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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~

@jamesfinegan.bsky.social
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Wannabe Author. Writes a lot of fantasy and a thruppence of sci-fi. A lover of Shakespeare, space, and sudoku. Married to an absolute lad. He/him jamesfineganauthor.com

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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
After a month off to let my beta readers do their thing, I’m SO READY to get on with this next round of edits!!! Still got some reads to come in, but I’ve got more than enough to get started! #WritingCommunity #editing #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know I’m supposed to be on ‘writing vacation’ whilst my betas are reading Not Technically Ghosts - but I just can’t help myself and now I’ve written a damn synopsis for the thing. And it’s NOT awful? Can I do synopsises now?!?? #WritingCommunity #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
What’s a boy to do whilst my book’s with beta readers? Alright I COULD get on with my next project buuuuut do you know what else sounds fun? Digitising 10+ years of handwritten stuff pertaining to my PREVIOUS book! #WritingCommunity #Booksky
A disorganised pile of folders notebooks and loose pages on a wooden table.
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Proofreading complete! Now I just need to correct the errors on… every one of the 222 pages 😅 most are minor, shouldn’t take too long before my beta readers finally get it! #BookSky #WritingCommunity
A printed manuscript on a wooden table with a pen. Not Technically Ghosts. James A Finegan. Scrawled on the cover is: ‘Readed[sic] it - 21/7/26’ along with a doodle of two ghosts holding hands with a heart.
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The UK government frames intelligence agent Eddie Fletcher for its role in a temporal disaster, putting him in the crosshairs of ruthless state assassins. To save his skin he must seal a lethal time rift - or a Russian spy will use it to start a war that destroys the future. #BluePit #Q #A #SF #📖
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PJ (he/him) is querying... @pjwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
THE EVERWINTER KING Desperate to find his missing sun god, a former holy king returns home to compete in trials meant to bring his god back, and stop the onslaught of an endless winter. 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ☀️ Light-based magic 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans love interest 👑 Hidden royalty #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #F #LGBT #DIS
Title page for an agent's guide to THE EVERWINTER KING. The title is placed over a moodboard featuring a Mediterranean inspired setting and royalty imagery. In addition to the title the page reads "Adult Fantasy Standalone. Queer normative world. MM romance subplot. 99,000 words."THE EVERWINTER KING's pitch.

PITCH
A former holy king does the one thing he swore he’d never do in search of his missing god. He goes home.

Malachi was born with God’s voice in his head. When God vanishes in the midst of a decade-long winter, Mal breaks the oath he made to himself and returns to the home he abandoned—the city where he was raised to be king. There, he’s marked to compete in trials meant to select God’s new emissary. His replacement.

After succeeding in the first trial, Mal demands entry to the royal temple, where he learns the skies are empty. God has stopped speaking to his priests and Mal alike. With no other avenue for answers, Mal must win the competition for God’s favor and assume the throne he never wanted, or risk losing his oldest friend for good and damning the world to a worsening everwinter.An excerpt from THE EVERWINTER KING. Next to the excerpt is character art of the main character. He has light bright skin, dark brown hair, facial hair, and a simple jerkin over white shirt. His eye is glowing like the sun.

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“My head hurts,” Malachi mumbled into his drink.

“They say King Ridaris’ eye glowed like this.”

Did they? Malachi shuffled through his memories for any mention of that from his mothers, or the history books, and found nothing.

“I think it means God knows who you are.” Sen lowered her voice, eyes shifting toward the surrounding priests. Kinder to pretend she did it out of concern for his headache. “You need to be careful.”

“Aye.”

“It hasn’t stopped glowing. Everyone else’s did.”

He raised a hand to cover his eye, pausing to marvel at the light pouring over his fingers and palm. It spilled into every crack, crevice, and scar his hand had to offer, like liquid pooled against his skin. Malachi closed his fist around the cold light and pressed it to his face. “Hurts.”

“Close your eyes,” Samara offered. “Rest. We’ll handle it from here.”

For once, he did just that.A page listing comp titles.

Comp titles for THE EVERWINTER KING include: "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson, "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie, "WITCH KING" by Martha Wells, and "The Red Winter" by Cameron Sullivan.

Similarities include: godly shenanigans, political trials, queer-norm worlds, queer male leads, messy homecomings, and a second chance subplot.

Bonus comp! Dragon Age 2.
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N. Sowers @nsowers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NOT YET CORPSES is querying now, featuring: 👿 angry trans sorcerer without a soul 🧟 the hot amnesiac corpse who won’t leave him alone 🐈‍⬛ the nonbinary kid wizard they rescue together 👹 angels and devils and monsters, oh my! 📜 the last chance to save his soul #BluePit #📖 #Q #YA #F #H #LGBT
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Panda 🖤🩶🤍💜 @celticxpanda.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
SILVER IN THE BONE X ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN 👑 Reincarnated King Arthur, but make it Magical Girl ⚔️ Epic battles with magical weapons a-plenty 💋 Slow burn romance with extra pining 🌈 Queer Friendships 🌩️ All Myths are Real, and they're coming to kick Mordred's ass #BluePit #📖 #Q #F #LGBT
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Eva J. Krammer | she/her 🏳️‍🌈📚✒️ @evviejo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Hand You're Dealt is a heist novel set in an alternative, steampunk version of Sheffield, England, circa 1899. Centered around a bunch of queer con artists and other outcasts, it's a story of revenge and setting wrongs right. #Q #SP #LGBT #NA #📖 #BluePit
Under photos of: Sheffield Town Hall, two women playing cards in a dingy, historical setting, steampunk-looking gears, and Sheffield railway station:
The Hand You're Dealt
- 135K words
- speculative heist novel
- lesbian romance subplot
- Metal From Heaven X Foundryside X BabelAfter a few minutes of careful observation, Maeve's gaze fell on a girl who had just entered the departures hall, with a jaunty little hat on top of messily pinned up hair and a small case gripped tightly in her hands. Her eyes darted around nervously and Maeve decided the girl had to be looking for someone, perhaps she was joining a female friend on a trip to the seaside, eloping with some lad, or she'd lost her family in the crowd. Yet she didn't seem to linger on any person at all and focused on the large screen listing destinations and departure times for upcoming trains. She mouthed the names, almost panicky.

"Damn it," Maeve muttered to herself, weaving her way between the throng of travellers towards the girl. "Sorry, couldn't help but notice, do you need any help?"

The look that met her eyes was one Maeve was intimately familiar with. The lost, frightened look of someone who had nowhere to go, no one to turn to, and not a shred of idea what to do next. She used to see that precise expression in the mirror for weeks
The Hand You're Dealt, chapter 2 (draft seven)
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Packy Smith @packysmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
MAGICIANS+DREAMSCAPE Nerdy film student Felix is an inept psychic who’s unlucky in all things. His loner existence is upended when he joins a lucid dreams based campus sleep study. Here, he meets an odd crew of coed psychics who protect the dream realm from a soul-stealing being. #BluePit #Q #SF #NA
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Walt Disney: If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It
Alt: Walt Disney: If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It
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Tashi Saheb-Ettaba @tashise.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What if saving your mother means diving into her worst nightmares? 16-year-old Emi Yamaguchi must team up with a dream-eater and three ghost women to hunt down her mother’s fragmented heart—before a soul-devouring demon consumes them all. #BluePit #📖 #Q #YA #H #POC
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Molly Haniszewski @mollyhaniszewski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT x HOLLOW Invasive plants took over the United States. Queer teen Cora and their aunt guard the scientists charged with stopping the botanical pandemic, but Cora’s crush, a scientist’s assistant, jeopardizes the cure by speaking to blackberry brambles. #bluepit #ya #d #h #q
White text over blackberry brambles, reads Vine & Bramble by Molly Haniszewski, an agent’s guideA mood board featuring blackberries, kudzu, overalls, overgrown weeds, and two queer people kissing.They Bloom at Night, Hollow, What Feeds Below, Eat the Ones You Love, Don’t Let the Forest In, Root RotMolly sits at a table holding a glass of sake, reads "The Author."
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Joseph Langley @jlangleyauthor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ON THE ORIGIN OF LIVING FLAME: THE POET EMPRESS x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN, but 2 million years ago at the dawn of community. 😤 Audacious and based FMC 🔥 Gain magic by eating fire 🏳️‍🌈 Queer norm world ✨️ Pre-gender world 💥 Anti-capitalist Neanderthals #BluePit #📖 #Q #A #F #LGBT #WritingCommunity
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Gillimoney Quail opens a fake witching school to lure gullible children she can eat to restore her dwindling powers. But when smarmy Prince Wesley threatens to retake the castle she’s using for the school, she may have to work together with the very children she planned to eat! #BluePit 📖 #W #F #MG
Gillimoney Quail’s Totally Legitimate Witching School Where Absolutely No One Gets Eaten - moodboard with pictures. White title on purple and gold banner. Greyscale sketch of raven, newt, toad, bat, stars above and below. Images 1-6 running top to bottom left and right:
1- scattered pages and book covered in magical symbols 
2- woman neck down in a black witch robe standing over a cauldron
3- sketch of various Victorian-esque children
4- a collection of witches gathered at a fiery ridge 
5- hooded woman in profile
6- a mist-shrouded coastal castle
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ryan & Albert live 200 years apart - but once per day a time-slip lets them meet. Now they need to solve the mystery of Clarence Hall before they accidentally change history! Oh… and try not to fall for each other in the process! NOT TECHNICALLY GHOSTS #BluePit 📖 #W #R #F #YA #LGBT
Not Technically Ghosts moodboard with pictures 
1- An abandoned ruinous hall 
2- person on bicycle silhouetted against sunset
3- person from behind, red hoodie, in forest
4- two hands reaching for one another
5- person in night-time woodlands shining a torch
6- black and white person Victorian suit, sitting with book 
7- Victorian library multiple high book filled shelves, arches through
8- Victorian school room, old wood desk, blackboard on a stand
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
#BluePitHype My biggest inspiration has always got to be Discworld. That unique combination of funny, smart, heartfelt, and epic, is what changed me from a fantasy reader, to someone who wanted to WRITE it. More recently I’m loving the rise of so many HopePunk and QueerJoy works! #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#BluePitHype I see pitch events firstly as a chance to find new people/projects to follow! Study pitches that catch your attention and ask yourself why it does. Reduce your plot to one (usually terrible!) line, then build on it until you run out of words. Helps par down what’s important. #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#BluePitHype Alas I’m not much of a graphic designer and even less of an artist, but here’s Not Technically Ghosts’ moodboard, ‘movie-poster’ (that came out better than expected!) and random doodles on the bottom of some 3-year-old notes! #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Not Technically Ghosts moodboard with pictures 
1- An abandoned ruinous hall 
2- person on bicycle silhouetted against sunset
3- person from behind, red hoodie, in forest
4- two hands reaching for one another
5- person in night-time woodlands shining a torch
6- black and white person Victorian suit, sitting with book 
7- Victorian library multiple high book filled shelves, arches through
8- Victorian school room, old wood desk, blackboard on a standMovie-style poster for Not Technically Ghosts
Ballroom divided in two by blue energy. Left half shades of gold a silhouette boy casually leans against divide. Right half monochrome silhouette boy leans his head back on divide.
Top of poster fading font: Not Technically Ghosts
Top text - from the queer mind that will (eventually!) bring you Spirit Rider The Royal Problem
Below title - Congrats on finding the guy of your dreams! (Less congrats on him living 200 years away!)Quotes in film festival style wreaths - “Fake dates” “Defying fates” “Heartwarming YA” “Dumbass x Bookworm”Bottom text - This is that part at the bottom of movie posters which I think more than anything else makes them Look like movie posters there are supposed to be names of people involved in the production but I already did that with the Spirit Rider Poster so this one is mostly just filler sorry I couldn’t think of a good joke no wait “knock knock” “WHo’s there?” “To” “To Who?” “No, no, it’s - To Whom” Ba-dum TissA page of scribbled notes, above doodles of two people with a crucifix, two faces, someone sitting at a desk, someone sitting in the floor
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#BluePitHype The protag of my previous project is quick-thinking and inventive. So when writing Ryan I deliberately wanted the opposite! Less naturally academic and more feels-based. Then Albert became a perfect foil to that, but still different to my previous characters. #WritingCommunity #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#BluePitHype The semi-abstract concept of History itself, is our villain. History accidentally allows Ryan and Albert to meet. But when these disastrous homosexuals keep making paradoxes, History may or may not take matters into its own hands to keep them apart… #WritingCommunity #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#BluePitHype My co-protagonists Ryan and Albert kick off the plot by pure chance (and an unforeseen lapse in the fabric of History)! But once they find their connection they’ll stop at nothing to keep it alive. #WritingCommunity #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#BluePitHype Ahoyhoy! I’m James - I write fantasy and sci-fi that’s always at least a bit queer. Currently finishing edits on my cute YA mm paranormal-romance, Not Technically Ghosts 👻🏳️‍🌈
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Printed out Not Technically Ghosts for proofreading! Armed with a red pen and audio-description reading the words aloud, let’s get this thing ready for my beta-readers! #BookSky #WritingCommunity #editing
An open printed manuscript with various scribblings-out and notes in red pen, on a wooden table
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We. Are. Done!!!! A year to the day that I finished the first draft of Not Technically Ghosts, my cute YA gay paranormal romance, I’ve just finished its first round of edits - and just in time for the end of Pride Month! Stay zesty guys 🏳️‍🌈👻 #WritingCommunity #editing #BookSky
A screenshot of a word-file “— a ghost, in all but name!”
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sure James, entirely rewrite / add a new ending to Not Technically Ghosts… on the day you want to FINISH the edits!! This book MIGHT still be done today. Come onnnnnn #WritingCommunity #editing #BookSky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
THIS is editing! The notes on this scrap of paper mean nothing to anyone but me, yet solved weeks (months?) of editing woes! #BookSky #WritingCommunity #editing
Scrap of paper with various hastily written notes. Many arrows, circling, further bracketed notes, and aggressive highlighting.
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Aaaand that’s Part 3 edits done on Not Technically Ghosts! I’m off work so if I crack on could I finish Part 4 and have my cute gay romance finished in time for the end of pride month?!? It might just be possible… #BookSky #WritingCommunity #editing
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ok I THINK that’s the last new scene I’ll need to write in this round of edits!! It was a big one, but represents the last of plot-tangles. Not to jinx myself but… smooth sailing til the end now? #BookSky #editing #WritingCommunity
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Edited some more lines. … … … … God I’m so good at social media
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Slightly hard-going how all these rewritten scenes currently amount to: 'Hey Ryan, remember how you're failing school and you're hiding it from everyone and your future is screwed? Doesn't that make you feel annnnnxious?' Poor kid! (It gets better, I promise) #WritingCommunity #writesky #editing
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Working on it for a bit but guess I should finally announce my new side project (graduating to main project once edits are done on Not Technically Ghosts): GILLIMONEY QUAIL’S TOTALLY LEGITIMATE WITCHING SCHOOL WHERE ABSOLUTELY NO ONE GETS EATEN Pitch below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Gillimoney Quail’s Totally Legitimate Witching School Where Absolutely No One Gets Eaten - moodboard with pictures. White title on purple and gold banner. Greyscale sketch of raven, newt, toad, bat, stars above and below. Images 1-6 running top to bottom left and right:
1- scattered pages and book covered in magical symbols 
2- woman neck down in a black witch robe standing over a cauldron
3- sketch of various Victorian-esque children
4- a collection of witches gathered at a fiery ridge 
5- hooded woman in profile
6- a mist-shrouded coastal castle
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Interesting (likely basic!) writing exercise recently which has really helped me figure out some problem characters! Picture your character 20 years after the story ends. Are they happy? How did they end up there? Was it an accident? What actions that got them there? #WritingCommunity #writesky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Tentative progress! After yanking out a whole B-plot, what I had left wasn’t satisfying enough. Reworked a more feasible half version. Feels like solid groundwork but the ending is floaty. I won’t know if this comes together until it’s finished. #editing #WritingCommunity #booksky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And round the cycle goes! I’ve once again come back to deleting this entire storyline (Ryan’s wayward older brother). Saves nearly 10k words but now need to fill in many many gaps. I love this character but making him fit is so much trouble… #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #editing
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Bah! Spent the better part of a week dying from a cold but finally mending now and got a good editing session done. Nearly finished a whole scene. Nice bit of thinking this was FINE on first glance but then cutting fat AND finding all the parts to make it more! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #editing
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🎶 One scene forwards, 🎶 And two scenes back, 🎶 You don’t get very far 🎶 Editing like that… #WritingCommunity #writesky #booksky #editing
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Not done one of these for a while - why not! Here's a bit of Ryan and his older brother from Not Technically Ghosts #WIPSnips #WriteSky #editing
Benji scoffs at his cereal. “I’m not goin’ back to Bristol. Ain’t paid rent since I got there anyway. Why am I gonna do that when I can just spend it on what I want?” He looks at me like the thought of ‘paying rent’ is the most stupid thing he’s ever heard of. “Reckon I’ll be alright. Dad ain’t gonna’ make me homeless, is he?”
The kitchen is suddenly colder than the wintery weather rattling the windowpane. Benji is definitely back. An uncaring, selfish smirk on the surface, but I can see the way he sets his teeth, the stony eyes that won’t look at me. There’s a numb certainty about him, like the end of a film has been spoiled for him and he’s stuck watching it anyway.
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Cool cool cool, shifted some scenes around to give Not Technically Ghosts Part 3 a stronger opening… and subsequently derailed multiple scenes afterwards! Urgh it’s fine, I’ll fix it 🙄 #WritingCommunity #editing #writesky #booksky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Another town, another bakery. At the stroke of midnight, Hansel glared at the darkened windows of the shop, as Gretel passed him the lit Molotov cocktail. Never. Again. #MicrofictionMonday
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Woo woo that’s part 2 of Not Technically Ghosts fully edited! Part 3 was rough to write and I know there’s more challenges ahead editing it - but I’m ready!! #WritingCommunity #writesky #editing #booksky
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a cartoon of a ghost with a rainbow coming out of its mouth
Alt: Gif - a cheery white sheet ghost flying through a speckled night sky trailing a rainbow
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Ah ha, take THAT word-count! Was getting to a good tag on for the next scene, but then thought "oh there's still the OTHER scene I need to link first". Buuuut the other scene breaks the flow, takes too much focus away from the main plot. CUT CUT CUT! #WritingCommunity #editing #writesky #booksky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Onto the final new scene I’ve needed to add for Not Technically Ghosts Part 2. After that just 3 scenes to edit (should be light) then Part 2 will be done! #WritingCommunity #writesky #booksky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Ahh now THAT’S a good writing session! Haven’t done anything that felt this decent in literally months. I might actually finish these edits one day! #WritingCommunity #writesky #booksky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This damn subplot is the biggest thing strangling Not Technically Ghosts’ progress! Reworked and cut and shifted dozens of times. It holds up too many other parts of the plot to delete and I DO like it. It’s just so hard-going… #WritingCommunity #writesky #booksky
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
As fun as they were, I’m glad to say I’ve now fully wrapped up x2 beta reads. I always think I can juggle it with my own writing but in reality I need to focus myself on one or the other. NOW I can get back to work! #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Spending a lot of my writing time at the moment working on a coupe of beta reads for some of my writer pals. Time well spent! Love working with other people’s work (plus gives me breathing room to keep figuring out my own story’s problems!) #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Hello 2026! Back on track after a 2-ish months social media break whilst being creatively stuck and a bit stress-y depress-y. Nearly 1/2 done edits on Not Technically Ghosts (after rEwRiTiNg tHe MiDdLe!) Now ready for a year of success for me and all of you! #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
Selfie. Me - pale, blond(ish) goblin boy with an attempted smile, wearing pink and white tie-dye tshirt. Sitting on grey patterned bed.
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
NEARLY figured out how to fix this broken scene (scrap 90% + two scenes prior) but now realising there's a yet larger structural issue where this sequence of events plays out basically again later in the book! This section needs a MUCH bigger rethink! #WritingCommunity #amediting
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Tricky editing ahead. Got to an important scene - which felt very right at the time, but now I’m reading it back and actively hate so much of it. Very hollow and insincere for something so important. Needs heavy reworking here. #WritingCommunity #amediting
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James ~Yes Mum, I’m still doing “the writing bit”~ @jamesfinegan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Struggling to settle on my next project for after / during Not Technically Ghosts. Got a few ideas that could be great, but nothing that creatively has me by the throat, you know? Maybe just names out a hat at this point! #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amediting
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