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JP Spalding - SciFi 🪐🚀 Writer @jpspalding.com · 01/10/2026

The ideal reading experience #amReading Galaxy Outlaws: Salvage Trouble At Tatte Cafe & Bakery, DC

A bowl of saksuka and a small coffee ☕️ in front of a PaperWhite tablet reader

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

Haha yep, or a different type of weird, one I’m more familiar with 🤷

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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 · 27/09/2026

“In the meantime our birbs have been cooking up a new calendar, experience the wonders of the year 3027…”

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

I hear it! I can hear it perfectly 😵‍💫

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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 · 26/09/2026

Serious parallels to your own series, as I recall

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

I like that it swings into cosmic nihilism in the last books with BIG QUESTIONS, that’s totally my j, and it’s come so far from the small scale political intrigue and hard science of leviathan wakes

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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

It’s a pretty satisfying wrap up, worth it to keep going!

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

lol bro it in the world. Amazing. You know what? Sure. 👍

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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 · 22/09/2026

Helm is probably already doing it and quietly rolling their eyes when the captain shouts it 30s too late

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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

Hahaha I hate it. Maybe it’s because I’ve been spoiled reading excellent novels that explore and deepen and invert expectation through act II, but I was not prepared for these muddy middles, especially in trad published works of critical acclaim~

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

Okay hear me out, we kidnap David tennant and force him to continue playing the doctor? I think it could work~

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

“Would you like the last communion wafer?”

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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 · 15/09/2026

Yesssss the audiobook is so great, she does a bunch of voices and just understood the assignment so absolutely. Really heightened the experience!

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

Looking back, we didn’t know how good we had it.

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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

It’s so random like 6.63 something to the power of negative 34

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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 · 12/09/2026

Oooohhh and HIS racing heart, we love it

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

😆 is this to exercise my free will and reassert agency over my strange existence? Or on the off chance that the behavioral experiments WANT that to happen at some point?

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

I’d probably make it to Friday atleast

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

For what they’re paying that’s fine too I guess

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

I blast my music at full volume, sing along, dance, talk to myself loudly in the halls. Take my shoes off etc, most days it’s pretty nice

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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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