Elisa Winther

Feels like it's normalized when it comes to coffee but then not when you try anything else for a lot of people. Though I think it differs per place though.

I'll be prepping to write the last new POV character in the next chapter. This'll be one of the two antagonist POVs and she's a real handful so... 😆 Going to have some fun with her.

This week, I also finished a rough first draft for the first two chapters 🥳 Both are from the POV of new characters and I'm excited to finally feel at home again in writing third person again. Took me a bit after really enjoying first person, but this WIP really needs it.

And with revamping, I mean I've brainstormed what the story needs explored, outlined it, and made a fast draft. It's going to be a lot bigger now, but I'm okay with that. There'll still be my twist to fated mates, temple ruins to explore, and magical mysteries to uncover though.

As expected, I didn't finish ShifterWIP last year 😅 Instead I revamped the whole thing. It's gone from TriplePOV romantasy to MultiPOV (6) political fantasy, with fantasy of manners leanings, and romantic subplots. I'm finally embracing the full scale of the story instead of just Hailey & Scott's 💘

Ohh yes his music pops up on the regular too while I write! They have Siem great colabs too!

Made it past the midpoint and the pace is picking up! Someone got kidnapped and I finally get to introduce one of my fav characters in this to help save their friend!

Also liking the way the relationship's developing. They have believable reasons to keep the angst and tension ❣️ slowburn vibes ❣️

Exactly and they're so great for getting I to the flow 🥰

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Drafting to Two Steps From Hell

I have a clear idea of how to go forward and hopefully I'll be satisfied with how it comes out. I've been rewriting this part so many times because it just doesn't feel right 😩😢 midpoint feels kind of like a final fantasy boss

Was getting a bit fatigued with my romantasy but instead of taking a break the 🐰🐰 hit again (because of course) and now I have a partially outlined sci-fantasy & horror novelette, including pitches, comps and moodboards 😅

Now if I could continue drafting my romantasy again, that'd be nice 😂

I'm having fun with building the cultural bits too, adding influence from the cultures that this one was built off of and mixed with.

Ohh and need to make their version of valentines 🤔

Gonna do a little progress reporting on this 😁 I'm hoping to finish it before the end of the year, though that feels a bit ambitious for me.

I'm working on the flower festival chapters and hoping to weave in some more lore as well as having some fun moments. Lots of bonding for multiple chars-

Moodboard of eight images. Top left: A figure plays a violin in a dark room. The image is shot in such a way that only the violin and one of the player's hands is visible. Center left: A man stands in darkness; his head is on fire. Bottom left: A wireframe of a dragon against a bright orange background Top/mid center: Alphonse Mucha's Emerald, featuring a woman staring intensely at the viewer as she leans against the head of a snarling serpent. A white line is drawn straight through the image to neatly divide the woman's head from the serpent's. Bottom center: The Lovers, from the Art Nouveau Tarot deck, featuring a couple just about to kiss. The card is lying on a white space, surrounded by red/white roses. Top right: A figure in white robes wanders through a very green forest. Center right: A bolt of lightning arcs above a mountain range in a very violet sky. Bottom right: A black hole swirls in a sea of violet stars and nebulae.

FFXIV but steampunk
OR: Rolling nat 20s on persuasion for fun, profit, and avoiding divine wars.
⭐Ace/bi friends-to-lovers
⭐Answering destiny with YOU'RE NOT MY DAD
⭐Art/music as defiance
⭐Hopepunk + art nouveau vibes
🐉Dragons!
🐝Bee people!
#Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #F #NA

Three-panel moodboard consisting of three pieces by Alphonse Mucha. Left: Emerald. A serpent snarls at the viewer from amidst green lilies. Center: The Moon. A woman wearing nothing but a navy blanket covered in stars stands against a backdrop consisting of the night sky and a crescent moon. She covers her smile with one hand. This image is noticeably lower in quality than its neighboring panels. Right: Salon des Cent. A woman conceals her mouth with a hand, her index finger curled down. She's glaring intensely at the viewer. A golden filigree lines the bottom and frames the sides, partially covering the left and right panels.

All Mick wanted was to keep his best friend Eleanor safe on their first adventure. But when fate binds him to a dead god and transforms him into a dragon, Mick's forced to rise from sidekick to king before a divine war wipes out the people he's been chosen to protect.
#Hopepit #hopepunk #WIP #NA #F

Thank you!! 😊

Thank you!! 🥰

A collage with blue-grey background. Pictures of black curly hair, pomegranate, a woman floating in the water with white roses on her chest, an ouroboros with a sword through it, wet thorns, a woman kneeling beside a lake, hazel eyes (a mixture of blue, green and brown hues.) On a red rectangle in the right portion of the collage, the name of my main character, Cordelia Ivy Ashwood, and her craft—the healer. Below it, five columns with red shades, from bright to burgundy.

A collage with blue-grey background. Pictures of a crown against the moon, a knight’s armour, a hand gripping a sword, a knight offering an arm to a maiden, dark brown eyes partly covered by a frown, playing cards, books. On a dark orange rectangle in the right portion of the collage, the name of the love interest of my main character, Caspian James Lestrange and their craft—the knight. Below it, five columns with orange shades, from bright to almost red.

A snippet of When Time Runs Out of Death: “You hurt. I know the pain is always present, and I cannot begin to imagine how much. When it gets to a point, you wield yourself like a sword. You turn yourself into a weapon because blades do not falter. You hurt others in retribution for what you need to withstand. I’ve seen it— I see you, Cora. And I am not going to let you throw me aside like you do with Moira.” Jamie crossed their arms in front of their chest. Bit the insides of their cheeks. “You cannot get past my armor. I will not let it.”

WHEN TIME RUNS OUT OF DEATH

⚔️ Adult Gothic Romantasy
⚔️ Pain Magic
⚔️ Stone Butch & High Femme Lesbians
⚔️ Fibromyalgia & CFS Rep
⚔️ Gloomy quest
⚔️ Disability grief

#A #RF #Q #LGBT #OwnVoices #questpit

Thank you!! 🥰

a woman with an owl and a horse. an asian girl. imperial palace court with nobles.

SHE WHO BCAME☀️ x PRIORY🍊TREE

🏹Manchu+Mongol+Han inspired
🪭God blood as ink for tatoo magic
🏹An eldritch craving familial love
🪭A failing chosen one
🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion
🪭An heir w/ perfect life until the facade rips
🏹Editor interest+14 agent requests

#QuestPit #Q #A #F

WAKE embodies "Free" from KPOP DEMON HUNTERS w/:

~A FMC tormented by her past that's ruining her mental health
~A LI working for the villain w/ his own troubled past
~a supportive slow burn romance built on understanding inner pain

Coming Spring 2027

#QuestPit #P #YA #F #MY #R

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #SF #A #Q #R #LGBT

Potions Unincorporated is written on a black journal with ivy stems and a mushroom on the cover. The tropes are listed with arrows on the right side: Grumpy x Sunshine, Found Family, Evil Pharma Potion Company, Plant Magic, Chronic Illness Rep, Cozy Vibes

The Pitch is written on a lavender field background: A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company

A garden of comps is written on a leaf. The background is brown soil with plants next to comp titles: Legends and Lattes, The Spellshop, Howl's Moving Castle, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, and Under The Whispering Door.

A snippet highlights the main character's relationship with her familiar, Toad. In the snippet they discuss Linatta's ex girlfriend and Toad's hatred of hats. A book is open below the image and has wildflowers growing out of the inside spine.

POTIONS UNINCORPORATED

Think HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x THE SPELLSHOP

💜 Chronic Illness Rep
🌱 Plant Magic
💚 Bisexual Witches
🐈‍⬛ A Snarky Familiar
😈 Evil Pharmaceutical Potion Company
☀️ Grumpy X Sunshine Romance
☕ Cozy Vibes

#QuestPit #Q #A #R #F #chronicillnessrep #ownvoices #LGBTQ #cozyfantasy

Ooohhh I love everything about this!! 🤩

Moodboard for the work in progress by Elisa Winther about shifters, hunters, and witches. The images include a wolf in a forest, apples, someone gathering herbs, a smoking gun, a woman with a wolf sleeping, a lit candle in a lantern and a moon between the clouds.

ShifterWIP | THE SUMMONING x UPROOTED

💘Yearning, banter, and emotional safety
🏛️Ruins, magical forest, gradual discovery of layered lore
🌈Autistic, ADHD, and cPTSD rep (own)
👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Found family & cozy friend dynamics
😏Alphahole antag you’ll love to hate
❤️‍🩹Grief, comfort & Healing

#QuestPit #W #A #RF #PR

Ooohh, love the sound of this!! Ace love, sapphic, complex dynamics. 🥰🥰

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RIDLEY SCOTT'S ALIEN MEETS NESS BROWN'S THE SCOURGE BETWEEN STARS #Q #A #SF #H #QuestPit
👾What if Ripley had been the captain and ignored the distress signal? Featuring
👽Complex sisterly and familial relationships
🏳️‍🌈F/F Romance with Ace love interest
👾Mysterious and possibly murderous aliens

Nooooo, thank you for working on this 🥰🥰 good luck and have lots of fun working on this!

Ooohh my Coco and Trese comps 👀🤩 slow burn poly, healing grief and trauma, this sounds absolutely amazing. Reserving space on my shelf for this!!!! 🥰

There is a grid of nine square photos with a dark blue background around them. All the photos are darkened and desaturated. In the top left photo, Tylor, a pale Northern Irish man with long, dark curly hair and wearing a black suit, is squatting close to the ground beside a tree trunk with his hands clasped one over the other. The top middle photo is a series of silhouettes of gravestones, the faint outline of a mountain in the background. The top right is a paved bridge that extends into fog, with metal railings on either side and branches along the top edge of the image. The centre left photo is a blurred, dark image of lines on a road and a streak of a headlamp above. The centre middle is a starry night sky surrounded by black silhouettes of tree tops. Centre right is a lighter photo of a roadway and field beyond, with a white Mini driving on it. The bottom left photo is of several leafless young trees beside a lake. The bottom middle photo is a low-angle shot of a cobblestone wall and memorial obelisk atop it. In the bottom right image, Naveena, a British-Indian woman with brown skin and long dark hair, moves along a hedge in a black leather jacket with a wary expression on her face. There is text overlayed all the photos. It says: "The Pitch. Tylor & Naveena are keeping secrets: he can talk to the dead & she is Death herself. No mortal can do what they do. The day they meet, they discover they've been looking for each other. Can they work together to save a missing girl, & themselves, before it's too late?"

HOZIER x COCO x GOBLIN x TRESE x CONSTANTINE(2005)

👻Catch that killer!
🐈‍⬛International cast
❤️‍🔥Slow burn poly rep
✨Grumpy x Sunshine
🖤 Love across lifetimes
💀 Reincarnated Death Gods
💜 Healing grief & trauma through found family
🕯️Samhain, Día de Muertos, Fèt Gede, Undas

#QuestPit #W #A #S #F #PR