Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨
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- Reposted by Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨Announcement! RevPit's Fall into Fiction is back and it will all take place here on Bluesky! We hope to provide support, accountability, and a welcoming, inclusive community for fiction writers who are drafting, editing, or querying a novel this fall (11/3-21) #RevPit #RevPitFiF
- #WIPSnips - "Charge"
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- All her secrets start to unravel, and while she "gets" what she wants, she starts to lose something she didn't expect... #PlotTober #WriteSky
- This is a throwback, but I'm cheating and using "The Magic Treehouse" series, since we can go everywhere they went. And because I was obsessed with that series as a kid. #WritingLifeMonthly #BookSky
- I get the initial idea for a character, and create the world, then create more characters. My world-building and characters influence each other. It is a process, and a lot of it changes by time I get to the drafting process. #WeeknightWriters #WriteSky
- Hey #WeeknightWriters ! I’m Emi. I’m a teacher with too many houseplants and books. I’m querying an NA Romantasy with moon-magic and mythology. My WIP is a YA Fantasy with spirits, courtesans, and a whole lot of secrets. #WriteSky
- Maev finds Cal, dead from a yurma (snow leopard spirit) stealing his soul. In her anger, Maev kills the yurma. When interrogated by the court, she reveals that she killed the yurma, but lies that she did so with the goddess Agna's help: from courtesan to goddess-chosen. #PlotTober #WriteSky
- #WIPSnips #WriteSky Amulets, which come from defeating or freeing a spirit, have some sort of magical properties. But they take just as much as they give.
- It's Hump Day, folks, and our friend demands a sacrifice. Let's get a page from your wip. Maybe it's the middle for you? Give us a line from PAGE 334 Haven't gotten to page yet? How about just 33, then? #Wednesday #HumpDay #indieauthors #WritingCommunity #booksky #writesky #writingq 🪐📚💙
- Reposted by Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨Today’s #WIPSnips Sometimes I forget what I have written and I think “Whoa! I wrote that?” 😵💫 #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts #lgbtbook
- #WIPSnips Namura and Maev are friendship goals
- My midpoint is a little different. I want to create a false sense of victory that starts around the midpoint and crashes at the All is Lost. The MC reaches her goal at the midpoint and is finally recognized for it, but it has contradicted what she has learned on the way. #PlotTober #WriteSky
- As a fantasy writer, I always make my own worlds but inspired by real places. For this WIP, the main kingdom is heavenly inspired by the Himalayas. The elements of wind, water, flame, and stone keep humans safe from the spirits, so humans have to live in high altitudes. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky
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- They are all my beloved children and I'm excited to write all of them BUT if I have to pick one, it will be my FMC. I am having a lot of fun diving into the mind of a courtesan who fakes spiritual divination. I'm so super excited to write the villain because I love villains. #FirstDraftFall
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- Since I want to make this a duology, the ending will end on a cliffhanger. Maev gets what she wants: she's not a courtesan and a respected captain on the spirit corps. However, the theme of freedom has a cost comes back, and while she might have everything she wants, none of it is sweet. #PlotTober
- Hammering out all the fun in the fun & games part. I have some general scene ideas but need to work on connecting them and threading through all the subplots. Writing is so much work. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky
- I love Save the Cat and Story Genius. I'm so character-driven that my external plot will take a hit if I can't reign it in and run wild just on my characters. So both help me stay organized. BUT I'm a firm believer that everyone needs their own process. #WritingCommunity
- Reposted by Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible. Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!
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- Reposted by Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨When the vampire transformation gets surrealist and poetic 🩸 #wipsnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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- I do have a plan for one scene (yes, only one) from another character's pov. I know this is "breaking the rules," but I've always been a rebel and I'm doing it anyways. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky
- These are good points! I'm going to add that writer's block isn't how it appears in the movies. It isn't so much that you can't get words out and need inspiration, but rather you know something is off about the plot or a character that you just can't put your finger on. #WritingLifeMonthly
- There are three main things I want to show in the first scene: 1. Maev and Namura's friendship 2. Spirit lure 3. Maev's goal to get out of being a courtesan I'm thinking it starts with Maev and Namura on the roof of the palace away from everyone else. Maev is secretly hunting spirits. #PlotTober
- #FantasyIndiesSpooktober The only thing spooky about my shelves are the quarantined plants. Not to worry, I adopted them from the clearance section and they are getting some great new growth.
- As the daughter of a courtesan, Maev only got to see her mother in the mornings. When an iruva (bird spirit) took her mother’s voice, they had to communicate in looks since her mother was illiterate. Sometimes, Maev still hears her mother’s voice, but from the spirit that took it. #PlotTober
- After her mother died, Maev only had her friends Namura and Damaen. But since one is the crowned princess and the other the general, she only gets slips of their time. Maev's quest for freedom and becoming strong for herself derives from this.
- I got my first full request!!! And right when I was about to change my opening pages. Keep your fingers crossed for me🤍
- I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages! It’s free!
- Flaws and fears based on backstory that can be overcome in the end The MC in my WIP is terrified of a certain spirit that stole her mother’s voice, but when she kills one, she doesn’t feel any better. Then she frees one by healing it, mirroring her own life of being a courtesan. #WeeknightWriters
- Q1: It’s a mix. I start with a general idea of the story that inspires the characters, but once the characters are developed, they inspire the story. #WeeknightWriters
- Hi ya’ll! I’m Emi. I’m querying an NA Romantasy with moon magic and mythology called Fate & Her Atrocities. I’m drafting a YA fantasy inspired by Joan of Arc but with spirits that steal human features called Seamfallen. #WeeknightWriters
- Maev grew up in the palace. She only got to see her mother in the mornings when her mother wasn't working as a courtesan. Madam Diya helped raise her, but the person she learned most from was her best friend Namura, who shared all her books, lessons, and toys with her. #WeeknightWriters #WriteSky
- 1. She is a daughter of a courtesan, and thus born into that life. 2. She turns eighteen in three months. Once she's eighteen, she'll go from a courtesan-in-training to real courtesan. 3. She had a plan to get out of it, but it crashes and burns in the third chapter. #PlotTober #WriteSky
- I have a whole playlist but the last one I listened to was Easy by Le Sserafim #WritingLifeMonthly
- Brushing up on the transition from act 1 to act 2. The first scene in act 2 has a lot of description and humor, so it should be fun but need to find a way to keep the tension up. #FirstDraftFall #WriteSky
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- Reposted by Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨#wipsnips *safe* charlie threatens to collapse angelique's house down on top of her if angelique doesn't join her operation, doesn't actually do it when she says no anyway #lesfic #writesky #queerwriters
- Reposted by Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨#WIPSnips | safe Lucian and Auðunar are trying to be intimate for the first time, but Lucian is nervous because of past trauma. Auðunar takes care to check in and make sure he’s okay. (That one phrase is in bold bc it’s a rough draft quick hand for me that it’s being said in another language)
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- Reposted by Emi Lou Lockett is ✨querying✨What are you doing to get ready for #RevPit #10Queries? What do you plan on sending in? Let us know and connect with fellow writers! #amquerying #amwriting #writersky #writersofbsky #writersofbluesky
- Maev is motivated not to die like her mother. So she'll do whatever she can to get her own power and freedom. She doesn't want to become a courtesan only because of the obvious reasons. She's lived her life waiting for others to have time for her, now she's making time for herself. #PlotTober
