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Scott A. Butler

@scott-a-butler.bsky.social

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🫖Carbon-based lifeform running on tea & quietly brilliant ideas. Mostly tea if we're being honest 🖊️Author, #WritingCommunity 💼Cybersecurity 🧠Neurodivergent 🔗 scottabutler.wixsite.com/author

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have a website! sophie-paul.com But don’t go there. I needed it for admin reasons. It’s bare bones. It has nothing you haven’t seen before. Unless…

You want to subscribe to my not-a-newsletter, the Owl’s Hoot.
I’ll only use it to make key announcements, share exclusive bonus content, and spill a few secrets.

So, you know. Minor stuff.

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Soph @soph-pl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Aaand we’re on! ✨ eARC requests are now live ✨ Only One Summer in Berlin is my debut, and I’d love to take you along on Camille & Kosta’s journey. See 🧵⬇️ for more information. All the 🔗 are in my bio. 💖 Thank you so much in advance! 📚💕 #booksky #romance #summerread

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DEBUT AUTHOR, unknown & algorithmically challenged but v. approachable, seeks ARC readers for heartfelt, high-heat summer romance.
Must enjoy immersive ’97 Berlin setting, self-reinvention, some depth & a bit of humor.
All welcome. Apply thru Linktree form. Full particulars: next slide.

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Even if you only manage to fix a single sentence today, that is a victory over the blank page. 💪 Progress isn't always a sprint; sometimes it's just a polite, persistent shuffle forward. 🚶‍♂️ Don't give up. ✨ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Currently unwell. My brain is less literary crafter & more damp sponge.🤒 Your WIP won't sprout legs if you take a day off. Sometimes the most productive thing is to admit defeat, find a duvet, & be a human instead of a word-factory. Rest up. ☕️🍵 #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Creative anxiety is the tax we pay for having an imagination. If you're convinced your WIP is a disaster, you're a real writer. The bravest thing you can do is keep typing. Or call a friend & scream into the void together. 🙂 youtube.com/shorts/e1aGq... #amwriting #writingcommunity

Going through creative self doubt can be felt by anyone! Made with the support of NZ On Air.

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Let's be clear: having a bad writing day is still infinitely more productive than having a "didn't write at all" day.🙂 Even a sentence that makes you cringe is a stepping stone to the one that makes you soar. 🕊️💫 Every crumb of progress counts.🍪 #writingcommunity #amwriting

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint. And here in Britain, that marathon is usually uphill, in the rain, with a headwind. ⛰️⛈️ But the view from the finish line is the same. Keep putting one foot in front of the other, you've got this. 🏁🏃 #amwriting #writingcommunity

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May the Fourth be with you. I’m currently using the Force to try and write this manuscript with my mind.✨ So far, the text cursor is winning, and I’ve just got a slight headache & a cold cup of tea.🫖 #MayThe4th #amwriting #writingcommunity (Good luck in #IndiePit, everyone!)

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Some people say that literary agents are gatekeepers. 🚪🗝️ But the good ones are more like mountain guides. 🗻 They know where the hidden crevices are, they’ve got the snacks, and they’re the reason you won't fall off the structural edit cliff.🍪💪 #amwriting #writingcommunity

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🔔Reminder. That famous author you admire once sat exactly where you are, staring at a blank page and wondering if they were a total fraud. 📜🤔 The only secret is that they didn’t stop trying. ✒️⚡ #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

You don't need a fancy desk or a perfect routine to be a "real" writer. ✍️📜 You just need the stubbornness to keep showing up for your characters when nobody else is looking. 👣💭 You’ve got this. 📖⚡ #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

There is a reader out there who needs the exact story you are currently struggling to finish. 📚 Don’t let a bit of self-doubt rob them of that book. 🙂 Pop the kettle on and give it another five hundred words. 🫖✍️ #writingcommunity #amwriting #WritingMotivation

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🖤 THE QUIET AFTER 🖤 "Silence was her shield and her weakness. The world might stalk her unseen, unheard, but it also wrapped her in an unbroken calm that others had once found unbearable." 🌑 Dark & Gritty 👪 Found Family 😡 Protective feminine rage #PosterPit #W #A #T #PO

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Your first draft isn’t supposed to be a masterpiece; it’s just the raw materials.🖼️ You can’t carve a statue out of thin air, so just get the marble on the table. Even if it looks like a lump of disaster today. 🪨⛏️ The polishing comes later. 💎✨ #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hey, you! Stop scrolling! ✋ Yes, you! I see you. 👁️ Your book isn't going to write itself while you’re here looking at cats and memes. 😺 Take this as your sign to go and write, even if it's just 200 words. You’ve got this! ✨ #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingMotivation

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Your characters are waiting for you. ⏳ They’re currently frozen in time, possibly halfway through a sneeze or an awkward silence. 😬😳 Go and rescue them. 🛟 Even five minutes of typing makes you their hero. 🦸 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingMotivation

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’ve finally achieved a consistent writing routine! ✍️ Every morning, I sit at my desk, open the document, and sigh with the weight of a thousand disappointed ancestors. 🫣😬 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm thinking of adding a prologue to one of my WIPs just so that I can add "contains a prologue" to my trigger warnings list. 🤔🤣 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Currently at the stage of the novel where I’m hoping a freak solar flare wipes out the internet so nobody has to see this. ☀️💥☄️💻💀 #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

There’s a certain disappointment in realising that "lorem ipsum" isn't actually a demon-summoning chant. 😐 Usually. 😈 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Monday Struggle: Trying to write a high-octane thriller while my brain is currently operating at the speed of a damp digestive biscuit. 🍪🫖 #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The dream of a Saturday writing session: A quiet café, a steaming latte, and a sudden burst of genius. ☕🧠 The reality: A cold mug of tea, a pile of laundry, and a cat sitting on the delete key. 🧺😼 #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Staring at a blank page isn't writer's block. It's a standoff. 👀 And the page has a much better poker face than I do. 👁️👄👁️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If you feel like your writing is rubbish today, remember that you are currently your own worst critic.🫠 You wouldn’t let a stranger talk to your friends like that, so stop being a bully to your own brain.🧠 Be nice to yourself today.😊🤝 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SelfCare

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Writing a novel is putting one word after another until it eventually resembles a book. ✍️ It’s slow, it’s tedious, and it’s occasionally infuriating, but you’re doing it. 💪 Slow progress is still progress. 🐢📖 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingMotivation

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Monday morning writing routine: 1) Open the document. 2) Stare at the cursor.👀 3) Cursor stares back.👁️👄👁️ 4) Close the document. 5) Google "how to become a lighthouse keeper."💡🌊 #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’ve reached the stage of my draft where I’m genuinely considering writing "and then everyone who isn't dead yet all moved onto a farm and lived unhappily ever after." 🌽🧑‍🌾 Just so that I can stop typing. 😅🤔 #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My writing routine is 10% typing and 90% staring out the window with the haunted expression of a Victorian widow, hoping a plot point will manifest in the neighbour’s recycling bin. 🪟🤔 #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Want to write a convincing villain? 🦹 Just give them the personality of someone who takes a phone call on speaker in a quiet train carriage. 🤳💬 Pure, unadulterated evil. 😈 #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My writing style has been described as "atmospheric." 🤔 Here in Britain, that’s usually passive-aggressive code for "nothing happens and it’s constantly raining." ⛈️☔ Which is actually quite accurate. 😏 #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Spent about 36 minutes searching for a more evocative word for "walked." 🤔 I settled on "walked." 😏 I am a master of my craft. 🤪 #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The weekend is a charming concept where normal people relax, while writers just move their existential dread from a desk to a slightly more comfortable sofa. 💻🛋️ #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@scott-a-butler.bsky.social Scott A. Butler will have you guessing until the last second with his thriller of a flash fiction. Are you willing to peer behind this Cellar Door? The Teardrop Earring tinyurl.com/TeardropEarr...

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Being livid with a character for a choice that I forced them to make is peak writer brain. 🎭📖 It’s like tripping over a rug you laid yourself and then suing the floor. ⚖️🫣 #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

That moment when you find a sentence you wrote six months ago that’s actually good. 🤔🤯 It’s terrifying. Who was that person? Can we bring them back? 😲🙏 #amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

How do you survive when the world stops making sense? #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers) @wisteraverse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Kitten loves his bedtime story, Killer Quill: An action-packed, fast-paced assassin fantasy book featuring a badass anti-heroine with vengeance frothing in her 🖤& a ragtag heist crew/found-family #UnhingedPit #F #P #WritingCommunity

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

After all, why should only J.R.R. Tolkien's characters have songs written for them? 💍🧑‍🎤 Here's my #FMC Rowan's #UnhingedPit song. 🎶 Swing low, let the cold steel fly. A rusted machete right through the eye. 🎶 #PostApocalypse #PostApoc #WIP #Lyrics #ThrillerBooks #JRRTolkien #Booksky #ComingSoon

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In a world where anyone could be a carrier, "till death do us part" usually happens by the end of the week. 🪦 Scavenge hard. 🎒 Love harder. ❤️ #UnhingedPit #A #T #ThrillerBooks #PostApocalypse #PostApoc #W #WIP

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Shida Ketzer (follows back all fiction writers) @wisteraverse.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The streets are silent. Food is scarce. Safety is a myth. THE QUIET AFTER is a gritty post-apocalyptic survival thriller #WIP set in the ruins of the present. (Images below are from the #FoodPit over on Twitter.) #Booksky

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📢 Got a #Kobo eReader? Grab this incredible book before the end of February! #Fantasy #Booksky #KU

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Having the honour of beta-reading this one, I have to say it's so, so, SO good! ✨⭐🔥⭐✨ High fantasy agents, where are you? You need this author's book. #amquerying

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Make sure to buy his mum's book so he can get lots of treats! The book is brilliant! #catsky #cats

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Have you bought this amazing author's book yet? 📕 You should! 💯 Awesome steampunk hat not included, sorry. 🎩

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

To add, also one of the most incredible humans and authors of our time. ✨ Grab the book if you haven’t already! 📕

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

📖 I genuinely haven't stopped thinking about 🪶KILLER QUILL 🗡️ since I finished it. Author ✨Shida Ketzer✨(@wisteraverse.bsky.social) has created a masterpiece of character depth & world-building. In short, it’s perfection. See my review below. #BookRecommendations #FantasyReads #BookReview

A written five-star review of the book "Killer Quill" by Shida Ketzer. It is titled "Absolute Perfection. A Masterclass in Character Depth and World Building".

An image of the book cover for "Killer Quill" by Shida Ketzer. The cover features a woman in a red leather-type jacket. She is holding a quill in her right hand, and a dagger behind her back in her right hand.

Surrounding the cover are words describing the book: "Guaranteed no romance, Assassin Female Main Character, Colour Magic, Epic Fight Scenes, Fantasy Heist, Feral Feminine Rage, Bipoc & LGBTQUA+, Touch here and you'll die.

Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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Scott A. Butler @scott-a-butler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"I’m not joining another social media app. I’m not joining another social media app. I’m not joining..." Anyway, I'm here now. What did I miss? 😅

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