JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
@jpspalding.com
Sci-fi enthusiast querying a space opera novel which asks ‘how does technology change us?’
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novella about birds. Mybook.to/BTBW
Political Video editor. VFX compositor. Owner of a smol parrot
JpSpalding.com
novella about birds. Mybook.to/BTBW
Political Video editor. VFX compositor. Owner of a smol parrot
Ive just reached 40k on this manuscript and the chapter outlines have grown a bit. Roughly read left-to–right, top–to-bottom.
Every five or so chapters I have a new outline revising the big picture events based on quirks of the previous chapters.
#amWriting #WriteSky ✍️
Every five or so chapters I have a new outline revising the big picture events based on quirks of the previous chapters.
#amWriting #WriteSky ✍️
December 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Ive just reached 40k on this manuscript and the chapter outlines have grown a bit. Roughly read left-to–right, top–to-bottom.
Every five or so chapters I have a new outline revising the big picture events based on quirks of the previous chapters.
#amWriting #WriteSky ✍️
Every five or so chapters I have a new outline revising the big picture events based on quirks of the previous chapters.
#amWriting #WriteSky ✍️
I mean, we’re always excited about our CURRENT manuscript, right? But I’m like, the MOST excited I’ve been about a manuscript in regards to this one. Like, unreasonably so.
#amWriting
#amWriting
December 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I mean, we’re always excited about our CURRENT manuscript, right? But I’m like, the MOST excited I’ve been about a manuscript in regards to this one. Like, unreasonably so.
#amWriting
#amWriting
Dreyers English has no business being as uproariously funny as it is (and clever, and, yes, informative) but most importantly, I find it vindicating 😤
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Dreyers English has no business being as uproariously funny as it is (and clever, and, yes, informative) but most importantly, I find it vindicating 😤
Ladies and gentlemen he’s done it! He’s written himself into a PERFECT CORNER. There is LITERARILLY no way to get out of this one. I’ve never seen anyone stick the landing quite like this.
#amWriting
#amWriting
December 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Ladies and gentlemen he’s done it! He’s written himself into a PERFECT CORNER. There is LITERARILLY no way to get out of this one. I’ve never seen anyone stick the landing quite like this.
#amWriting
#amWriting
Do you see trends in scifi aliens???
Like you go back far enough and they’re just stoic bald people,
but that got old and it became mostly reptilians for a while, then unknowable intangible god entities and then networked mind fungus. Now it seems to be mostly mollusk-based
#scifi 🪐📚
Like you go back far enough and they’re just stoic bald people,
but that got old and it became mostly reptilians for a while, then unknowable intangible god entities and then networked mind fungus. Now it seems to be mostly mollusk-based
#scifi 🪐📚
December 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Do you see trends in scifi aliens???
Like you go back far enough and they’re just stoic bald people,
but that got old and it became mostly reptilians for a while, then unknowable intangible god entities and then networked mind fungus. Now it seems to be mostly mollusk-based
#scifi 🪐📚
Like you go back far enough and they’re just stoic bald people,
but that got old and it became mostly reptilians for a while, then unknowable intangible god entities and then networked mind fungus. Now it seems to be mostly mollusk-based
#scifi 🪐📚
Reposted by JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
There's only one piece of writing advice that's universal. "Read as much as you can."
All the rest is potentially terrible, depending on who it's being given to.
You just have to figure it out, through experimentation, which means finding out some advice is terrible for you.
All the rest is potentially terrible, depending on who it's being given to.
You just have to figure it out, through experimentation, which means finding out some advice is terrible for you.
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
There's only one piece of writing advice that's universal. "Read as much as you can."
All the rest is potentially terrible, depending on who it's being given to.
You just have to figure it out, through experimentation, which means finding out some advice is terrible for you.
All the rest is potentially terrible, depending on who it's being given to.
You just have to figure it out, through experimentation, which means finding out some advice is terrible for you.
Reposted by JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
Kerbal Space Program is an educational game for learning why launching your enemies into the sun is actually extremely difficult
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Kerbal Space Program is an educational game for learning why launching your enemies into the sun is actually extremely difficult
Just finished book eleven! Waiting for book twelve to come from ThriftBooks! #amReading #BookSky 💙📚
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Just finished book eleven! Waiting for book twelve to come from ThriftBooks! #amReading #BookSky 💙📚
Reposted by JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
The only USS Defiant I will ever recognize or accept
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The only USS Defiant I will ever recognize or accept
Crossed 33k on the new manuscript today. ✍️ Also hit 30 days since I started the story. 🗓️ Not quite nanowrimo numbers but much much better writing, haha.
My wordcount is closer to the target 🎯 than I worried I would be at 20k~
#amWriting #WriteSky
My wordcount is closer to the target 🎯 than I worried I would be at 20k~
#amWriting #WriteSky
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Crossed 33k on the new manuscript today. ✍️ Also hit 30 days since I started the story. 🗓️ Not quite nanowrimo numbers but much much better writing, haha.
My wordcount is closer to the target 🎯 than I worried I would be at 20k~
#amWriting #WriteSky
My wordcount is closer to the target 🎯 than I worried I would be at 20k~
#amWriting #WriteSky
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December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Meet these great indie thriller authors at the Thriller Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #thriller #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/3U7UtVP
I got really into solving Rubik’s cubes when I was younger. Great party trick, nice thing to do while you’re waiting to get picked up or just chilling with friends. I had a bunch of different types and everything. I could solve any normal cube in about 5 minutes, any start condition~
Machine solves Rubik's Cube in 0.103 seconds. I'm sure there's a kid out there somewhere who can do it faster.
December 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I got really into solving Rubik’s cubes when I was younger. Great party trick, nice thing to do while you’re waiting to get picked up or just chilling with friends. I had a bunch of different types and everything. I could solve any normal cube in about 5 minutes, any start condition~
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a beautiful review of this little book about warbs. I couldn’t tell it better myself. 🪶📚
a beautiful review of this little book about warbs. I couldn’t tell it better myself. 🪶📚
Book 105 of 2025: Black-Throated Blue Warbler by @jpspalding.com - unique novella from the POV of a “blue.” Obviously well researched, tons of fascinating bird info, but also unapologetically anthropomorphic. Makes for an odd but interesting mix. Great if you’re into birds. #BookSky #Ornithology
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
My heart 🥹
a beautiful review of this little book about warbs. I couldn’t tell it better myself. 🪶📚
a beautiful review of this little book about warbs. I couldn’t tell it better myself. 🪶📚
Somehow I’ve agreed to provide critique on 35,000 words cumulative across several manuscripts… before Monday. Not beta read, detailed developmental and line edits. lol.
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Somehow I’ve agreed to provide critique on 35,000 words cumulative across several manuscripts… before Monday. Not beta read, detailed developmental and line edits. lol.
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing
#WritingCommunity #AmEditing
The more I write the more a hybrid planner/pantser I become.
I’m halfway on this new manuscript and thought I’d share my chapter beat outlines, using the Stone/Parker construction BUT/THEREFORE for dramatic tension. I’m usually one to two scenes ahead in my outline, building as I go~
#WriteSky ✍️
I’m halfway on this new manuscript and thought I’d share my chapter beat outlines, using the Stone/Parker construction BUT/THEREFORE for dramatic tension. I’m usually one to two scenes ahead in my outline, building as I go~
#WriteSky ✍️
December 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The more I write the more a hybrid planner/pantser I become.
I’m halfway on this new manuscript and thought I’d share my chapter beat outlines, using the Stone/Parker construction BUT/THEREFORE for dramatic tension. I’m usually one to two scenes ahead in my outline, building as I go~
#WriteSky ✍️
I’m halfway on this new manuscript and thought I’d share my chapter beat outlines, using the Stone/Parker construction BUT/THEREFORE for dramatic tension. I’m usually one to two scenes ahead in my outline, building as I go~
#WriteSky ✍️
it’s the latest point in the year you can still order a Christmas gift. Know someone who loves birds? 🪶 Loves books? 📚 Loves SHORT books?
Check out Black Throated Blue Warbler, a #cozy #nature #fiction
I recommend the audiobook, narrated by @jessmorannarration.bsky.social
#booktok #BookSky 💙📚
Check out Black Throated Blue Warbler, a #cozy #nature #fiction
I recommend the audiobook, narrated by @jessmorannarration.bsky.social
#booktok #BookSky 💙📚
December 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
For me it’s a hybrid, I’m always visualizing books but the difference is when I’m in deep flow, really engaging with a book the words seem to disappear entirely and I’m just experiencing the story directly.
It’s different than watching a movie, but in some ways it’s deeper.
#BookSky 💙📚
It’s different than watching a movie, but in some ways it’s deeper.
#BookSky 💙📚
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
For me it’s a hybrid, I’m always visualizing books but the difference is when I’m in deep flow, really engaging with a book the words seem to disappear entirely and I’m just experiencing the story directly.
It’s different than watching a movie, but in some ways it’s deeper.
#BookSky 💙📚
It’s different than watching a movie, but in some ways it’s deeper.
#BookSky 💙📚
Reposted by JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
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December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
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“And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.”
Excerpt From
How to Write a Sentence
Stanley Fish
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Excerpt From
How to Write a Sentence
Stanley Fish
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.”
Excerpt From
How to Write a Sentence
Stanley Fish
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Excerpt From
How to Write a Sentence
Stanley Fish
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Currently beta reading three manuscripts and I wish I could report them in StoryGraph! Maybe when they come out, lol.
#WritingCommunity #amReading
#WritingCommunity #amReading
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Currently beta reading three manuscripts and I wish I could report them in StoryGraph! Maybe when they come out, lol.
#WritingCommunity #amReading
#WritingCommunity #amReading
This is an old article, I know, but what does this mean for dark matter theory? Is it simply uncondensed dust between galaxies? Our 70% missing universe?
#Physics #Astronomy
#Physics #Astronomy
Missing Matter in Universe Found
Using Caltech's DSA-110 radio telescope, astronomers pinpoint whereabouts of "fog" between galaxies.
www.caltech.edu
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is an old article, I know, but what does this mean for dark matter theory? Is it simply uncondensed dust between galaxies? Our 70% missing universe?
#Physics #Astronomy
#Physics #Astronomy
I just submitted "Plato Grande 1x01 "The Prodigal Son"" to Flatiron Film Project Spring Film Grants Program via FilmFreeway.com!
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December 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I just submitted "Plato Grande 1x01 "The Prodigal Son"" to Flatiron Film Project Spring Film Grants Program via FilmFreeway.com!
'Devil take it, when one has friends, it is not only to offer them a glass of wine, but also to stop them drinking three or four pints of water.'
—The Count of Monte Cristo
#amReading #BookSky 💙📚
—The Count of Monte Cristo
#amReading #BookSky 💙📚
December 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
'Devil take it, when one has friends, it is not only to offer them a glass of wine, but also to stop them drinking three or four pints of water.'
—The Count of Monte Cristo
#amReading #BookSky 💙📚
—The Count of Monte Cristo
#amReading #BookSky 💙📚
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I’ve just called an orbital transfer + docking maneuver “the ol’ Hohmann hot potato” and I’m unreasonably pleased with myself. 🥔🚀
#amWriting #SpaceOpera #WriteSky
#amWriting #SpaceOpera #WriteSky
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’ve just called an orbital transfer + docking maneuver “the ol’ Hohmann hot potato” and I’m unreasonably pleased with myself. 🥔🚀
#amWriting #SpaceOpera #WriteSky
#amWriting #SpaceOpera #WriteSky