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Dan F. Bispo
@danfbispo.bsky.social
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Professional word extruder. Author of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.

My books: https://barrows.itch.io/

Currently working on: FIRST LIGHT, a sci-fi novella
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I know I've shared this one before, but I really like it. It is Yana's first experience in a NEV ship, a place where history is made, not just remembered.

It immediately infatuates her. Of course, like most infatuations, this one will fade if not nurtured.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
In the third deck of the Nomadic Exploration Volunteers’ scout ship Radiant, Yana sat in a waiting room and considered all the decisions that had led her to this point. The old vessel had been quick to work its strange magic on her. From the moment she stepped through the umbilical, a whole new world had welcomed her. A world of history—not the almost desperate remembrances of the Habitat’s Bellerophons and Devapalas and Anansis, not the things that were easy or empowering to remember, but real history, immediate history, written itself in dents and plasma burns and long sinuous scars in the fuselage. It reminded Yana of something she hadn’t seen in a long time—something she’d escaped, but had come to find herself missing, as if some part of her had craved the simplicity of hardship. There was no Ada here to haunt her under the guise of helpfulness. The smiles she did encounter on her way came with effort, yet were all the more honest for it. And more than that, this Radiant, this old and tired piece of metal full of old and tired people, wore its wounds openly. They were wounds she could spend a lifetime tending to.
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Return of the fan favorite character--in that I'm its fan, and it's my favorite.

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“Okay, Blob, back in you go.” The amoeba tried to run up her arm, but she scooped it up and placed it, defeated, in its lush cage.
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
I just finished listening to #Raven+Bear by @thebrambler13.bsky.social and I can't recommend it enough. I love the setting and how it trickles in, I love the interactions between the two protagonists, and most of all, I love the naturalistic language and how it permeates characters and setting. --
November 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Dan F. Bispo
thebrambler13.bsky.social
TRADE DEAL

Drop links in my replies where I can find your ✒️/🎙️/🎼/🎨/🎥 and I'll promote it.

I hope you'll listen to my stories and talk about them using #Raven+Bear in exchange, then help others in my replies!🥺

youtu.be/PelmDJOkyH4

#WritingCommunity #digitalart #artists #writers #music #musicians
Proof Heraldic
YouTube video by Bramble
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November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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#Novmemeber 14

The main opposing force of First Light book 1 is literally just a bunch of garbage that's in the way.
the world's worst drawn trash can
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Fresh new snip from the first chapter of First Light Book 2, as promised!

I would add some kind of remark, but really, it's just good, solid advice.

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“Hey, Captain,” the first voice interrupted. Yana winced. The title still hung about her like an unwelcome smell. “Yes, Rook?” “Where do we keep the medical supplies?” “...why?” “No reason.” “Rook…” “Just a lil’ nosebleed, it’s nothing, really.” “Infirmary.” “There’s really no need—” “Now.” A small chuckle, echoed through cramped surroundings, rose from the small device. “I’d advise against antagonizing your captain in the very first minute of a week-long spike jump,” Diodorus said from the ship’s bowels. “Doubly so when she’s also the only doctor on board.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Hi, #SFFChat! I'm Dan, and I put words together for several hours every day. Once enough words have been put together, a book comes out, and I'm extra lucky, someone might even read it!

Much like all the most annoying people you know, I'm a morning person. I like my coffee with a side of sunrise.
sffchat.bsky.social SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 3d
#SFFChat Intro: Introduce yourself and share your favourite time of day (night, day, evening, morning--lunch!). Be as general or specific as you like. (:
Black background with a simple sparkling gold texture and a line drawing of a sun and crescent moon.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Yana would insist she doesn't find memes funny, and then laugh until she got a tummyache the moment you showed her this one.

#Novmemeber 13
A two-panel meme template with the caption "if you had a time machine what would you go back and fix?" "me:" followed by someone using a stick to push the first fish to walk on land back into the water.
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Dan F. Bispo
thebrambler13.bsky.social
Do you want free short stories to listen to? I'm an indie author currently working on a collection called #Raven+Bear, which follows a knight and his page on adventures through various kingdoms.🎙️

youtube.com/@thebrambler...

I hope you enjoy them!
#whattoread #readersky #bookrecs #books #audiobooks
Bramble
Free short stories about knights, sci-fi, magic, fantasy.
youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Guys, the robot is being explainy again...

Also, accountability moment: tomorrow's snippet is going to be from Book 2. I WILL sneak a "week" in there.

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“Yeah, I reckon,” Rook said; their voice carried, however, a different message. “So you prefer to reside in that body, rather than something more advanced? Did I get that right?” “Perhaps explaining is not fully possible, but it could most accurately be described as compatibility, rather than preference. As a braked AI, I am limited in terms of processing power; there are hard limits of what I can achieve intellectually and creatively. My body, likewise, is defined in concrete ways in terms of appearance, build, and capabilities. The interaction between these two factors distinguishes and defines me as an independent unit.”
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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GUYS ITS THE WEED NUMBER

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“I just assumed he didn’t want me there for the ritual anymore.”
“You know what they say about assuming, Yana?”
“Yeah…”
She didn’t.

#booksky #writesky
shadowsparkpub.bsky.social Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 5d
It's Hump Day, folks, and our friend demands a sacrifice. Let's get a page from your wip. Maybe it's the middle for you? Give us a line from PAGE 69?

If you haven’t gotten to that page, how about a post from page 6 instead?

#booksky #writesky 📚 🪐 💙
Wednesday Hump Day Two humped camel judging you
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
danfbispo.bsky.social
#Novmemeber 12

I like the first few hours of editing, but when it gets down to fine tuning, I want off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Subbing clothes for today's #WIPSnips.

Protagonists will do all kinds of things to avoid having to get back to the person who asked them on a date.

Incidentally, I started work on Book 2 today. What's that? Fresh snips in the horizon? Maybe.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
By the third day of her imposed break, Yana felt as if she’d done everything there was to do in the universe—everything, that is, other than calling Ngata. She had walked through the visitor areas of the station, sipped on designer drinks at the many bars that littered the arm. She had seen all the museum pieces, visited all the niche communities on the station’s alt-world, participated in a pottery class, tried on new clothes, and put herself in the shoes of an Old World explorer in the sensory chambers. But no matter how enjoyable the experience, or how didactic, she always called it early, craving the quiet of her pod, access to all her systems and the six walls that protected her. And once there, she felt at peace—and empty again.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Yana is this owl in particular. Rook's an opossum. Six is a mantis, but only when they're posturing to scare off a predator. Diodorus is a giant tortoise.

#Novmemeber (I actually spelled it right this time!)
A picture of a startled-looking owl.
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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No burgers, but here's the infamous Bread--the one, singular case of people eating in the entirety of First Light.

To be fair, it's good bread.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Dan F. Bispo
thebrambler13.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky! I'm writing a collection of stories called #Raven+Bear, which are free for everyone on youtube.🎙️

youtube.com/@thebrambler...

They follow a knight & his page on cosy, whimsical adventures through the kingdoms of a post-apocalyptic Cymru.🏰

Us if you like/comment on them and subscribe!⬇️
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Alt: a pixel art drawing of a group of people hugging each other
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November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
The funnest fact about me, I think, is that I spent minutes on end trying to think of two interesting things about myself (plus a lie) for #Novmember, and couldn't come up with anything. And honestly? I think that's pretty sexy of me. You have to put in the work to be THIS unremarkable.
sagetgreene.bsky.social Sage T. Greene, Author @sagetgreene.bsky.social · 7d
#Novmemeber 10

Corporate-style icebreaker jump scare 😱: tell us a fun fact about you, the author!

This is meant to be fun, so if "fun facts" make you cringe, feel free to adjust this prompt. You could do two truths and a lie, or just give us a non-personal fun fact that brings you joy.
10. Get to know the author: a fun fact about YOU A prompt game for the month of November, titled #Novmemeber (as in meme). Hosted by @sagetgreene.bsky.social . The bottom says "Have fun, interact, and remember alt text!" There is a silly emoji face with wild eyes and tongue sticking out, and some fall-style leaves in the corners.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
danfbispo.bsky.social
In today's snip, I channel my terror at having to turn corners in busy areas (people always bump into me), as well as my self-consciousness about my resting bitch face.

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Even these more isolated alleyways still felt crowded compared to the Habitat. Though wide, the way they winded made every bend a blind spot, and it seemed as if behind each one a local awaited just to startle her. Windows were scattered across the facades of rusting buildings, of a thousand shapes and sizes, casting their glow across the street. For each pristine synthwood door, another had been barred with chunks of scrap. It seemed to Yana like a place between places, defiant in its identity while lacking one at all. “New to non-modular housing?” Rook asked. “Sorry?” “You’ve been glaring at everything for the last minute or so, all intense-like.” “That’s just what my face looks like.” Yana was used to this comment, but it nevertheless gave her pause. “How many people live here, six million? Seven? I expected it to be more efficient, that’s all.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Man, I really thought I'd be able to go a single day without mentioning Arthur C. Clarke's Rama...

It's a masterclass in awe and wonder. Of helplessness before something both benevolent and terrifying in scale. Curiosity--the essence of sci-fi.

Too bad it doesn't have any sequels!

#Bookvember
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Little excerpt from the First Light WIP as I integrate beta reader feedback. Consensus seems to be all the parts I thought were good actually suck, and all the parts I thought sucked are great, actually.

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She showered, dried, put on a set of fresh clothes, fought with her hair, readjusted her ID badge—the picture on it less familiar by the day—and laid on the bed on her back.
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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That's my excuse too, Rook.

From First Light.

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Rook sat on their newly-claimed bed, in their newly-claimed private quarters—or, as they defiantly called it, their house. Diodorus had promised to help them clear out all the clutter he’d filled it with over the years, and while they appreciated the offer, they had been quick to decline. Truth was, a cramped room suited Rook just fine. Clutter was evidence of life; a physicality of memory, a sense of belonging. They liked having little trinkets to hold, decorations to move around, splotches of color on otherwise unremarkable surfaces.
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Absolutely unmonitored. For all the books my family owned, I never saw them read any. I was reading the wildest stuff and they had no idea, because they had never read it themselves.

It was cool, but I would have enjoyed having someone to discuss them with. It was a lonely pursuit.

#Bookvember
woodenvelt.bsky.social Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 10d
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 7!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of the written word with others.

#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 7: Was your reading monitored by adults when you were a kid or was it a free for all? Did that scar you or set you free? Remember: Quote post using #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
The artwork of Syd Mead doesn't just remind me of my writing, it inspired my love for utopic sci-fi. If it weren't for him and Arthur C. Clarke, I'd be writing some other genre right now-- 1/3

#HopePit
A piece by the artist Syd Mead, depicting a group of humans in futuristic outfits overlooking red cliffs and some kind of tower thing.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
danfbispo.bsky.social
Naaah. I did it for a while for survival reasons and it absolutely blitzed out my brain. Ended up poorly. Unfortunate memories.

However, when I'm done writing for the day, I like checking how much I did. It helps me conceptualize how far in I am, without any of the pressure.

#PretendPanel
karamoonauthor.com Kara Moon (the artist formerly known as Hiria Dunning) @karamoonauthor.com · 10d
Greetings, #pretendpanel! One week into writeathon month, I'm wondering how you feel about this notorious topic...

November 7th: X number of words per day - are you a fan of this approach or not?

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#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social November 7th: X number of words per day - are you a fan of this approach or not? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM