K. Gladkii

Indulging in some WIP vibes to celebrate my first *speculative* short story acceptance! Small town abduction story finally found a home🩵 Playlist for my spec/lit spooky PNW WIP: open.spotify.com/playlist/2dYIq…

@camiscribbles This happened to me at an academic conference in Budapest 👀

the one time my friend and I booked an airbnb and when we got there it was a queen bed with rose petals and we texted our partners to be like Hey so FYI....

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@KassandraTyst 😭it never ends

@K44173K Right?? I'll be so tried, but the movie inside my head won't shut off 😭

The places where my brain suddenly wants to solve all my plot holes: 1. The shower (cliché, I know) 2. On walks/hikes. I'm never alone because my characters always demand attention 🙃 3. In bed at 1 am, where I keep on seeing scenes play out in my mind instead of sleeping

“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.” Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.

In the Wasteland, water rules everything—& the Bishop rules the dam. When a fight ends with a shadow-shard in ex-assassin Kash’s chest, forcing him to obey his sorcerer nemesis the Crow, the men—bound by magic & hatred—are the desert’s last hope of freeing the river. #questpit

A grave-robbing outcast secures a coveted role at an elite institute, only to discover the mushrooms she studies let a secret society commune with the dead, forcing her to choose between exposing them or losing herself to what rots within the institute walls.🍄 #questpit #Q #A #H

🍊Unreliable narrator convinced he's the hero 🍊Victorian Gothic Vibes 🍊Unstable reality 🍊An orange that never rots ORANGE DORIAN GRAY x THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER x CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY #questpit #H #A #S #querying

UMBRELLA ACADEMY x SIX OF CROWS NA fantasy three cursed, monster-hunting siblings must band together to stop their long-dead sibling from returning. amidst sibling fights, five unloveable people risk death to find home in each other, ft. corruption arc galore #questpit

No one laugh at me, I'm trying to join the #questpit fun. OTHER WAYS OF KEEPING TIME | with the grounded magic and gothic undertones of Starling House + Ink Blood Sister Scribe ⌛️time travel 👻ghosts? ❤️‍🔥 NorCal wildfire 🧙a spell gone wrong + a wizard gone mad #A #F

🌲TWILIGHT but if it was Charlie/Carlisle 🦇Devil's minion dynamic 🌲Small town troubles 🦇Latinx rep 🌲Trans rep 🦇Vampire DILF and oh no, he's hot and blond 🌲Former detective with a chip on his shoulder 🦇And they bang #Questpit #PR #A #W

Y’all, check this out!! Lilly is AMAZING ✨

#QuestPit #F #H #AG an editor’s guide to THE FRUITIST, a literary horror fantasy THE UNWORTHY x PIRANESI x Severance 🍓epistolary weird-girl slow burn horror 👒sororal tension 🪴mother/creator archetype 🕰50+y/o FMC 🪑moral decay art: giuseppe arcimboldo

our wives under the sea x event horizon a sapphic sci-fi horror ft. 🪽 a missing girlfriend 🚀 an empty research vessel 🚪 a door which leads to picturesque liminal spaces 🫀 she must find her gf and escape, but this place doesn't want her to leave #questpit #ag #sf #h #a

Nightbitch x Slewfoot Is Hannah turning into a deer? 🦌chronic illness rep 🍃awkward friends to horrific lovers 🦌a data center worth destroying 🍃a forest worth saving 🦌a town full of satanic panic 🍃an unlikely partnership with the devil #questpit #wip #a #h

#questpit #QuestPit #W #YA #DF #H #T #write #writing #writers Scarlet Letter x Deadly Trials and for those who enjoyed Gerald Brom’s Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery, let me introduce The Huntress

@RowanBrightonB Of course! I'll be bookmarking this for draft four. Thank you!

@K44173K Definitely not meant to be prescriptive, just a tool for people already looking for a list to reference!

Editing my manuscript one last time, and I put together my complete list of crutch words separated into filtering, filler, and fluff. Lmk what I missed and I'll add it to the list!

Lit fic under 1.5k! Free to submit!!