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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 7h

The #WIPSnips word for October 8th is "lizard" Weirdly, I do have lizard in Atlas Rising Anderson vs hell #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Anderson left Esme, who was now taking a picture of a seagull that had just landed on the glass balcony, about a foot away from her. The thing was fucking huge.
Who knew.
Anderson made her way through the vape and cigarette smoke, and the stench of too much alcohol, to the wooden outdoor bar. She arrived just as a topless man in shorts, with a lobster-red back and a large lizard tattoo on one arm, moved away from the bar with four pints of beer clutched in his massive fingers. He swayed as he walked.
Anderson gave him a wide berth.
She ordered two beers, which came in large plastic cups, and made her way back.
‘You’re in hell, aren’t you?’ Esme took one of the beers off her.

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Nel @wasphole.bsky.social · 14h

🧛‍♂️ A Gentleman's Tour of the Empire 🦇 No lizard, so vibes 😉 #wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #vampire

A chilling howl, which could only have come from the wolf, reverberated through the whole tower.

“Has he let it out?” cried Jo. She tried to stand, but her legs buckled under her.

Edwards bent down and scooped Jo into a bridal carry. She looped her arms about his neck to permit the rescue, but it was clear to him at once that this was only because she had no option. Her face, inches from his own, curdled into a sneer of such reptilian malevolence that he almost dropped her in fright.

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 7h

Madness is about right! IMDB has a score thing that tracks your or your films 'fame'. 1 is the highest. At one point, a film I released on Amazon was at 500 or something mad - I have no idea why!

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 9h

Wish I knew what happened, or what I did, on the 15th of September to get that many people visit my website 🤦 #writingcommunity - do you ever look at your website visit stats and wonder what the hell happened 😜

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 11h

#LitHodgepodge 8 With Anderson from Pandora's Secret I fear you would just be stared at until you felt awkward and felt you needed to say something... and then she'd walk away.🤦 #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Hyper bright, amazing memory, fantastic investigative reporter… Just no idea about anything else… 🤦😜

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 07/10/2026

The irony level of the comments section here is off the charts. There were two, too ffs 🤦😜

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 07/10/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Does your character have a plan? Late as ever to this one! From Atlas Rising Rourke - he’s 3 steps ahead on any plan Anderson - not a planner just point her at a problem & she’ll deal with it Esme - what’s a plan? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 07/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 7 The #narrative voice in Atlas Rising, continues where book 1, Pandora’s Secret left off & changes according to who’s pov we are in. There are only 2 though. This is Rourke’s - From the vomit draft of Atlas Rising; Rourke vs the CIA #WritingCommunity #writingprompts

Rourke glanced around the room as he sat, trying not to feel like an exhibit at the zoo, but avoided looking at Mercer.He was certain she would have a lot to say later.
‘You can’t look me in the eye,’ Mercer snapped. ‘Can you.’
‘I’m fine, Kit.’ He undid a jacket button. ‘Thanks for asking.’
Someone failed to suppress a laugh to Rourke’s left.
Rourke ignored it and didn’t look toward Mercer.
‘I must object again. Prime Minister.’ She sounded even angrier now.
‘Your objection has be noted.’ The prime minister sat down again. ‘Thank you.’
‘That’s not good enough.’ She snapped to her feet again. ‘This man was respons—’
‘Enough.’ The prime minister raised his voice, cutting her off.
‘Sir. I—’
Mercer didn’t know when to quit. Rourke admired that at least.
‘Miss Mercer.’ The Prime Minister stared at her. ‘May I remind you that the CIA is allowed to operate in the United Kingdom expressly and only with the permission of His Majesty's government.’
‘I am aware, sir, but this man he—’
‘In this room, I am that government.’

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Of course this would make 0 sense to anyone in the US or just not in ur UK 😂 For Selfridges, replace with Harrods or Bloomingdale’s

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Ordered an adapter for the camera. How in this world is it cheaper to order this thing from Selfridges with free delivery than from a camera specialists shops who want to charge more or a bit less & add 25£ for delivery? Madness & thanks Selfridges 😜

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Geico Gecko: That Doesn't Make Any Sense

ALT: Geico Gecko: That Doesn't Make Any Sense

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 05/10/2026

With Esme around - are you kidding 🤣

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 05/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 5 Happiness for Anderson from Pandora's Secret? Silence. She's lots of fun to be around, as you can imagine...

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Samantha Breaux @woodenvelt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Welcome to #SundaySnips! A once-a-week prompt game for writers hosted by myself and @hookandquillpress.com Spooky season is here! Share a snip featuring something eerie. (obligatory ghost noises) 👻 🎃 🪦 #WritingCommunity #Writingprompts #Writesky #HQpress

A graphic advertising the Sunday Snips hashtag, a weekly blue sky writing community tag. The word for October 4th is eerie. Share a snip from your WIP featuring the word of the week. Use #SundaySnips and don't forget to include alt text. Synonyms, vibes, and variations on the word are welcome! Hosted by woodenvelt.bsky.social and Hook and Quill Press. The background is a night time Halloween scene in a graveyard with gnarled trees, tombstones, a purple sky, and jack o lanterns. There is an image to the right of a yellow octopus stuffed animal wearing a witch’s hat and holding a broomstick.

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 04/10/2026

#SundaySnips Don't have that word, but a 'feels like' - from the vomit draft of Pandora's Secret - It's no longer in the novel. Slowed things down too much. Ted vs the Maryland Goatman #WritingCommunity #Writingprompts #Writesky #HQpress

‘Great.’ Gerald moved his hand away. ‘But don’t go too slow.’
‘Why?’ Rourke chipped in. He knew where this was going.
‘The Maryland Goatman,’ Gerald said quietly, almost whispering. ‘Don’t stop on the bridge. That’s where he lives.’
‘We’re missile-proof; I think we’ll be okay.’ Wiltshire joined in.
Oh.’ Ted laughed uncertainly. ‘Right.’
The Cry Baby Bridge,’ added Rourke. ‘You know that legend, right?’

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 03/10/2026

October 3rd: Who do you write for? I write for cake. oh.... it's a who. For the cake gremlin in my head? i really do need new bifocal teeth. #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 3 Never judge a book by its cover… unless someone asks! Post a non-AI image (with alt text, please) portraying your character, and let others guess: If I could master a new hobby in one day, what would I choose? 🎨 🧑‍🌾 🎸 🧗 #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

#LITHODGEPODGE
Hosted by @pamelajeong.bsky.social

An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions

SATURDAY SNAP JUDGMENTS

[Graphic of a man of law in a robe, standing with some papers before him]

Prompt:

3 | Provide artwork, a quick sketch, a lookalike image, or a mood board for your character, and let the people guess:
If this character could master a new hobby in one day, they would pick...

[Graphic of a talking butterfly]
NO AI! USE ALT TEXT!

[Graphic of a talking crow]
My life is already so rich with meaningful activities, I couldn’t possibly squeeze in another. So, instead, I will take this opportunity to remind you all that AI is most unwelcome and thoughtfully written alt text is most appreciated!

Join tomorrow for Sunday Shout & Share!

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Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Meet Danbi Shin (and her lynx friend, Bronte)! I’m very tempted to tell you a bit about her, but I’ll let you guess purely based on this gorgeous art by the brilliant @nushdeco.bsky.social 💜 So what’s Danbi learning to do today? 👀 P.S. If you want free character art, try a picrew.me!

An illustration of a young woman, Korean American, dark hair, shyly smiling eyes, tucking her hair behind her ear. She walks through a forest wearing a sweater, fitted pants, and combat boots, and at her side is a grey lynx with golden eyes.

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Iris Juniper Verblenk @iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 3 A few months ago, I hopped into BG3 and recreated my blorbos as characters there. So I have pretty accurate pictures! So? What would their new hobby be?

Adrian and Judah are lying on a red towel on the beach, both wearing comfortable trousers.
Adrian's skin is brown; his hair is chestnut. He has some facial scars and one eye that doesn't open; the other eye is grey. He also has claws on his fingertips. He's a werewolf.
Judah is a human with strawberry blonde hair in a side-sweep; the other half of his skull is shaved. His skin is light, and he has freckles and green eyes.

Adrian is standing in a moonlit landscape, there's some columns in the back and a sky full of stars.
Adrian's skin is brown; his hair is chestnut. He has some facial scars and one eye that doesn't open; the other eye is grey. He also has claws on his fingertips. He's a werewolf.
He's wearing an outfit in black and red.

Judah is sitting by a campfire in a well-lit camp. There's a rock and some grass in the background.
Judah is a human with strawberry blonde hair in a side-sweep; the other half of his skull is shaved. His skin is light, and he has freckles and green eyes.
He's wearing an unbuttoned white shirt and brown leather pants.

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 03/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 3 Can't really post an image for you to guess because Anderson from Pandora's Secret isn't really into hobbies or holidays or 'wasting time', as she'd call it 🤦 Not at the start of the book, anyway.. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 03/10/2026

You do have to wonder how this person on X thinks I will respond to this... or how often it works. If they'd read any of my posts, they'd know the book is with the publisher now. But no. Grifters gotta grift. #WritingCommunity may your weekend be scam/con/grifter free

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I’d go back to film making & photography

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Dominique (Philosophika) @philosophika.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🦇 Hi! I’m Dominique, a philosopher (MA) and EFA/CIEP-trained editor providing substantive editing services to novelists worldwide. Now booking 2027! Schedule a free 45-min consultation, no strings attached. Spots are limited—reserve yours via my website: www.noumenonedits.com #WritingCommunity

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

#pretendpanel 2nd: Why do you write? Because I need to do something creative - whether taking photos, directing/writing film/play or a book. Without it, I know life would feel just... blah. But the anticlimax after finishing is very real too #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

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Dominique (Philosophika) @philosophika.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Because I enjoy it. Part of that enjoyment is aesthetic (the pleasure of exercising my imagination), another part is intellectual (the challenge), and a final part is personal (the insights into myself and how I view the world that I discover along the way). #WritingCommunity #WriterSky

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

nice! and ditto mine also sort of have a theme, which happened by accident really 😂

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

It was a little OTT from the host (an author) establishing her creds and such, but it was ok. I'll go back next week, but my bro, who obvs knows me well, did ask, "Why on earth are you doing that?" 😜

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Anderson's silent stare is pretty intimidating 😂 But I'd pay to see that crossover 🤦

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

wtf does this even mean???? Tech bros trying to be cool again, I assume. #WritingCommunity what phrase have you heard recently that makes you pause to laugh?

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Nel @wasphole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧛‍♂️ A Gentleman's Tour of the Empire 🦇 #wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity #vampire

It was covered with glass, like a display cabinet in a museum, with the contents inside neglected beneath a settled layer of dust. There was a trowel, its wooden handle long since rotted away, a rusted lump hammer, a punch and pitch, and a dented triangular device which might have been a level. There was also a strapless pair of brass goggles; the ancient glass lenses scratched white. Each artifact had a brass label beside it which gave no more information than what the doctor could see for himself.

“Young Mack says the lighthouse was built over two thousand years ago.”

“With these tools? That can’t be right,” huffed Edwards, pointing at the goggles. “These aren’t that different from the ones on my face. If Midrans could make these back then, they ought to be more advanced than we are, not a hag-ridden vassal kingdom with no hospitals.”

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 2 Anderson, Rourke & Esme from Pandora’s Secret? Maybe Downton Abbey- just to watch the chaos, offence & madness they’d cause. But I’d have to enter witness protection, when they got out, obvs. 🤦 #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

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Dominique (Philosophika) @philosophika.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hello #WritingCommunity! I'm Dominique, a philosopher and freelance fiction editor. I'm currently working on a #gothic #horror novel, Ingénue. Featuring: 🕸️ A crumbling British manor 🧟‍♀️ Ghosts ☀️ Climate apocalypse 🤵🏻‍♂️ A mercurial elderly patriarch 💅🏼 The ultimate final girl #Gothtober #WriteSky

Ingénue: Gothic Horror

All hell breaks loose when Ingénue, the last of an ancient and crumbling line, is presented to "society" by her estranged great-uncle.

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Hiya - no worries at all. I do something similar but in the screenwriting world so completely understand. Ill not pester you with it as I don’t really understand creating arcs copies act anyway - it’s all new to me 😂

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Oooh now that’s what I should have done 🤣

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 01/10/2026

#LitHodgepodge 1 I'm Andy - I write fiction crime thrillers - with my debut novel publishing in summer 27. T or T...? Hmm, that's a long list for my little brain. So I'm going with C for Cake.

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I suspect we need a quick lasagna test here 🤦😂@ellieyellu.bsky.social

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I often don't write #chapters in my #WIP #novel in order & I often don't know exactly where they fit until I've written more of a vomit draft. My chapters have titles because it helps me remember what's in it 🤦. Numbers mean nothing to my weird brain #WritingCommunity - anyone else do any of this?

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Its crime thriller series but bottom line its How creating & living a world changing lie affects/ ruins people’s lives

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 30/09/2026

I’m focused on the novel at the moment just so I can say I’ve started the 2nd one 🤣

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Cade Garza @decayde.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This scene may be cut later, so here's a peek in case it does get cut. I have Guard! #WipSnips #writing

She felt like there had been a test, and she hadn’t passed. Alice began running through the interaction from the beginning. Everything had seemed fine until she’d made that stupid comment about Owen living as his authentic self. That was probably too much. Fuck, she’d messed it up!

“So,” she pressed her lips together in a tight smile, hunching her shoulders as she glanced around. “Why don’t you tell us how you’ve been surviving out here by yourself?”

“Honestly?” Owen chuckled. “I just keep my windows and doors locked all night. I’ve been trying to get the dog nosing around here to come inside, but she’s skittish. I figure she’d be a good guard dog. How long have you two been together?”

“Oh, we’re not together,” Noah said with an abruptness that offended Alice. He looked sheepish, then shrugged lightly. “We’ve only just found each other. I think a week?” He looked at Alice, who nodded.

“Maybe a little less, yeah. I’ve been trying to get a garden started in his huge back yard, but there’s not really any shade.”

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 30/09/2026

🤣 Mmm prob wise but you just never no they might see something etc etc I’m awful at even thinking about doing that sort of approach, it gives me the fear 😱😜

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 30/09/2026

That’s v kind, It’s due to be published next summer but happy to share an ARC by pdf or however works best for you, if you liked. Hopefully it’s not awful 🤣

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Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk · 30/09/2026

The silent stare which, frankly, is worse than allowing her to find a way to leave

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