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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hey all. Been a bit since I've posted here! Ive landed on the final version of A Fracture Within. I plan to begin the querying stage again, soon. Ive released a short story called Goodnight, Siren (link below). I plan on trying to be more active here as I can. a.co/d/0ciGNeXL

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

For me, it was watching Star Trek and Star Wars when I was really young. My dad and brother were really into it, and they regularly went to conventions. After that, it was the other fans, finding people that enjoyed the genre as much as I did. #SFPit

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#SFPit @scifipit.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

And a big ol' Happy Friday to our dystopian adventurers, techno-enthusiasts, space voyagers, and time travelers alike! Day 2 of 5 is here, bringing us another rotation of Earth closer to the 21st! It also brings us a new question! #writingcommunity #SFPit #Writers

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Hey folks, I am 1/2 of the team at #SFPit I am working on going the indie route for my up coming Sci-Fi work, A Fracture Within. It is currently in the final phases of beta reading! I write mainly SFF, but have begun dabbling in horror/supernatural as well.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Friends of all science fiction persuasions! @jaymeLpeck and I would like to proudly announce (officially), #SFPit. Indies, trad seekers, folks who are dabbling in the art of sci-fi - this is time-travelling, technobabble, space opera event you don't want to miss! #scifi #writingcommunity #agents

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#SFPit @scifipit.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Dear friends, writers, #agents, interstellar travelers, interdimensional aliens, and otherwise paradoxical time hoppers! We would like to invite you to set your favorite time-traveling device to October 21st, 2025, for the pitch event dedicated to Science Fiction, #SFPit! 🧵

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My fellow #scifi writers and #litagents looking to build their list of incredible scifi talent, @jaymemedinapeck.bsky.social and I would like to proudly present #scifipit Mark those calendars!

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Been a while since I've posted here. I've been CRUSHING some writing goals for The Shattered Divide this year. Almost at the halfway point. When I hit that, I am going to pause and take a look at some feedback for A Fracture Within and do a big final revision pass.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I might end up pitching on #bluepit! Kind of on the fence as it's in between writing and querying. Overall, I don't think I have anything to lose by doing it.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Does anyone ever feel guilt about putting their MC through absolute hell? I love him to death...but I keep testing that death part sometimes lol.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

1,100 words today for The Shattered Divide. I've crossed 26k now and feel like I've really got my groove in writing back.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

1026 words today in The Shattered Divide. Cannot wait to get started tomorrow on what comes next. The MC is about to go berserk.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Hey friends! I am looking to buy some space operas or at least far-future sci-fi books. I would love to start "local" with the writing community. Doesn't have to be traditionally published, I just need a place to buy it from!

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Since I set a smaller goal for myself (at least 350 words a day) I've been more consistently writing. This has really helped me get back into the headspace of the story and the MC. It might not be more, but it is so much better than none.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

So A Fracture Within was written under the first-person POV of one specific person, Jimmy. However, in writing book two (The Shattered Divide), I think I am going to provide different POVs.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Asking for writing purposes: Say someone was being a turd, and you wanted to knock them down a peg (physically). Would you got for a full weighted slap to the face, or ball up your fist and punch them in the mouth? There are people to witness for context. #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

For "train," I have this bit of snark from Jenna and Tarek's first meeting. #WIPSnips

I glared at the back of his head. "You're very confusing."
“Not really. I'm paid and trained to keep you from touching things you're not supposed to, not to be a tour guide coddling your sense of wonder."
“You're not even looking at me while I go around touching things I'm not supposed to.”
“I never said I was paid or trained well."

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Stabby Jo McDaggers (Anna J Worthy) @okaypoet.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Here's your regular reminder that being mean to strangers isn't a substitution for developing a personality. ✌️

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Haven't written poetry in a while. I used to write poems and lyrics when I was in high school. today I just let myself write one without being hypercritical of myself. #writingcommunity #writer #poetry

Downfall, a time to look up
Where do I go, with what foot first
Forward I move, yet down I sink
Regret controls panic
My breath turns into a gasp
Step back you fool and see
The very dirt you sank in
Now mud by your own garden hose
All my troubles made with ease

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Going to start setting a minimum of 300 words a day. I need to get out of my own head when drafting and get the story on paper.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Seriously. The amount of bots, scammers, and just plain off folks is getting ridiculous. Every 5 or so folks I follow back end up getting immediately blocked because they're trying to sell me stuff, get me involved in crypto, or they know the lizard-people...make it stop.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I've been considering opening myself up to performing weddings. Folks out there (especially LGTBQ+ folks) who look different, act a little different, and are different can struggle to find the right officiant for their wedding. It would be a worthy use of my credentials.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I am so exhausted from constantly feeling beat down at work. I loved what I did until about 3 months ago when they doubled my team size, pushed half of my department into work they've never done before and had abysmal training on. I don't want to game or write at the end of the day. I'm just done

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Got a few hundred words down in An Opus of Torment. Started a new chapter that I'm calling The Cage. The MC realizes the endgame of the villain is unavoidable. He makes a decision to face his fate head one while he still has a choice in the matter. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writer

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Lots of my friends are parents of Trans children. I know today is shitty, so I am sending big hugs to all of you. To all of my trans friends who are not parents. To anyone reading this who isn't my friend and is trans. I see you, and regardless of what SCOTUS rules, you matter.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Four years flew by so fast. I remember getting this message and I burst into tears.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Add 205 hours, and I'm a top 10% Sabaton listener. Very different from last year when I was finishing up A Fracture Within. Definitely a big shift in music while I've been writing An Opus of Torment. #spotifywrapped #music

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Reminder that posting things on an incredibly public website that could be construed as promoting violence against the government is a really terrible idea. If this advice was helpful to you, please also see "Do not hit yourself in the head with a hammer" and "Lightbulbs are not for eating."

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I applaud my son. Not only is he excelling in his classes. He participates in after-school marksmanship with ROTC AND right after that goes for his off-season football workouts. I was always the kid that treated a full day at school 6 hours too many.

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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

December 2 #WIPsnips - "lift” Yet another clip from my complete #WIP "This Ends Now" #writingcommunity #writesky #amediting

A blast of March night air rushed inwards as I opened the front door, and he hesitated on the ancient oak threshold, gray with two centuries of dust trod in and out by all those who had passed through Pike Place. The porch light picked out his sharp cheekbones in chiaroscuro, like he was a living, breathing Caravaggio saint. So sharp their memory pricked in my palm. Snow shook behind him like cherry blossoms lifted high in a Maytime breeze, and the dark, wet promise of spring laced the air, as cool and heavy as a great bell in the steeple, ready to sound in our bodies.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Look...I've seen some garbage takes in my time...but this is not one of them! We absolutely need remakes using Muppets. Leave like 1 human actor lol

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ColorsFade Gaming @colorsfade.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

When the crew of a starship encounters a distressed freighter that looks eerily similar to their own, they board it hoping to find survivors, but instead find their own corpses. RECURRENCE #MiseryPit #SFFM #A #Q

Upper Left: A row of cryogenic beds keeps the crew of a space freighter frozen in sleep. Upper Right: A soldier wielding a pistol uses their other hand to turn on a holographic display over one eye. Middle Left: A shuttle craft approaches a spiral space station comprised of many layered rings. Middle Top: A sleek, black helmet covers the face of an alien life form. Middle Right: A space freighter drifts through a debris field, engines dark, no signs of life. Bottom: A crew member wearing an environmental suit stalks down a space freighter's corridor toward a closed bulkhead door.

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Lee Bailes @leebaileswriter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

"...Currently he and most of the town seemed to be suffering from some collective malady. But unusually for this hour, the wide-open slaughter space was bathed in sickly fluorescents and a funky scent. ..." #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Horror #HorrorSky

A screengrab of text featuring the highlighted word "collect" as it appears in an extract from a short horror story. It reads: "...Today, however, someone had either beaten him to it or the place had been left unlocked all night; it wasn't too hard to imagine the latter. Neither was it too hard to imagine what the boss would say about it when he was feeling better. Currently he and most of the town seemed to be suffering from some collective malady. But unusually for this hour, the wide-open slaughter space was bathed in sickly fluorescents and a funky scent. A cabbagey mixture of body odour and bile pervaded the air. ..."

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Had a lot to choose from, but decided to go with this excerpt from "Tenement." For context, the characters live in a seemingly infinite tenement building where things just kinda... come and go.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I have to decide what I want to write today: - The Shattered Divide (next book in the Great Mirror) - An Opus of Torment (horror/supernatural) - The Lost and Unseen (quasi-historical, mostly fantasy, a take on Peter Pan) - unnamed project that clashes Harry Potter, Maze Runner, and LOTR

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

So, in my current supernatural/horror WIP, I am having to look up and reference a lot of 1880s slang (for reasons). Today, my new favorite saying was learned. "Got the morbs" is a delightful way to say someone looks sad or is acting melancholy. This pleases me.

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Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Hell yes! What a mighty #ASU #SunDevils win! The territory cup returns to where it belongs.

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