Jason Jackson
@jjfiction.bsky.social
Writer/Photographer/SAFC fan/Music nut/Socialist/Sober/Mental health advocate
Jason Jackson is a pen-name for publication 😎
Jason Jackson is a pen-name for publication 😎
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Jason Jackson
@jjfiction.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Finally jumped ship from the old place, so trying to get my head around this account now.
Writer-friends say hello 😎
Writer-friends say hello 😎
Finally jumped ship from the old place, so trying to get my head around this account now.
Writer-friends say hello 😎
Writer-friends say hello 😎
November 22, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Finally jumped ship from the old place, so trying to get my head around this account now.
Writer-friends say hello 😎
Writer-friends say hello 😎
#233words done (closer to 400)
#233words a day gets an 85,000 1st draft of a novel in a year.
😎
#233words a day gets an 85,000 1st draft of a novel in a year.
😎
January 7, 2024 at 10:59 PM
#233words done (closer to 400)
#233words a day gets an 85,000 1st draft of a novel in a year.
😎
#233words a day gets an 85,000 1st draft of a novel in a year.
😎
Well over #233words tonight. More like 350. The chapter is taking shape.
#233words a night will get you an 85,000 word 1st draft in a year.
😎
#233words a night will get you an 85,000 word 1st draft in a year.
😎
January 6, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Well over #233words tonight. More like 350. The chapter is taking shape.
#233words a night will get you an 85,000 word 1st draft in a year.
😎
#233words a night will get you an 85,000 word 1st draft in a year.
😎
Another #233words this evening (exactly 233, entirely by accident 😂)
#233words each day gets you an 85,000 word 1st draft of a novel in a year. 😎
#233words each day gets you an 85,000 word 1st draft of a novel in a year. 😎
January 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Another #233words this evening (exactly 233, entirely by accident 😂)
#233words each day gets you an 85,000 word 1st draft of a novel in a year. 😎
#233words each day gets you an 85,000 word 1st draft of a novel in a year. 😎
Another #233words tonight. (Actually more like 280)
Over 1000 words in four days.
Writing in short, manageable chunks, fifteen to twenty minutes a day.
#233words every day will give me an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
😎
Over 1000 words in four days.
Writing in short, manageable chunks, fifteen to twenty minutes a day.
#233words every day will give me an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
😎
January 4, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Another #233words tonight. (Actually more like 280)
Over 1000 words in four days.
Writing in short, manageable chunks, fifteen to twenty minutes a day.
#233words every day will give me an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
😎
Over 1000 words in four days.
Writing in short, manageable chunks, fifteen to twenty minutes a day.
#233words every day will give me an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
😎
Another #233words yesterday (more like 300). Hoping for more tonight to break the 1000 in four days.
Really interesting, writing in short sharp bursts. A different way of moving through the narrative.
😎
Really interesting, writing in short sharp bursts. A different way of moving through the narrative.
😎
January 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Another #233words yesterday (more like 300). Hoping for more tonight to break the 1000 in four days.
Really interesting, writing in short sharp bursts. A different way of moving through the narrative.
😎
Really interesting, writing in short sharp bursts. A different way of moving through the narrative.
😎
Another #233words done tonight.
Actually, it was 258.
233 words each day will make an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
Actually, it was 258.
233 words each day will make an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
January 2, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Another #233words done tonight.
Actually, it was 258.
233 words each day will make an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
Actually, it was 258.
233 words each day will make an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
First #233words done yesterday, hoping for another #233words tonight.
233 words every day will mean an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
233 words every day will mean an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
January 2, 2024 at 5:27 PM
First #233words done yesterday, hoping for another #233words tonight.
233 words every day will mean an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
233 words every day will mean an 85,000 word first draft of a novel in a year.
Who's in? 😎
#233aday
If you write 233 words a day, you'll have a 85,000+ first draft of a novel by this time next year.
Who's in?
😎
If you write 233 words a day, you'll have a 85,000+ first draft of a novel by this time next year.
Who's in?
😎
January 1, 2024 at 10:59 AM
#233aday
If you write 233 words a day, you'll have a 85,000+ first draft of a novel by this time next year.
Who's in?
😎
If you write 233 words a day, you'll have a 85,000+ first draft of a novel by this time next year.
Who's in?
😎
Reposted by Jason Jackson
We're honoured and grateful that, once again, artist Claudia McGill has agreed to create original artwork for each #flashfiction that we’ll be featuring in Flash Fiction February 2024 #submissionsopen. Guidelines below. fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/
Flash Fiction February 2024
Flash Fiction February, now in its seventh year, is an annual event during which we will feature a new piece of flash fiction throughout February 2024. That’s a new story every day starting on 1 Feb...
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October 15, 2023 at 10:52 AM
We're honoured and grateful that, once again, artist Claudia McGill has agreed to create original artwork for each #flashfiction that we’ll be featuring in Flash Fiction February 2024 #submissionsopen. Guidelines below. fictivedream.com/guidelines-2/
We're thrilled to let you know that the submissions window for Flash Fiction February 2024 opens tomorrow. We look forward to reading your #microfiction #flashfiction
October 14, 2023 at 11:34 AM
At school, he learns the history of medicine.
Black bile. Yellow bile. Phlegm. Blood.
He recites a rhythm of sickness, words which reached for truth, which missed, which pointed the way.
Now, he knows what words are for.
He writes. He gets things wrong.
And all his words are clues.
#mpotd
Black bile. Yellow bile. Phlegm. Blood.
He recites a rhythm of sickness, words which reached for truth, which missed, which pointed the way.
Now, he knows what words are for.
He writes. He gets things wrong.
And all his words are clues.
#mpotd
The 14 Oct word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): HISTORY.
I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word/inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post instead of replying.*
#writingprompt
I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word/inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post instead of replying.*
#writingprompt
October 14, 2023 at 9:09 AM
At school, he learns the history of medicine.
Black bile. Yellow bile. Phlegm. Blood.
He recites a rhythm of sickness, words which reached for truth, which missed, which pointed the way.
Now, he knows what words are for.
He writes. He gets things wrong.
And all his words are clues.
#mpotd
Black bile. Yellow bile. Phlegm. Blood.
He recites a rhythm of sickness, words which reached for truth, which missed, which pointed the way.
Now, he knows what words are for.
He writes. He gets things wrong.
And all his words are clues.
#mpotd
October 12, 2023 at 4:57 PM
We would sit, back then, you at the piano, I with my paper.
You never played anything much. Single notes, here and there. Deliberate and gentle.
Better than words.
The silence between each finger-stroke is where we lived.
Loved there, too, I still believe, despite everything.
#mpotd
You never played anything much. Single notes, here and there. Deliberate and gentle.
Better than words.
The silence between each finger-stroke is where we lived.
Loved there, too, I still believe, despite everything.
#mpotd
Here's the 11 Oct image prompt for micro prompt of the day.
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Edward Hopper
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Edward Hopper
October 11, 2023 at 7:42 PM
We would sit, back then, you at the piano, I with my paper.
You never played anything much. Single notes, here and there. Deliberate and gentle.
Better than words.
The silence between each finger-stroke is where we lived.
Loved there, too, I still believe, despite everything.
#mpotd
You never played anything much. Single notes, here and there. Deliberate and gentle.
Better than words.
The silence between each finger-stroke is where we lived.
Loved there, too, I still believe, despite everything.
#mpotd
The heart is not what he knows it to be.
Not red. More a muddy brown. Purple and blue.
Slick. Hard. Soft in places. The shape of it not that shape he knows. No smooth curves, no simple point.
A mass, a mess, a lump, a pump.
Blood and oxygen.
Hope, and the promise of death.
#mpotd
The 10 Oct word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): HEART.
I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word/inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post instead of replying.*
#writingprompt
I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word/inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post instead of replying.*
#writingprompt
October 10, 2023 at 7:59 PM
The heart is not what he knows it to be.
Not red. More a muddy brown. Purple and blue.
Slick. Hard. Soft in places. The shape of it not that shape he knows. No smooth curves, no simple point.
A mass, a mess, a lump, a pump.
Blood and oxygen.
Hope, and the promise of death.
#mpotd
6 authors you love:
Cormac McCarthy
Kent Haruf
Patrick Hamilton
Jhumpa Lahiri
Gwendolyn Riley
Raymond Carver
Cormac McCarthy
Kent Haruf
Patrick Hamilton
Jhumpa Lahiri
Gwendolyn Riley
Raymond Carver
6 authors you love
Geoff Dyer
Brigid Brophy
Jenny Diski
Louis MacNeice
Lorrie Moore
Don DeLillo
Geoff Dyer
Brigid Brophy
Jenny Diski
Louis MacNeice
Lorrie Moore
Don DeLillo
6 authors you love.
Elizabeth Taylor
Barbara Pym
Anita Brookner
Penelope Fitzgerald
Richard Yates
William Trevor
Elizabeth Taylor
Barbara Pym
Anita Brookner
Penelope Fitzgerald
Richard Yates
William Trevor
October 10, 2023 at 4:59 PM
6 authors you love:
Cormac McCarthy
Kent Haruf
Patrick Hamilton
Jhumpa Lahiri
Gwendolyn Riley
Raymond Carver
Cormac McCarthy
Kent Haruf
Patrick Hamilton
Jhumpa Lahiri
Gwendolyn Riley
Raymond Carver
Beautiful hypnotic alt-folk for Sunday evening, from Abstract Concrete - This Echo
#newmusic
#newmusic
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Official video for ’This Echo’, the newly released single from their upcoming self-titled album, out on 17 November. Pre-order standard 12” or special editio...
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October 9, 2023 at 8:49 PM
Beautiful hypnotic alt-folk for Sunday evening, from Abstract Concrete - This Echo
#newmusic
#newmusic
We've all been there. 🤣
"I don’t seem to be very nice or useful or enthusiastic anymore."
— Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Knox Burger written c. February 1953
— Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Knox Burger written c. February 1953
October 9, 2023 at 8:15 PM
We've all been there. 🤣
Introduce yourself with three books you love:
LEAN, FALL, STAND
MY PHANTOMS
GET SHORTY
LEAN, FALL, STAND
MY PHANTOMS
GET SHORTY
October 9, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Introduce yourself with three books you love:
LEAN, FALL, STAND
MY PHANTOMS
GET SHORTY
LEAN, FALL, STAND
MY PHANTOMS
GET SHORTY
A small wooden bridge over a slow stream. Unloved, functional, another sad thing under the blue sky.
Old enough.
Younger than the stream. Younger than the trees. Younger than the slow blue sky.
Another sad thing, and the stream flows.
Another sad thing, and the blue of the sky.
#mpotd
Old enough.
Younger than the stream. Younger than the trees. Younger than the slow blue sky.
Another sad thing, and the stream flows.
Another sad thing, and the blue of the sky.
#mpotd
Here's the 9 Oct image prompt for micro prompt of the day.
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Gary Burke
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Gary Burke
October 9, 2023 at 1:56 PM
A small wooden bridge over a slow stream. Unloved, functional, another sad thing under the blue sky.
Old enough.
Younger than the stream. Younger than the trees. Younger than the slow blue sky.
Another sad thing, and the stream flows.
Another sad thing, and the blue of the sky.
#mpotd
Old enough.
Younger than the stream. Younger than the trees. Younger than the slow blue sky.
Another sad thing, and the stream flows.
Another sad thing, and the blue of the sky.
#mpotd
Reposted by Jason Jackson
Here's the 9 Oct image prompt for micro prompt of the day.
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Gary Burke
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Gary Burke
October 9, 2023 at 9:00 AM
Here's the 9 Oct image prompt for micro prompt of the day.
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Gary Burke
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Gary Burke
This is such a great piece of advice from @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com self
Too many short stories read like the FIRST chapter of a novel, full of exposition, lacking tension.
Find where the thing that matters happens in your story, and write that bit.
😎
#writingcommunity
Too many short stories read like the FIRST chapter of a novel, full of exposition, lacking tension.
Find where the thing that matters happens in your story, and write that bit.
😎
#writingcommunity
Write the last chapter of the novel and call it a short story.
October 9, 2023 at 6:17 AM
This is such a great piece of advice from @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com self
Too many short stories read like the FIRST chapter of a novel, full of exposition, lacking tension.
Find where the thing that matters happens in your story, and write that bit.
😎
#writingcommunity
Too many short stories read like the FIRST chapter of a novel, full of exposition, lacking tension.
Find where the thing that matters happens in your story, and write that bit.
😎
#writingcommunity
Reposted by Jason Jackson
Write the last chapter of the novel and call it a short story.
October 8, 2023 at 10:24 PM
Write the last chapter of the novel and call it a short story.
Alongside some other reading I've been dipping in and out of this - introducing me to lots of new writers, with notes on the authors from one of my favourite writers, Jhumpa Lahiri.
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
October 8, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Alongside some other reading I've been dipping in and out of this - introducing me to lots of new writers, with notes on the authors from one of my favourite writers, Jhumpa Lahiri.
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
A while ago (back when I used to actually write and submit stuff 😎) @fictivedream.bsky.social were kind enough to publish a number of my flashes. Brilliant site, great quality fiction, always caring and genuine in their communicstions. Give em a follow and send em your best stuff. 😎
“I live alone now—you know how it is, how the number of people grows fewer day by day…” Reduplicatives (Say That Five Times Fast) or Enduring the Apocalypse, today's #shortstory by Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yw4w6nfb
Reduplicatives (Say That Five Times Fast) or Enduring the Apocalypse
by Abby Manzella Essentials: milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper. Flour for the baking I’ve always meant to do. All the junk: Hob Nobs from England, cookies with stuff in them (Reese’s Pieces, M & M��...
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October 8, 2023 at 3:49 PM
A while ago (back when I used to actually write and submit stuff 😎) @fictivedream.bsky.social were kind enough to publish a number of my flashes. Brilliant site, great quality fiction, always caring and genuine in their communicstions. Give em a follow and send em your best stuff. 😎