Lane Stephan
@lanestephan.bsky.social
Lost in Netherverse. Don't wanna come back. Fantasy writer. Reckless heroes, minimal ducking.
Being a writer is arguing with your character about the plot till midnight… and then letting them do whatever they want anyway.
#amwriting #writingCommunity #writinghumor #authorproblems
#amwriting #writingCommunity #writinghumor #authorproblems
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Being a writer is arguing with your character about the plot till midnight… and then letting them do whatever they want anyway.
#amwriting #writingCommunity #writinghumor #authorproblems
#amwriting #writingCommunity #writinghumor #authorproblems
Wrote it. The time-travel story about a scientist who can’t fix the past. Needs editing, sure — but I did it. Again.
#amwriting #shortstory #scifi #timetravel #writerslife
#amwriting #shortstory #scifi #timetravel #writerslife
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wrote it. The time-travel story about a scientist who can’t fix the past. Needs editing, sure — but I did it. Again.
#amwriting #shortstory #scifi #timetravel #writerslife
#amwriting #shortstory #scifi #timetravel #writerslife
I once heard you're “supposed” to start with short stories before daring to write a novel. Cute. Some of us just jump into the deep end and stay there. Others thrive in tiny, sharp bursts. No sacred rulebook here. Write where your chaos feels right.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
October 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I once heard you're “supposed” to start with short stories before daring to write a novel. Cute. Some of us just jump into the deep end and stay there. Others thrive in tiny, sharp bursts. No sacred rulebook here. Write where your chaos feels right.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
We all make mistakes. The idea of “going back and fixing everything” powers countless stories — it’s tempting to think we could choose better, change it all…
But our mistakes are experience. They made us who we are. Change the past — and you change yourself.
I wouldn’t go back
#life #thoughts
But our mistakes are experience. They made us who we are. Change the past — and you change yourself.
I wouldn’t go back
#life #thoughts
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I’m not afraid AI will write books and steal my readers. Honestly, I barely have readers now—I don’t even promote myself.
But I won’t quit writing. Not because of AI, not because of numbers. I write because I love making up stories. That’s the real joy. The rest? Just details
#AmWriting
But I won’t quit writing. Not because of AI, not because of numbers. I write because I love making up stories. That’s the real joy. The rest? Just details
#AmWriting
September 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I’m not afraid AI will write books and steal my readers. Honestly, I barely have readers now—I don’t even promote myself.
But I won’t quit writing. Not because of AI, not because of numbers. I write because I love making up stories. That’s the real joy. The rest? Just details
#AmWriting
But I won’t quit writing. Not because of AI, not because of numbers. I write because I love making up stories. That’s the real joy. The rest? Just details
#AmWriting
Zelazny, Heinlein, Asimov, Simak… and then there’s Dick Francis 😅 Who saw that coming? Classics shaped me—or am I just hilariously old?
#SciFi #Fantasy #Books #WritingCommunity #Bluesky
#SciFi #Fantasy #Books #WritingCommunity #Bluesky
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Zelazny, Heinlein, Asimov, Simak… and then there’s Dick Francis 😅 Who saw that coming? Classics shaped me—or am I just hilariously old?
#SciFi #Fantasy #Books #WritingCommunity #Bluesky
#SciFi #Fantasy #Books #WritingCommunity #Bluesky
They say every story is about its author. I used to deny it — how could my life resemble characters chasing adventures or darker fates? Yet the writer’s voice always slips through: our values, our vision, our truth. That’s what makes each style truly unique
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
They say every story is about its author. I used to deny it — how could my life resemble characters chasing adventures or darker fates? Yet the writer’s voice always slips through: our values, our vision, our truth. That’s what makes each style truly unique
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
Any story can be told in different ways: as a romantic tale through the heroine’s eyes, or as an adventure through the hero’s. It all comes down to emphasis.
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Storytelling #PointOfView
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Storytelling #PointOfView
September 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Any story can be told in different ways: as a romantic tale through the heroine’s eyes, or as an adventure through the hero’s. It all comes down to emphasis.
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Storytelling #PointOfView
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #Storytelling #PointOfView
It’s hard for me to open up in real life. I smile, joke, chat about the weather—but the truth? That goes into my novels. My characters carry my voice, my fears, my values. That’s where I’m real—that’s my way of speaking to the world.
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
September 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It’s hard for me to open up in real life. I smile, joke, chat about the weather—but the truth? That goes into my novels. My characters carry my voice, my fears, my values. That’s where I’m real—that’s my way of speaking to the world.
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersLife
Once, in a review, my ultra-responsible, world-saving heroes were called super-hyper-extra slackers.
Okay… maybe a tiny bit 😅
But still… they saved the world! 🌍✨
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ReluctantHeroes #HeroicChaos #SavingTheWorldAnyway
Okay… maybe a tiny bit 😅
But still… they saved the world! 🌍✨
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ReluctantHeroes #HeroicChaos #SavingTheWorldAnyway
September 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Once, in a review, my ultra-responsible, world-saving heroes were called super-hyper-extra slackers.
Okay… maybe a tiny bit 😅
But still… they saved the world! 🌍✨
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ReluctantHeroes #HeroicChaos #SavingTheWorldAnyway
Okay… maybe a tiny bit 😅
But still… they saved the world! 🌍✨
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ReluctantHeroes #HeroicChaos #SavingTheWorldAnyway
Keep messing with mythology in my stories—Merlin as a raven, Arthur far from canon, Norse gods flipped, Egyptian gods with amnesia in sci-fi. Thank goodness for the internet—otherwise I’d be forever lost in dusty library stacks! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Mythology
September 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Keep messing with mythology in my stories—Merlin as a raven, Arthur far from canon, Norse gods flipped, Egyptian gods with amnesia in sci-fi. Thank goodness for the internet—otherwise I’d be forever lost in dusty library stacks! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Mythology
Writing fact: it’s always easier for me to write in the first person as a guy. Oddly enough, I’ve never done it as a woman.
#WritingFact #AmWriting #Fantasy
#WritingFact #AmWriting #Fantasy
September 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Writing fact: it’s always easier for me to write in the first person as a guy. Oddly enough, I’ve never done it as a woman.
#WritingFact #AmWriting #Fantasy
#WritingFact #AmWriting #Fantasy
My heroes always make it out alive. Not out of kindness—just self-preservation. When my daughter was 12, she swore she’d leave home if I hurt Archie. Nearly 20 years later, I’m still not brave enough to test her.
#writerlife #amwriting
#writerlife #amwriting
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
My heroes always make it out alive. Not out of kindness—just self-preservation. When my daughter was 12, she swore she’d leave home if I hurt Archie. Nearly 20 years later, I’m still not brave enough to test her.
#writerlife #amwriting
#writerlife #amwriting
Seems like everyone’s giving writing advice—even those on their very first draft. So here’s mine, straight from writer-slacker #1: Start writing. Just write the way you can. Finish the draft. Edit later! ✍️
#writingtips #writerlife #WtitingCommunity
#writingtips #writerlife #WtitingCommunity
September 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Seems like everyone’s giving writing advice—even those on their very first draft. So here’s mine, straight from writer-slacker #1: Start writing. Just write the way you can. Finish the draft. Edit later! ✍️
#writingtips #writerlife #WtitingCommunity
#writingtips #writerlife #WtitingCommunity
"Ah! That fragile, perishable item — the truth.
When it surfaces so quickly, there is usually a claustrophobia and circumstance."
— Roger Zelazny, Sign of Chaos
#AmberChronicles #Zelazny #AmberManiak #quotes
When it surfaces so quickly, there is usually a claustrophobia and circumstance."
— Roger Zelazny, Sign of Chaos
#AmberChronicles #Zelazny #AmberManiak #quotes
September 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"Ah! That fragile, perishable item — the truth.
When it surfaces so quickly, there is usually a claustrophobia and circumstance."
— Roger Zelazny, Sign of Chaos
#AmberChronicles #Zelazny #AmberManiak #quotes
When it surfaces so quickly, there is usually a claustrophobia and circumstance."
— Roger Zelazny, Sign of Chaos
#AmberChronicles #Zelazny #AmberManiak #quotes
Writers put words on the page, but readers bring them to life. They find meanings we never knew were there. While stories are read, they live—and so do we.
#Books #Readers #WritingCommunity
#Books #Readers #WritingCommunity
September 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Writers put words on the page, but readers bring them to life. They find meanings we never knew were there. While stories are read, they live—and so do we.
#Books #Readers #WritingCommunity
#Books #Readers #WritingCommunity
Others build characters.
Mine kick down the door: “Hi, I’m Tim. I am who I am—and I’ve got a story to tell.”
#AmWriting #WritingComnunity
Mine kick down the door: “Hi, I’m Tim. I am who I am—and I’ve got a story to tell.”
#AmWriting #WritingComnunity
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Others build characters.
Mine kick down the door: “Hi, I’m Tim. I am who I am—and I’ve got a story to tell.”
#AmWriting #WritingComnunity
Mine kick down the door: “Hi, I’m Tim. I am who I am—and I’ve got a story to tell.”
#AmWriting #WritingComnunity
They say first-person POV equals bad writing. But I wonder… does the lens through which a story is told really define its quality? Zelazny, Simak, Conan Doyle would disagree. Perspective shapes the story, not its worth.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
August 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
They say first-person POV equals bad writing. But I wonder… does the lens through which a story is told really define its quality? Zelazny, Simak, Conan Doyle would disagree. Perspective shapes the story, not its worth.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
A book doesn’t really begin with the first line—or even the idea. There’s always a spark before that. A phrase overheard, a song, a dream… You never know what will nudge you toward this story. Magic? Something like that.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
August 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A book doesn’t really begin with the first line—or even the idea. There’s always a spark before that. A phrase overheard, a song, a dream… You never know what will nudge you toward this story. Magic? Something like that.
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
Someone on TikTok claimed writers should start socials the same day they start their first draft. Oops—I’m 12 years and 10 novels behind. Still, it’s never too late to join in ✨
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriterProblems
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriterProblems
August 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Someone on TikTok claimed writers should start socials the same day they start their first draft. Oops—I’m 12 years and 10 novels behind. Still, it’s never too late to join in ✨
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriterProblems
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriterProblems
Biggest flaw of personalized feeds: warped reality. Mine makes it look like the world is only writers… and people teaching writers. Okay… but who’s gonna read all these books then? 🤔
#writingcommunity #writerlife
#writingcommunity #writerlife
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Biggest flaw of personalized feeds: warped reality. Mine makes it look like the world is only writers… and people teaching writers. Okay… but who’s gonna read all these books then? 🤔
#writingcommunity #writerlife
#writingcommunity #writerlife
Of all ideas about the divine, Heinlein’s speaks to me the most — “Thou art God.”
“Thou art God. All that groks is God.”
#WritingCommunity #Heinlein #inspitation
“Thou art God. All that groks is God.”
#WritingCommunity #Heinlein #inspitation
August 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Of all ideas about the divine, Heinlein’s speaks to me the most — “Thou art God.”
“Thou art God. All that groks is God.”
#WritingCommunity #Heinlein #inspitation
“Thou art God. All that groks is God.”
#WritingCommunity #Heinlein #inspitation
People keep arguing: plot vs. worldbuilding. But come on—without a character and a story, your perfect little universe is just a pretty screensaver.
#writerlife #amwriting #WritingCommunity
#writerlife #amwriting #WritingCommunity
August 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
People keep arguing: plot vs. worldbuilding. But come on—without a character and a story, your perfect little universe is just a pretty screensaver.
#writerlife #amwriting #WritingCommunity
#writerlife #amwriting #WritingCommunity
Wow! So thus is how it works!
August 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Wow! So thus is how it works!