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Jeff Bradley
@jefbradley.bsky.social
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Writer of words. Coder of code. Learner of learnings.

Software engineer in the entertainment industry. Writing MG and YA SF&F. Unpublished, but hope to change that soon. Love writing screenplays too. Screencraft Finalist.

📍Los Angeles
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Be careful you aren't thinking unapproved thoughts.
Red shield with "THINKPOL" above circle around a geometric design and an eye. This is the symbol of the Thought Police from the George Orwell novel "1984." Image by By RootOfAllLight - Nineteen Eighty-Four, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111976883
March 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The first words in the preface for my current query “Alice and the Keys of Time.”

#WIPSnips for March 7 is *before*

#middleGrade #MG #fantasy #writesky #writingcommunity 💙📚
Text overlaid on an image of a meadow among redwoods. Before The land remained constant as life flowed over it, depositing layers of moments on top of the past. Thousands of years of moments. Good and bad. Shockingly unique and delightfully mundane. No matter how small, the important moments always leave an impression. Always the same forests, lakes, hills, and ocean. Time marched on, year after year. Season to season to season to season and back again.
March 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I'm a plotter and LOVE the "outlining" phase. Ok, sometimes like outlining on steroids. Checking my story against a list of my previous story mistakes. Every hole I find is a relief--something I can start fixing today rather than months from now when it'd be a surprise. #writing #writers
Missing Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces In Unfinished Work Concept. White - Print Missing Puzzle Piece, Source Image: previews.123rf.com
January 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions since I try to see every moment as a new beginning, but occasionally the stars align, and on Jan 1, I start something I hope I can stick with to the end.
#writing #kidlit #mglit #middlegrade #mgbookchat
Computer window with an empty document titled "Chapter 1."
January 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Already enjoying our #DreamWorks 30th anniversary celebration!
Large pink donut—enough to feed a family—sits on a table. Behind it is The Simpsons Ride. On the wall is projected, “Celebrating 30 years - DreamWorks.”
December 10, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 15
Black and white. 1940s. A woman standing behind a door looks at a man in a suit. She's in control, even if he doesn't know she's there.
December 6, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 10
Jack and Sally stand atop a snow-covered spiral hill, backlit by a full moon
December 1, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 8
A man breathes from an oxygen mask while caressing the cheek of a younger woman.
November 29, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 7
Boy touches a sword stuck in an anvil.
November 28, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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#FilmSkyJames #Movies 🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 6
British man in the import/export business with a beautiful woman who can see the future next to him, face off against an unseen adversary. Fortunately, he's wearing a shoulder holster and carries a license to kill.
November 27, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 5
A woman and two men carefully examine the Declaration of Independence.
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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If you see this post, post a robot.
A robot holds a duckling in its palm. Rays of light emanating from its chest symbolize the meaning it has discovered.
November 25, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 4
Black and white. 1928. A man relaxes reading a newspaper on one end of a long board hanging out the window while his partner cuts the lumber in the middle with a hand saw. Both are oblivious to what will happen with the final cut.
November 25, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Describe your in-person social skills with a (Star Trek-related) image:
Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation realizes he may have put his foot in his mouth again and asks himself, "Did I say something wrong?"
November 23, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥
Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 2
Two police officers enjoy Cornetto ice cream in their patrol car.
November 22, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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It's a messy shot at a stop sign through my windshield this morning, but views like this make me feel good about the day.
Marine layer of clouds covering the LA basin viewed from the nearby foothills. Several peaks poke up from the clouds like islands.
November 22, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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#FilmSky #Movies 🎬🎥

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order
No explanations, no reviews, just gifs

Day 1
Scary looking man dressed in black searches, while a family tries to conceal themselves as elaborate jack-in-the-boxes.
November 22, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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#WritingCommunity Using a GIF, spoil an event that happens in one your books with no context.
Crowd of Trekkies in Starfleet uniforms cheer and give the Vulcan hand greeting. “Live long and prosper.”
November 22, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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Two men are running down a sidewalk in a park and one of them says on your left.
November 19, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Bringing Up Baby if I am forced to pick just one.
Katherine Hepburn laughs at Cary Grant, who stares at her, incredulous, after she dropped a net over his head.
November 17, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.

[Since this is an introduction, I figured I should start with my serious side.]
Smiling man (me) in a blue plaid shirt sitting in a restaurant, wearing a silly hat made from six balloons of various colors.
November 15, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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It’s always fun to get creative and use my hands for something other than typing.
Working gloved hand running a plank of wood across a belt sander that’s fastened to the surface a table saw. This is all on a driveway. These parts weren’t all meant to be used this way, but it’s great fun to put them together and get the job done well!
November 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

[There will be hijinx!]
Sean and Gus from the show Psych stare seriously at the camera while bearing colorful water guns.
November 12, 2024 at 5:19 AM