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[aalinaaaaaa]

WIP Wednesday Thursday

thanks to @lizardperson for the tag! :D

This snippet is coming out of Chapter Two of A Healing for the Birds (here's the first one if anyone's curious 👀)

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Alycja stood near the foot of the queue, reciting spells in her head. Peers in front and behind her waited as she did, on the cusp of doing the rites which would earn them their first runes. She twisted her mother’s syrchel in hand. To both sides of her sat the crowd in pews, whispering amongst themselves. On the right, her family took the front-most pew, her best friend and her father there too. Torches flickered alongside the ends of the pews, leading towards the grand flame upon the altar. She remembered the day of her sister’s ceremony, where she gradually snuffed all the flames as she moved up the queue, reigniting them when she made the stage. Alycja muttered a prayer for her own spell to work.

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Here's an open tag, plus tags for @traderotales @forthesanityofstorytellers @crimsonshadetress @winterandwords @themightytej @alintalzin and @oh-no-another-idea

[ettawritesnstudies]

In case you're not familiar with Human Voices Only, it's an event that happens every year over on IG where audiobook narrators team up with indie authors to read snippets from our books to protest AI narration in the audiobook industry! I've been working with BooksAndBalanceNarrates for several years and she always does a great job! Go check out her work! I loved how this excerpt turned out!

[gaslightwestern]

Writing Update: July 2026

Even with 5 days with no writing, I soared past my original 10K word count goal, ending June with 12,550. Full details below the cut.

Can't really argue with the results. Saying to hell with perfectionism and avoiding revising while drafting* allowed me to hit that number. I will continue to write the first draft of Hell's Half Acre in this manner but the goal will change depending on what's going on at work that month.

* There was some revision. I realized part of Charlotte's chapter would be better from Elijah's POV. Since this would change how Chapter 5 unfolded, I had to rework it. I didn't start a new document every session but when a scene was completed, I moved it over to a separate "Act One" document. Since writing was going well, I didn't engage heavily with sprints or body doubling.

My goal for July? Write 7K.

How's your summer going? What are your writing goals for July?

Happy Canada Day!

HHA Taglist: @cirianne, @jacqueswriteblrlibrary, @thelaughingstag, @shouldyouwakethewriteblr, @mauvecatfic, @gioia-writes-and-others, @winterandwords

[transman-badass]

Please don't melt, we have things to do

Wrapping up last month and planning for this month

New email out to subscribers. It's free so if you wanna hear me ramble about stuff I can't figure out how to talk about coherently on the blog, you should sign up. Or something.

[transman-badass]

Cozy fantasy romance WIP is going Directions

[reneesbooks]

heads up seven up

from my morbo @oh-no-another-idea <3 here’s a little snippet of a scene from chapter 4, the witch trials :)

the raedoran cycle

He is burning. He screams, writhing against the hands that hold him down. Burning, burning, burning—

His mother was laying on the floor, her neck bent at a strange angle. His father was in one of their dining chairs, tied in place with his throat slit and bruises all over his face. Keelan lifted the sword in his hands as the raiders turned sluggishly to him.

“What the fuck—” he heard one say before the sword bit into his neck.

“Can’t you do something about the pain?” Maura’s voice demands, thick with tears.

“Princess, it may be kinder to—”

“Suggest that to me again and I’ll have your tongue.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

tagging @lena-rambles @space-writes @akindofmagictoo @memento-morri-writes and anybody else who sees this and wants to join in :)

[reneesbooks]

wip whensday

ok i’ll admit i’ve been putting off my return to tumblr bc i haven’t actually written anything in weeks but i’m hoping to change that now that it’s summer and i’m running out of things in my apartment to clean. anyways tag from the lovely @willtheweaver <3

the raedoran cycle

He waits there for hours, until he can hear the bells tolling red moonrise. Finally, Maura opens the door.

“Keys,” she says, her voice cracked and hoarse. She’s been crying for a long time. “What are you doing here?”

He bows. “Waiting for you, my princess.”

He sees her knuckles whiten around the door handle. “You are dismissed.”

“I have arranged for a funeral tomorrow and informed the people,” he says, without moving. “Is there anything else that you need from me?”

“No. You are dismissed.”

He still doesn’t move. “Will you go to bed, then?”

“It is not your concern,” she snaps. “I do not wish to dismiss you yet again.”

“Very well, my princess.” He bows one last time. “Until tomorrow.”

He lays awake the whole night, staring at the ceiling and replaying her expression in his mind—broken, angry, hurting. It’s been years since he’s seen much else in her face, years since he heard her laugh with any real mirth. Sometimes he thinks Levi killed the whole royal family that night, destroyed every single one of them whether he meant to or not.

tagging some beloveds @oh-no-another-idea @memento-morri-writes @space-writes @avrablake and anybody else who sees this that i’ve forgotten!