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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 23h

For other writers still working full time at other things — what does your routine look like? I’m having trouble with consistency lately. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lovely, feel-good novel about how being decent to others can help everyone turn things around. A good read for tough times. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A novel adapted into a screenplay by a real novelist! Very interesting. Excited to see the results. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Does every Sorkin character sound like Sorkin? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Personally, I’m a huge Sorkin fan. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A National Book Award contender is literally titled Beginning Middle End. As a plot-structure guy, I feel seen. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Project update: the new novel has slowed to a snail’s pace I need a certain trait the protagonist has to be the key to the climactic resolution. My writing group says I’m building too much around that, but I’m a stubborn S.o.B Should I be more of a pantser here? #author #writing #booksky ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Drops today! How do you go about telling a story that everybody already knows the ending to? Interesting writing puzzle, excited to see how it’s handled. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Apparently an early scene was moved to the end and made a flashback since it gave too much away As a mystery writer, I'm curious to see if I can pinpoint the scene in question Lesson: WHEN info is shared with an audience matters just as much as WHAT is shared #author #writing #booksky⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm working on a project about upcoming TV series and movies for the rest of 2026. Which releases are you looking forward to most? Hoping some replies will help me focus in on what people are excited about. #author #writingcommunity #filmsky #filmstagram #filmtok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️ 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A great read with much to teach writers about working with dialect. Heartfelt and inspiring! #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think few people were more excited for this film than me. I have some very complex feelings about it. More to come later on my Substack! #author #writingcommunity #filmsky #filmstagram #filmtok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“I’m Chris Hansen. Why don’t you have a seat right there?” Thought the movie had some BONKERS tonal swings, but it was enjoyable enough. What did you think? #author #writingcommunity #filmsky #filmstagram #filmtok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hilarious: they designed the new Fast and Furious ride at Universal to run silent since it's near the edge of the park where people live -- but they didn't acount for PEOPLE SCREAMING. So now houses nearby hear blood-curdling screams every 4 minutes all day #writing #author #writingcommunity ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At Writing Lessons Everywhere, we're building a searchable database of writing tools: buff.ly/eFVpp57 If you get notes on a draft or just get stuck writing, you can type in a few words describing the issue to find exercises that can help #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love that Widow’s Bay won the Emmy for Comedy Series. Comedy and fear live right next door, and Widow’s Bay takes advantage of that. They’re both about building and subverting expectations, just with different levels of stakes. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WHO. IS. PUMPED?! Me. I’m pumped. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like to read and watch things to see what writing lessons they have to offer. Join me if you're a nerd in a similar way! #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wooooah this movie was fun. Never played the games, but it didn’t matter. What a thrill ride from beginning to end. Cregger is quickly becoming a top reason to get my butt in a theater seat. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A well-constructed mystery that proves the genre CAN operate from a place of real emotion. Very much enjoyed this book! #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can always count on Aardman. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is delightful. A study in classical three act structure, pulled off with no dialogue. Very fun! #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking for recs for excellent mystery novels released this year! Can anybody help me out? #author #writing #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Love me some Ethan Hawke. This one didn’t disappoint. The Weight’s core emotional arc is a bit strained, but it’s thrilling enough to make it a good watch. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Back to our always-in-the-movie-theater ways. Buddy is a crazy concept that perhaps needed a bit more meat on the bone to carry a full feature, imho. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What media puts writing at the front of your mind most? Do you think about screenplays while watching film? Consider literary devices while reading? Analyze structure of TV episodes? I think movies activate my writer brain most. Interested in others’ thoughts #author #writingcommunity ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️ 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trying to balance: 1. Writing my new book 2. Marketing my previously published books 3. Producing Substack articles 4. Working full time 5. Living a life 6. Not going insane The last two are proving especially tricky. #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saw Practical Magic 2, had some thoughts on what writers can learn from it: buff.ly/G9N9KU3 #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Writing the climax of my new novel, The Last Dead Guy in Hell. This is only the first draft, though. Lotta work left to be done. But progress is still progress and deserves to be celebrated! Anybody else hitting any milestones today? #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Musical is WIIILD! Love the humor: dark, subversive, poignant. If you haven’t had the surprise ruined yet, don’t look it up. Go see it cold. It will floor you. #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 🎥

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What a year for book adaptations: Wuthering Heights, The Odyssey, Project Hail Mary, East of Eden, the ongoing Game of Thrones-iverse, Sunrise on the Reaping. What’d I miss? Would you most like to see your own work reimagined as a movie or a TV show? #writing #author #booksky #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 🎥 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“… if your instinct is to use AI and not go through [the] process, you shouldn’t be a writer, because then you’re not writing.” -Seth Rogen Rogen makes a good point: writers write because they ENJOY THE PROCESS. If you don't, just don’t write. No one’s making you #writing #author ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺 🎥

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Steinbeck wrote one of the most intriguing villains in American literature, and Netflix's new series restructures the whole story to put her front and center. Who do you think is the more interesting subject of any story? The hero or the villain? #writing #author #booksky #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Has anybody else seen Hope yet? Dying to talk with people about that third act. imho, it went totally off the rails. I LOVED the first half of the movie, then it totally lost me #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Practical Magic 2 pulls a few too many rabbits from the hat. Unclear boundaries on exceptional abilities can leave the audience outside the story. Avoid that in your own writing by using the free tool in my latest Substack post. #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The rare double mystery: a book editor working on a whodunnit has to solve a mystery about the book’s author. Fun read! Thoughts on the story-within-a-story structure coming soon! Subscribe to my Substack if you're curious: buff.ly/fia4L8t #writing #author #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How did I miss this whole “people only read dialogue” thing?? Is this for real? Is this how people read books nowadays? My prose does tend to be dialogue-heavy, but even I find this troubling. Anybody actually read this way? #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Got a haircut recently and had a friend say I must have asked the stylist for “the Hannah Einbinder.” #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In Santa Fe, we visited the Meow Wolf exhibit “House of Eternal Return” and had our minds freakin’ blown. #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Writing update: my novel The Last Dead Guy in Hell is nearing a full draft. Progress has been slow lately for personal reasons, but we push onward! #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Readers connect with amateur sleuths partly because they need a REASON to care. Not just a job But they also need the MEANS to investigate. The Whisper Man (Netflix) gives a character a retired cop dad. Is “family member on the force” a tired trope at this point? #writing #author #booksky⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 🎬

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In Dallas, Barbara and I visited Netflix House to do the Squid Game experience. Here are some of the highlights! #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My Substack is on the upswing, how exciting! If writing lessons ripped from current pop culture sound like your thing, you can hop on the bandwagon here: buff.ly/fia4L8t #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📽️ 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you haven't gone to see Coyote vs. Acme yet, do yourself a favor. It's so enjoyable! #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 🎥

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you could give an Emmy to one episode of television from this year, which one and why that specific episode? #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Pitt got 25 total Emmy nominations this year and has two separate episodes nominated for writing. I haven’t watched it. Am I missing out? #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I strongly associate the “what’s going on here?” TV cold open with Vince Gilligan thanks to Breaking Bad. What other TV shows have made use of this same narrative device? #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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Tucker May Mysteries @tuckermaymysteries.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Emmys are around the corner! Love that they give an award for the best single episode of writing. Are there any other major awards that honor just one chapter of an overall story? #writing #author #writingcommunity #booksky #bookstagram #booktok ⚡️📚💙 📚👍🏼 📺

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