🏳️‍⚧️Zo (he/she/they) Writing Wrongs since 1989

Uhhhh contemporary romance! That's such a magical genre!

How far into revisions are you? And who's your favorite character?

I just finished edits on a genre bendy epic fantasy X political thriller MS and will now hang out in the query trenches 🙈

a monkey is smiling and making a heart with its hands ALT: a monkey is smiling and making a heart with its hands

...hermit #writer trying to be more connected again!

Tell me what you're writing / editing / querying atm and I'll hype you up! I got pent-up writerly love to give!

#writingcommunity
#amquerying
#amwriting

LORD OF THE RINGS - ROE v WADE EDITION

When legendary military leader MINA gets removed from command after having a back-alley abortion, she’s ready to switch sides. What she isn’t ready for is that enemy officer with the cute canines asking her out on a date.

#QuestPit #SFF #Q #LGBT #NA #OWN

LORD OF THE RINGS - ROE v WADE EDITION

Sure, a botched back-alley abortion sucks, but it's not gonna start an actual war, right?

Who to call when it does:
👨‍🎤sassy nonbinary spies
🧝pro-choice elves with special powers
🚫absolutely no kings
💖an enemies-to-lovers throuple

#QuestPit #SFF #Q #LGBT #NA

... omg I always forget how make awesome queer #sff writers out there when I'm offline for too long!

So excited to see all the pitches today ❤️

THE BODIES WE SHARE

Pratchett X Tolkien X Atwood but queer&steamy

👨‍🎤sassy nonbinary spies
🧝pro-choice elves with special powers
🚫absolutely no kings
💖exes+enemies-to-lovers throuples
👩‍🎤badass femme leaders who know they’ll lose that election so they plan accordingly

#QuestPit #SFF #Q #LGBT #NA

Hi #WritingCommunity!

After a few months in the pits of writing my MA thesis and editing my queer fantasy MS, I'm finally back pitching!

Honestly, I haven't done this since twitter went monkey pupes, so hi everyone! I gotta get to know you again!

Excited to see all the other questpit pitches^^

... treating this as a who-to-follow list😍

Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie

If you're querying, check out AJ! They're a magnificent agent, which I know cause I'm their Intern, meaning I can't query them myself, soooooo you do it! Now!
#amquerying
#writingcommunity

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Yo, my text-to-speech app flagged a scene from THE BODIES WE SHARE (my MS) as enabling the sexual exploitation of minors.

Guess what the scene was?

Two adult women talking about the awesome gay sex they just had.

If I didn't know better, this'd look a fuck ton like homophobia & misogyny to me..

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

Oh for fuck's sake..

I'm done being polite about this.

Yes, all my books will be banned in Florida, but that's not because my politics are radical, it's because theirs are.

So, if you feel like your job is to discourage politics in art, I suggest you go yell at them, while I go on writing gay shit.

4/4

Example (yeah, I've seen and heard this repeatedly): "if you put lesbians in all of your books, that will just make it so much harder for you to get published. Maybe... you know.. write something normal?"

That's what it boils down to.
Normal is fine, everything else is "political".

3/?

2. If you're part of a marginalized or demonized group, you often don't have a choice. Try being non-political when your existence alone is a fucking policy debate.

3. There's a reason why this narrative gets pushed. It's to keep minorities from including their experiences in their art.

2/?

Some writers and industry professionals say you should keep politics out of your writing if you want to make money.

Here's a thread about what's wrong with that:

1. Show me the statistics. I dare you. Oh, guess what? There aren't any. It's a gut feeling. And it's used to shut people up.

1/?

Me too!

One issue I struggle with on socials is that I'm afraid to speak my mind.

Yeah, I wanna connect with the #writingcommunity, and I know we're all building our platforms, but my stories are highly political, and so am I.

Writing is a form of resistance.

Sci fi is inherently political.

Awwww thanks Rachel! I'll check those out! Just gotta get back into actually reading and posting.. but I try❤️❤️❤️❤️

Awwwww thank you!

*write high, edit sober* is my usual go to, but... in 3 days... there's really no time to edit, is there?

This poodle is prepared to lick your nose so hard you'll never have to pick it again!

Thank you for believing I still got synapses at this point😅

Super excited about the 3 day novel writing thing though^^

Adorable poodle hiding her nose under a blanket while looking longingly at the camera

Since I'm looking to connect with other writers and barely know anyone here, lemme just say THIS IS MY ADORABLE POODLE!
Apart from writing, politics, and queer stuff, I SHALL BE POSTING ABOUT HER!

#writerslift
#new
#amwriting
#amquerying
#queerwriters

Any other neo gender people out here?! I wanna see all your beautiful faces on my timeline!

#nonbinary
#neogender
#genderqueer

I gotta do the same, but instead I'm hanging out here, setting up my account😅
Not procrastinating, oh no, not me..

#HelloWorld!
I'm new to Bluesky and still kinda sad about Twitter falling to the dickheads. I used to love being there with all my queer writer friends and wanna come back to the community - anyone got some pointers for me where to start?!
#writers
#SFF
#Amquerying
#Hopepunk