WIPPIT

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Ok we will be going with 2 months, prep will be in May which is perfect with our pitch event being in May and then we will write in June.

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Seasons greetings! Our gift to you is #questpit dates for 2026! We can’t wait to reconvene next year.

Happy Holidays!

If you have a recommendation for a month let me know. So far I have recommendations for January & June

...and things throughout those months to help with prep and editing.

That's what we are working on figuring out :) whichever month it is it'll start beginning of the mo th and end the end of the month, but there would be weekly ones too and daily prompts if someone doesnt want to do a full month. If we do other months for prep and editing there will be prompts...

Pick which one you'd want for a writing challenge:

1 month (write)
2 month (write & prep)
3 month (write, prep, edit)

You would be able to participate as much or as little as you want.

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Since we are only doing one pitch event date next year, what would you guys think about us adding a 30 day writing challenge next year? If you want one what month would you want to do it? We might even do a 3 month thing where you prep one month, write once month, edit the last month. Let us know.

You're welcome

You're so welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yours was one of my favorites, but it too me too long to realize it was a hand holding a crystal. At first my mind was like what kind of monster is that? 🤣

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Thank you everyone for making today amazing! I had a ton of fun & I hope you did as well. Keep lifting each other up & keep working to finish those projects, they all look incredible. We look forward to seeing you May 23! To everyone who celebrates have a Happy Thanksgiving! 🍂🍁

It's nighttime on Trinity Street in Cambridge, UK, and the sky is cloudless. In the middle of the street, a circular portal opens onto a field of ferns, planted in rows, with a partially cloudy sky. This depicts a scene from The Dragonblood, although some artistic license has been taken, as the scene as written takes place in a dark alley off the beaten path, rather than a major street, but I wanted it to be at least somewhat recognisable as Cambridge. The portal is also described to warp the image of what's behind, but I simply drew the portal as overlaid on the background and fading at the edges. Made in Krita. The scene of Trinity Street was drawn from reference.

The Toronto skyline, viewed from Lake Ontario. This is the main setting of In Reverse. Made in Krita, from reference.

I wanted to share the artwork I made for #WIPPit to use as backgrounds for #TheDragonblood and #InReverse, since the versions there were desaturated and darkened, with text overlaid. Here they are in full glory.

#Art #DigitalArt #Krita

I completely agree. There are several of us going to one date next year to hopefully help with that. Believe me us hosts are feeling it too.

Cover mockup of Through the Cracks. The title is written at the top, and the author, @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social, is written at the bottom, but I would replace this with my name in the final version. Station 14, an ERSSHO (Enormous Rotational Space Station in Heliocentric Orbit), and one of 126 making up the ALCEFS. In the background, the constellations of Orion and Taurus can be seen, as well as Venus, Earth and the Sun. The cylindrical space station has one of its flat faces pointed at the Sun, which if shown, would be covered in solar panels. The opposite face, which is visible, has the space dock at its centre, surrounded by red text that reads 'ALCEFS' and 'Station 14', along with the anarcho-communist flag and the flag of the ALCEFS. A spaceship is currently taking off from the space dock, with a pair of glowing red heat radiators on either side. Around the rim of this face is the lookout area, a large window where residents can look out at the stars. There are more windows scattered around the curved face of the station, which would be transparent panels in the floor, again for residents to look out at the stars. Surrounding the station is the flywheel: two rings, one surrounding each circular face of the station, connected by beams (probably around five, although only two are shown). The flywheel rotates opposite the station to stabilise it. The station is around 50 km in radius, although the image is not to scale, and some aspects like the size of windows or the size of the spaceship relative to the station may not match this. Made in Krita.

Through the Cracks -Hard utopian sci-fi -If Star Trek: DS9 had the tech level of The Expanse -LGBTQ+, polyamory and disability rep -anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian, anti-ableist message Setting: The ALCEFS (Association of Libertarian Communist Employment-Free Stations) -Solar System-based space stations -anarcho-communist -values sustainability -fully-automated and jobless -focus on human creations -liquid democracy -near-utopia with a tumultuous history MC: Skylar -37 yo special ed teacher -nonbinary -aroace -has vitiligo -devoted altruist Antagonists: Kye Peterson and Erron Colborne -villains at odds -individual bad actors who fell through the cracks -both ableist in opposing ways -methods: exploitive deals and propaganda campaigns, respectively Status: 1 chapter in, a long way to go yet Check out #ThroughTheCracksIntro for more info, or follow #ThroughTheCracks for random tidbits!

Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. There are no barriers to housing, food or any other essentials; everyone just receives what they need for free, without having to prove they deserve it. And so Skylar is surprised when they meet a homeless woman. A woman who gave up her home in a coercive deal with a self-styled businessman. But that is not all; Skylar will soon uncover a threat from another angle: a delegate using every trick in the book to promote themself and accumulate proxy votes. As it turns out, even in the idyllic ALCEFS, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks.

“Hi Nelly. You like it out here in the gardens? Or just couldn’t get a place in the camping grounds?” “The gardens are nice,” Nelly replied. “But yeah, the camping grounds were booked solid until tomorrow.” “The camping trip really couldn’t wait, could it?” Skylar meant it lightheartedly, but could see by Nelly’s reaction that they’d hit a nerve. “No, it couldn’t, but –” Nelly started, frustrated. “It’s not a camping trip, okay? I just need somewhere to sleep.” “You got kicked out of home?” Skylar asked. “Why not stay at the temporary shelter?” After all, it’s there for people who need a place to stay while they apply for a new home. “That’s where I was staying for the past two months,” Nelly replied. “That is, until I got into an argument with someone there and, well, we agreed to put some distance between us.” “Two months?!” Skylar repeated, shocked. “It doesn’t take that long to get a home approved.” A couple days, at most. Usually they have it done the same day. “For a supplementary home loan?” Nellie remarked. “Apparently it does.” “Supplementary?” Skylar asked. “What about primary?” If you were entirely without a home, Skylar couldn’t imagine any reason you’d apply for a loan instead of permanent housing. “Oh, I didn’t apply,” Nelly admitted. “Why not?” Skylar pursued. “If I did, I wouldn’t be able to get…” Nelly started. “It was part of the deal, okay?” “A deal? You mean someone bribed you to leave your home?” “No, it’s not like – Okay, it is that. But –” Nelly took a deep breath. “You know Kye Peterson?”

#ThroughTheCracks: Life in the decentralised, fully automated, jobless space stations of the ALCEFS is idyllic. Everyone gets what they need for free. Yet even here, a couple independent bad actors can still slip through the cracks.

#UtopianFiction #SF #LGBT #A #WIPPit 🚀🛰️🧪🟥⬛

It was really fun to participate in #WIPPIT today!! ELEVATION is still far from ready, but it was good practice! I enjoyed discovering amazing stories and writers all day! See you at the next pitch event 😃

A statue of a man in armor holding up a dagger

A woman shrouded in black holding a flower and wearing a crown

A statue of Poseidon holding his trident

A mood board for Divine Damnation including: a limo, a group of paparazzi flashing pictures, the Greek gods standing around a dial, Mount Olympus, rain on a window pane, a long ornate hall with white marble, pillars, and gold adornments, a burning pyre and an altar

🏺DIVINE DAMNATION🏺

A Touch of Darkness x Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Most would kill for power, an honored place among the pantheon and the promise of eternal youth—but when the price is almost certainly perdition, who will pay?

#WIPPIT #NA #RF

Squeezing in this second work in progress: #A #RF #WIPPIT

a devout moon priestess (not) falling for the Daemon (hottie🔥) while saving the world.

❤️‍🔥 allies-to-lovers
🥷 secret identity 
🛏️ always two beds (but he gets cold)  
🙋🏾 dude in distress
🔪touch her, ☠️
👿/🌞 she’s the grump, he’s mr. shine

with that, they absolutely deserve to shine. I just ask that you allow the wips to shine in #wippit and refrain from posting query ready or published books. We have lots of events for those projects, you can check @thewriterscalendar.bsky.social for dates, I'll do my best to keep them up to date.

are not longer counted as wips, at least by us, others may have differing opinions and that's fine. #WIPPIT was started to allow the works in progress to shine as they often don't get that chance in other events where people often look to the query ready and published works, there's nothing wrong...

While scrolling through to like and share I noticed some querying pitches and while I'm not upset, nor will I call anyone out, I want to use this as a moment to remind everyone to check the rules before you post your pitches. #WIPPIT is for works in progress books. Once books are query ready they...

Three sketched characters in action poses. Raph, top, a man with messy dark hair and stubble, holding a handful of blue whisky magic. Jenni, center, light hair, holding a fistful of playing cards in his right hand, stretching his left toward the viewer, blue streaks of magic around him. Frida, bottom, a dark-skinned woman with puffy curly hair holds a walking stick is pushing her hands to the ground, leaping up, surrounded by purple, static-like magic. Text around them is lyrics from AJR’s Sober Up: “and I wanna feel something again. Won’t you help me feel something again?”

Jenni discovers real magic and has a year to prove himself, working alongside new coworker Raph… but Raph has his own plans for magic-kind. Jenni and Raph grow closer; a threat to their society rears its head. Jenni must choose if being w/ Raph is worth risking his newfound way of life for. #wippit

Background, Flying sail ships amids obscuring clouds. presenting an Agents Guide to: Cavern Clipper. Status: first draft complete at 117K words Image Credit: “The Stormriders: Steampunk Pirates” by neko1206 on Deviantart.

Background, cavern lit up by bright orange-yellow light. The Pitch: WHEN SAMUEL CLARK DIES, HE AWAKENS IN A WORLD OF ENDLESS TUNNELS AND MASSIVE CAVERNS. JOINING A HUNTER CLIPPER CREW, HE GETS CAUGHT BETWEEN PIRATES AND A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER WHOSE URGENT MESSAGE COULD SAVE HUMANITY.

Background, massive square cavern in background with small forest and deer in foreground. Comps: TREASURE PLANET X A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH Tropes and themes: • TRANSMIGRATION (ISEKAI) • AIRSHIPS • PIRATES • CAT AND MOUSE BATTLES • A MESSAGE THAT MUST BE DELIVERED!

Background, Cavern with a skull face being watched by a woman. Excerpt: “CAPTAIN!” SAM SHOUTED AND POINTED TO THE SIGHT. HE SAW HER REACT, BUT DIDN’T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HER RESPONSE WOULD BE. INSTEAD HE SPUN AROUND TO TRY AND FIND NYXEL. HE SPOTTED HER ON THE MAINMAST, SCANNING THE DECK AND LOOKING FOR TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY. “NYXEL! THE CABLE!” SAM SHOUTED. HE SAW HER HEAD SNAP TOWARDS HIM AND HE POINTED TOWARDS WHERE THE LAST CABLE WAS EMBEDDED INTO THE DECK, THEN SWUNG HIS HAND AROUND TO THE SLOOP. SHE FOLLOWED HIS HAND, THEN NODDED AT HIM AND LAUNCHED BACK INTO THE AIR, GRACEFULLY CURVING TOWARDS THE SLOOP ONE FINAL TIME.

G'morning #WIPPIT!

I present to you a new and improved #Agentsguide to...
CAVERN CLIPPER (Treasure Planet X Journey to the Center of the Earth) #A #SF #SFF
Join Samuel Clark as he tries to find out exactly wtf he's gotten himself into by dying, because none of this looks anything like an afterlife!

Title 'friends & roommates' overlaid on top of various photos and subheadings. Subheading: anxiety with words “Fine sounds less accurate the more you say it” and the image of a woman sitting with her head on her knees and an arm wrapped around them. Subheading: crushes with text “soulmates can be platonic” and an image of a young woman with short hair looking back over her shoulder at the camera. Subheading: university with images of woman sitting on ground in dark reading a book and sitting on the floor, typing on a laptop. Subheading: parties with images of young people sitting on the stairs with drinks, laughing. Subheading: LGBTQIA+ with text “It’s pansexual, actually” and images of two gender-nonconforming young people leaning on each other and a young woman holding a rainbow-coloured heart on a stick and smiling. Subheading: new home with images of two women laying on their backs on a bed looking at a book together with their legs up the wall and people standing and sitting on a set of outside stairs, grouped together.

Lucy just wants to get through first year university as one of the crowd.

No more talking about her. No concerned faces over her anxiety. No coming out.

But now her crush is living across the hall, newly single and snuggly and Lucy’s feelings are getting too obvious.

#WIPPit #YA #NA #Con #LGBT

Won't someone think of the poor mega-capitalists? Running a mining colony is hard. Surely a few casualties aren't that big a deal.

Well, Cary Patterson and his squad of outcasts have had enough.

OMEGA SQUAD: a novella, arriving 2026

#WIPPit #A #SF #DS #H?

Annora Rainecourt would do anything for the boy she loves - the kingdom's saviour - including defying her low-born status and the nobles who scorn her false arm to prove herself worthy. But on the eve of their wedding, Lucan betrays her, and she can't fathom why. So she escapes into the night, her life of sweet smiles and unfaltering loyalty shattered. Madoc Emory is running out of time. If he can't repay the loan on his tavern, his crew - the only family he has - loses everything. So when a beautiful, intriguing maiden appears begging for help in exchange for payment, he jumps at the chance. Problem is, she wants revenge against the untouchable. The Prince's favoured, and the man prophesied to restore magic to the realm thanks to his discovery of Scale, a weapon forged from wyvern hide. Still, Madoc's desperate and Annora impossible to deny, so they strike a deal. His crew will infiltrate Lucan's empire, and tear him down. But when they uncover a horrifying truth at the heart of Scale, Annora is faced with a choice. Vengeance, or justice. And changing paths may just unravel her fragile bond with the misunderstood Madoc, and the prophecy her entire kingdom relies on.

Comp titles: House of the Dragon, A Fate Forged in Fire, The Knight and the Moth, Throne of Glass, Six of Crows, A Tempest of Tea

Excerpt: Most brides would think a storm on the eve of their wedding an omen, but for Annora Rainecourt it was the greatest blessing she could receive. Because a storm meant chance of a sighting. And what could be more thrilling than that? She scoured the skies as lightning flashed, illuminating the distant castle and the manor dwellings around it in a shock of monochrome clarity, and there — beyond the turrets — she saw her first of the night. Thin membrane, spindly tendon and bone, that unfathomable combination of sharp claws and curved edges, swiftly flying through slick rain and thick cloud until the darkness crowded in again and she lost it. Annora smiled to herself. They always liked storms. The wyverns. “They’re quiet tonight,” she said, staring out of the lancet window as rain lashed against the panes. Lucan rolled on the bed to face her, the sheets draped between his legs as if she hadn’t been privy to what was beneath them moments ago. “Or perhaps they’re beyond sight,” he said, and ran a hand through long, light hair, pushing it back from his slim face. “The view from here is perfect,” she murmured, frowning. Lucan’s manor was on the outskirts of Gaet, the small city of Vlintlann that was home to the nobility and merchant class. The east window of his bedchamber had one of the best views of the kingdom. To the north, Annora could see the long carriageway curving round from the front entrance of the manor to the cobbled road that led to the royal castle — its sharp turrets spearing through mist like the teeth of beasts. To the south, past the gardens and a small stretch of woodland, were the mountains. The looming black rock surrounded most of Vlintlann, bar the stretch of land where the border with Coperlann and The Disputed laid. And to the east, in the distance, Annora could see the shimmering lights from the cramped streets of The Bowl, the town where those without riches in Vlintlann lived. Her old home, once upon a time.

Scale

Introducing Scale 🗡️

Betrayed on the eve of her wedding, Annora enlists charming criminal Madoc to enact her revenge, but when her quest unravels the truth of a trade in wyvern scale and a long-awaited prophecy, she must choose between vengeance and justice.

Gothic #NA #RF on sub in 2026 #WIPPIT

🖤 Gothic romantasy
🖤 Lovers to enemies
🖤 Unique twist on wyverns
🖤 Chosen one as the villain
🖤 Disabled FMC
🖤 Heists and found family
🖤 Politics, prophecies, corruption and betrayal
🖤 Female rage
🖤 Multi POV
🖤 Queernorm world

#NA #RF #WIPPIT

A mock cover for the novel THE ENGINES THAT DIVIDE, with the title over art of a dieselpunk fighter plane (art by Ryan Li), with the tagline 'Sometimes the easiest decisions to make are the hardest to live with', and the byline, 'A Novel By M. A. Holland'.

THE ENGINES THAT DIVIDE

Sometimes the easiest decisions to make are the hardest to live with.

A YA/NA dieselpunk novel about two sisters, one a mechanic, the other a pilot, following different paths through a world at war.

#WIPPIT #YA #NA #SFF

In a world where corporations can kill gods, and life is lived through implants, Sophia just wants answers. Answers for her parents’ death, for the voice calling itself god. With the help of strange allies, she seeks to infiltrate the entertainment world to find them

#WIPPIT #A #SF #DS