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speculative fiction writer | short stories in fusion fragment, saros, and more | querying a sapphic fantasy novel | she/her

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@thelialao

Lia Lao

7 months

AITA for trying to kill my soulmate? She murdered me in Han dynasty China Recently I (F, 21) have been having visions of the future where my reincarnated killer murders me again. AITA for trying to beat her to it? It's just self-defence... right? 👁️👄👁️ #pitlight #A #F #LGBT

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Lia Lao

2 months

toxic sapphics have the worst break up ever in han dynasty china (she slits her throat). now they’re reincarnated and ready for round 2 🥰

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2 months

Explain your book poorly. 📚

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Lia Lao

2 months

so i made a random post at 2am and apparently there are now 1.2k+ people asking for my book??? i’m 🥹😭🤍 (also if there are any agents lurking hi i’ll be done with my r&r over the next few weeks so 👀)

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Lia Lao

2 months

toxic sapphics have the worst break up ever in han dynasty china (she slits her throat). now they’re reincarnated and ready for round 2 🥰

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Lia Lao

2 years

does anyone else lowkey forget what they wrote and get shocked when they re-read it? 🥲😭 i thought my job was to emotionally traumatise the readers, but apparently i, too, am one of the readers 💀

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Lia Lao

1 month

“No matter how many times Daria died, it never hurt any less.” #1stLinePit #F #A #R

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Lia Lao

2 years

pros and cons of having a soulmate (sapphic edition): 💖you’re fated to meet each other in every lifetime! 💀she slit your throat in Han dynasty China 💀and you’re both terrible people, so now you’re obsessed with getting revenge #pitlight #A #F #R

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Lia Lao

2 years

me writing an action scene: . me writing a scene where the characters just sit in a room and have a long, angsty internal monologue: #amwriting

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Lia Lao

2 years

making an accountability thread for my current WIP! featuring: 🩸solving your own murder teehee 🗡️sapphic enemies to lovers AND best friends to lovers 🀄️chinese mythology, reincarnated soulmates, and unhinged shamans #WritingCommunity #AuthorsOfTwitter #booktwt #amwriting

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Lia Lao

1 year

putting off writing my sci-fi crazy rich asians wip until i finish editing my current novel but !!! this first line has been living in my head for months

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Miriam (mainly updates) 🐸 🍉

1 year

category is: YOUR 🫵🏻 iconic opening scene 🫵🏻

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Lia Lao

1 year

reworked the opening of my novel, and i think it's finally done!!! for good this time 🥹😭🤍

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Lia Lao

14 days

thrilled to announce my sci-fi short story "looking glass" will be forthcoming in issue 1 of saros speculative fiction, edited by @MeganJKerr !! featuring: 🏍️flying car crashes 💎sapphic nepo babies 🧠and dealing with the death of your ex-situationship through memory transplants

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Lia Lao

1 year

pitched my “sapphic soulmates (who are trying to kill each other)” book on the clock app and now almost 15k people have watched the vid and are leaving comments like “omg when is this coming out”?? what is going on 😭😭😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

CRAZY RICH ASIANS with a sapphic, sci-fi twist! featuring: 💀a dead heiress 🤖a PhD student stealing her identity using deep fakes 👓and her academic rival, who seems to recognise her despite her new skin #pitlight #A #SF

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Lia Lao

1 year

okay but what if instead of normal beta reading, you showed up to a glamourous bar with a thick, sealed envelope and slid it secretively across the table

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Lia Lao

2 years

hey #writersoftwitter ! i’m lia and i write adult sff currently revising my contemporary fantasy novel about reincarnated sapphic soulmates who are trying to kill the each other🩸🔪 aiming to start querying soon 👀

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Lia Lao

2 years

Does anyone else have a line in their wip that sounds really wholesome until you know the context??? 😭🥲 For me it's this: "You. It's always been you."

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Lia Lao

2 years

so excited to announce that my sci-fi short story "assembly line" has been accepted for publication in @FusionFragment ! it includes: 🤖an AI assistant dealing with the newer version of herself being released 💀existential dread and 🔍explorations of the "model minority" myth

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Lia Lao

1 year

introducing my short story for #pitlight ! i (19 f) escaped to another timeline because i think my home planet’s sentient forest is going to consume me whole. the only thing is i abandoned my bff in the process (i’m writing her angsty letters though) aita??? #SF #A

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Lia Lao

6 months

introducing the main character of my "reincarnated sapphic soulmates (who are trying to kill each other)" book! 🩸conniving concubine in her past life, fuckboi in her current 🗡️"stab first, think later" 💀falling for her childhood bff, detests every second of it

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@TheBiLibrary

Lily ☽☾ bisexual books enthusiast

6 months

Honestly, there aren't enough bisexual books with POC

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Lia Lao

2 years

guess i’m doing this with my “sapphic soulmates who first met in han dynasty and are trying to kill each other” wip 👀

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@chamomeriam

Miriam (mainly updates) 🐸 🍉

2 years

do this challenge with me, posting and liking both 👀 QRT w/ your book aesthetic & for every like you get, comment w/ one reason you love your WIP. A theme, scene, character, detail, fun fact, line ♥️ and check this to prompt other ppl to love their work too

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Lia Lao

2 years

any book: ok this female character is a cold bitch, she's ruthless, everyone hates her- me: this is my wife now 🥰🥰🥰

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Lia Lao

2 years

💀inspired by the question “if everyone has a soulmate, who would be the soulmate of a really terrible person?” (my answer: another really terrible person) 🀄️partially set in Han dynasty China 🥰there’s no “big bad villain” because ALL the characters are villains #wipcute

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Lia Lao

2 years

Daria Li has been murdered once. So in her current life, she’s determined not to let it happen again. The plan is simple: regain her full memories and take out her reincarnated killer. It doesn’t matter who they are. Not even if she's her soulmate. #wiplift #F #A #R

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Lia Lao

1 year

i love flirty bi rep as much as the next person, but can we pls also have more pathetic loser bi rep? like yes, theoretically they could be attracted to anyone, but they are still perpetually single bc they hate the world and have not stepped outside in months💀💀💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

do you listen to your wip playlist on repeat to mentally prepare yourself for writing certain scenes (tm) or are you normal asking for a friend😭🥲💀

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Lia Lao

10 months

haven't made a moodboard in a while, so i thought i'd join in on the trend hi everyone! i'm lia and i write adult sff featuring: 🐍the worst sapphics you will ever encounter 🗡️convoluted plot twists and 💀some form of existential dread

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10 months

Hey authors you should introduce yourselves with this moodboard prompt 🫀✨️

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Lia Lao

2 years

if you secretly posted fanfic about your wip after it got published, do you think you could get away with keeping your identity hidden? if not, what would be the thing that exposes you? i'm so curious👀👀👀

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Lia Lao

10 months

ok late to #nyepitch but is this the part where i admit that i secretly wrote another book??? this year i'll be revising my sci-fi crazy rich asians wip, feat: 💎a floating city inspired by east/southeast asia 💎sapphic academic rivals to lovers 💎and identity theft (teehee)

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Lia Lao

2 years

what's everyone working on for nanowrimo? hoping that hearing about other people's projects will motivate me to get through my first round of revisions 🥹😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

ok, so i can officially say i'm a published author??? my gothic short story "ghost"—about a romance novelist, whose lover disappears without a trace—is now out in @dietmilkmag ! 👀👻 i wrote this after an almost five-year-long hiatus, so it really means a lot 💖

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Lia Lao

2 years

CRAZY RICH ASIANS X ALTERED CARBON Celeste Yin is perfect. She’s the heir to a billion-dollar fortune and plastered all over the silver screen. There’s only one little thing: she’s dead. And with the use of deep fakes, someone else is wearing her skin. #wiplift #SF #A

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Lia Lao

2 years

hi everyone! i'm lia :)) 🩸book i'm writing: adult fantasy about sapphic soulmates who're trying to kill each other 📜book i'm reading: all the lovers in the night by mieko kawakami 🌟a favourite author: ken liu 👀book you can't wait to read: adofn by samatha shannon

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Miriam (mainly updates) 🐸 🍉

2 years

so 👉🏻👈🏻 10 thousands followers uh? that’s a lot of ya 👉🏻👈🏻 while I plan something for mid April, maybe introduce yourself with ✨book you’re writing ✨book you’re reading ✨a favorite author of yours ✨book you can’t wait to read Just wanna place names to faces ♥️

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Lia Lao

2 years

unpopular opinion: i like editing better than drafting because it's when you can start to see what you thought of in your head, start to take shape on the page 🥹😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

introducing my sapphic soulmates (who keep ruining their relationship across multiple lives) for #themday ! featuring: 💔Daria, the unhinged protagonist, who's determined to solve her past-life murder and 💀Shihan, her childhood bff, who she's spent ten years trying to forget

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Lia Lao

6 months

@lagunabayfables i think the mentality that "something is better than nothing" really helped me! if i'm exhausted, i tell myself to write for just 10 mins, and i usually find i actually want to keep writing after also treating like a sport and working up to longer sprints/writing sessions

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Lia Lao

2 years

scrolling through pitlight tweets and you guys are all SO talented - the only thing is i'm outraged i don't already have all your books on my shelf 😤😤😤😤

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Lia Lao

2 years

when my chinese teacher said "learning your mother tongue will open up doors for you in the future" i don't think meant reading sapphic webnovels online but... she was kind of right???💀💀💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

revising my "sapphic soulmates" wip for #nano ! feat: 🩸trying to kill your reincarnated soulmate 🗡️ dodgy deals with shamans 🀄️and unravelling the truth about your murder in han dynasty china goals: finish my current round of revisions & start line edits! #CampPitch

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Lia Lao

2 years

thank god for editing because it makes me find sentences like "she glanced at the clock on the ceiling" 💀💀💀 the ceiling??? that is some avant-garde interior decor going on right there

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Lia Lao

1 year

today on "unhinged writing hacks i have tried to help me finish this book" 💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

i said i would post a snippet last week but delayed it until i got distracted by pitlight - so here it is! first glimpse of the my sapphic soulmates novel's main character (after i edited and made her a fuckboi) 👀👀👀

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Lia Lao

2 years

hello it’s me??? screaming crying

@dietmilkmag

diet milk magazine🥛🪰 SUBS CLOSED

2 years

We're coming in just under the wire (these decisions weren't easy), but are happy to announce our first round of Pushcart nominations! DMM is proud to count these poets & authors amongst those published in its inaugural year—Spring, Fall, as well as our forthcoming Advent event.

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Lia Lao

2 years

everyone asked for gay first draft snippets, so here's one for #1linewed ! this is our first look at our fave sapphic soulmates in their past life (Han dynasty China)👀 i lowkey forgot how much tension they had at the start 🥹😭

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Lia Lao

1 year

so i’m meant to be revising my current wip, but instead i managed to write this 7k outline for this grungy adult urban fantasy that addresses themes of colonialism and imperialism whoops 🥹😭

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Lia Lao

1 month

wrapping up revisions so working on my 2nd novel for #WritetoberPit 👀 [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #SF #A #LGBT

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Writetoberfest ✍️✨

@writetoberfest

1 month

COUNTDOWN TO #writetoberfest2024 🍁2 DAYS UNTIL OCTOBER🍁 It’s time for #WritetoberPit ! Pitch your WIP in one tweet, just like any other pitch event! No agent participation please! Make sure to use both #WritetoberPit and #Writetoberfest2024 hashtags! ✨

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Lia Lao

2 years

i cannot believe i'm saying this, but i am DONE DRAFTING! at just under 96k, this is the first novel i've ever completed in my life there's still a lot to go, but for the first time, i feel like this is real. i'm so excited for you to one day hold this book in your hands 💖

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Lia Lao

1 year

beta readers are >>>> i haven't even gotten all my feedback yet but i can already tell that my book is going to immeasurably better because of the insightful, detailed comments they've left on my manuscript 🥹🤍

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𝕂𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕖 𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣

@kelliewallace85

1 year

What are your thoughts on alpha/beta readers? I saw a comment on here from an author saying to trust your voice and not always go with betas. I agree, but my book was crap until unbiased readers made it so much better. They're invaluable #amwriting

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Lia Lao

2 years

MY PROBLEMATIC FAVE SIDE CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTER OF ONE OF MY MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES OF THE YEAR I AM SOBBING CONVULSING I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL 😭😭😭😭😭

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Lia Lao

1 year

controversial opinion: the only thing better than the found family trope is watching it inevitably fall apart as the author unalives them one by one 👀💀

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Lia Lao

1 year

what are everyone’s fave resources for writing a synopsis? struggling to condense my 98k long novel into one page 💀💀💀

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Lia Lao

1 year

thought i'd do this with the first line of my recently published sci-fi short story! 👀

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Miriam (mainly updates) 🐸 🍉

1 year

turning yesterday MBB controversy into the most classic of prompts show your top-notch first line 👀🔪

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Lia Lao

2 years

this is very late but for #FinishUrBookFall i'm aiming to complete the first draft + a couple of edit rounds for my reincarnated sapphic soulmates with a side serving of ✨✨murder✨✨ wip!

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Lia Lao

2 years

been a while since i did a #1linewed , so i thought i'd share a snippet from "ghost", my recently published short story ( @dietmilkmag )!👻 fun fact: i almost got rid of this line, but my friends convinced me to keep it in. now it's probably one of my faves in the piece 👀

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Lia Lao

2 years

the worst thing about writing an angsty novel is you'll go "oh, i'm so glad i'm done with that traumatic scene" only to realise you have 10 more chapters of pain left to edit 🥲💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

also look at what i found it the airport???? this day keeps on giving 😭🥹🤍

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Lia Lao

2 years

if anyone ever asks me why so many of my characters are rich, it's because i want the setting to be ✨✨aesthetic✨✨so the funds for home decor need to be high

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Lia Lao

2 years

couldn't be bothered going through my entire manuscript to find snippets, so here's the opening of my sapphic soulmates wip! 👀 tagging @itsvictoriaxie , @li_liannz , @ellierwriter and @julibee_irl (but also no pressure to do this lol)

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Lia Lao

2 years

is anyone doing camp nano?? if so, what are we all working on 👀👀👀

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Lia Lao

2 years

ok but i am lowkey screaming because i set my current wip in the eastern han dynasty, but apparently wei jin dynasty hanfu looked like this??? look at the little ruffles at the sleeves i am convulsing as we spEAK 😭😭😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

since it’s NY just wanted to say: so grateful for everyone i’ve met here last year, i had ONE irl writing friend and was terrified of sharing my work. now i’m almost ready to start querying and have met so many incredible people in the process 🥹😭🤍 i love you all

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Lia Lao

1 year

me making my novel gayer and more traumatic with each revisions: 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Lia Lao

2 years

i realised last week i've been mostly posting sapphic longing (whoops) so here's a slightly ominous snippet instead for #1linewed !👻👻👻

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Lia Lao

2 years

#WritingCommunity when do you seek out beta readers? i've always been very perfectionistic and only sent it out to people after line edits but am considering other options for my current wip 👀👀👀

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Lia Lao

2 years

that moment when you realise your dark sci-fi novel is set in futuristic east/south-east asia so it's highly plausible that your characters could go to a party hosted by someone named "jackson wang", hence making it part of the wattpad cinematic universe- 👀💀😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

for #OctOutline i'll be working on my CRAZY RICH ASIANS x ALTERED CARBON adult sci-fi novel! it includes: 🦾a futuristic floating city, inspired by East/South-East Asia 👥a PhD student, impersonating a dead heiress with deep fakes, and 💜sapphic academic rivals to lovers

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Lia Lao

2 years

“Tell me a story I’ve never heard before. One that I’ll never forget.” 👀

@chamomeriam

Miriam (mainly updates) 🐸 🍉

2 years

First line yesterday, last line today! Share the last line (and only that line, redact as you see fit) of spoken dialogue (either of the book as whole or that you’ve written 👀♥️)

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Lia Lao

2 years

going through my own editing comments on my manuscript is just seeing: "almost there not quite" and "make better" 10000 times 💀💀💀 at least it's satisfying when i finally resolve them? 😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

unhinged writing tips: in case you’re feeling unmotivated for revisions, pretend you’re a picky reader writing “fix it” fanfic of your favourite book. idk why it’s working but i’m getting so much more done 😭🥹🥲

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Lia Lao

2 years

reading my draft while editing and i think i’m getting to the stage where it doesn’t make me want to claw my eyes out???? what is this 😭😭😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

woman takes over two thousands years to get over ex who slit her throat 💀

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2 years

🌱poorly explain the plot to ur story

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2 years

all the female love interests in my books would stab you in your sleep and all the male love interests are just simps is this something i should re-examine help 🥹 🥲

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Lia Lao

2 years

am i finishing this manuscript, or is this manuscript finishing me? nine out of ten will get this wrong 💀💀💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

me: ok so this round of edits, i'm only going to revise the plot the plot: me writing a paragraph long description about how hot the ghost who's trying to kill the main character is, describing the embroidery on his hanfu- 💀💀💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

do you ever read your revisions notes and go ???? "explain that she had never known this before" WHAT IS "THIS" PLEASE PAST ME I HAVE NO IDEA 💀💀💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

i’m planning the concept of my third mystery wip and i’m already considering following my trend of killing of at least one major character by the end of the book i’m- 💀💀💀

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Lia Lao

2 years

never thought i'd say this but i'm now afraid that my current wip will surpass 100k? what do i do??? i have 10 chapters left to write and i'm already at 75k 🥲🥲🥲

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Lia Lao

2 years

the sexual tension between me and the urge to start editing my WIP before the first draft is even done 🥵💦

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Lia Lao

1 year

everyone pls pre-order "he who drowned the world" by @shelleypchan i am so serious!!! finished my copy over a week ago and i'm STILL thinking about it 🥲🥲🥲this book gutted me from the inside out, i am nothing but a shivering husk of a human, i-

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Lia Lao

2 years

posting a quote from an older short for #1linewed ! this one is about a woman who realises her favourite Renaissance statue is actually sentient and trying to break free 👀🗿 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #booktwt

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Lia Lao

1 year

"SAPPHIC SOULMATES WHO ARE TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER" WIP IS FINALLY DONE AFTER ONE YEAR I'M SCREAMING AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Lia Lao

2 years

ok so just started reading "babel" by r.f. kuang and is nobody going to talk about the tension between robin and ramy because 👀👀👀

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Lia Lao

2 years

ok so the whole "writing in comic sans" trick is doing wonders for me during revisions??? if you haven't tried already would highly rec 👀💯

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Lia Lao

2 years

ever since i started taking writing seriously, my respect for ao3 writers has only grown. here i am fighting for my life to finish my novel, while they're pulling out 100k like it's nothing??? truly iconic 😭🥹💙

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Lia Lao

2 years

the bad thing about having multiple wips is having to hold back and not start writing your second novel before you've finished editing your first ASDKFJASDF the struggle is real 😭😭😭

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Lia Lao

1 year

bringing this back for #campnano ! pros and cons of having a (sapphic) soulmate: 💖you’re fated to meet each other in every lifetime! 💀she slit your throat in Han dynasty China 💀you're both terrible people and now you're obsessed with getting revenge goal: finish line edits

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Lia Lao

2 years

i hate rewriting chapters but also the new version is so much stronger idk whether to feel salty or satisfied what do i do 🥹 🥲 😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

#WritingCommunity has anyone else noticed (unintended) recurring elements in their work? for my longer WIPs they would be: 💔 midpoint plot twists 👻 everyone being morally grey 💀 character death (but not in the way you'd expect)

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Lia Lao

1 year

ok but what if i wrote a dark fantasy novel but made the main character so girlypop and raquelle from barbie dream house coded... what then? 😤😤😤

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Lia Lao

2 years

is it too evil to write a cute fluffy scene right before the emotionally damaging plot twist to ensure max ✨✨ suffering✨✨? asking for a friend #amwriting

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Lia Lao

2 years

i swear with each editing round i give my characters more and more trauma whoops 🥲🥹😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

trying to be more comfortable with sharing WIP snippets, so here's a quote from my "sapphic soulmates with a side serving of murder" novel for #1linewed ! 🗡️💖 #WritingCommunity #amwriting #booktwt

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Lia Lao

4 months

i am going to become INSUFFERABLE when this comes out 😤😤😤

@tithenai

Amal El-Mohtar

4 months

Hey pals guess what I have a new book coming out in March 2025 & it's about sisters & ballads & grammar as magic & you can pre-order it wherever you get your books probably* *idk where you get books, if it's from that weird place under a bush maybe pre-orders don't apply

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Lia Lao

2 years

everyone complains about booktok recs but to this day, sapphic sff booktok has literally never let me down in this essay i will- 😤😤😤

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Lia Lao

2 years

it's aesthetic day for #FinishUrBookFall so here's mine for my sapphic reincarnated enemies to lovers wip! 🔪💕👻 hoping to complete the first draft by the end of the month

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Lia Lao

2 years

#WritingCommunity is your favourite character in your WIP the main character? for me, it somehow always ends up being the unhinged side character 😭😭😭

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Lia Lao

2 years

just a reminder for nanowrimo: word count isn't everything. just because you aren't writing as much as others, doesn't mean you're not progressing. last year i spent 6 months rewriting the same 1.6k words - and i learnt SO much in the process. you're not "behind", i promise 🌸

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Lia Lao

2 years

me: AHHHHHH i feel so bad for my characters i can't believe what i put them through it's too much— them: so... you're going to change the plot right? me: 🥰🥰🥰

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Lia Lao

1 year

me realising that i'll have to get rid of gay scenes to fit under 100k: 😤😤😤😤 me realising i'm replacing them with even gayer scenes: 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Lia Lao

2 years

every novel i outline is now turning into a duology help what do i do 🥲😭

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Lia Lao

11 days

so excited to feature in saros #1 (with all these other incredible writers)! also look at this stunning cover?? 🥹

@FusionFragment

Fusion Fragment

@FusionFragment

11 days

You know all about FFers, but now I'm happy to announce our very first batch of Sarosians! Featured in Saros #1 , are @thelialao , @timjmajor , @TheSuiWay , and Lulu Xu, with a cover by Barbara Candiotti! Issue #1 , edited by @MeganJKerr , arrives in January!

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