Chiamaka Chuke-Okafor ~ Querying Fantasy

Friday!

Does anyone else write scenes out of order because the emotional logic comes before the plot?

Now, listen and I will tell you of Zitara. About her steps, missteps and triumphs. The silences and the whispers. The pain and the harmony. For a guardian remembers all, even when the child forgets.

@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Before she drew her first breath, before the úlí burned into her skin, before the earth carved her name into its roots, I was there.

—->>> opening line

I was not. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Suna. Checking it out💕

I’m revising a book that started as one story and quietly became another.

Turns out the second one is the one I needed to tell.

I’d love to be added. Igbo-inspired fantasy writer here.

Hi! If anyone has a fantasy writers / spec fic / Black writers starter pack, I’d love to be added. I write Igbo-inspired fantasy.

Five years on one book teaches you patience, doubt, and how to stay anyway. Still writing.

Took five years to write the latest. Not budding, just still growing.

“Budding writer” but the bud has been at it for years.

First post here. I’m a budding writer trying to be brave about putting words into the world. Here to learn, share, and keep showing up to the page.