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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 29/09/2026

Death of the death of the author (a.k.a. Media-illiteracy-maxxing [any % disillusionment-of-the-self speed-rn]) ✊😤✊ This post is Camus ✅ approved

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 27/09/2026

Spent three hours writing at the library and isn’t that one of the most productive spaces you can be in? I really need to spend more time here instead of the coffee shop ☕️, it actually makes such a difference. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amWriting ✍️

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just saw a guy walking in the rain with an umbrella. and i’m just like, come on man. that’s cheating. don’t be a dick

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 27/09/2026

Another @milanote.bsky.social board, as I zero in on final structural edits to my space opera manuscript, I always have a fresh editing board: Chapter summaries, outlines for each character arc, lots of to-do lists and new chapter outlines! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amEditing #Plotter🚀

MIlanote board for editing reverse outlines and new chapter outlines

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 27/09/2026

Look at this cover, y’all 👀 You can FEEL the cyberpunk, the weird, and the cosmic horror wrapped up into one~ #LitMag #ShortStory #WriteSky #WritingCommunity 🚀

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 26/09/2026

Currently walking through a nor’easter in DC and actually it’s quite lovely. Refreshing ascending from the metro out into the light rain. 🌧️ #DMV #DC

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 25/09/2026

Such an interesting exercise. Evil for evil’s sake has been done. Try this! #amWriting

Alice Cooper
@alicecooper
Random writing tip: if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the A hole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let their voice and logic come through.

Niko Lauro
This is an excellent method for building character depth. It forces the writer to justify a villain's actions through their own flawed logic. Truly helpful for creating nuanced antagonists.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 25/09/2026

For every hot take on how literature is ruined now, in whatever direction you’re angling for, there are enough examples to build a compelling argument for your video essay, because there is simply a whole hell of a lot more literature out there, and it is our responsibility to find what we desire.💙📚

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 25/09/2026

Woohoo! Sold another short story—a flash fiction, in fact—which will bro it in the world in January. It’s always the magazines that a friend of a friend of a friend recommend to you on a lark, isn’t it? #AmSubmitting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity ✍️

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 19/09/2026

It’s the middle of September and they’re playing Christmas music at the cafe. Is this normal??

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 18/09/2026

Tell me why the last several novels I’ve read have moved quickly and with purpose up to 30%, wandered aimlessly for several hundred pages, and then brought the plot back in at the 80% mark for a star finish? Is this the new normal 😑 ? #amReading #BookSky 💙📚

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 13/09/2026

Maintain a deep well of inspiration, and big ideas will be there when you reach for them. #Authors #WriteSky

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 13/09/2026

Just finished the new chapter and it must be a sign, I’ve just tipped over into 82k on my manuscript. We’re far from done with revisions, but this should be my last 🤞 completely new chapter. On track to have a complete, revised draft by the end of October~ #amEditing #amWriting #WriteSky ✍️

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 13/09/2026

Today’s random writing research searches 👀: Planck’s Constant SSH keys system Formal coveralls uniform Radiance Field Rendering Perfect square shaped crystal mineral (I still haven’t found what it!) #WritingCommunity #SciFi ✍️

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 12/09/2026

I’m listening to a novel right now, a trad published novel mind you, where a shiver has rode up someone’s spine SEVEN TIMES within a SINGLE chapter. Several different spines in fact. Don’t do this. #WriteSky #AmReading 💙📚

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 12/09/2026

People don’t much talk about this, but the greatest value of reading in your genre is to avoid tripping over obvious tropes already ground to a fine mush—so you can instead engage in conversation with the evolving genre. 🚀 Unfortunately, you must read both deeply and broadly. 🪐📚 #WriteSky #BookSky

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 12/09/2026

“Convention like metaphor is never dead, but always dying and the Author must always work to outwit it.” #WriteSky #amWriting

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 12/09/2026

I’ve learned recently that audiobooks are the dominant form of fiction in the world, surpassing ebooks, and many people write with the audiobook in mind. The most expensive part of my novella was the audiobook narration, but it was worth every penny. 💙📚

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 11/09/2026

So. I’m the only one in our office most weeks. Beyond that, I’m the only person on this floor. The other offices are unrented empty spaces perpetually under construction, but it’s not just that. I’m the only person in the entire building. I have never seen anyone else.

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 11/09/2026

I’m reading a longer sci-fi that keeps repeating information every couple of chapters. I know reminding your readers is often recommended, but I wouldn’t need any reminders if they cut out all this duplicate information and kept the story moving instead! #amReading #BookSky 💙📚

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 11/09/2026

“Good science fiction is about the social arrangement and consequences of new technology” - Cory Doctorow 🪐📚

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. “You are Mister Draper Thorne, Propagandist for the Axolotl’s of Osiris Station.” A dull, faux legalese sounding statement. Not a question. #amWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity ✍️

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 10/09/2026

Often times I’ll find a song that I love, perfect for writing to or outlining, and I want to make a playlist of music ‘like’ that song, and I quickly discover there are no other songs like it. It stands utterly alone in a cold uncaring universe. #MusicSky #WritingCommunity

open.spotify.com

555Hz

Luke Abbott · Outdoor Museum of Fractals / 555hz · Song · 2016

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions open on the 1st of October, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC! The max word count per story will be 5,000 words. There will be a 1,000 story cap. Once we reach that number of submissions, the window will close. Link to more information ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 05/09/2026

It happened again. I woke up at 1am with a flash fiction idea… and it was in second person. Not just as a gimmick. It makes sense! I promise. The story hinges on implicating the reader in the plot, but I am drawn to that very odd POV far more often than is healthy~ #amWriting #WriteSky

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 05/09/2026

Being omnivores complicates efforts at space travel, but not nearly as much as an obligate carnivore would face.

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 05/09/2026

The busy season at my job consists of rendering or exporting vfx heavy 4K video roughly every fifteen minutes for fourteen hours a day for the last ten consecutive days, and while my computer is beefy, nothing was designed to withstand that workload. So we’re also hard-restarting every few hours~

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/09/2026

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999): USS Defiant, art by Jim Martin

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 03/09/2026

Sometimes I can convince myself to do hard things because then “I’ll be able to use it in my writing later” which is like, what actors think about heartbreak according to my best sources. At the endodontist absorbing small details that I can regurgitate later like I’m an expert #WriteSky #Authors

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 03/09/2026

I’m hearing more and more whispers that fiction writers really ought to have a healthy social media audience to help grease the wheels. Not what I was hearing even 4 years ago from agents and editors. Some truth to that? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Knowing that the plastic dinosaurs we played with as kids consisted, to whatever actual extent, of real dinosaurs.

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 01/09/2026

Let me tell you, the best readers you can hope for are other writers. They’re prodigious, thoughtful, well-versed, and they won’t let you get away with crap. #WriteSky #Authors 💙📚

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 29/08/2026

Today’s writing research search terms 👀: •Albedo, 0.39 •What does NVMe stand for •Evolution of storage devices •System clocks •Cosmic rays alpha particles •7mi/s in Km/hr •Bit flips (SEU) A very normal chapter~ #WriteSky #amWriting 🚀✍️

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 28/08/2026

Not my usual post I know, but I have to leverage this modest audience to help my friend. We’ve stayed at their house, traveled together, she’s trapped in Canada now. It’s surreal, no telling if she can get her visa reinstated. She’s an incredible scientist and good person, this is unthinkable

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 28/08/2026

Hey so, our good friend and fellow birdwatcher was detained at the border for more than 8hrs, her visa was revoked and barred from reentering the US. She’s lived here for more than a decade and is finishing her graduate degree. If you can, donate to help cover legal fees 🙏

gofund.me

Donate to Assistance for our graduate student, organized by creagh breuner

Folks, I have had to remove identifying information because the US government can u… creagh breuner needs your support for Assistance for our graduate student

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 28/08/2026

Ran across an odd grammatical circumstance the likes of @bcdreyer.social would appreciate: working on a query letter and I wrote ‘sci-fi–thriller—complete at 65k words’ Yes, you’re eyes do not deceive you, that’s a dash, en dash, and emdash all in a row. Disgusting, I know. #GrammarCrimes #Query 🚀✍️

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 28/08/2026

When a novel has a long navel gazing section where the MC “can’t believe this is real” I always roll my eyes. We know. Extraordinary circumstances. Your life has been flip-turned upside down. Can we get back to the story? I get its important emotional context, but it’s so… tropey? 💙📚 #amReading

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 28/08/2026

Had all the fun of drafting a new manuscript, but now I’m up to my eyeballs in edits on two other manuscripts. Things are moving along nicely, but damn if it doesn’t take much longer to do the editing than the original writing does~

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 28/08/2026

Tell me why I spent all afternoon debating a major fix in a chapter, wondering about the downstream consequences, handwriting approaches, justifications… only to end up tweaking a few sentences in the end—and it works. Perfectly. Almost nothing to change. I keep learning this lesson~ #WriteSky ✍️

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 27/08/2026

Help! I’m addicted to my characters escaping through air ducts. I keep backing them into corners and like, without the humble air vent they’d be dead 💀 #scifi #amEditing #WritingCommunity

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 27/08/2026

Hey I was on a podcast (vlogcast?) chatting about everyone’s favorite crawler with @professorpixel88.bsky.social & @b00tz2big.bsky.social A fun discussion cause I’m on book 5 (at the time) but my cohost’s just finished book 1. #DCC #Podcast #DungeonCrawlerCarl #BookSky #BookTok

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Dungeon Crawler Carl Book Brothers Episode 17

YouTube video by Book Brothers

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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 25/08/2026

I landed in DC last night and woke this morning feeling awful, like I had the flu. And I always get my covid flu shot, but usually first of September when I’m in DC. Didn’t even make it that far ~

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