Sam Acres
@samacres.bsky.social
Retired to the Scottish Highlands, walks just the one dog now.
Finding Blue Sky to be full of the support I've needed to re start my writing.
Finding Blue Sky to be full of the support I've needed to re start my writing.
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Sam Acres
@samacres.bsky.social
· Sep 9
So #WritingCommunity, a funny thing happened to me in Waterstones, Inverness. Was paying for a reference book when a lady walked in, stood right beside me and asked the staff for a copy of #SnowOnTheBen. I know she meant the old nonfiction mountaineering book, but I had to tell her it was my wip too
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Dates of background events were important in the development of #SnowOnTheBen, and when I went to find the date of graduation at MIT in 2016, I found this gold nugget.
#local
#WritingCommmunity
Dates of background events were important in the development of #SnowOnTheBen, and when I went to find the date of graduation at MIT in 2016, I found this gold nugget.
#local
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Dates of background events were important in the development of #SnowOnTheBen, and when I went to find the date of graduation at MIT in 2016, I found this gold nugget.
#local
#WritingCommmunity
Dates of background events were important in the development of #SnowOnTheBen, and when I went to find the date of graduation at MIT in 2016, I found this gold nugget.
#local
#wordle
#WritingCommmunity
Wordle 1,604 5/6
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Sometimes you have so few options left.
#WritingCommmunity
Wordle 1,604 5/6
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November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#wordle
#WritingCommmunity
Wordle 1,604 5/6
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Sometimes you have so few options left.
#WritingCommmunity
Wordle 1,604 5/6
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Sometimes you have so few options left.
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Gone for #path instead of #trail.
Fate has split Kate and James apart. #SnowOnTheBen
#WritingCommmunity
Gone for #path instead of #trail.
Fate has split Kate and James apart. #SnowOnTheBen
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Gone for #path instead of #trail.
Fate has split Kate and James apart. #SnowOnTheBen
#WritingCommmunity
Gone for #path instead of #trail.
Fate has split Kate and James apart. #SnowOnTheBen
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Just a couple of #steel in #SnowOnTheBen, and I've used the othere recently.
#WritingCommmunity
Just a couple of #steel in #SnowOnTheBen, and I've used the othere recently.
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Just a couple of #steel in #SnowOnTheBen, and I've used the othere recently.
#WritingCommmunity
Just a couple of #steel in #SnowOnTheBen, and I've used the othere recently.
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
There's #cobweb vibes in this snip from #SnowOnTheBen, and it's still Halloween 🎃
#WritingCommmunity
There's #cobweb vibes in this snip from #SnowOnTheBen, and it's still Halloween 🎃
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
There's #cobweb vibes in this snip from #SnowOnTheBen, and it's still Halloween 🎃
#WritingCommmunity
There's #cobweb vibes in this snip from #SnowOnTheBen, and it's still Halloween 🎃
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
The #ancestor in #SnowOnTheBen is the crackin' Scottish alternative 'grandsire'.
#WritingCommmunity
The #ancestor in #SnowOnTheBen is the crackin' Scottish alternative 'grandsire'.
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
The #ancestor in #SnowOnTheBen is the crackin' Scottish alternative 'grandsire'.
#WritingCommmunity
The #ancestor in #SnowOnTheBen is the crackin' Scottish alternative 'grandsire'.
Reposted by Sam Acres
The outflow from Loch Damh yesterday afternoon. (I put some music on if you're so inclined).
October 29, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The outflow from Loch Damh yesterday afternoon. (I put some music on if you're so inclined).
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Was keeping this Halloween scene at the HEB store back for today.
Kate and James have a shopping trip ahead of their weekend away.
#spell
#SnowOnTheBen
#WritingCommmunity
Was keeping this Halloween scene at the HEB store back for today.
Kate and James have a shopping trip ahead of their weekend away.
#spell
#SnowOnTheBen
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
Was keeping this Halloween scene at the HEB store back for today.
Kate and James have a shopping trip ahead of their weekend away.
#spell
#SnowOnTheBen
#WritingCommmunity
Was keeping this Halloween scene at the HEB store back for today.
Kate and James have a shopping trip ahead of their weekend away.
#spell
#SnowOnTheBen
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#WritingCommmunity
#wipsnips
I have a great #costume snip, but I'm saving it for later this week.
This costume change for Kate in #SnowOnTheBen is her shedding her corporate armour and starting to become a Highlander.
#wipsnips
I have a great #costume snip, but I'm saving it for later this week.
This costume change for Kate in #SnowOnTheBen is her shedding her corporate armour and starting to become a Highlander.
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#WritingCommmunity
#wipsnips
I have a great #costume snip, but I'm saving it for later this week.
This costume change for Kate in #SnowOnTheBen is her shedding her corporate armour and starting to become a Highlander.
#wipsnips
I have a great #costume snip, but I'm saving it for later this week.
This costume change for Kate in #SnowOnTheBen is her shedding her corporate armour and starting to become a Highlander.
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
No #lottery but a #gamble in #SnowOnTheBen
Kate, the Texan, calls James, the Scotsman, Sandy, or more formally, Mr Sandman.
#WritingCommmunity
No #lottery but a #gamble in #SnowOnTheBen
Kate, the Texan, calls James, the Scotsman, Sandy, or more formally, Mr Sandman.
October 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#wipsnips
#WritingCommmunity
No #lottery but a #gamble in #SnowOnTheBen
Kate, the Texan, calls James, the Scotsman, Sandy, or more formally, Mr Sandman.
#WritingCommmunity
No #lottery but a #gamble in #SnowOnTheBen
Kate, the Texan, calls James, the Scotsman, Sandy, or more formally, Mr Sandman.
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Reposted by Sam Acres
Early morning mist by the River Balgy.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Early morning mist by the River Balgy.
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Dear #WritingCommunity,
Apart from being a Spoonerism, is there another word for getting 'faux pas' so wrong, I've just written it as 'paux fas'?
Going to be a good day!
Apart from being a Spoonerism, is there another word for getting 'faux pas' so wrong, I've just written it as 'paux fas'?
Going to be a good day!
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Dear #WritingCommunity,
Apart from being a Spoonerism, is there another word for getting 'faux pas' so wrong, I've just written it as 'paux fas'?
Going to be a good day!
Apart from being a Spoonerism, is there another word for getting 'faux pas' so wrong, I've just written it as 'paux fas'?
Going to be a good day!
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM