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I once heard a Giselle joke. It was Hilarion.
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#WIPSnips August 10th: flower

Royse's first quest with her entire cohort. They've been tasked with protecting a village from a horde of imps lurking in the forest. It was fun to take the arrogant Julian down a peg in this exchange.

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Let’s go with vibes. Here’s the first description of the overgrown garden of Serenity House and the willow tree there, the first time Noel sees it. From “Dead at the Root.” #WIPSnips #WriteSky #Writers #BookSky #Horror #HorrorWriters #HorrorBooks

“Tyrconnell seen many lasses murthered like that, Baraka Mjuma. Too many.” The African’s face pained. “I cannot wash away the sight. Ujana ni harufu ya ua—youth is the scent of a flower. The demon devoured the flower’s beauty.” A familiar intrusive question pushed back into Conall’s mind. He narrowed his eyes. “Why would a man kill like that?” The African raised his chin and hissed air through bared white teeth. “You do not believe a demon took her?” Conall wagged his head. “Fain to think ’tis a man. A murthered lass given a drench—poison to make her sleep—no demon would do that.” Jean Galloù’s approach interrupted the conversation. Harry Hoskin and Aubrey Prowse came behind. “The Lord has taken Rémy.”

#WIPSnips "flower"

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#WIPSnips from Survival Instinct using "wallflower" -- Stella and Gregory question David and Kyle about Rae being at the Halloween Party.
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#WIPSnips August 10 - flower

After parting ways with Cal Kestis and Merrin, Armin and Serah return to Thyferra to have their ship upgraded, and enjoy a little downtime in his grandfather's botanical garden

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#WIPSnips August 10 - flower
Rowan tries to stave off a panic attack at the airport. Spoiler alert: It does not work.

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When he kinda likes her raging—

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From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Almost first kiss interrupted.

August 10 #WIPsnips – “flower”

Jenny engages in a meditation on the aesthetics of the Dutch Masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While she’s cool with Vermeer, Claesz gives her the creeps. Thumbs down on memento mori. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.” #amwriting #writesky

#WIPSnips - Cry Wolf - using this to share the literal opener of the story! The intro to Rieka and hopefully enough to hook attention. And yes, tomboy lesbian chopping wood in the forest was inspired by exactly who you think.
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This #WIPSnips clip is from my upmarket romcom--hopefully to go on submission this fall. #writingcommunity #writesky

I decided to include 2 #WIPSnips today because both refer to the same flower. The first paragraph kicks off new my short story project from the Raven and Bear anthology. Meanwhile the second bit is from further on in the story.

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“She means to say that she’s hardly a girl, Gerund. Please keep up.” “Oh,” the gnome rubbed his temples. “Apologies. That’s still rather young for a gnome, you understand. We don’t consider our children to be fully grown until they have a wrinkle or two.” “That seems like a rather arbitrary way to determine adulthood,” Eliza responded. “And I’ve never met another gnome that justifies it in such a way.” “I was being hyperbolic. We don’t actually determine it that way,” Gerund huffed. “Oh-- sorry,” Eliza said, blushing. “It isn’t any more arbitrary than stating a single age should do it. Sixteen, eighteen, eighty-five, two hundred and sixty, what's the difference? “Oh, just hundreds of years, Gerund,” Rais said, chuckling. “Look, if I don’t think children should be considered adults well into their first century, that’s my prerogative, okay?” Gerund said, pointing a wild finger in Rais’s direction. “His daughter just started dating and he’s not taking it well,” Rais said. “Oh,” Eliza said, nodding-- though she failed to see the problem. Dating practices-- gnomish or otherwise-- were not in Eliza’s purview. She was familiar with a few of them, but every group of people had a myriad of cultural practices from the funeral rites to how and where one should store the flour-- for gnomes it was bottom shelf and to the right, for goblins, bottom shelf and to the left, which unfortunately led to the War of the Flours. No one died, but someone was bitten and lots of flour was lost. Up until that point, no one had thought of gnomes as all that contentious a people, but their love of baked goods overshadowed everything when their sweets were threatened.

It is gnomish custom to bake a honey cake at the start of a courtship. Giving them a pet name after a baked good, or any food, is considered criminal.

Take a proper gander at my WIP "Opportunity Lost," a side-story in my comedic fantasy series
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#WIPSnips — flower

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#WipSnip of something I always have to remind myself. Stop and smell the flowers ✨💖

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Setting a story largely on Oahu made “flower” probably the easiest prompt yet. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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A small moment to remember the good times, long since disappeared...

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Scenery on a dragon-made satellite big enough to be a planet. 🐲🛰️
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From Sunfall

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“When he was four or five, he made me a bouquet from the flowers in the greenhouse. He was so distraught a few days later to find out that picking the flowers killed them that he cried himself to sleep.”

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The word for the August 10th #WIPSnips is "flower." Here's a snippet from my historical fantasy joint, Slaves of God: Once-buried childhood memories surfaced. Lush, landscaped greenery. Sturdy trees. Flowers that once bloomed in vivid yellows, reds, and violets now withered and dry. The landscape bore scars from felled trees, leaving behind ancient stumps as silent reminders of the past. A faded shell of the home Adelia once knew.

When memories don't live up to the reality. 🪷 #WIPSnips #WIP #amwriting #writesky

The #WIPSnips word for August 10th is "flower"

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“Yuze’s face glows just as much as the flowers, his eyes wide with uninhibited awe as the blooms reveal their intricate interiors.”

For a book whose titular element is a flower, the word “flower” itself appears less times than I would have imagined.

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag (@wipsnips.bsky.social) Here are the words for #WIPSnips for August 4th through August 10th. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips|flower
Carinen brushed a finger over the red, tubular flower clusters of a cardinal flower before following Jessie into the pond. Maybe she could start drawing, sketch the plants out here every time they came. That’d be a nice reminder in the winter.
Plants were really neat.
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cw: teratophilia, monster fucking, smut, grotesque non-humanoid alien lover. Horror vibes.
Tags/summary on the screenshot.
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