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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜

@jimthevampire.bsky.social
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Definitely not a Vampire! Wannabe Sci-Fi writer, writing some rubbish called Statues Erode. It's got space in it! Progress: Rewrite 1 Complete!

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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 2h
So I was gonna skip this one because I don't do art, but a friend made an Elara for me so: She is the XO (Executive Officer) of the TSS Tartarus, a long distance hauler. She has a lot of time on her hands and very few hobbies.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 12h
Tartarus is the wildcard. And i don't just mean the ship, mean the one who calls itself Tartarus. 😂 Larry is a wildcard. But different. #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 23h
Nearly forgot! But the long awaited return of FlyDay! What? But Jim it's been forever! No, it's been two weeks! Just relax would ya! Here is a fly! It was worth the wait for this lovely little flapping terror of the late evening! #moth #FlyDay
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My Statues crew would probably crossover to The Expanse or Alien. Less easy but more fun - Sense and Sensibility. I think Toren as Mr Darcy would be dashing 😁 and they'd be a disaster - getting the dialogue wrong, trying to get off of this weird 'colony' #LitHodgePodge 2 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh that's a good question. Yes, easily in the right company. Elara is absurdly genuine. Alex is more the joker generally, his dynamic with absent friend (Ben) I miss, but I think Caul is weirdly the most contagious, because it's more rare. 😊🔥 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My name is Jim, I write sci-fi for...fun apparently. I don't have to. They said I can stop anytime I want to. They asked me to stop. But I didn't because they can't stop me not stopping. Monster favourite is the Alien. It's just an awesome concept and of course The Terminator.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Noooooo!!! 😂 She isn't patient. She tried patience but was patient for the wrong thing. Now she prefers the "I'm just gonna do myself because I can't wait" approach. She has a rocking back and forth on her heels approach to waiting! Glad you got back online Charlie!! ❤️ #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elara is a croissant 🥐 - crusty on the outside soft in the middle. 😁 Toren is a coffee cake apparently 😂 McLellan maybe lemon cake - a bit sour, but with enough sugar Caul is a "sour gummy worm" (cinnamon bun) Kaili is a chocolate cupcake with marshmallows. #AwesomeCharacters
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Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜 @pamelajeong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey friends of the #WritingCommunity & #WriteSky! 👋💚 Please join me in October for 🍲📚 #LitHodgepodge 📚🍲, a game of daily #writingprompts with a dash of this and a dollop of that, questions with meat plus a sprinkling of garnishes. Let’s have some miscellaneous fun! More info & preview below ⬇️
LITERARY HODGEPODGE
An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions

[Graphics of stars, a crow, and a smoking cauldron with a tiny frog on its side]

DAILY THEMES

MONDAYS WITH MARCEL
Answer interview questions from the Proust Questionnaire as your character (and yourself, if you wish!)

TUESDAY TROPES
Discuss (and snip, if you wish) archetypes & tropes in your WIP

WEDNESDAY WORDSMITHS
Share a snip from your WIP that showcases a specified literary element or stylistic device

THURSDAY THRIFTED THERAPY
Dive (un)deep into the (pop) psychology of your character

FRIDAY FLIGHTS OF FANCY
Indulge in some frivolous “what if” daydreaming about your writing

SATURDAY SNAP JUDGMENTS
Post a non-AI image of your character and invite others to make assumptions about them

SUNDAY SHOUT & SHARE
Connect with other writers in the community by asking questions about the writing process

[Graphic of a talking black cat]
“Lighthearted fun! Fun connections! Connect light hearts?”

Hosted by @pamelajeong.bskysocial
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's FlyDay! Got this last little summer guy. Not sure what winter will bring. Perhaps FlyDay will ha e a vacation? Eeeep! For the meantime, check out this guy! #FlyDay #Nature #OnceMoreIntoTheBreach
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think it's a close run thing here. I could argue for all of them needing a big hug at various points. At the current point...Kaili, a young lady with a lot on her shoulders. Some known, some unknown. #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hope that most people would want to punch the Rec on it's stupid...uh, network ports! It doesn't have a nose. The Rec isn't a villain, but it definitely doesn't villanous stuff! There are others who deserve a punch too, but...ya know, spoilers he he. #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Definitely. Her name is Thalia Caulfield. She is the Doctor on the ship and I guess the relationship changes as the story goes on. 😬😂 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
FlyDay!!! Look at this little guy! Sorry for the pic quality. Low light. #FlyDay #Nature #Moths
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's FlyDay again! Hope you all have a magnificent weekend. Got another small guy moth here. Forgive the blur some, the background wasn't idea ha. #FlyDay #nature #moths
Little tiny moth with fuchsia in the background
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In this one no. I had some ideas for a future sequel where our old crew are kinda at that point of hanging up thier space suits, but never wanted to do like 'next generation' so it'd be more like 15 years after the first story or something. But not in this one, no. #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gonna have to highly recommend this. What a deal! 🔥🔥🔥
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Another FlyDay is upon us. I got this little tiny one. White canvas for scale. The white canvas is massive so it doesn't help. Happy #FlyDay #nature #randomsmallflyingcreature
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
No dogs aboard I'm afraid Charlie. But Elaras most dog like trait would be loyalty and love for those she cares most about. And for the right person, she might even show her belly for a tickle 😂 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Another #FlyDay is upon us. Hope the adventure is treating you well. Check out this little guy just hanging out on the cheapo paddling pool we got for the dog. TinyFly!! #Nature #FlyDay #RandomFlyingStuff
Little tiny moth type situation. If I put a banana on this for scale the little guy would barely show up in the photo.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A #WIPSnips Starter Pack so I can one click follow all of the awesome people who post there? ❤️ Awesome work @teisha42.bsky.social 😊🔥🔥🔥
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Piano makes me think of Caul. Elara would be a Slash style blues-y electric guitar. Toren is percussion, because of course he is. Always banging about the place making a racket. 😂 The Rec is a tougher one. Something simple but complex. A tambourine 😂 #AwesomeCharacters
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paradoxdruid.bsky.social @paradoxdruid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is my first time doing a #WIPSnips for my story, and here my MCs find themselves exploring a not-quite abandoned townhouse. From my in-progress urban fantasy novel, Paths Untouched by Mortal Feet. #WriteSky
Trenton shrugged and pulled out his phone, switching on the flashlight and barely noticing the long list of notifications that scrolled across the screen.  “Okay, Kate, I guess we’re going in.”
This was all crazy.  I can’t seriously be poking around in the dark, looking for ghosts or goblins or whatever.  But his blood pumped fast in his veins, and he kept breaking into involuntary smiles.  He glanced at Kate beside him.  Her face switched rapidly between caution and excitement.  His hand slipped into hers, and she squeezed back.
He put a tentative foot on the metal stair, easing his weight onto it, tensed and ready to jump back.  But it held firm.  His foot slid slightly, and worryingly, in the accumulated dust.  “I’m not sure anyone has used these in a long time, but they should hold.”
They crept up the stairs, which defied expectation by being quiet and firm, no creaking, no ominous groans.  At the top, they ended abruptly at a door which the glare of Trenton’s flashlight illuminated.  It was plastered with magazine clippings and cut-outs that hid most of the white paint behind them.  Each clipping was floral, mostly of roses, but sometimes of lilies or others, often with smiling women staring out as they shared their prized arrangements.  The brass door handle and an ornate and old-fashioned brass knocker weren’t obscured.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh yeah, FlyDay! Hope the week has treated you well. Here is a fly! #FlyDay #Nature
Green fly of some kind.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Almost forgot FlyDay! And it's one of my favourites that I finally managed to get an open wing picture of while it was sat on the wall! #FlyDay #Nature #Butterfly
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
But of a cheat this FlyDay. It's a grasshopper. They don't really fly, but they jump real high so...yeah, that's what it has come to. Happy FlyDay. #nature #grasshopper #flyday
Just pictures of a grasshopper on some grass.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I have two that spring to mind one expected - Elara and Toren and one unexpected much later. Both are good news moments 😊 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I feel like we still have an advantage. AI is set up to be nice and not confrontational which makes it a boring storyteller. It doesn't 'think' it digests and repeats. A creative writer will out write AI. Volume issues aside. Don't panic, just write. AI is a tool, not a creator. #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I have so many but they aren't published yet. You know who you are! Current recommendations: Gods of Atalantis by @professoremily.bsky.social At your Pace by @hopeengel.com and Poison and Opium @5feetofredfury.bsky.social All wonderful, all different, all by people you know here! #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Well I guess that'll have to be Toren 😂 he certainly does recur and help. #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If I'm being truly honest, I waste time on my phone. Sometimes I'll convince myself to play a video game. Rarely, I'll try playing keyboard 😬 but mostly I just stare at the doc waiting for it to make sense again 😂 #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nearly forgot to say Happy FlyDay! This colourful little git kept making a mockery out of my reaction times by opening and shutting their wings rapidly:
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's not inconceivable that the Tartarus crew started it. It's likely that they weren't there when it goes long. Caul launches a drink at a leering space, Alex steps into her defence. Elara punches the guy who shoves Alex, Toren drags them out of the door while the bar erupts 😂 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Almost forgot it's FlyDay Here is a little one that was trying to find somewhere to lay eggs.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Snag this book! I just did! I was lucky enough to ARC this one and it's a real fun read with a fantastic voice and lovely cast. Hope has written something truly wonderful that will keep you turning pages. ❤️🔥🔥🔥
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At Your Pace (Hudson Valley State Book 1) eBook : Engel, Hope: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
At Your Pace (Hudson Valley State Book 1) eBook : Engel, Hope: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Take a break, even if for a while. Try writing something else. Go breathe the free air away from the problem for a bit and it'll process in the background then you'll have the breakthrough while sitting on the toilet. Works for me...uh, mostly 😂 #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm gonna put Caul in charge. Those she can't intimidate into buying it, she will probably charm. She's squeezing me for 45% though! Damn! That's gonna hurt! Fun pick - Toren stood there with a book in one hand, a wrench in the other while no-hands smoking 😂 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#SummerOfStories Not sure if I'd call any of my characters lucky at all. But Elara is almost certainly catching the most strays. Here is one communal misery, slightly amplified for her
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Gonna give this one to Alex! #AwesomeCharacters
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Lord of the Rings: Where Are We Going?
ALT: Lord of the Rings: Where Are We Going?
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Toren! No question. Although...technically the Rec, because it can turn the air off 😂 But i'll go with fisticuffs and give it to: Toren 🥇 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Happy birthday!!! 🎉🥳 Elara will be very 'me' about it. Smile, nod, try to hang out nearest the door, make excuses and slip out when nobody is looking 😂😂 Sadly for her, Toren is at the party and is always looking. He will drag her around for some drunken uncle dancing. #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy FlyDay again Another motherfly! Pretty little white with dark spots situation.
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I probably just accidentally absorbed some things from the stuff I have read and married it to the Film Studies course I did 20 years ago (lots of crossover) then pantsed my way to...uh, glory? 😂 Resources: experience and a "if it's bad, it's bad" attitude. #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Was chatting about this just a couple days ago. I like them. They are a good tool for shifting. I genuinely only learned what they were for last year when the "it's AI" fever started. Now I actually use them quite liberally 😂 Take one messed up AI to write my "style" 😂 #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Newest character is hispanic - called James. He is flying the Smauler, a small hauler vehicle which is carrying Ben to his rendezvous with destiny on Ceres. James was literally born yesterday. Definitely a side character, brand new and I fear possibly never to be seen again. 😬 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Pantser but.... I wrote a lot of Statues, then decided I should probably have a plan for silly things like arcs and acts. Then made a plan, didn't stick to the plan. Realised it's rubbish and needs a proper plan. Made plan, got bored don't want to write it 😂 TLDR: Pantser. #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
An angry little shit called Michael Grace. He was from a cough small seaside town in the UK and got caught up in a drug deal gone wrong. 😂 Mr Grace no longer exists in my work. Indirect influence - had to withdraw the author from the cast 😂 #AwesomeCharacters
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
For me it's staying attached to the story. I think about it more than I write and when I sit down, for months I can not write a solitary word because as much as the story lives in my mind I can't find the words for the page. #SummerOfStories
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? From Statues Erode: "Okay, watch your step. Eyes still closed?"
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🫜 Jim the Vampire 🫜 @jimthevampire.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
For Elara, she has been locked in by the Rec. No way she is spending that long alone and not feeling the itch. For Toren it's another normal week in Engineering. For Caul, she might be practicing chess solo or just listening to classical music or both 😀. #AwesomeCharacters
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