✨ holly scott ✨

got my first ever nonfiction piece published (well, it's narrative nonfiction but still)
You can check out The Secret Animal, aka, my juicy trauma dump essay here:
www.storyhouse.org/noficframe.h...

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After 50 Years of Writing, Jamaica Kincaid Insists She’s Still an Amateur

After 50 Years of Writing, Jamaica Kincaid Insists She’s Still an Amateur www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/m... Learning from a writing giant who manages to connect with the creativity of her 7-year-old self ❤️📚❤️#amwriting #booksky

New Whumper's Monthly prompt: Red Blood on White!

You can create something new (fic, art, gifsets etc) or share an old work that fits the prompt on tumblr.

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Bookish Musings

Want to find more indie authors to support?

Check out the "Writing While Healing" series on my blog, Bookish Musings!

I interview authors with mental health struggles and a new episode comes out every Sunday 🩷

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#booksky #MentalHealth

Note to self & anyone this may concern:
If someone follows you with over twice as many followers as they’re following…

Then they’re just gonna unfollow you after you follow them back.

I’m not here to be anyone’s fan. If you don’t want to be my mutual, then don’t follow me. 😎
#WritingCommunity

#amwriting #writerslife #WritingCommunity #writingadvice #writingtips

#vss365
#angel
#poetry
#BlackSkyRelay

This is an astonishing novel. Brutally brilliant.

ooh your cover is pretty 😍

Author Update 🖊️

My morning of writing was getting coffee, writing a sentence, watching two baldbookgeek on YT, then managing 3 paragraphs before vapescrolling

Not much, but Cole got a nod and smile, gave a pathetic wave back, and is now embarrassed as hell

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#readersky
#booksky

I write because it’s my art.

I see plenty of terrible things in my real life job as a criminal investigator. So, I built a world full of romance, laughter, and family to escape.

Sometimes you just have to write a happier world to live in.

#writer

Goosebumps Guaranteed: R.L. Stine’s Rules for Writers No mystical rituals—just practical writing wisdom from the Goosebumps legend.

Goosebumps Guaranteed: R.L. Stine’s Rules for Writers flip.it/AjbUD0 #writesky

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic. - Bill Watterson ~ Background photo shows a snowy mountain range, with a couple of jet airliner water vapor and ice crystal trails showing in the sky.

Hi All, I'm out writing tonight. Hope everyone is enjoying a good night! I have a story deadline for tomorrow. So will be up writing till late. =) Write well! Enjoy what you write, whether for fun or to publish, all is good. Don't let people stop you. Best - Wrtr #amwriting #author #writer #writing

I don't get bored with copy editing. Sometimes, I see what I wrote and I'm satisfied. Just as often, I wince. Sometimes I open a new file to check inconsistent details or events. But how could I be bored as I see everything struggling to get together? #writing

#amwriting

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download at
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FREE PDF
in 3 versions:
text only , with images , with images & introductory remarks

a seasoned poet writing in sprung rhythms
springs grammar and syntax
as well

Writing the first draft is like a playground. Anything and everything goes, it’ll make sense later.
Editing is like a whole new boss battle. Pull one string, and ten new things need to be shifted around. I’m absolutely living for the logistical challenges. Anyone else?
#amwriting #writingcommunity

New Month = New #MonthlyGoals

August goals:
📝 Write 70k
💰 1 sale per day (or 31 sales total)
🎨5 art pieces for AN ANGEL FALLS & 5 for COOKIES & RAGE
💹 Market every day.
🏁Finish Writing COOKIES & RAGE

Let's see how I do come September. 😅

#WriteSky #BookSky #Goals

(Last month's review below)

Fiction: "Movies on Repeat"

Finally updated my substack after god knows how long
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#AuthorsandWriters #Authors #Writers #Booksky #Substack #Writers

a) a wooden pen and case. b) a black steel pen. Both are on a wooden background.

Now that I'm a serious writer, I never leave the house without my:

a) fancy wood pen with fancy wood foldy case

b) tungsten carbide-tipped, screw-sealed, full-steel body, tactical pen

#WritingCommunity #WriterSky #writing #pens

I find so much beauty in the words of queer poets who wield their pens like swords, cutting through the noise. Their truths resonate deeply, echoing in my heart. Let's uplift their voices! 🌈✨ #booksky #writersky #po

The Dance of Rotten Sticks Amazon.com: The Dance of Rotten Sticks eBook : Vande Zande, J.C.: Kindle Store

Had the chance to be on Dan Henk’s podcast, #booksky 💙📚. We talked #horror, #writing and shared other rambling thoughts!

We talked about my novel, The Dance of Rotten Sticks, and its forthcoming sequel. 1st #book here:

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D7...

Podcast here:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQkW...

#writingmeme Recommend a book that will emotionally wreck me 😂 #writerslift #booktwitter #bookrecs

Does anyone here like to read #poetry? I have published some, and sometimes I post some here. Let's be friends. #poetryreaders #mentalhealthpoetry #poetryforhealing #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity #Kentucky

Man reaching for yellow ball meme Man is "Me" Ball is "My TBR" Pink Guy is "The Art of Myth-Direction"

The Art of Myth-Direction
Now available in Paperback.

https://a.co/d/6Y1zSNl
#releaseday #debutnovel #taomd #booksky #writing #writingcommunity

✨ 3 Gorrific Sci-Fi Horror Dark Comedy Ebooks

🪐📚 Killer Compost
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💙📚🩸 Attack of the Mutant Space Maggots
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🩸📚 Squirrels
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Hope It is tricky in a watery dystopia.

Hope is tricky...
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#scifi
#risingtidetales
#waterydystopia
#oceanrisingfiction
#floodedworldsaga
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#tidaldisastertales
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My new release features sapphic ace disaster queers raising a baby dragon. It's pretty great! Go grab a copy! If you read it already, I'd love a rating/review #WeeknightWriters
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When you've been awake since 5 am because every time you close your eyes, you just start brainstorming for that novel idea that popped into your head. #authorproblems

Wander and Be Forgotten The fog comes fast. Swallows the river like a great pale mouth. One minute the sun is behind them, smoldering low in the trees. The next, the jungle vanishes in a curtain of grey. The boat slows. T…

🪞 The Unnatural History Part Three is now live!
The river runs deeper, the dogs are uneasy, and the reflections aren't quite right anymore.

Read it here: theunaturalhistory.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/w...

#HorrorFiction #WeirdLit #SerialStory #IndieAuthor