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@nvulnerabletide.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 12:18 PM

When I was little, I read Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. It's written as mail between the characters, but over the course of the plot, letters are banned from the alphabet. 🧵

The characters end up in the Prismatic Forest, in the Queendom of Glass, while on the run. It is a beautiful but dangerous shallowing between worlds, and all the plants are made of colored glass.

#WhimsicalWriters, 9/9
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@talesbyjin.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 10:20 AM

#WhimsicalWriters Sept 11

I have to go with fellow #audiostory creator @solarisstory.bsky.social for this one. The music for their story, specifically the end of the volume 1 finale, really added a level of depth to the story that I had never considered and directly inspired my own attempt.

@thebrambler13.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 9:14 AM

Whimsical Writers (Sept. 11th)!

Bonus Task: Find a person's post and ask them a question about their answer to the prompt. The person who gets asked then has to go leave a question in return. Please do this for each other, I'm too sick.
#WhimsicalWriters #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Background: A photo of a bramble with a white flower and blurry green foliage.
Foreground: Two yellow text boxes, a larger centred one and a smaller one beneath that which reads: "Photo by Ivar Leidus".

Large Box Text:
September 11th
We have much to learn from others. So, tell us about another creator (any medium) and the whimsy in their work. Why do you enjoy it and how has this person helped your writing?
#WhimsicalWriters

18. It's okay. Not my favorite. I just remember thinking it fit.

From The Vicious Militance:

I love foreshadowing.

My world, Monster Realm.

@scarletvmitchell.bsky.social Sep 10, 2026, 2:59 AM

@lockheartfiction.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 8:52 PM

A particularly whimsical room in an antique space station that was modeled after a grand manor-house.

Once the “Carriage House.” Now the foyer off the old dock.

After a second, he indicated the room she’d come from and lead the way. He couldn't help but smile proudly when he stepped through the portal and held it open for Nora. She smelled nice, a light tea-rose perfume.
“This is the Carriage House. This is probably one of my favorite rooms onboard. On the original Milton estate, it would have been used by staff to greet guests and organize incoming traffic, so placing it adjacent the dock was an obvious choice."
It was one of the more inventive decorating schemes on the entire station, and he still hadn't quite gotten over its charm. He waited for his guest to take in the decor, giddy for any kind of reaction, though he hardly expected much from this taciturn lady.
"It's inside-out," she said bluntly. His grin grew wider. The ceiling was an inverted Spanish tile roof, small chimney pointed downwards. Circadian panel windows were tucked into the fieldstone walls with blue shutters posted open and wrought-iron window-boxes, which lay sadly empty at the moment.
"Exactly. They preserved the exterior character of the original by, essentially, flipping it inside-out. It was a residence for the coachman or caretaker. Guests would have only ever seen it from the outside, their first close look at the property once inside the gates. The floor was even originally actual cobblestone with a poly fill to keep it smooth, but that became so scratched and worn over time that it was decided to install a more modern floor."
They both looked down to see the metal flooring, but unlike the familiar decking found on ordinary orbitals, this one showed an unusual quirk of inlaying different colors of metal in a pattern that resembled a cobblestone pathway with a grassy verge. Rough stone benches stood along the edges of the room.

While most of my stories are real-world, that doesn't mean there isn't whimsy. I love using contrast.

I have once scene where the characters make several folklore jokes because the house they come upon looks to be from 1300s on the outside and they just came from a huge city.

@breezyrea.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 8:28 PM

This may be my smallest Odle so far! But that's appropriate since it's an Ode to STRUMMING UKULELE. www.odle.app (The daily Odle game only lets you use the letters that are in the title topic! It's such a fun challenge.) #writingcommunity #wordgames #blueskypoetry #micropoetry #WhimsicalWriters

@mcwrites27.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 5:40 PM

Love this #WhimsicalWriters prompt. I'd say the least listened to song on the playlist for Canary is Sleepless by Flume ft. Jezzabell Doran. It's a mostly instrumental song that sets the tone for the earlier part of the story, and I'm deep in developing the end so I need music with a darker tone.

@norashear.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 5:34 PM

My settings for the 1st 2 books have all been real-world, so I'm looking forward to the next book, which will introduce the Council Cores! They're immense magical underground complexes that support everything post-mortals can be. (Which is a LOT.)

#WhimsicalWriters #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #💙📚

@nectar-vam77.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 4:58 PM

#WhimsicalWriters #WritingSky #WritingPrompt #Writesky #WritingCommunity #WritingQ #Fantasy

The Magomancy Institute

@pjccahill.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 4:52 PM

Ironically, I think the rundown building Aroi House uses for NICEF is probably the best fit. Diela's first time inside it offers a good concept of why:
#WhimsicalWriters

Diela bowed her head to Blaire, clearly wary of angering her. Blaire was caught for a beat, simply unused to someone being so afraid of her, but she rattled her head out of that, and hurried to the dormitory hall.
Diela waited anxiously, glancing around the common room as her hands fidgeted together in her lap. She winced as she breathed too freely once, and remembered to control her movement more while her ribs were healing.
As rundown as the place was, there was something home-like to it. It was in soft, dark colors, and lit with older lamps in the ceiling. In a funny way, it was intimate, or perhaps safe.

@vampireantihero.com Sep 9, 2026, 2:19 PM

#WhimsicalWriters I don't think I have too many settings that can be considered whimsical. In The Night Garden, it tends to be within the forests that exist on every property, cobblestone paths with motifs of bats and moons leading to the destination.

With Such Sweet Sorrow, probably the spire.

@dahliazhenwrites.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 1:25 PM