Adrien Litton
@adrienlitton.bsky.social
Transportation GIS Expert, Baker of Bread, Terrible Guitarist, Creator of Worlds.
As long as it doesn't get me permanently banned from the Woolworths.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
As long as it doesn't get me permanently banned from the Woolworths.
#WeeknightWriters Research rabbit hole. I needed a 1 line answer to a simple question: How does a megacorporation of the future profit from the human carnage of neglect and over population? Turns out you can use bacteria and fungi to harvest corpses for minerals. And phosphorous is super lucrative.
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
#WeeknightWriters Research rabbit hole. I needed a 1 line answer to a simple question: How does a megacorporation of the future profit from the human carnage of neglect and over population? Turns out you can use bacteria and fungi to harvest corpses for minerals. And phosphorous is super lucrative.
#WeeknightWriters After spending most of last week and all weekend plotting and outlining, I finally sat down and wrote the first 2k words of the third installment in my cyberpunk series. Forgot how much fun starting a new project is.
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
#WeeknightWriters After spending most of last week and all weekend plotting and outlining, I finally sat down and wrote the first 2k words of the third installment in my cyberpunk series. Forgot how much fun starting a new project is.
#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Whenever I think I have writer's block, I'm reminded of Senator Daniel Boone's response (probably apocryphal) to a reporter's question about whether he ever got lost in the wilderness. Lost? he said, I ain't never been lost. Been a might confused for a day or two.
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Whenever I think I have writer's block, I'm reminded of Senator Daniel Boone's response (probably apocryphal) to a reporter's question about whether he ever got lost in the wilderness. Lost? he said, I ain't never been lost. Been a might confused for a day or two.
#WeeknightWriters Now that book one is querying agents, and book two is first-draft complete, the plan is to finish the structural outline of book three and start working on the detailed outline. Feeling like I'm in a pretty good place.
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
#WeeknightWriters Now that book one is querying agents, and book two is first-draft complete, the plan is to finish the structural outline of book three and start working on the detailed outline. Feeling like I'm in a pretty good place.
Also, don't care about literary gigantism. A shelf of books in every Hudson News in every airport in the US would make me happy.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Also, don't care about literary gigantism. A shelf of books in every Hudson News in every airport in the US would make me happy.
I'm 10 chapters (out of 80) from going out on submission. I've got my blurb and synopsis dialed in. I'm a week from being ready to submit to agents. I've also got a first draft of the sequel and dev notes on the closer, plus 30k words into a prequel. What else should I be doing? #WeeknightWriters
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I'm 10 chapters (out of 80) from going out on submission. I've got my blurb and synopsis dialed in. I'm a week from being ready to submit to agents. I've also got a first draft of the sequel and dev notes on the closer, plus 30k words into a prequel. What else should I be doing? #WeeknightWriters
#WeeknightWriters. Working on draft 4. Took a couple weeks off for... reasons. When I got back to writing I polished this little paragraph.
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
#WeeknightWriters. Working on draft 4. Took a couple weeks off for... reasons. When I got back to writing I polished this little paragraph.
Neutral Plotter. High-level plot beats to start. Create scene titles to get from beat to beat building scaffolding as i draft. Get stuck in 2nd act. Spin for days- weeks- months? Invent new character with separate plot line. Brings entire story together.
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Neutral Plotter. High-level plot beats to start. Create scene titles to get from beat to beat building scaffolding as i draft. Get stuck in 2nd act. Spin for days- weeks- months? Invent new character with separate plot line. Brings entire story together.
Also released in '73 was American Graffiti. The tag line was: Where Were You In '62? That was 11 years. Imagine being so nostalgic for 2014.
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Also released in '73 was American Graffiti. The tag line was: Where Were You In '62? That was 11 years. Imagine being so nostalgic for 2014.
George Romero warned us this would happen.
June 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
George Romero warned us this would happen.
As I gazed down the inoperable escalator toward the rising sun, the dead began shambling out of the Foot Locker on the first floor...
June 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
As I gazed down the inoperable escalator toward the rising sun, the dead began shambling out of the Foot Locker on the first floor...
Subverts Schrodinger by opening box prematurely. Kitten for the win.
May 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Subverts Schrodinger by opening box prematurely. Kitten for the win.
Perfectly bookends the train station opener. The end brings us right back to the beginning. Obscure insignificance->silent tension->powder keg ready to blow. Also, that fly wrangler deserved an Oscar.
May 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Perfectly bookends the train station opener. The end brings us right back to the beginning. Obscure insignificance->silent tension->powder keg ready to blow. Also, that fly wrangler deserved an Oscar.
Well, in his defense... forget it. There is no defense. We might as well call it the Department of Toxic Masculinity and Unchecked Aggression.
May 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well, in his defense... forget it. There is no defense. We might as well call it the Department of Toxic Masculinity and Unchecked Aggression.
Counterpoint - America bringing our own Palpatine back should have been narratively impossible and is incredibly lazy storytelling. Just because life imitates art, it doesn't make it good art. 🙃
May 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Counterpoint - America bringing our own Palpatine back should have been narratively impossible and is incredibly lazy storytelling. Just because life imitates art, it doesn't make it good art. 🙃
As God is my witness, I really thought turkeys could fly.
April 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
As God is my witness, I really thought turkeys could fly.
That excerpt was 2 sharp rights and a left. "I thumbed through the mysterious cryptic journal. I recited the strangely melodic incantation scrawled within. Suddenly... the neighbors cranked up the hi-fi." Banging. Just totally banging.
April 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
That excerpt was 2 sharp rights and a left. "I thumbed through the mysterious cryptic journal. I recited the strangely melodic incantation scrawled within. Suddenly... the neighbors cranked up the hi-fi." Banging. Just totally banging.
Thank you for making a simple door very happy.
April 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Thank you for making a simple door very happy.
Decades ago in a bar in New Orleans, an acquaintance who was my age but wore a fedora and chewed on an unlit pipe which made him seem wise, gave me some writing advice: In your first scene, kick your character square in the nuts and then spend the rest of the story watching him get up. Still tracks.
April 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Decades ago in a bar in New Orleans, an acquaintance who was my age but wore a fedora and chewed on an unlit pipe which made him seem wise, gave me some writing advice: In your first scene, kick your character square in the nuts and then spend the rest of the story watching him get up. Still tracks.
"The last time I checked," Nya yelled into the comm, leaning hard on the throttle, "computer hacking didn't involve being chased by flying murder machines."
April 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"The last time I checked," Nya yelled into the comm, leaning hard on the throttle, "computer hacking didn't involve being chased by flying murder machines."
You had me at burned the flesh away. Now I need to know what happens next.
April 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
You had me at burned the flesh away. Now I need to know what happens next.