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JP Spalding - #amQuerying SciFi 🪐
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Sci-fi enthusiast querying a space opera novel which asks ‘how does technology change us?’

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novella about birds. Mybook.to/BTBW
Political Video editor. VFX compositor. Owner of a smol parrot
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When I am cirtiquing someone’s manuscript, I have this distinct feeling that I can tell who is reading actively within their genre and who is not reading much at all.

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November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworldmagazine.com The Clarkesworld robot (center) looks to the right at the cover of Clarkesworld #230, which is in yellow, orange, and brown and features a futuristic cityscape with a small craft approaching. Cover art is "Neo Mars" by Guy Warley.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Reading without stopping after each chapter. Book binging.
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Space opera is the background radiation of science fiction. It's always there, crackling away.

#booksky
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I went through over a decade of learning and mistakes and mastery of one skill (video editing) until I became an expert in my niche.

Now im starting from scratch for writing. It’s different, faster in some ways, more grueling in others. I imagine it’s like learning your third language~

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adwills.bsky.social A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · 5d
"I'm not any good at this. I'm not a real writer. I'm—" MAYBE YOU'RE WRITING ISN'T WHERE YOU WANT IT. WE CAN ALL IMPROVE. BUT PERFECTION IS A LIE. SO KEEP WORKING ON IT AND GIVE YOURSELF SOME DAMN GRACE, BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT SHIT. YOU'RE LEARNING. YOU'RE TRYING. GOT IT, BOZO?
Squidward laying in bed, as spongebob stands on the bed and screams in squidward's face, pointing him on his nose and ranting on
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I have all these short ramblings that are not stories, barely concepts, often sub 500 words, but that had to be told.
Now they’re festering, buried in folders all over my hard drive, these broken things.

#ShortFiction #WritingCommunity
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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MULTITUDES
Wild Seed x Parable of the Sower
👦🏾 👦🏾 👦🏾 Cloning hive mind
🐊 🥘 💀 A story set in the authentic South
🥷🏾 🥷🏾 🥷🏾 Evil cult of monks
🌎 🇦🇶 The fate of the world & Antarctica 🤯
Supernatural Upmarket Speculative Fiction

#CastPit #SF #A #W #POC
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Look at that 👀 I’ve hit another milestone in followers and the holidays are approaching, a perfect time to hock my cute & cozy birb novella! It’s like 100 pages long, not a huge lift.📚

It’s literally as cheap as I can get it, i make like 1¢. Available in ebook, audio, & paperback!

#BookSky #gift
My book black throated blue warbler available in paperback, audiobook and ebook
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Got some rejections while on vacation but I am back up to 8 short stories on active submission (and two in development) 🤞🤞🤞

#AmSubmitting #ShortFiction #Writers
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Travel with 48 hours of no sleep is a unique experience. liminal and dreamlike. My body keeps micro sleeping anytime I’m not totally locked in. I have made it to my gate half by instinct and the other half I’ve forgotten.
The view out of the airport, a coffee, an airplane, overcast like my foggy frontal cortex, gray tarmac stretching out to meet platinum steel sky. Moody rich colors that promise a weight of importance left unanswered.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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A random selection photos from my Vietnam 🇻🇳 Trip that is not quite over.

#Travel #Vietnam #Sapa #Hanoi #Ninhbinh #HaLongBay
The great Buddha atop mount fan xi pan in Sa Pa (also one of the four heavenly lords in the four ground) and Megan in front of that The islands of ha long bay An 11 step pagoda signifying the eleven steps to achieve heaven Rice paddy fields in Ninh Binh
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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At the peak of fan xi pan (10,000 ft) in SaPa and it’s a little foggy today
Vietnam flag at fancipan peak. Overcast. Foggy. 🌫️
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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they should invent a kindle i can read at bedtime without falling asleep within four minutes
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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I suppose I should marvel at the miracle of technology that allows me to sit in an airport in Japan, remote logged in to my computer in Denver, where I am editing a video for a client in Virginia… but right now I’m annoyed at how slow the connection is.
November 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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I discovered this writer’s work through instagram and these short stories are hilarious. Had to share~

A television executive selling exclusive rights to the epstein files, a 60 year old man becoming the lead for a kpop band. This is @tacobellquarterly.org style content

#fiction #WriteSky #booksky
HOME | Short Story
www.iwroteashortstory.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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So what do we think about the new Bsky 🦋 logo for iOS? Faux 3D and bevels? Personally I liked the minimalist two color from before
#Bsky
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Always a good reminder; sometimes when I hit a wall in writing, I need to feed that void with life and experience.
Get out into the world and do something that’s not writing for a while, then I can return with new ideas and perspectives to fuel my work~

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October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that.
Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too.
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Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. clarkesworldmagazine.com Includes our robot mascot's head looking up and over at the cover of a recent issue that has a building on a hill with red tubes bursting through the walls and into the sky. A small robot and some people approach the woods in front of the building. Ok, so maybe that place has problems too, but at least it's pretty to look at. I won't say that won't happen in the real world because you never know who will decide to invest in the BuildingDestroyer(tm) after seeing that picture instead of buying a subscription and supporting real human artists and authors. Those people probably wouldn't support us anyway because we hate their so-called "AI" and mock their little toys when we have the opportunity to. But yes, visit our world. The stories are good. Really. At least we think so. Can't hurt to try, can it? Stay as long as you like. There's nineteen years of stories, many in audio too. Just don't forget to stop to eat and drink and sleep and take care of yourself. And when you're ready, go back to the real world and fight your monsters or just breathe. You can come back any time. I suppose I should stop rambling now. I apologize for the lack of a screaming possum in this ad, but trust that it is there in spirit.
October 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Vaxxed! ✅
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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2300 words this AM. Somehow some way I’m right on target to my desired word count, barreling toward the finish like I’m trying to keep from tripping and falling down face first.

#amWriting #WriteSky
October 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Tonight’s writing soundtrack. I really love this artist, absolutely amazing stuff.

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EVENT HORIZON -Epic Space Odyssey Near a Black Hole | Sci-Fi Cinematic Music for Focus, Work & Relax
YouTube video by AMBIENT CIVILIZATION
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October 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Listening to the audiobook of The First Five Pages by Lukeman and had to stop and play it back to capture this quote in my notes app. it is such a great way to judge when you are ready to start that new draft.

#WritingCommunity #Authors #WriteSky
"Any story that can be entirely explained by the adequate motivation of the characters, or by a believable imitation of a way of life, or by a proper theology will not be a large enough story for him to occupy himself with... the meaning of his story does not begin except at a depth where these things have been exhausted" -Flannery O'Connor
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I’ve donated blood a few times and the result is now Vitalant calls me precisely three times a day all from different numbers and have been doing so for the past 8 years
October 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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In reviewing people’s manuscripts and query letters, I keep running across stories where one character holds agency over the plot, driving the action forward, and the other undergoes the primary emotional arc. I wonder how common that is?

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM