Isaac X Isaac

Here’s why you shouldn’t pull your punches as a writer:

A big part of the appeal of a book is how dedicated the author is to their idea.

That crackling energy only comes from compulsion, the true driver of creativity.

Restrain it at your own peril.

What was the ‘Personal Rule?’

Boy with basket containing a masterful assortment of bread that he is not eager to share with you. By Evaristo Baschenis, 1650s.

Image of Pride's Purge 1648

Did you know #OnThisDay in 1648, there was a military coup in England? Known as Pride’s Purge, soldiers from the New Modelled Army excluded moderate MPs from Parliament, leaving more radical MPs to take action against Charles I, leading to his trial and execution in January 1649.
#EnglishCivilWar

Our own @eliwoodsgheist.com will be publishing BLUDEYE BEACH as the Hook & Quill Press launch title; keep an Eye out for more details! 👁️

#hqpress #writingcommunity

“Are you still for me, after all that?” “Is that not what I’ve told you from the beginning?”

I think this is the most pure love moment in the book. It's too spoiler for me to share much so I will give just the key lines:

Others said it but I say it too. Beautiful 😭

Cats = love is such a great thesis. 😻

The last #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity I'm posting for #Lovember!!

Share a snip having to do with love!

Whatever kind of love you want to share a passage about! Romantic love, sure! Friendship, familial love, philosophy, fealty, sensory delight; whatever YOU love.

I love the community of writers on here, without whom I'd never have been able to finish my book. So I got too many to callout. 🥺

So let me share 3 other accounts that bring me joy:
@musicnotation.bsky.social for laughs
@rosemarymosco.com's comics
and @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social's art. 💕

I planned to do one #Lovember #WritingPrompt every day for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity, but I missed 2, so! Today let's ask:

Are there 3 accounts on here that you love? 🥰
Peer writers, mentors, prompts—memes, jokes, fandom, anything that you adore!

For me I think it all the classic xenofiction works: Watership Down, etc. I still love this genre, and it also has nothing to do with 17th century swashbucklers. 🤣

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Is there a book or writer you love who has NOT really inspired anything in your current work(s) and/or whose oeuvre doesn't really have anything to do with your current focus?
An eclectic love of yours?

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What's something (or someone!?) your character loves that no one expects of them, and/or was a surprise to you or your readers?

I may in fact have been thinking specifically of Jason

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What's something (someone!?) your character(s) love that nobody else around them does?

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Would your character(s) still fall for their first love(s)?
If it doesn't make sense to answer for romantic love, you can talk about some other sort of "first love".

2/2 Two more beauties from the 1660s (one of them armed!) by Jan Mytens.

the reason "said" doesn't feel repetitive is because it's so commonly used, so if you have a favourite dialogue tag just make sure you use the same verb every time someone speaks and no one will notice

Though I myself probably won't be doing the pitch event this time (I've been having A Month, goodness gracious) I do love them, especially the hype/networking events, because I've gotten to find all sorts of cool people through them!

Tomorrow is #WIPPit!

So for today's #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity, I'd like to ask:

What writerly activities do you love on BlueSky?
Pitch events, prompt games like these, bingo, meme chains? Just following others and seeing what cool things they do?

Today's #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity, courtesy of my partner who always has better ideas than I do:

What does love taste, smell, or feel like to your character(s)?

Just looking wistfully out over the landscape: a piebald horse in 1654, painted by Paulus Potter. Today was his 400th birthday.

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Is there a way of showing love that your character is particularly good at? 💕

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Have you memorialized a loved one in your fiction? Or used them as inspiration or inserted a reference to someone from your life whom you love somewhere in your work?

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

Do you (or your characters, if you don't see yourself as making assertions) say something offbeat, unusual, or even controversial about love in your story?

Should I ask this one? 😅

Today's #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity, maybe related to an earlier one:

Does/do your character/s grow in their ability to love in the course of the story, and if so in what ways?

Today I can answer my own prompt easily😆:

I love taking super cool and awesome swashbucklers and making them just absolutely eat it.

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:

What's something you LOVE doing to your character(s) that they hate? 😈