Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Wishing everyone a good day & good luck with your writing. Given everything happening, it's hard (for me at least) to find the mental energy to work on a project, or to believe that what I'm doing is "enough," even though it's all I can do, but every step forward counts. Persistence is resistance. 010
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Any other writers out there with aphantasia? Curious how other folks are getting good descriptions in their work despite not being able to actually visualize it. Would love to discuss strategies! #Writing #WritingCommunity 020
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Swirl of blackened leaves, shadows coil in silent wind, whispers gnaw the bone. #DailyHaikuPrompt (swirl) 040
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Live your life in such a way that things like "NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED" and "PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE" don't trend on social media when you vanish for a few days. 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025…the basement stretching into a cavern of ribs and stone, the walls slick and pulsing like a living thing. Below, not darkness but a shifting reflection - my own face in countless forms, whispering choices I haven’t made. Lives I abandoned, futures that were not mine to exist in. #HorrorWritersChat 151
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Tough question! I think a window fits my style more - having the illusion of safety behind the pane, but it’s a border that can break and expose you to “the outside.” However, horror is often a lens with which we can examine ourselves and society as a whole, much like a mirror. #HorrorWritersChat 160
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I would say “domestic betrayal” - my themes are things like survival, resilience, and horror from the outside in: aliens, parasitism, collapse, starvation, uncanny biology. I don’t often delve into things like family drama, the lover who sabotages you, etc.; Something to improve! #HorrorWritersChat 160
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 19/08/2025February dusk; the mirror fogs, yet I see myself still smiling. The silence grows heavier, and I forget who I was. #DailyHaikuPrompt (February) 0101
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Working on my first, which was supposed to be a one-and-done but has morphed into a 3-5 part series, and I have three other WIP ideas to do afterwards 😅 030
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025We stayed up to watch the Perseids. The streaks came, brighter than ever; too bright, white hot. By dawn, every crater in the yard was still smoking, and the things inside them had already learned our names. #HorrorWritersChat 184
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025“Mysterious Apocalypse Scatters Humanity to the Stars; Can They Endure?” #HorrorWritersChat 010
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025A lobotomy perhaps? Alien abduction? I think my brain just defaults to spooky and weird, so I don’t see myself switching genres. Although I do have an idea for a parody horror/romance… 👀 #HorrorWritersChat 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Most unusual inspiration for me is definitely late 80s early 90s children’s movies lmao, some of that stuff was traumatizing! Secret of NIMH, Rockadoodle, Brave Little Toaster, Dark Crystal, Return to Oz, Neverending Story… so many films that gave me and my friends nightmares! #HorrorWritersChat 010
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025He woke up in a lounge chair, dry mouth, no ID, and no ocean in sight. Just a cornfield. This “cruise ship” is landlocked, rusted, and crawling with staff in 70s resort wear who never blink. The moon’s too close. The coughing is getting wet. Something in the pool is breathing. #HorrorWritersChat 020
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Beady eyes, rotting feathers. The undead hens swarm the garden, pecking holes in my fruit. I lure them with seeds and tofu scraps, guiding them into a shed with Bach on a Bluetooth speaker. Then I lock the door, nail it shut, and whisper “May your souls find peace… and compost.” #HorrorWritersChat 020
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025It’s not a who, it’s you. Or at least, it looks like you; same clothes, same scar on the chin, but the smile is wrong. Too wide. Too still. It, (you), knocks again, even though your fists are clenched at your sides. It wants in. Because it was never supposed to be locked out. #HorrorWritersChat 031
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Hello! I write sci-fi & adventure flavored horror because otherwise my brain keeps my story ideas on repeat. I need to write so I can have peace of mind! As for the 1980s creature, remember that part of The Thing where dude’s head turns into a spider with eye stalks? That one. #HorrorWritersChat 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Read a recent #archaeology article about #tattoos discovered on a 2500 y/o ice mummy and an artist reproduced one. I’m almost tempted to get something similar! The tattoo depicts tigers and a leopard hunting elk or caribou. The amount of detail from bone needles and plant ash is incredible! #history 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Gnarliest thing about my book is probably that it opens with the end of the world, and that’s just a thematic backdrop for the more harrowing events in the story to come. #WritingPrompt 071
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Oh boy, that was a decent little quake. Anyone else feel that? 4.5 in Fontana apparently #earthquake 010
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/07/2025This was so fun and I can’t wait to read all the replies from other folks! Happy writing everyone, and keep it spooky! 👻 #HorrorWritersChat 062
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/07/2025#HorrorWritersChat I’m still new to “the scene” so I’m not quite sure what counts as indie or not but I recently enjoyed Dead Silence by SA Barnes (Stacey Kade). We like a little trauma mixed into our space adventures! 😈 141
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Many of the friendships in my book come from a place of characters complementing each other’s weaknesses and finding strength in unlikely alliances, usually after being the thrown together in some way by the events of the story. Wildest pairing? Expert sniper & retired mortician. #HorrorWritersChat 052
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One from my current WIP (Deborah) and one from a future project I have notes for (Cassandra). Assuming this is a setting where the world hasn’t ended, they would get along like a house on fire. They both have a mix of vainglorious girly-girl with cunning drive and determination. #HorrorWritersChat 093
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Hello! For now I’m CosmoCryptid though I’ll likely use a pen name for publication someday. I write a weird combination of adventure, sci-fi, and horror! The words would be: Brutal, Reflective, Human. SF and Horror are lenses to view the present, and human nature is to overcome. #HorrorWritersChat 0167
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Doing battle with my brain (and its twin generals, ADHD and Existential Dread) in order to finish the macro edit of my first draft. Just 150 pages to go! 020
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Cool morning silence - breath fogs in the steady hush, steel glints in still hands. We huddle like wolves, sharing warmth and borrowed hope. The gates will break soon. #dailyhaikuprompt (cool morning, huddle), #poetry, #writingcommunity Couldn’t pick a theme today so I did both! 040
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Cozy ladybug in the garden this morning.🐞 #Photography, #Nature, #Pics, #Insects 060
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 24/07/2025When the Iron Man flies across the map and then spam pings me for heals while I’m trying to pocket heal for a solo tank Magneto who’s actually at the mission point… #MarvelRivalsmedia.tenor.comtwo cartoon characters are standing next to each other with the letters kmzurbex on the bottom rightALT: two cartoon characters are standing next to each other with the letters kmzurbex on the bottom right 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Someone sent me this, sharing it around for some positivity! Have a great day! #writing #writingcommunity 020
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Flowers bloom like blood on the old forgotten field. Swords rust in the roots. #dailyhaikuprompt (meadow) What’s the north/south thing about btw? I just pick the one that resonates more in the moment. 🤔 170
Reposted by Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 23/07/2025California Gurls are indescribable Eldritch, squamous, foetid, and swart Tenebrous, cyclopean, sepulchural O! [x12] California Gurls are inconceivable Rugose threats to mind and to heart Bachatracians, now put your flippers up O! [x12] —H.P. Lovecraft's California Gurls 113932
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Time waits for no man. Cherry blossoms fall unseen in the empty park. Clock hands stitch the sky, sewing dusk into the day - threadbare, but endless. Shadows stretch like truth, each hour a softer lie told by a dying sun. #dailyhaikuprompt (time), #writing, #poetry, #writingcommunity 021
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Oh I have lots of these from living near LA. Best two are the time I did a “you-first-no-you” dance w/ Halle Berry in a narrow hallway at Fred Segals, and then once saw Kirsten Dunst at a restaurant and she had her bodyguard clear the men’s room for her to use because the ladies room had a line, lol 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Are you a “planner” or a “pantser” when developing your story? I do “flashlight method” - I have a map that shows me landmarks and a destination (my outline) but the flashlight allows wandering or discovery along the way. Heading towards a goal but leaving room for whimsy. #writing #writingcommunity 231
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Smoke curls in still air - lazy ghosts of cedarwood drift through open doors. They forget they were once flame, content now to linger on. #dailyhaikuprompt (smoke), #writing, #poetry These are fun, reminds me of doing the daily Wordle during the pandemic. Nice little brain stretch for the morning. 061
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Tried to describe my novel to a friend earlier but had trouble coming up with a descriptive blurb that doesn’t give the entire plot away. Bit tricky since many of the mysteries don’t get revealed in the first book, so there’s a lot of adventure but not many answers yet. #writing, #writingcommunity 040
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Going for a tanka (5-7-5-7-7) this time! Your voice was water, now I wander cracked and dry through a sunburned dream - each mirage a trace of you, each breath a drought in my chest. #dailyhaikuprompt (parched), #writing 141
Reposted by Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Needed this reminder today. 125252059672
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I have no words that can measure up to today’s US news. Like many of us I’m mourning the country I grew up in which now no longer exists. I’m afraid for my fellow LGBT and POC folks. What even matters anymore? Bravery, defiance, refusal to succumb to despair. Cleave together lest we be driven apart. 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Weird feeling having written a wholeass book but not having a proper title for it. I guess I assumed one would kind of rise naturally out of the text, but no such serendipity yet. #writing #editing 110
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Friday mood. Looking forward to the #weekend! Anyone got anything fun planned? 010
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Procrastinating just a bit after I saw this fun tag, #dailyhaikuprompt (fireflies) Golden summer stars Brief as breath in evening hush; Lanterns in the dusk. 0101
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Diving into #editing today to clean up plot holes & passive voice; I’m guilty of using softeners like “a bit” or “some” and removing them makes the writing a lot more punchy. Also taking a machete to the dreaded past present “had.” 😱 What sort of #writing sins do you find yourself correcting often? 000
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Some beautiful flowers from this mornings walk! 010
Cosmo Cryptid 👽🛸 @cosmocryptid.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Happy Pride Month!! Wishing everyone a joyful and peaceful month in these tumultuous times. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 #pridemonth #LGBT 000