#Pretendpanel Blanket statement: Indie authors and fanfic writers. The people driven to do what they love in spite of the market.
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- @joharraharper.bsky.socialBluesky
Ideas that I couldn't get rid of. #WritingCommunity. #PretendPanel.
- @melwaverly.bsky.socialBluesky
#pretendpanel 1. My grad 12 & OAC writing teacher, 2. Other authors especially @annmcman.bsky.social @leewinteroz.bsky.social & @jenlyonauthor.bsky.social who write books I love so much 3. My wife who gifted me Jericho & inadvertently kickstarted everything 4. The MCs in my head who wont shut up!
- @september-james.bsky.socialBluesky
#PretendPanel Honestly? I read Twilight and thought I could do better. 👀 Mind you my first attempts weren't good, but now I've locked in and getting it done.
- @sptroweresq.bsky.socialBluesky
#pretendpanel In no particular order, my writing is inspired by: 🔸️Things I've read. 🔸️People who've enjoyed things I've written. 🔸️My children, whose neurospicy disabled lives deserve to be in stories. 🔸️Manic Miner. #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
- @maximejaz.bsky.socialBluesky
#pretendpanel Oh, this is hard to answer... so many inspirations... all the authors I've read, classics, indies, all the fanfics, the erotic lits... poetry and historical books, so many... but perhaps my characters are my biggest source of inspiration, the way they show me their stories.
- @woodenvelt.bsky.socialBluesky
#PretendPanel T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) inspires me in a couple of ways. I love the way she blends genre elements and includes humor in her work, but I also admire the open way she talks about her writing process and ADHD. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
- @4islesbookshop.bsky.socialBluesky
Maybe this sounds a 'lil egotistical, #PretendPanel, but I'm gonna say it anyway... Former versions of ourself. And not because they were a good writer. In fact, the exact opposite. Our former host, Chels, assumed a state of being that was a mere shell of a person. She created an identity... ⬇️
- @vampireantihero.comBluesky
#PretendPanel On an impersonal level, T. Kingfisher, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe (mostly for craft. First two for their prolific-ness) On a personal level, my indie friends. Seeing how hard they work to make their books shine and run their businesses. @allyxwood.bsky.social in particular, I -
#PretendPanel Oct 10: Truthfully? Ellen Kushner and Delish Sherman, especially in their joint work of *The Fall of the Kings* novel (part of the Riverside series). They did spicy gay/queer scholarly fantasy when so few we're doing the same.
- @thebeird.bsky.socialBluesky
My disappointment in life and 99% of the human race is my muse And self-loathing That's a big one #pretendpanel
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- @adorkablesmile.bsky.socialBluesky
#PretendPanel history. I read a lot of nonfiction, so I put a lot of that into my writing. Apart from that, other stories. Pratchett is a big one; Ann Leckie too. LeGuin, a bit. Probably Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl was a big influence early on. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
- @rachelbeth99.bsky.socialBluesky
#WritingCommunity #pretendpanel It's a LONG list... Lin-Manuel Miranda & Sara Bareilles, the melody makers. Lots of rock bands too, listening to my boys Fall Out Boy right now. Inspiring words from Stephen Sondheim and Jonathan Larson. Bonnie Friedman's Writing Past Dark...
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- @aesonique.itch.ioBluesky
G'day #pretendpanel attendees. This is an excellent question, and some of the answerd may surprise you. First off, Jules Verne. You can thank him for my love of Steampunk. Then Sir Terry, for the humour, of course. But also, Matthew Reilley. The fast paced action that reads like a movie is peak.
- @thesytuation.bsky.socialBluesky
no story. i was just good at it and liked the feeling of being good at something so i kept doing it. #pretendpanel #writing
- @pjccahill.bsky.socialBluesky
Most of my inspiration is movies, cartoons, and anime. I was exposed to reading very positively by my parents which is why I jumped to writing instead of film/animation. #pretendpanel
- @aura-olympian.bsky.socialBluesky
#authorsky #booksky #pretendpanel #writers #writing #WritingCommunity Hi. I'm Aura. I write because I will lose my mind if I do not write. Writing is in my soul, and according to my Partner, Who is right about almost all things (She knows She's not perfect and that's why I love Her), my greatest 🧵
- @aura-olympian.bsky.socialBluesky
#authorsky #booksky #pretendpanel #writers #writing #WritingCommunity For whom doth the writer scrawl? LGBTQIA+ people. Kinky people. Erotica readers. Smut readers (unofficially, for now, I have wild insecurities). Me, damn it. Not my Partner, Who has valid reasons to not read my stuff. (She has 🧵
- @thesytuation.bsky.socialBluesky
besides my wonderful friends who inspire me with their creativity, it would be Robert Howard my heart sees a lot of things through the lens of wasteland, ruin, desperate struggle, rage. he taught me that prose can be a powerful tool for reaching poetic ends #writing #pretendpanel
Life events end up being my main inspiration for the premises of most of my stories. Shadow Cursed was inspired by internal rage and frustration over microaggressions and the fact that I find the premise of a necromancer being a medical examiner amusing. Resist includes several... #pretendpanel
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