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PJ Woodside
@thisoldbitch.bsky.social
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I'm an author, screenwriter, and director/producer.
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thisoldbitch.bsky.social
As Thanksgiving approaches, we should take time to thank the people who provide essential services that keep our society functioning: nurses, janitors, air traffic controllers, teachers, busboys, doctors, sanitation workers, deportation lawyers, daycare staff . . . add to the list in your comments!
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
One of my past achievements is a micro-budget produced screenplay titled Frances Stein. It's a solid story and I've wanted to write it in novel form, but couldn't figure out how to structure it. But as of yesterday, I think I have it figured out. We shall see!

#WritingCommunity #WIP
September 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
In that phase of querying for book 1 in a series and not quite ready to start book 2. Not a bad place to be?

Tho I know hard work is coming soon . . . .

#writingcommunity 🪐📚 #sciencefiction
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
From The UnTwinned, my scifi novel in its final polish.
🪐📚💙
#WIPsnips Real
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #scifi #WIP #alwayswriting #books #booksky
The first time Carusse experienced being among strangers, she was eight years old and had never before left home. Her maas and daas had made it a habit at the dinner table to talk about their various outings in the world, to share them with Carusse. She listened raptly, especially about how singles were viewed as suspicious. She didn’t quite understand what was so suspicious about herself, but she was learning to adjust her view of the world to this other one, in which her mere existence was a threat. Her parents probably understood that her curiosity would get the best of her before long, and she might put herself in real danger if they didn’t give her some hands-on experience. The plan for this first outing was for all four parents to take Carusse and either Mare or Nola to visit a religious celebration in a more distant town, meaning they would be less likely to run into people who knew them. Mare was more adventurous and would have been the better choice, but Nola pitched such a fit about being left alone that they ended up taking her instead. Mare balked a little, but the maas gave them all a promise that the next trip they would swap the sisters, and that seemed to pacify her.
August 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
I've had trouble coming up with comps for my book. It's soft speculative or sci-fi, second world, focused on character, sociological, pre-industrial, and not fantasy.
Suggestions?
#scifi #WIP #alwayswriting #books #booksky #writing #writingcommunity #author
August 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
The UnTwinned, currently sending queries. #WIP #WIPsnips #writingcommunity #scifi #booksky
August 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
Just learned the word "palimpsest" and I'm obsessed! #etymology #writinglife #olddognewtricks
July 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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lothelynx.bsky.social
I’ve read two books by Rivers Solomon this summer (thanks to recommendations from a queer bookstore), and I really recommend them to anyone who likes fantasy or sci-fi but also books that interrogates social issues and structures.

The books I’ve read are “An Unkindness of Ghosts” + “Sorrowland”.
lothelynx.bsky.social Lo (they/them) @lothelynx.bsky.social · Jul 22
Love this discussion of gender between two characters in the sci-fi novel “An Unkindness of Ghosts” by Rivers Solomon!

This is how you write trans/gender nonconforming characters in your sci-fi or fantasy books!
Photo of a page of a book. The text reads: “He’d changed out of his doctor ensemble into fitted forest-green trousers and a silky button-down. She liked the way he dressed when he was alone. The coal around his eyes. His touch was always soft as mango butter, but among the general populace he forced himself into an odd directness. ‘You are an anomaly of a man,’ she said. ‘Perhaps because I’m not a man at all.’ He sat closer now. The sheets wrinkled as he scooted himself towards her. ‘Aye. You gender-malcontent. You otherling,’ she said, the fog of anaesthesia wearing off. She could see him clearly now. The curl of his lashes. The white flecks of skin over his dry lips. ‘Me too. I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn’t decide what it wanted to be?’ ‘I think it doesn’t matter because we get to decide what our bodies are or are not,’ he answered. Aster sat up and Theo helped her prop two pillows beneath her head. ‘Is that so? Then I am magic. I say it, therefore it is true,’ she said. ‘It is true. You are very rare magic, Aster. Don’t you know that?’”
July 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
Sending query letters this week and having the big doubts now . . . .
#writerslife #booksky #scifi #scifiwriting #speclit #amwriting
July 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
Putting the polish on the climactic scene, page 319. Feeling pretty good about it!
#writingcommunity #amwriting #scifi
April 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Spread the word: On April 5, we’re coming together to say Hands Off! and push back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join us for a national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...
March 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
Will you choose obedience
or freedom?
March 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This x10000000000

“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary...

"Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm."

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
www.vanityfair.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
Politics are like the weather: You live in it every day.
You just don't think about how it affects you until it's a disaster.
January 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
It's not news if it's not true. The "news" in false statements is the fact that the liar is lying.
January 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
thisoldbitch.bsky.social
Turning my live tv stream to tennis all day to mess with ratings. You should do the same!
January 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM