Nick Codignotto
@nickcody99.bsky.social
Writer of SFF, professional programmer, amateur photographer, earnest boondoggler, anti-imperial1st. ( He / Him ) 🏳️🌈 primordia.com
I should be writing, but at least I’ll never write anything this stupid.
You all see what’s happening there, right?
You all see what’s happening there, right?
January 30, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I should be writing, but at least I’ll never write anything this stupid.
You all see what’s happening there, right?
You all see what’s happening there, right?
Concerned about Iran? Everything you have been told is a lie. Digest this open.substack.com/pub/khatoun/...
Open letter to US residents from an Iranian woman
Written on the Eve of War
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Concerned about Iran? Everything you have been told is a lie. Digest this open.substack.com/pub/khatoun/...
Solid words this week
January 3, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Solid words this week
Got meh feedback on a short sub 1k word chapter. The rewrite was fire, with ideas I hadn't ever considered for this scene. To me, it sung.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Got meh feedback on a short sub 1k word chapter. The rewrite was fire, with ideas I hadn't ever considered for this scene. To me, it sung.
In writing to a friend just now, I found the way to characterize my villain. The idea was always there, but I couldn't vocalize it properly until now. 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In writing to a friend just now, I found the way to characterize my villain. The idea was always there, but I couldn't vocalize it properly until now. 1/2
I'm laid up this week after a recent hip replacement, so I've had a lot of time to write. Its great, don't get me wrong! I appreciate sunshine and outdoors more now, two things I can't enjoy until I recover. I'm writing, yay! It's inside and a little lonely, but it's OK. Its fine... really.
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'm laid up this week after a recent hip replacement, so I've had a lot of time to write. Its great, don't get me wrong! I appreciate sunshine and outdoors more now, two things I can't enjoy until I recover. I'm writing, yay! It's inside and a little lonely, but it's OK. Its fine... really.
Its a good night of editing when you start with a draft at 95k words, and you end with a NEW CHAPTER, and the draft comes down to 88k words. Go me.
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Its a good night of editing when you start with a draft at 95k words, and you end with a NEW CHAPTER, and the draft comes down to 88k words. Go me.
Stoked to be polishing the 4th draft of my debut novel. I need an editor, or an agent. Query or do it all myself? Wrestling with positioning a kaleidoscope of genres: a hard sci-fi techno-thriller superhero story, chilled with cosmic horror and told as a New Adult adventure.
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Stoked to be polishing the 4th draft of my debut novel. I need an editor, or an agent. Query or do it all myself? Wrestling with positioning a kaleidoscope of genres: a hard sci-fi techno-thriller superhero story, chilled with cosmic horror and told as a New Adult adventure.
This is how my morning went.
September 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is how my morning went.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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It usually takes me weeks to read a novel. My book? 3 days.
August 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It usually takes me weeks to read a novel. My book? 3 days.
I created a Jupyter notebook so I could calculate stuff for a scene in my book. When something happens based on some math I did, I like to stick the equation in my book as a markdown comment in case I ever need to remember why I wrote the scene that way.
August 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I created a Jupyter notebook so I could calculate stuff for a scene in my book. When something happens based on some math I did, I like to stick the equation in my book as a markdown comment in case I ever need to remember why I wrote the scene that way.
It’s exciting when you let a plot problem simmer long enough that an elegant solution distills from it.
July 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It’s exciting when you let a plot problem simmer long enough that an elegant solution distills from it.
I started submitting chapters of my speculative cosmic horror superhero story to my critique group. I’m excited about this draft, and somewhat anxious (terrified?) about it.
July 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I started submitting chapters of my speculative cosmic horror superhero story to my critique group. I’m excited about this draft, and somewhat anxious (terrified?) about it.
Just eliminated an entire character. That was a tough threshold to pass through, but once it was done lots of stuff fell into place.
July 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just eliminated an entire character. That was a tough threshold to pass through, but once it was done lots of stuff fell into place.
That Project Hail Mary trailer was FIRE. It almost brought me to tears. I guess it’s time to read the book a third time.
July 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
That Project Hail Mary trailer was FIRE. It almost brought me to tears. I guess it’s time to read the book a third time.
Finished editing first 20k words of my fourth draft. I am excited about this revision.
June 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Finished editing first 20k words of my fourth draft. I am excited about this revision.
I wish we could rollback the sycophants in DC as easily as OpenAI.
April 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I wish we could rollback the sycophants in DC as easily as OpenAI.
Just killed a darling.
April 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Just killed a darling.
I miss webrings, those cooky little site widgets we used link up our interests. The Web was so wild then: you didn't know what awkward hand-coded html greatness you'd come across. Now we have anyone's BS thoughts on social media and, now, you don't even know if they are real.
April 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I miss webrings, those cooky little site widgets we used link up our interests. The Web was so wild then: you didn't know what awkward hand-coded html greatness you'd come across. Now we have anyone's BS thoughts on social media and, now, you don't even know if they are real.
Today’s sourdough dough was sticky, and rose way faster than normal. I was clueless. Overnight, it was huge in the banneton, no idea why. I baked it and it rose weird, still mystified.
Then I tasted it. I FORGOT THE SALT!
What a lesson. Salt in there for more than taste. It affects fermentation.
Then I tasted it. I FORGOT THE SALT!
What a lesson. Salt in there for more than taste. It affects fermentation.
April 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today’s sourdough dough was sticky, and rose way faster than normal. I was clueless. Overnight, it was huge in the banneton, no idea why. I baked it and it rose weird, still mystified.
Then I tasted it. I FORGOT THE SALT!
What a lesson. Salt in there for more than taste. It affects fermentation.
Then I tasted it. I FORGOT THE SALT!
What a lesson. Salt in there for more than taste. It affects fermentation.
[today's] AI technology is _easily_ capable of moving us from "Will a bot find my post on social media lock out my account" to "Will a bot find my post on social media and direct officers to my home." I'm talking about American citizens, not just immigrants.
April 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
[today's] AI technology is _easily_ capable of moving us from "Will a bot find my post on social media lock out my account" to "Will a bot find my post on social media and direct officers to my home." I'm talking about American citizens, not just immigrants.
I'm working on a mind-bending prologue that's fascinating me, yet confounding me.
April 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I'm working on a mind-bending prologue that's fascinating me, yet confounding me.
The anti-American rhetoric put forth by our current leadership is wrong. What's being suppressed ARE American ideals. Our country has fallen short of the ideals described in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and moving that goal post to make us feel better is wrong. We need to be better.
March 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The anti-American rhetoric put forth by our current leadership is wrong. What's being suppressed ARE American ideals. Our country has fallen short of the ideals described in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and moving that goal post to make us feel better is wrong. We need to be better.
The ongoing takeover of the American government by the oligarchy gives us the foundation for every dystopian mega-corporation depicted in modern science fiction: Tyrell Corp (Blade Runner), Weyland-Yutani Corp (Alien franchise), and the corporate city-states depicted in Snow crash, to name a few.
March 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The ongoing takeover of the American government by the oligarchy gives us the foundation for every dystopian mega-corporation depicted in modern science fiction: Tyrell Corp (Blade Runner), Weyland-Yutani Corp (Alien franchise), and the corporate city-states depicted in Snow crash, to name a few.