@freemanwrites.bsky.social
Amateur Author, hopefully soon to be widely published. Any pronouns are fine.
Had an epiphany. Let's see how much writing I can get done before midnight.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Had an epiphany. Let's see how much writing I can get done before midnight.
I know Avatar (James Cameron) has failed as a franchise because it contains several alien cat people with a tribal aesthetic and furries almost completely failed to embrace it.
Furries will embrace anything remotely anthropomorphic. There exists almost no Na'Vi fanart. How did this happen?
Furries will embrace anything remotely anthropomorphic. There exists almost no Na'Vi fanart. How did this happen?
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I know Avatar (James Cameron) has failed as a franchise because it contains several alien cat people with a tribal aesthetic and furries almost completely failed to embrace it.
Furries will embrace anything remotely anthropomorphic. There exists almost no Na'Vi fanart. How did this happen?
Furries will embrace anything remotely anthropomorphic. There exists almost no Na'Vi fanart. How did this happen?
If publication really is a matter of luck, then I feel like I have to roll fifteen Nat 20s in a roll on four-sided dice.
It seriously sucks constantly being told nothing but 'no'.
It seriously sucks constantly being told nothing but 'no'.
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If publication really is a matter of luck, then I feel like I have to roll fifteen Nat 20s in a roll on four-sided dice.
It seriously sucks constantly being told nothing but 'no'.
It seriously sucks constantly being told nothing but 'no'.
I feel like if a story takes more than 3 months to be responded to, the least that the people responding to it can do is a personal rejection, and not just a "Thank for trying, better luck elsewhere" notice. Fuck's sake.
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I feel like if a story takes more than 3 months to be responded to, the least that the people responding to it can do is a personal rejection, and not just a "Thank for trying, better luck elsewhere" notice. Fuck's sake.
One of my dad's favorite Sci-Fi stories was Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe". I always thought that the portrayal of Logics in that story was a bit too far-fetched when I read it in my sophomore year.
I owe Mr. Leinster an apology, clearly.
I owe Mr. Leinster an apology, clearly.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
One of my dad's favorite Sci-Fi stories was Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe". I always thought that the portrayal of Logics in that story was a bit too far-fetched when I read it in my sophomore year.
I owe Mr. Leinster an apology, clearly.
I owe Mr. Leinster an apology, clearly.
Can 2025 stop being a trainwreck for two seconds. Please.
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Can 2025 stop being a trainwreck for two seconds. Please.
Finished AdHoc's Dispatch. I'm glad we're seeing an upswing in optimistic capeshit.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Finished AdHoc's Dispatch. I'm glad we're seeing an upswing in optimistic capeshit.
At some point I need to figure out why I'm not getting stories accepted. What about my work is off-putting to publishers? #writing #writingcommunity
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
At some point I need to figure out why I'm not getting stories accepted. What about my work is off-putting to publishers? #writing #writingcommunity
Starbucks feels like a money laundering operation. They make bad coffee and overpriced food, don't treat their workers well, and somehow make more money than god.
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Starbucks feels like a money laundering operation. They make bad coffee and overpriced food, don't treat their workers well, and somehow make more money than god.
This may be utterly unhinged, but I feel like if you take over a third of a year to respond to a submission, you can do better than a rubber stamp boilerplate "it's not for us" rejection #writingcommunity
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This may be utterly unhinged, but I feel like if you take over a third of a year to respond to a submission, you can do better than a rubber stamp boilerplate "it's not for us" rejection #writingcommunity
All this Bond discourse I'm seeing is making my writer's fingers itch. Pity I never really liked James Bond.
You have to love something to be able to effectively parody it, and I'm apathetic towards disliking of spy fiction.
You have to love something to be able to effectively parody it, and I'm apathetic towards disliking of spy fiction.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
All this Bond discourse I'm seeing is making my writer's fingers itch. Pity I never really liked James Bond.
You have to love something to be able to effectively parody it, and I'm apathetic towards disliking of spy fiction.
You have to love something to be able to effectively parody it, and I'm apathetic towards disliking of spy fiction.
HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND OUT MY DESK CHAIR HAS AN ADJUSTABLE BACK????
AUGH I CAN WRITE WITHOUT BEING IN AGONY NOW!
AUGH I CAN WRITE WITHOUT BEING IN AGONY NOW!
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
HOLY SHIT I JUST FOUND OUT MY DESK CHAIR HAS AN ADJUSTABLE BACK????
AUGH I CAN WRITE WITHOUT BEING IN AGONY NOW!
AUGH I CAN WRITE WITHOUT BEING IN AGONY NOW!
Eight days into #Novelvember and I finally figured out the plot.
Oh this has not been a good year for me.
Oh this has not been a good year for me.
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Eight days into #Novelvember and I finally figured out the plot.
Oh this has not been a good year for me.
Oh this has not been a good year for me.
Actually finishing stuff. I've managed to finish all of one short story in the last three months.
What's something you'd like to improve on in your writing? #WritingPrompt
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Actually finishing stuff. I've managed to finish all of one short story in the last three months.
I am begging publishers, please include a "if you haven't heard by x date please query" clause in your guidelines. I'm going on two months of not hearing back from some markets and I don’t know if I can query. #writingcomnunity
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am begging publishers, please include a "if you haven't heard by x date please query" clause in your guidelines. I'm going on two months of not hearing back from some markets and I don’t know if I can query. #writingcomnunity
People Always assume malice over mistake and it's fucking exhausting.
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
People Always assume malice over mistake and it's fucking exhausting.
Demons and Hell are their own pantheon in the Divine setting I'm trying to write (still need a name). Not 100% sure where they are morally, but considering I wrote Jesus as an antagonist in two of the stories I've written for it, I imagine that it's a 'lesser of two evils' situation.
Tell me about your demons and demonic characters! 👹#WritingPrompt
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Demons and Hell are their own pantheon in the Divine setting I'm trying to write (still need a name). Not 100% sure where they are morally, but considering I wrote Jesus as an antagonist in two of the stories I've written for it, I imagine that it's a 'lesser of two evils' situation.
Having to be professional is exhausting, but I keep telling myself it'll be worth it in the long run.
That said, if I had a nickel for every snarky post I wanted to write about my life or my reading habits, I could retire.
That said, if I had a nickel for every snarky post I wanted to write about my life or my reading habits, I could retire.
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Having to be professional is exhausting, but I keep telling myself it'll be worth it in the long run.
That said, if I had a nickel for every snarky post I wanted to write about my life or my reading habits, I could retire.
That said, if I had a nickel for every snarky post I wanted to write about my life or my reading habits, I could retire.
So no classical casters in my setting, but the gods and spirits empower human avatars with 'magic' abilities that match their domain.
One of my favorite concepts that emerged from this is that Bragi, Norse god of performance and poems, has the power to get free tickets to any show he wants.
One of my favorite concepts that emerged from this is that Bragi, Norse god of performance and poems, has the power to get free tickets to any show he wants.
Tell me about your witches, sorcerers, warlocks, wizards, and other magic users! #WritingPrompt
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So no classical casters in my setting, but the gods and spirits empower human avatars with 'magic' abilities that match their domain.
One of my favorite concepts that emerged from this is that Bragi, Norse god of performance and poems, has the power to get free tickets to any show he wants.
One of my favorite concepts that emerged from this is that Bragi, Norse god of performance and poems, has the power to get free tickets to any show he wants.
After I'm done with this temp job, I never want to work in an office again.
I feel like my brain is oozing out my ears every night.
I feel like my brain is oozing out my ears every night.
October 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
After I'm done with this temp job, I never want to work in an office again.
I feel like my brain is oozing out my ears every night.
I feel like my brain is oozing out my ears every night.
I honestly wish that oldschool creepypasta authors would try to pro-publish their work. Closest I've seen is a novel titled "No-End House" by someone who wasn't the original author of that, and had nothing to do with the original work.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I honestly wish that oldschool creepypasta authors would try to pro-publish their work. Closest I've seen is a novel titled "No-End House" by someone who wasn't the original author of that, and had nothing to do with the original work.
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Are you trans in the Magic the Gathering space? Are you creating, supporting, even just playing and having fun!?
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.
Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.
Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.
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Alt: Magic the Gathering character Miles Tails Prowler says trans right
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October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Are you trans in the Magic the Gathering space? Are you creating, supporting, even just playing and having fun!?
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.
Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.
Sound off. Celebrate yourself here. Find each other. We're stronger together.
Are you an ally? Boost us. Show support. Help us feel safer out here.
So was the Moksha submission platform named ironically? Every time I submit to a publication that uses it, I feel like I'm trapped in an unending cycle of checking if my work's been read every time I see the Grinder update a listing. #writingcommunity #writing
October 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
So was the Moksha submission platform named ironically? Every time I submit to a publication that uses it, I feel like I'm trapped in an unending cycle of checking if my work's been read every time I see the Grinder update a listing. #writingcommunity #writing
If someone is willing to collaborate with you creatively but will drop you at the first sign of you being emotionally inconvenient, you don't have a friend. You have a colleague, at best.
October 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If someone is willing to collaborate with you creatively but will drop you at the first sign of you being emotionally inconvenient, you don't have a friend. You have a colleague, at best.
I feel like if a platform's function degrades to the point where users can't delete accounts, the best time to migrate off that platform was five years ago, the next-best time is tomorrow.
October 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I feel like if a platform's function degrades to the point where users can't delete accounts, the best time to migrate off that platform was five years ago, the next-best time is tomorrow.