Samar Sawad

I cannot for the life of me figure out this last chapter.

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

Thank you! 🤍

Struggling with side effects from new medication, which means writing is a no-go atm 😞

#disabled #chronicallyill #chronicpain #writer #author #wip #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Finally finished one of the ending chapters!! 🥳

It was like pulling teeth and will need plenty of revision, but I got it down on paper. Now for the last two!

#amwriting #writersky #wip #writer #writingcommunity #books

Today was the first day I sat down to write since mid-Dec... it didn't go very well 😩

I'm hitting a wall with these final climax chapters, which is really throwing off my motivation to write because I want so badly to be done with this first draft, but it's just not working.

#writingcommunity #wip

It is so important to our creative well-being to make art that doesn't feed into the capitalism machine. Turning every creative expression into something consumable really does poison the creativity well. Guard that space. Make art for the sake of making.

#anticapitalism #anticonsumerism #creatives

I wish there was a social media made for and filled with only cozy content. Give me muffin recipes, fuzzy socks, and quotes from LOTR.

#Cozy #cozyfantasy

New year, new era... ✨️ Whimsy ✨️

This year I want to add little bits of whimsy to my life. From collecting vintage trinkets to adding lace on my sweaters and planting wildflowers or painting the ceiling with stars. I want to find magic in everything, especially the everyday.

#whimsy #cozy #writer

Graphic design of snowy backdrop with text in center that reads: Hello January, Starting anew with crisp cool days

Welcome 2026! ❄️

For all my fellow writers, may this be the year you achieve all your writing goals and dreams.

#January #writingcommunity #writersky #newyear #2026goals

Graphic of calendar on notebook paper with notes overlaid on each month. Title at top reads: A year of writing - 2025 recap, Project Dragonshire

A look back at the year that started it all...

Here's to 2026 being the year I finish and publish Project Dragonshire!

#writer #writingjourney #2025recap #writing #cozyfantasy #books

My wish for 2026 is that AI is banished to the depths from which it came.

#supporthumanartists #noai #antiai

2026 Writer Goals! ✍️🏼

1. Finish Project Dragonshire
2. Edit, edit, edit, and edit some more
3. Enter query trenches + submit to @binderybooks.bsky.social (hopefully, they'll open submissions 🤞🏻)

Bonus: Sign with an agent/publisher!

#writinggoals #writingcommunity #writer #writersky #cozyfantasy

I'm ending the year with two chapters (maybe three) left on my wip.

It's frustrating to be so close to my goal of finishing the first draft and not hitting it, but given that I didn't even have an outline at the start of 2025 - I'm still counting it as a win.

#writingcommunity #amwriting #writing

This is me! 😆

All forms of reading are forms of reading.

#audiosbooks #reading #books #booksky

It really is a struggle, and definitely!!

It often feels like I'm talking into a void on here. I'd like to form genuine friendships, connect with other writers beyond this space, and really be a source of support for each other's writing. Be it soundboarding, check-ins, pep talks, feedback, etc.

Thank you! Writing really is such a lonely business sometimes.

Where are my fellow neurospicy, diverse, chronic pain/illness, over 30+, parents, etc writers???

I'm having such a hard time finding my author tribe 😔

#writingcommunity #writersky #writers #writing #books #authors #authorsky

Same! The second books are mentioned, I'm all chatter 😅 It's so nice to talk with others who "get it".

Yes! Omg, that too! Good to know that I'm not the only one 😆

Maybe it's because I'm sick, but a whole chapter just shouldered its way in from a single paragraph in the outline. I'm not mad about it.

#wip #books #writing #plantser

Go figures I get sick as soon as I finally figure out the outline for the last few chapters of my #wip 😑

Sighhh.

I don't want to jinx it, BUT I think I've finally sorted out the outline for the ending of my #wip Whew!

#amwriting #writersky #books #writingcommunity #writer

I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life

I'm obsessed with it 🤩

Isn't it! I gasped when I first saw it. The artist is so talented and incredibly nice, too.

Illustration of characters: tall, Latinx man with orange dragon wings walking with a shorter, Arab woman in the rain. She is looking up at him as he shields her from the rain with his wing, and his hand is touching her cheek.

Character art commission!! ✨️✨️✨️

This STUNNING piece of my MCs from Project Dragonshire is by socks_scribbles (on TT/IG). I am utterly obsessed with how perfectly it captures Poppy and Sandro. When I first saw it, I couldn't stop staring 😭

#characterart #cozyfantasy #romantasy #booksky #noai

Seriously! It's been a STRUGGLE.