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Andrew Halliwell
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I've been around a bit. Grew up in Oldham, university at Keele and a few years living around Stoke-on-Trent, then a few more living in Bromley, South London.
I've tended to base my fiction in those areas, too.
DO NOT BLIND MSG ME! Sick of it.
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The #WIPSnips word for November 16th is "run" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
My MC demonstrates to the general what interworld travel means for those unprepared.
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for November 15th is "progress" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
My MC visits the world the meteorite came down in and the king (king Philip II) there to explain what's going on and ask for his help.
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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My MC visits the world the meteorite came down and the king there (King Philip) to explain what's going on and ask for help.
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 14th is "week" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
After Diah's brother, Lance, runs across a world where my MC's friends had it tough, they're brought across to help them out.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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ahh, WTH... I've taken part in quite a few WIPSNIPS, can't hurt to do it with another, too...

In order to make an impression, my MC wears his medal before introducing himself to a general sent to assess a situation in their village.
n order to make an impression, my MC wears his medal before introducing himself to a general sent to assess a situation in their village.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for November 13th is "build" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
My MC gets a very cold response to his reappearance from his girlfriend's father when he returns from a few months away, training with the army. So, leaving out all the other worldly shennanigans, he describes what led to it, starting with my other MC's adventures after running away. Why was Diah in the cells under the courthouse and then prison? Because the presiding magistrate, Wedgewood, refused to believe a 15 y/o boy could have that medal and sentenced him for contempt of court when he refused to rescind all claims to it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 12th is "shirt" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
After sampling army life while they were helping to break up the meteorite, my MC and a few of his friends take them up on the offer to continue down at an army barracks for a year. After returning from a training program on a different army base, my MC gets an offer he can't refuse, join up properly and get posted to the army reserve barracks in his village. This scene is a little later when he informs the other men in his section. (Lee was present when it happened, so wasn't surprised).
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 11th is "burger" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
John, older brother of Greg, one of my MC's friends, asked to accompany them on their return home. So, time for a change of wardrobe and a tour of the villages.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips The word for November 10th is "local" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 2
This takes place the day before the Chinese restaurant incident from "picture" as my MC talks his way into the police cell to talk to Jeff and get him out of there.
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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he #WIPSnips word for November 8th is "little" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

from book 2.
On the way to taking his friend Jeb back home to Failsworth, my MC stumbled on a news headline. "Mystery of naked man continues." That led him to Jeff, blasted by the same effect the meteorite had on Stoke, but from a similar one that struck Manchester in a world close to my MC's origin. My MC talked his way into taking Jeff into his custody and is heading back home when he spots something.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 8th is "little" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 2
The inciting incident of book 2, my MC witnesses the meteorite come down, which changes almost everything he knew about his ability/.
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 7th is "movement" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From my fantasy.
My MC receives a telepathic warning from his partner.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 5th is "trail" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
After the red shift conversation, my MC decided to take s closer look at the meteorite by firing himself at it. It threw him out almost immediately but he did get to see it was still the same colour close up, confirming their fears, but how it threw him out became another major concern, one year into the past. He allowed himself to drift home, which fortunately also allowed him to drift forward meaning he didn't have to relive the whole year again. Three days later, lots of weird effects and property damage, along with injury and death. Here, he discusses it with Captain Yates, someone from close to his original world who's been in contact over the radio for a while.
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 4th is "steel" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
After hearing reports that the meteorite had begun to change colour, my MC investigates and calls on a couple of professors, Edmund, a professor formerly attached to the Royal Institution in London and rescued by my MC, and Martin, a black professor enslaved in a timeline where the confederates won the American Civil war and professor of mathematics. (My MC saved his life when they sent him to his world).
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
Really can't remember if I bought it or if it was bought for me, I'll chalk the previous records by The Goodies, as being bought for me, and this as the first I paid for myself. (Hey, it's nearly 50 years ago, and I was only 11 at the time)
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips The word for November 3rd is "nice"

From Book 3
While travelling back to their world, they stop off at their original one to meet up with Detective Inspector Stephens (the one who was interviewing one of the men a couple of WIPSNIPS ago) and his wife.
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
To round out spooky week on #WIPSnips the word for November 2nd is "cobweb" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
My MC offered to teach carpentry to the other prisoners, but all the workshops for crafts that were deemed obsolete years ago have been just used for storage since they were closed. He offers to clean them up in order to locate the one dedicated to woodwork.
November 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for November 1st is "ancestor" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 2
Fred (my MC's dad) shows Daniel (formerly another Greg) around the village. When they get to the church, he marvels at the craftsmanship.
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for October 31st is "monster" #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

From book 4
A few weeks after being impressed (or to use a more recognisable term, press-ganged), my MC managed to procure a logbook, which he's been filling in, detailing his experiences, day-by-day... This is where he finally catches up with himself and things become current, rather than just "what I did on my holiday" type memories.
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for October 30th is "spell" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 2
Jeb's sons have always been little tearaways, so my MC embroiders the truth a little, telling them that demons steal away naughty kids. Here, he explains to Jeb's wife what he told them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Xa'an, from Farscape Olivia Dunham, Fringe Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Keyleth, Legend of Vox Machina
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for October 29th is "broomstick" #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

From book 5
My MC meets his friends in Rhy's den to tell them about his advntures over the past year.
October 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Kira Nerys Mirror universe Kira
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for October 28th is "costume" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 3
After failing to defuse a bomb laced with the meteorite element, my MC, his sister, her husband and a professor my MC picked up on the way find themselves thrown to world still ruled by dinosaurs.
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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before you try to slide into my DMs, just know i'm built like this
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM