Stephanie Winter

@wintersleep85.bsky.social

Fantasy and historical fiction writer. She/they. Millennial. Bi. Anti AI. https://stephaniewinterwrites.blogspot.com

#MythAugust The First Ones prioritize protecting nature and magic. Anything that would corrupt it is seen as immoral. That is all anyone knows about them. They consider murder or human sacrifice immoral, since it is destroying life. (1/2)

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 3d ago

#MythAugust 3 What kind of moral code do your fantasy gods or spirits follow, if any? Do they share similar moral values to the people, or is their sense of morality completely alien? Do they even do "morality" at all? As usual, interpret as you wish and don't forget to interact with others! ☺️

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 3:
How does your deities' sense of morality align with that of people? I.e. are they moral, immoral, amoral, a mix...?

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Hana would need someone to write her memoirs for her. Her cousin Keri would write it for her. And Hana would spend the entire time seeing everything in a romantic way, while Keri reminds her what really happened. It would never get finished. (1/3)

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your character is writing their memoirs! How honest are they being? Are they playing up their heroism and the drama? Are they leaving anything out? Why? What tone will it have? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I’m now just 34 sales away from 100!! This story’s been out a year and I’d love to finally hit this milestone! 🥰 If you like epic fantasy novellas with magic and romance, maybe check it out! I would really love to get this book into more hands 🫶 [ #booksky ]

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Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d ago

🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🌲 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded by red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.

Please hate gen AI even harder. You can do it. I believe in you. Do it for the planet. Hate the lazy, slop producing, environment killing, water draining, participation trophy seeking, poser creating, loser machine. Do it for humanity.

#MythAugust Since the gods have abandoned the world, there isn’t a lot known about them. The individual names were forgotten. People know them as the First Ones. They also have a darker counterpart known as the Dark Ones.

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 4d ago

#MythAugust Day 2 Tell us about the major god(s) or spirit(s) in your fantasy religion! This is meant to be a broad overview - we'll have focused questions for specific gods later! Feel free to interpret the question as loosely as you need to if you aren't working with a traditional pantheon 😁

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 2:
Who are the major gods or spirits in your fantasy religion? List as many or as few as you want!

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Unfortunately, Hana is super sensitive. Critique devastates her. She is also stubborn and will ignore criticism if she is convinced that she is right. It will eat away at her, though.

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters How well does your character handle criticism? Are they easily insulted? Does their confidence suffer from a critique? Do they ignore or shrug it off entirely? Do they learn from it? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Hana has left behind her father, stepfather, and extended family. She was always planning to be away from them since she was looking for work in the city, but she didn’t realize she would be running off on an adventure to save the world. (1/2)

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters We talked about reunions the other day, so today let's talk about the opposite: partings! Have your characters left someone significant behind? Do they hope to see them again, or know they never will? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#MythAugust It’s a polytheistic religion. The deities are the First Ones, but no one is quite positive if they started as gods or ascended. Individual gods aren’t remembered. The current religion believes that the First Ones started as gods. (1/3)

🫜Prof Emily🫜@professoremily.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hello #writingcommunity, welcome to Day 1 of #MythAugust! This is a worldbuilding game about ✨fantasy✨ gods, myths & religions! You can use the prompts to build up your gods, or yap about some you've already made! Today, give us a BRIEF intro (not too detailed!), & please interact with others ☺️❤️

#MythAugust prompt for Aug 1:
Introduce your fantasy religion! Is it monotheistic (1 god), polytheistic (many gods), or something else?

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time travel back to August 1st 2010 with me, when I started writing Soulmates Saga 1 the idea didn’t come in a dream but the MMC came to me in that hazy moment between sleep and wakefulness #writesky blog on writing & publishing my contemporary #romancebooks: nehayazmin.medium.com/the-story-be...

The Story Behind My Debut Novel

My debut self-published novel, Every Little Piece of You (Soulmates Saga, Book 1), sprang to life from this bizarre vision I woke up with…

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HANA! She is a sweetie and someone would have to be evil to crush her. She sees the best in everyone, would do anything for her friends, and had an innate kindness. She is literally too sweet for a dark fantasy world.

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 5d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Welcome to the Intermittent Character Award Ceremonies!👏 Amongst all your characters, who gets the superlative? Today's award goes to: The Sweetest! Who's your cinnamon roll? Please award them! 🥇 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Over ten years ago, I rewrote a paranormal story I started when I was seventeen. It ended up a series that is nearly 500k words. No one has ever seen it. It’s dark. Finished during a sad period of my life. I don’t know if I’ll ever share it with anyone.

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