🏔️ An island in the sky.
🌸 A girl cursed to die at 17.
🫘 A boy from the Land Below.
FINALLY sent off agent revisions for poppies so here's some art by @/Kf1n3 I've been sitting on for months!! no I def don't sporadically look at this and start crying, why do u ask??
real people can't queerbait!!!!!! no one owes you an iota of information about their sexuality or private life or literally fucking anything personal about them!!!!!
i wish more magic systems would introduce costs/limitations to using magic other than "fainted" because it's been done a million times and if not done well ends up being used arbitrarily in service of plot
making ur characters kiss is all fun and games and serotonin boosts until ur like WAIT if this is published my FIANCE will read it and ask "is this how u want me to kiss you." my MOTHER will read it and ask "is this how THAT MAN WHOM I DESPISE AND IS UNWORTHY OF YOU kisses you."
LMAO you will never hear about a BIPOC author getting this amount of babying, instead it's rejections over stuff like "the opening chapters need some work"
after three failed attempts in the four years since having this book idea, I've finally finished BLOOD RED POPPIES 😭 she's thicc at 126.7k but I love her. this story gave me endless self doubt and it's so fitting that it's also the one to reignite my confidence 🌸🔥
💖💜💙 unpublished yet but BLOOD RED POPPIES, my YA fantasy, features studio ghibli-esque atmosphere, layers upon layers of hidden histories, and a star-crossed bi for bi main pairing 💖💜💙
(art by the amazing @/Kf1n3)
I am kindly asking authors to please mention if their book has a bisexual main character. It certainly helps find interested readers who are looking for books with bisexual main characters
I don’t understand writers who steal ideas because how can you EVER show anyone that work and call it YOURS. how do you not shrivel away with shame. it doesn't matter if the execution is different bc books are rejected ALL THE TIME if a similar premise has been published.
Hi friends!! I'm so happy to announce that I'm represented by the amazing
@bradfordlit
and am so excited to embark on the next stage of my writing journey with her!
Thank you so much to
#PitchWars
and the two best mentors I could have asked for,
@jessicavitalis
and
@julieartz
!
when the imposter syndrome & pressure of not being agented/published/etc feels insurmountable—I remind myself to look outside the writing twitter bubble. most of us write with a full-time job!! while taking care of family!! when we just want to sleep!! we already do SO MUCH ok
this is so biphobic. the risk of someone cheating on you has nothing to do with their sexuality. this isn't middle school math lmao the chances of someone cheating doesn't increase with the amount of people they're potentially attracted to
some real talk...being a writer with a full time job is so draining. 8-5 + so much extra for night shifts/presentations/research. some days I imagine feeling like I'm being pulled in two for YEARS, maybe decades, before I have the leisure of working part time and it's terrifying
one weird little author dream of mine is to do annotated copy giveaways. imagine highlighting my fave lines, pointing out lines that never changed from draft 1, doodling in the margins, printing out spotify barcodes for specific scenes, adding stickers...
hi
#writersoftwitter
! I'm Tiffany, a Taiwanese writer and photography hobbyist. I'm a plotter/outliner, a notion & scrivener user, and like writing stories with a studio ghibli vibe! I'm working on a YA fantasy about an island in the sky & the connections between souls 🌸
haven't posted about writing in forever but I just finished draft 3 of:
🗡 SONG OF ACHILLES x SIX DEATHS OF THE SAINT in an epistolary sapphic retelling of the life and death of a notorious Chinese general 🖤
I'm obsessed with this short and hope to share it with you all soon!
💀GIDEON THE NINTH x SCHOLOMANCE🖤
Introducing for
#WIPlift
: a necromancy academy murder mystery set in a city insp by the history of gangs & colonialism in taiwan—but the real mystery is why everyone refuses to stay dead
Hoping to plot this for
#FinishUrBookFall
!
#A
#F
#HR
writers with the financial freedom to write full time are so lucky like I'm basically working 24/7 and spend every day wondering whether i'm wasting your life on something that'll never sell. actually, considering art commissions I'm losing money with every book I write!!
GIDEON THE NINTH x ALL THE CROOKED SAINTS
In a city where the dead stay warm, a necromancer's search for her lost sister is interrupted by a series of murders — and unmurders.
💀 magic as science vs magic as faith
🖤 rivals to lovers to ??
💀 taiwanese traditions
#PitLight
#A
if any editors are looking for a story with:
⛰️ a studio ghibli-esque island in the sky
🌸 a girl cursed to die at 17
🫘 a boy from the land below
ft: bi m/f, soul mates, cursed kisses, & hidden histories
feel free to hit up my agent 🫶🏼
revisions need to go wayyy beyond the surface. that scene sequence you've been clinging to since your first draft? you thought it up in a caffeine fueled haze. don't cling to it. I promise you'll forget it once you write something better.
🏔️ An island in the sky.
🌸 A girl cursed to die at 17.
🫘 A boy from the Land Below.
Poppies is about:
✨ the souls that leave marks on us
✨ our pasts forming our presents
✨ beauty in terror & terror in beauty
Starting draft 5 soon—here’s an accountability thread!
#PitLight
how fucking evil do you have to be to bomb a hospital of injured and grieving people. of medical personnel working in horrific conditions. how can anyone still think this is "defense" or a "just" retaliation.
Breaking: Israel has again ordered staff at the Kuwaiti hospital in Gaza to abandon their patients or face the consequences.
"We will not leave the hospital–except to heaven," said the hospital director.
Sirens blare to show the doctors haven't left.
Yoooo isn't
#poppywip
, my japan-inspired magical floating island (where everyone is cursed to live in endless time-loops of their own lives) PERFECT for this week's
#thursdayaesthetic
RAINBOW theme??
(yeah I spent WAY more time on this than I should have)
can't write it for a while yet but TEMPORARY MURDERS is:
💀 GIDEON THE NINTH x SCHOLOMANCE
🖤 insp by taiwanese colonization history & gangs
💀 a necromancer academy
🖤 vengeance girlies
💀 wlw rivals to lovers
🖤 murder victims that refuse! to! stay! dead!
#pitlight
#A
#F
#H
working on a book you've read at least 30 times is so weird because objectivity goes down the drain. nothing is surprising anymore. is the world-building too opaque? too on the nose? no idea! are the characters lovable? next question! in short, send help.
recently my fiance showed me a text he sent to a friend roughly 4 months after we met that said: "well if i don't end up marrying this girl, i will consider my life to have been a failure"
it's so unbelievably stupid that I met someone this year who made me immediately understand what every fucking rom com is about. like sometimes you just meet someone and you're like oh haha okay I'm gonna be in love with you for the rest of my life. like what the fuck is that
what i love about
#PitLight
is being free of industry pressure means EVERYONE can participate with any wip: unfinished wips, self pub authors, agented authors... it's just a happy day where we can all be positive instead of comparing ourselves to each other and make new friends
this is a very poor take. people have jobs and lives and also need to take breaks. and I'm saying this as the type of writer who, when deep in revisions, will write for hours every day. but that has nothing to do with commitment or passion, it's just what works for me
STRANGER THINGS x IT
An earthquake hits Taipei, sending four teens & the convenience store they're in into a horror dimension fueled by human fears, ft:
🧍🏻♀️asian parent trauma
📚the taiwanese education system WILL ruin you
👁 eldritch monsters with soft voices
#pitlight
#YA
#H
another day of waking up to the wildest twt drama and wondering how on earth do people have the energy to write AND maintain multiple profiles AND bully other writers meanwhile I'm struggling just to survive 😭
new ink 🌺 for hope, remembrance, and duality
it's been 3+ years since my last tattoo. i was desperate and unsure of life then, and i love how this tattoo has come at a time when i finally feel sure of myself and my words
(by @/flower.and.nina on ig)
I started interview with the vampire today and jacob anderson was truly acting like his LIFE depended on it like his confession to the priest had me watching with a dropped jaw
I impulse bought this dress online to wear to my friend's wedding and if ends up being a sham I'm going to lose the will to even go like PLEASE be the real deal 😭
also the model....A++++ am in love
Guys I'm a
#pitchwars
'18 mentee!! Thanks so much to
@jessicavitalis
and
@julieartz
for taking on my lil dragon book!!
*is confused by how I'm both 100% scared and 100% excited at the thought of receiving my edit letter*
#poppieswip
is the love of my life and the bane of my existence. I've tried writing this story so many times, but at 46k I finally feel like I'm ready to tell this story—of a girl cursed to die at seventeen, and the boy who crash lands on her floating island
#wiplift
did some archery (I did better than him and he was very gracious about it), talked for 8 hours, got drinks, he shockingly ate two unpeeled shrimps head to tail, 3+ years later we're engaged
@rlynn_solomon
My dad was absolutely shocked that more editing would be needed after getting a book deal. "How can you possibly do SO much editing???" he asked and really dad, I wonder the same
I wish we could have empathy for one another.
writers, agents and editors ALL want to make a livelihood from creativity. we are ALL laboring under the requirements of publishing houses—THAT is the root of our grievances. devaluing each other does not help.
to quote thg:
I don’t have the time or brain capacity right now but I CANNOT WAIT until I can write my adult fantasy necromancer story:
GIDEON THE NINTH x JADE CITY ft taiwanese gangs and inspired by our history of colonialism!!!
two book major deal allowing me to vanish from my day job in a puff of smoke and 2 middle fingers. miyazaki makes an adaptation of my book. I'm set for life. I spend the rest of my days in a mountain cottage with my fiance and 2 cats and a dog and we have breakfast twice a day
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that currently Google is training AI on "publicly accessible" data. Stuff in Google docs is not public, though of course the policy might change and there's always the problem of whether to trust Google or not.
Hey y’all. Take all your shit off google docs. All of it. They’re scraping it and training AI on it. Don’t share documents via gmail either. Put it all on a drive.
And yes, you agreed to it on the terms of service years ago.
I TORE through Iron Widow and if you haven't read this you 100% should. Furiously feminist, deliciously vengeful, and I love how it's full of easter eggs for Chinese speakers & those who know Chinese history. Thank you
@XiranJayZhao
for this book I didn't know I needed so much 😭
this is 30!
my early 20s were a muddle of poor self confidence and worse fashion sense, while my late 20s were when I finally felt like I grew into myself & my writing—hoping that my 30s continues the trend and it's upward from here
I've peaked. This is the pinnacle of my existence I will never look better than I did today. Also by some witchcraft I've turned from 5'6" to 6 feet tall in the second picture.
🌸 poppies is about 🌸
🪷 a girl cursed to die at 17
🌨 a boy who fell from the sky
🕯 connections that transcend death and time and space
sharing new art by the immensely talented
@joleanart
and aiming to finish this (hopefully final dev) revision during camp nano!
#writercare
AT 66 K I HAVE COMPLETED THE MIDPOINT OF POPPIES. I thought I'd have finished drafting this book three years ago but I'm just SO EXCITED (and terrified tbh) to write on bc in all past attempts I've never gotten this far
celebratory aesthetic??? hell yes.
#poppieswip
is the love of my life and the bane of my existence. I've tried writing this story so many times, but at 46k I finally feel like I'm ready to tell this story—of a girl cursed to die at seventeen, and the boy who crash lands on her floating island
#wiplift
every day I cry thinking about the hospitals in gaza. no power. no anesthesia. no clean water. no morphine. murder goes beyond bombings. it's starvation, cholera, septic wounds, inability to access chronic medication and cancer care. 4 hour pauses can't fix this
🌊THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA x THE RAVEN CYCLE💙
A girl cursed to die.
A boy who fell from the sky.
Poppies wip features:
✨ East Asian insp island in the sky
✨ Reincarnation
✨ Star-crossed bisexual m/f
✨ Kisses that kill
✨ Forgotten histories
#WIPlift
#YA
#F
Writing used to be so lonely. Typing in corners of uni & hiding my screen from family & classmates, feeling like a weirdo. Now I'm so grateful to have friends to exchange encouragement & sprint with at odd times + a boyfriend who wants to do writing challenges together 🥹
family mart wip for
#camppitch
:
👻THE MIST x STRANGER THINGS
🏪4 teens trapped in a horror dimension family mart
💁🏻♀️so much asian parent trauma
🔦fears feed their surroundings
🕷️an eldrich horror w/ a childish voice
hoping to have this plotted & ready to draft during camp nano!
🌊 THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA x CASTLE IN THE SKY 🌊
When a boy from the Land Below crash lands on Hanna's island in the sky, he might be her salvation from her curse of dying at 17 in every one of her lives—or the cause of her next death.
#LuckyPit
#PopUpPit
#PopUpPitE
poppies revision progress thread?? poppies revision progress thread!!
I have 64 scenes to edit, a (self-imposed) deadline of sep 30, and am full of fear and trepidation let's goooooo
(center art by @/kelseyjbeckett on insta)
I'm the type of writer who line edits multiple times each draft (after each scene, after each act, and a finally the whole book), so here's how I approach line edits + how condense wording as an over-writer!
celebrating valentines + finishing poppies draft 4 (!!) with this INCREDIBLE art by
@lykoiii
, who captured my children so well 🥹
"I stare up at this boy who melts my anger with his voice and my self-hatred with his warmth, who cups my face as if holding my heart in his hands."
#nyepitch
in 2024 I'm going to work on necromancer wip:
🖤 BABEL x JADE CITY
🖤 taiwanese history insp: japanese colonization, white terror, and gangs
🖤 f/f rivals to lovers
🖤 professors getting murdered...
🖤 and refusing to stay dead
once again risking it all on an Instagram ad please please turn out good idk when I would even wear you but I’m stressed and wanted to buy something pretty
I've ventured into the world of digital art. Say hello to baby elephant (left), my greatest achievement in all of August. Baby elephant (right) will come to life soon.
love seeing an agent reply to a Chinese FB post decrying YA's "cancel culture" and how "straight yt boys no longer see themselves represented" by saying this is why she's stepped away from representing YA 🤡 rly thought ppl wouldn't see bc the post is TW based huh
some new followers, new hair, new nails...new profile pic 😜
hi new friends! I'm Tiffany & my ultimate dream is to have studio ghibli adapt my novels one day. I figured out how to remote control my camera & will become insufferable henceforth. Yes, I do have extremely long arms.
writing was v lonely before Twitter and even though it's become weird and stressful in lots of ways I'm still so grateful for the camaraderie and friendships and encouragement I've found here and will be very sad if the community here comes to an end
watching BBC merlin for the 1st time and I love how arthur is so incredibly oblivious. "U need strength and magic in your quest" and merlin shows up with gwaine who's clearly strength and arthur is like "ho hum no idea who magic is referring to, a mystery!" what a himbo