JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/12/2023I don't have anything to promote directly this week, but I've got a new hybrid weirdfic/litcrit blog launching in the new year, so feel free to watch this space if you're interested. Thanks for running the #SFFchat, C.J. 040 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/12/2023I've had a long stewing scheme for a Space Opera based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. It's probably my most ambitious plan, and it's about 6 years in the making so far. It's got to have social climbing with galactic stakes, attitude and the most glorious villainess ever. #SFFchat. 150 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/12/2023I have three WIPs, but I've been talking about Lindsey this whole time, so I'll keep on with that. Lindsey is nominally employed as a medical aide by Doctor Tsang, who runs an underfunded community clinic. He's the only person who knows about her condition. (That is the dying thing). #SFFchat 040 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Well, short stories don't have chapters, so here's the last line of the first scene. "From out of the blurring blue a shadow more massive than all the rest, with craggy jagged features, shot down toward Lindsey, piercing the surface of the water." #SFFchat 140 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Well, if I take my story about a spontaneously, recurringly dying girl and, I just finished Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson's Skyward Flight novellas, so . . . a recurring series of small fighter craft crashes probably. #SFFchat 020 0
Reposted by JD VollansC.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 08/12/202315 minutes until #SFFchat! All writers of SFF are welcome 061 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Hey, I'm JD today, he/him (it/that?) and I write weird and unsettling stories, sometimes in space. It's short story season, and I've got military SF, magical realism and Gothic horror all on deck. No, I don't feel like picking a lane -- it's fucking Christmas-time, y'all. #SFFchat 030 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/12/2023I've been pretty lax on updating over here recently, partly because of NaNo and partly because it's nice to have a life away from a computer screen. My post-NaNo writing break is over, though, so I'll probably be back to procrastinating over here too. #Author #WritingCommunity 000 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 01/12/2023Belated #NaNoWriMo update: I did the thing. Completed draft @ 50,002 on the 29th. Gave myself a detox day yesterday, no words only pictures. #author #WritingCommunity 050 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 21/11/2023It's all gonna be ok. We'll rob their house together. 110 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Breathe and remember: you don't want to be that writer. You just want their money. 110 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Quick #NaNoWriMo update: Everything is trucking along. Slipped behind for a little while a week or so ago, but caught up the other day and now I'm back at cruising speed, if not nosing ahead. Thursday may bring challenges, but we'll see. #WritingCommunity #Author 030 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 20/11/2023That is a significantly cooler looking cover than the one I've got. 000 0
Reposted by JD VollansC.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 16/11/2023The first Bluesky #SFFchat will be coming to you this Friday at 2pm CST. All SFF writers welcome. Spread the word! #authors #writingcommunity #queeradultSFF 74126 0
Reposted by JD VollansJaunty Art @jaunty.art · 14/11/2023Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate 3935581673 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 13/11/2023Weird, cos' I remember them faltering pretty much constantly. 000 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/11/2023Uh, so I'm basically always in a state of mild terror, and all my stories kind of scare me. But one of my more stubborn WIPs, a novella about a ranch, has a moment where the process of making vellum is described in some detail and it's awfully hard to write every time I revise. #HorrorWritersChat 092 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/11/2023I hate that I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'm just not that well versed in the indie horror scene, but if anyone wants a break from the terror, I'll shout out my friends at @worldsmyths.bsky.social , who publish indie fantasy anthologies and novellas. #HorrorWritersChat 1104 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/11/2023This one's kind of difficult. In my current work, it's probably Hal's dad, Leonard. He's not a major character, seeing as he's dead and kindness is part of the reason for that. Being good in a savage environment is unfortunately rarely rewarded. He dared to dream of a better time. #HorrorWritersChat 284 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 08/11/2023Hi, I'm JD again, writer of spooky and disgusting heresies against the hegemony of "actual reality". For now, I'm hauling on my #NaNoWriMo project, which accounts for November. December is short story season, and I hope to get 3-4 drafts of already outlined pieces done then. #HorrorWritersChat 495 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Yeah, it really only works with a good outline and a program like Scrivener that lets you break up scenes. 100 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Also, I think I've listened to three different instrumental arrangements of Everlong in the past fifteen minutes. 000 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 07/11/2023I'm so sleepy today. I've been tracking pretty much exactly on par for #NaNoWriMo all week, so that's fine basically. I think I'm going to skip past the middle and work on the back end of the novel for today, see if I can get a feel for the momentum at the far side. #WritingCommunity #Author 250 0
Reposted by JD VollansOdessa Silver @odessasilver.bsky.social · 07/11/2023Today I'm trying to promote my stories, follow new people, and generally falling down the sinkhole of social media. I'm still not even sure if I am doing bluesky right yet, but nevertheless I'll keep posting haha. Anyone wanna do a follow swap? I want to meet more authors 🙂 #writingcommunity 4113 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Alas, there really isn't anything going in my district. Not one school board seat, not one judge, not one council member. I'm almost kind of upset about it. I've got wild voting energy right now, and there's nothing to vote about. 130 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 05/11/2023Honestly, this should be the best site for #MSWL. 030 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 03/11/2023Hygienic habits, right living, coffee, and unemployment. Not necessarily in that order. 110 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 03/11/2023I think it's more "on your side" than literally present, in the way you might say "I'm with you," when offering support to somebody going through the shit. 000 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 03/11/2023#NaNoWriMo efforts continue apace. I ended yesterday comfortably near to 4000 words, and I'll certainly pass 5k today without issue. #WritingCommunity #Author 140 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 02/11/2023Checking in at 2400 words for #NaNoWriMo day one. Might get a little further before I call it quits in about 90 minutes, but I'm pretty comfortable with this. #WritingCommunity #Author 030 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 01/11/2023It would necessarily have to cost less than a subscription to each and every magazine you read from to be viable. 100 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 01/11/2023I feel like this would ultimately hurt the magazines in exactly the same ways the Kindle Unlimited program is not great for them. 100 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 01/11/2023Happy November, #NaNoWriMo friends. Let the reign of suffering begin. #WritingCommunity #Author 030 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 26/10/2023That feels right. but also bsky is importantly --not fucking facebook--. 220 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 25/10/2023Don't be said! You'll love Harrow and Nona (and Nona loves you.) 010 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 24/10/2023I don't think there's a real compromise to be made, partly because I don't think they really want the speakership without the majority. It would be taking ownership of a circus not of their making and which they can't possibly derive any benefit from. 020 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 24/10/2023A couple moderate republicans could make that choice, but without an accompanying rule change there would be a challenge to the speakership daily, if not hourly. 110 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 24/10/2023If anyone's interested in being buddies for #NaNoWriMo, here's my participant page. It's a little threadbare, but that's just because I'm awful. #WritingCommunity #Author nanowrimo.org/participants/jd-vollansnanowrimo.orgNaNoWriMo 151 0
Reposted by JD VollansOdessa Silver @odessasilver.bsky.social · 24/10/2023New here and trying to figure out how to use this platform! I'm a fantasy author and love writing stories influenced by mythology and folk tales. I'm currently writing stories which are based in Japan with Shinto gods, magic, and supernatural yokai. I also write articles about these things too. 081 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 24/10/2023I don't know how much I'll use the site this year, but I'll shoot you a request. 010 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 23/10/2023You can just tell that moth is thinking bad things. 110 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Hey booksky, I have some friends who could use some help getting their anthology out into the world. Support them if you can! 💙📚👀 www.indiegogo.com/projects/written-in-the-wind-a-short-story-anthology#/indiegogo.comWritten in the Wind - A Short Story AnthologyWritten in the Wind is a new Speculative Fiction Anthology from Worldsmyths 022 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 22/10/2023I get to turn my #Pathfinder party's paladin against them, and he just keeps rolling 3s and 5s. I don't get to have any fun at all. 010 0
JD Vollans @jdvollans.bsky.social · 22/10/2023I swear this was the plot of a Cory Doctorow novel. 010 0
