✍🏼Winter Simpson
@winterandwords.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Writing character-driven queer fiction in altered states and liminal spaces
📚 Stories, blog and community at https://patreon.com/winterandwords
💻 Links to everything at https://winterandwords.social
📚 Stories, blog and community at https://patreon.com/winterandwords
💻 Links to everything at https://winterandwords.social
I was looking for an app or website to track my writing and I just discovered Trackbear. It's EXACTLY what I need to satisfy my hunger for stats and it's customisable enough to help me set goals while staying out of workaholic mode. Also, there's no AI and it's free!
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
February 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I was looking for an app or website to track my writing and I just discovered Trackbear. It's EXACTLY what I need to satisfy my hunger for stats and it's customisable enough to help me set goals while staying out of workaholic mode. Also, there's no AI and it's free!
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Reposted by ✍🏼Winter Simpson
If you have AI generate your books, then you miss out on the joys of First Draft Cake. Just saying.
Also, it’s stealing and lazy AF.
Also, it’s stealing and lazy AF.
February 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM
If you have AI generate your books, then you miss out on the joys of First Draft Cake. Just saying.
Also, it’s stealing and lazy AF.
Also, it’s stealing and lazy AF.
📝 His hands, perfectly manicured and soft from a life of leisure and an excess of care, start at my shoulders and move across my collarbones and down my chest, tracing my ribs with a gathering dissatisfaction on his face.
🌃 from Miles From Morning (this is NOT a romantic moment!)
🏷️ #QueerWriters
🌃 from Miles From Morning (this is NOT a romantic moment!)
🏷️ #QueerWriters
February 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
📝 His hands, perfectly manicured and soft from a life of leisure and an excess of care, start at my shoulders and move across my collarbones and down my chest, tracing my ribs with a gathering dissatisfaction on his face.
🌃 from Miles From Morning (this is NOT a romantic moment!)
🏷️ #QueerWriters
🌃 from Miles From Morning (this is NOT a romantic moment!)
🏷️ #QueerWriters
Reposted by ✍🏼Winter Simpson
What would it look like for a vampire to drink your blood?
In this sequence the anatomical references are clear.
In this sequence the anatomical references are clear.
February 8, 2026 at 4:59 PM
What would it look like for a vampire to drink your blood?
In this sequence the anatomical references are clear.
In this sequence the anatomical references are clear.
#Pale fabrics and carpets and walls - maybe white or cream or light grey, I don't remember and it's not the important part - tempted stains from hands that were never appropriately clean. Pure. I still scrub bleach-dry palms when I can't find an apology big enough for the sin of my touch.
🏷️ #vss365
🏷️ #vss365
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
🎧 New audio reading on my Patreon! Enjoy my sore throat voice and a well-dressed serial killer's musings about the meaning of home.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149831...
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #Patreon
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149831...
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #Patreon
Audio reading: Spin Cylinder, episode 04 / chapter 01 | Winter Simpson
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February 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
🎧 New audio reading on my Patreon! Enjoy my sore throat voice and a well-dressed serial killer's musings about the meaning of home.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149831...
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #Patreon
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149831...
🏷️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #Patreon
You know what's really creepy? People who are on here for the sole purpose of trying to sell services (that wouldn't be worth the money even if they were free tbh) who keep following, unfollowing and following you repeatedly. Stop it. It's fucking weird. This shit is why I have DMs turned off.
February 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
You know what's really creepy? People who are on here for the sole purpose of trying to sell services (that wouldn't be worth the money even if they were free tbh) who keep following, unfollowing and following you repeatedly. Stop it. It's fucking weird. This shit is why I have DMs turned off.
With each new #wound they gave you, you became smaller and quieter and less until you would ask their permission to bleed and apologise for the stains on their hands.
🏷️ #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
🏷️ #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
February 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
With each new #wound they gave you, you became smaller and quieter and less until you would ask their permission to bleed and apologise for the stains on their hands.
🏷️ #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
🏷️ #vss365 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
And we talk about #pain on a scale from one to ten and point to a drawing of a face that's meant to show how much we're breaking behind the mask we don't admit to wearing and everything is fine we're fine it's fine it's one long run-on sentence and we hide our bitten nails in our sleeves
🏷️ #vss365
🏷️ #vss365
February 3, 2026 at 7:46 PM
This is such a micro detail, but in my cyberpunk world there's a recreational brainwave frequency called Hyperfix that enhances productive (OK, obsessive) focus in people with ADHD.
🏷️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
🏷️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
What’s the smallest world building detail that you’re most proud of? #writingq #WritingCommunity
February 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM
This is such a micro detail, but in my cyberpunk world there's a recreational brainwave frequency called Hyperfix that enhances productive (OK, obsessive) focus in people with ADHD.
🏷️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
🏷️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
My January 2026 reading wrap-up from @thestorygraph.com 👀
I'm also reading a wonderful duology written by a friend. It isn't published yet, so I'm honoured to get my hands on it and I'm so looking forward to it finding its way out into the world.
🏷️ #StoryGraph #ReadingCommunity #BookSky
I'm also reading a wonderful duology written by a friend. It isn't published yet, so I'm honoured to get my hands on it and I'm so looking forward to it finding its way out into the world.
🏷️ #StoryGraph #ReadingCommunity #BookSky
February 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
My January 2026 reading wrap-up from @thestorygraph.com 👀
I'm also reading a wonderful duology written by a friend. It isn't published yet, so I'm honoured to get my hands on it and I'm so looking forward to it finding its way out into the world.
🏷️ #StoryGraph #ReadingCommunity #BookSky
I'm also reading a wonderful duology written by a friend. It isn't published yet, so I'm honoured to get my hands on it and I'm so looking forward to it finding its way out into the world.
🏷️ #StoryGraph #ReadingCommunity #BookSky
✍🏼 Weekend WIP snippet on Patreon from Darwin's Cliff! It's members only, but you're very welcome to join for free and I'd love to see you there.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149338...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149338...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon
January 31, 2026 at 1:20 PM
✍🏼 Weekend WIP snippet on Patreon from Darwin's Cliff! It's members only, but you're very welcome to join for free and I'd love to see you there.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149338...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149338...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Patreon
Leaves #quiver in the dying breaths of last night's storm, the tenacious ones still hanging onto branches that reach like fractal capillaries towards a finally clearing sky. We regard them at sunrise as fragile and delicate, how survivors are often misjudged.
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Leaves #quiver in the dying breaths of last night's storm, the tenacious ones still hanging onto branches that reach like fractal capillaries towards a finally clearing sky. We regard them at sunrise as fragile and delicate, how survivors are often misjudged.
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Wake up, babe! New life-altering trauma just dropped.
Today's WIP snippet from Miles From Morning is a(nother) reason why MC Rafe is an absolute disaster. It's members-only, but there's a free membership tier that you're welcome to join.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/148603...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky
Today's WIP snippet from Miles From Morning is a(nother) reason why MC Rafe is an absolute disaster. It's members-only, but there's a free membership tier that you're welcome to join.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/148603...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky
January 24, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Wake up, babe! New life-altering trauma just dropped.
Today's WIP snippet from Miles From Morning is a(nother) reason why MC Rafe is an absolute disaster. It's members-only, but there's a free membership tier that you're welcome to join.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/148603...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky
Today's WIP snippet from Miles From Morning is a(nother) reason why MC Rafe is an absolute disaster. It's members-only, but there's a free membership tier that you're welcome to join.
🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/148603...
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky
Some days the muse is just ON IT. I went from not being able to hear a certain character's voice in my head to brainspewing a couple of thousand words of theirs and even sneaking a little bible verse into the middle of the angsty queer violence-pining.
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
January 23, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Some days the muse is just ON IT. I went from not being able to hear a certain character's voice in my head to brainspewing a couple of thousand words of theirs and even sneaking a little bible verse into the middle of the angsty queer violence-pining.
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Tonight, like every other night, you #loom over me, a hulking threat with whiskey breath that could light fires.
Tonight, not like every other night, my fingers grip the knife under my pillow, a desperate measure that punctuates NO with a cold full stop.
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Tonight, not like every other night, my fingers grip the knife under my pillow, a desperate measure that punctuates NO with a cold full stop.
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
January 20, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Tonight, like every other night, you #loom over me, a hulking threat with whiskey breath that could light fires.
Tonight, not like every other night, my fingers grip the knife under my pillow, a desperate measure that punctuates NO with a cold full stop.
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Tonight, not like every other night, my fingers grip the knife under my pillow, a desperate measure that punctuates NO with a cold full stop.
🏷️ #vss365 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Reposted by ✍🏼Winter Simpson
#Writetip: “People tell me extraordinary things, and I realize that there is nothing in the world about which we know anything for sure... You have to listen to everyone. As an artist, you have to listen to both the executioner and the victim.” SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
#amwriting
#amwriting
January 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
#Writetip: “People tell me extraordinary things, and I realize that there is nothing in the world about which we know anything for sure... You have to listen to everyone. As an artist, you have to listen to both the executioner and the victim.” SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
#amwriting
#amwriting
OK this is gorgeous in that way where I can't stop reading it and there's a melancholy to it but the kind that feels gentle and precious.
keys under the sofa
wallet in the fridge
he searches everywhere
the cat yawns
the clock ticks
we all wait
for something
to remember
or admit
how small
ridiculous
and beautiful
everything really is
#Photograph mine
wallet in the fridge
he searches everywhere
the cat yawns
the clock ticks
we all wait
for something
to remember
or admit
how small
ridiculous
and beautiful
everything really is
#Photograph mine
January 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM
OK this is gorgeous in that way where I can't stop reading it and there's a melancholy to it but the kind that feels gentle and precious.
I just saw that we can announce on Bluesky when we're live on Twitch and the temptation to do a live stream of me lying in bed looking like an advert for chronic illness but with a cute greyhound sleeping on me is so strong. GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT.
January 20, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I just saw that we can announce on Bluesky when we're live on Twitch and the temptation to do a live stream of me lying in bed looking like an advert for chronic illness but with a cute greyhound sleeping on me is so strong. GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT.
Less than two weeks away and I miss this place so much! Health stuff is still crap so I can't manage much online activity, but doing some gentle lurking when I'm able to use my phone or laptop cheers me up, so I'm back for some intermittent Bluesky time.
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
January 19, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Less than two weeks away and I miss this place so much! Health stuff is still crap so I can't manage much online activity, but doing some gentle lurking when I'm able to use my phone or laptop cheers me up, so I'm back for some intermittent Bluesky time.
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
🏷️ #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Giving this a signal boost in case any of my friends might be interested!
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Giving this a signal boost in case any of my friends might be interested!
📢 Taking a social media break but I'm still on Patreon and I'd love to see you there! Details in the 🧵
📝 Quick note: my Patreon has a forever-free tier so this is definitely not a covert fundraising attempt
🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwords
🏷️ #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
📝 Quick note: my Patreon has a forever-free tier so this is definitely not a covert fundraising attempt
🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwords
🏷️ #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Winter Simpson | Patreon
Writing character-driven queer fiction in altered states and liminal spaces.
www.patreon.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
📢 Taking a social media break but I'm still on Patreon and I'd love to see you there! Details in the 🧵
📝 Quick note: my Patreon has a forever-free tier so this is definitely not a covert fundraising attempt
🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwords
🏷️ #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
📝 Quick note: my Patreon has a forever-free tier so this is definitely not a covert fundraising attempt
🔗 www.patreon.com/winterandwords
🏷️ #QueerWriters #LGBTQWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
I'd like to get another chapter or two written in the zero draft of Miles From Morning this week. I love this part of the process because it's all discovery. I have no idea what my brain is going to do next 😅
🏷️ #QueerWriters (goals day)
🏷️ #QueerWriters (goals day)
#queerwriters Monday: Goals Day!
What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on!
#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on!
#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
January 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I'd like to get another chapter or two written in the zero draft of Miles From Morning this week. I love this part of the process because it's all discovery. I have no idea what my brain is going to do next 😅
🏷️ #QueerWriters (goals day)
🏷️ #QueerWriters (goals day)
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM