🍂Autumnal vibes 👯‍♀️Ride-or-die friendship 🥰Reluctant allies to found family 💜"You are loved exactly as you are" vibes #QuestPit #YA #F

ACCOUNTABILITY THREAD for #50kBeforeTheEnd My first draft is currently sitting at 24,000 words - goal is to get that up to 75k+ (aka a roughly completed first draft) before the end of 2025! TITLE: Sunshine on Leith GENRE: Adult romcom with a dash of magic ✨ TROPES: grump x sunshine, fake dating

Planning to fast draft through November and early December to get my first draft done before the end of the year! Anyone else doing something similar? If so let's hype each other up! (Fun hashtag for my own accountability posts tbc, I'll be back once I've come up with one 😂)

Such exciting news! Congratulations Z, can't wait to read this! 🧡🧡🧡

Z.K.A. (she/her)@pegasusunder.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡 My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Gonna fast draft these kids in November and early December to try and get a first draft down before the end of the year... Anyone else doing a non-nano-affiliated writing month in Nov? 💛

Charlotte Hayward ✨@thatchazza.bsky.social · 10mo ago

For the final day of #DVParty I'm here with the book of my heart, a romcom with a light speculative twist pitched as DO YOUR WORST x A BRUSH WITH LOVE, and featuring: 🩺An anxious med student 🗞️An ambitious journalist 🧠OCD rep 🌞Grump x sunshine 🏳️‍🌈Bi4bi pairing 🎆Fake dating in the Scottish Highlands

Woke up to an agent like 🥰 thanks for all the love and support for #DVPit yesterday, it's made me feel really excited about this book again! 💜✨

LOCKWOOD & CO x HEARTSTOPPER 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀A himbo boy with messed-up healing magic 💥A magical curse spreading through a sleepy English town 🍂Autumnal vibes 👯‍♀️Ride-or-die friendship 🥰Reluctant allies to found family 💜"You are loved exactly as you are" vibes #DVPit #YA #F #MH

Things in my LOCKWOOD & CO-esque #YA #F book that ✨just make sense✨ 🚗Vehicular manslaughter on page 1 (he gets better) 👀Crushing on the guy who (accidentally) cursed your bestie 🎃A Halloween costume contest with an 🔥explosive🔥 ending ⚔️Kisses at swordpoint 🫖Far too many cups of tea #DVPit #LGBT #MH

LOCKWOOD & CO x TOGETHER WE ROT 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀The annoyingly hot boy who accidentally cursed her friends 🔥…But who's her only hope to stop her fiery visions becoming reality 👀Oh, and he's also her first crush & first heartbreak What could go wrong? #DVPit #YA #F #LGBT #MH

RADIO SILENCE x THESE WITCHES DON'T BURN 🔮Cat has anxiety and unwanted premonitions. The last thing she needs is to: 🚗Run someone over 🔥Discover her best friend's deadly fire magic 👀Have visions of her friends being hunted for their powers ⚔️Stab the boy she likes And yet… #DVPit #YA #F #MH #LGBT

Anxious virgo girlies ftw 💖💜

Abbey ابي 🌻✨@abbeyfwilliams.bsky.social · 10mo ago

16yo Leila’s to-do list: 🔘Survive junior year 🔘Manage her OCD 🔘Avoid the treacherous jinn Also on her list: 🔘Journey to said jinn’s realm to save her sisters 🔘Kiss her (cute) magical ally 🔘Stop a vengeful ruler from wreaking havoc on the mortal realm What, like it’s hard? #DVpit #YA #F #MENA #ND

Being back on writesky and seeing everyone's amazing pitches is making me so inspired to write... Right as I'm about to have no free time for the next 2 weeks 🫠

HEART STOPPER x WHEN WE WERE MAGIC 🚗Girl meets boy (by running him over) 💕Girl falls for boy (but he has a terrifying secret) 🔥Boy tries to win girl back (but curses her friends with deadly magic) ⚔️Girl & boy team up to fix it (before her visions of fire & blood come true) #DVPit #YA #F #MH #LGBT

THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HERE x TOGETHER WE ROT Anxious 17yo Cat can see the future - just never when she wants to. But when her friends are cursed with dangerous magic, she must master her visions and reverse the curse - before her bloodsoaked premonitions become reality. #DVPit #YA #F #MH #LGBT

RADIO SILENCE x TOGETHER WE ROT 🔮An anxious girl who sees the future 🫀A chaos bi boy with messed-up healing magic 🔥The magical curse he unleashed on her friends ⏳A ticking clock to remove the curse before her visions come true 👀Some ✨unspoken feelings✨ What could go wrong? #DVPit #YA #F #MH #LGBT

it's dvpit eve and when I tell you I haven't felt this exciting about writing in a LONG while... I've missed pitch events. I've missed the writing community. It's nice to be back 💛

For the final day of #DVParty I'm here with the book of my heart, a romcom with a light speculative twist pitched as DO YOUR WORST x A BRUSH WITH LOVE, and featuring: 🩺An anxious med student 🗞️An ambitious journalist 🧠OCD rep 🌞Grump x sunshine 🏳️‍🌈Bi4bi pairing 🎆Fake dating in the Scottish Highlands

#DVParty Playlist... I came prepared for this one 💜✨