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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 16/09/2026

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 26/08/2026

I always forget to post here: Foiled by my horror story fiction writing and habitually putting everything in the past tense. I have to seriously work on that for my screenplay classes. I caught myself doing it quite a lot but must’ve missed some instances…

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Hi Tom, Nice job on your rough draft! Mrs. Smith is a character that the reader/viewer roots for. I really like the tension in this script and the way you've isolated the protagonist - where she mostly has to rely on herself to solve this critters problem. The script has a Tales from the Darkside or Creepshow feel to it - which is always fun. You have a few times in the narrative notes where you write in past tense instead of present tense. I can see going through and checking to keep it all present.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 03/08/2026

Has the most violent, longest-lasting civil war of my lifetime finally come to an end?

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 04/07/2026

Can’t wait for my next class to start!

Cover of the book SCREENPLAY by Syd Field

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 12/06/2026

In Boston for a writing retreat at the alma mater, #emerson. Looking forward to classes and writing!

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 02/02/2026

First day of school for Screenwriting! Hoping that burying myself in homework will help me forget about Norway... #SNHU

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 28/12/2025

Writing. Almost 8,000 words over the past 5 days. Might be my highest output over a short span in a long time.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 20/12/2025

I have at least 18 books in various stages of started, put down, haven’t picked back up, but want to finish. So, what’s one more! Hoping to get this done before seeing Sarah Langan in early January at Seton Hill.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 01/08/2025

Some days I write 27 words, and those words are a struggle. The other day, I was at -106 words for the day. Tonight, I had an hour to kill while waiting for the missus to get out of work, and I stopped by the nearest Starbucks. I guess I just needed to get out because I wrote 539 words in an hour.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 26/06/2025

SO IT BEGINS. I have taken an old manuscript I wrote about 9-10 years ago, re-plotted it, and have started a full re-write...

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 23/04/2025

Bookmail! Got my copy of Dark Spores (edited by @carolgyzander.bsky.social) today. Gorgeous cover. Great authors. And some PGH #HWA writers included, too! Looking forward to getting into these stories. @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @saratantlinger.bsky.social @candacenola.bsky.social

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 03/03/2025

Some Yorkshire red tea and Dead Kennedys while getting some writing done. #AmWriting #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 25/02/2025

Today I got my B&W Edgar Allan Poe (with book!) to go along with my B&W Vincent Price (with raven)

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 09/01/2025

Many thanks to the wife for getting me the one hardcover that was missing from my collection. ‘Salem’s Lot by @stephenking.bsky.social, and 14th printing of the first edition to boot. Been looking for this in hardcover forever…

Holding a hardcover version of Stephen King’s second book ‘Salem’s Lot.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 16/11/2024

Coffee and music and working on my new folklore-inspired novel idea… #AmWriting #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 28/10/2024

Broke out the wedding Chucks for the 7th anniversary today.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 14/09/2024

Attending a Keith Donohue reading and book signing for The Girl in the Bog at White Whale Books.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 03/05/2024

IT IS DONE! My thesis has been accepted by the Grad Studies Department at Emerson College, and I am all set to graduate in a week's time. It feels like it's been forever and also no time at all. Now I have to to learn how to write without due dates #WritingThreads

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 25/04/2024

Today is the DAY! At 2:00pm, I have my Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense with two amazing professors. I’ll be getting much-needed feedback on my Thesis WIP, titled DROWN. Fingers crossed! #WritingThreads

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 19/04/2024

I preordered this, planning on going to the launch party, but a medical procedure prevented me from attending. Then, March got filled up with thesis writing & zoom calls, and I forgot to pick it up from the bookstore until today. Can't wait to read this one! #BookThreads

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 18/04/2024

Last night, had a Zoom call to get me set up as one of the new Social Media Team volunteers for the Horror Writers Association. It’s not much, but it feels good to help out. #WritingThreads

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 28/03/2024

Last night, I submitted 103 pages of my Thesis WIP to my Reader. Now, I just cross my fingers and wait until my defense... #WritingThreads

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 22/03/2024

Had my final zoom meeting with my Thesis Advisor. Finishing my edits to present my manuscript to my Reader. Next step is my Thesis Defense and then Graduation. #WritingThreads

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 15/03/2024

One week until my next meeting with my thesis advisor, and 26 days until my thesis is due. NERVOUS. #WritingThreads

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 24/02/2024

I’m going to get me some Damn Fine Coffee #TwinPeaksDay

Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Dale Cooper driving into Twin Peaks saying “Diane, 11:30am, Feb 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 26/12/2023

Tea and candle and some figures and Christmas music and hoping to get some writing done on my WIP. Thesis semester starts in three weeks exactly… #WritingThreads

My desk with my tea and candle and K-9 and speakers and Pennywise pop

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 25/11/2023

Research for a Banshee story I’m thinking about for an anthology…

Covers of two books, Irish Fairy Tales and Irish Ghost Stories

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 19/11/2023

I'm at a loss. I obviously didn't know him as well as other HWA members, but Prof W was one of my favorite undergrad professors. And it's because of him that I joined the HWA. My condolences to his family and everyone who knew him and loved him...

Screenshot of a tweet reading, This is @YvonneNavarro, Weston's wife. Wes passed away this afternoon. I don't know what else to say, except I don't know what to do without him.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 07/10/2023

No wonder why that Impostor Syndrome demon seems stronger this month…

Sarah Scribbles comic of character 1 asking “did you exorcise my demons?” Character 2 saying “yes, I exercised them.” Character 1 asking “so they’re gone?” And a final panel showing buff demon gym bros.

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Thomas Gaffney @writertomg.thomasgaffney.com · 04/10/2023

Can’t wait to jump into this gorgeous book. I love everything Cassandra Khaw writes…

The beautiful cover of The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey

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