The Hyperion cantos was a formative document in my growth in science fiction. The quadrilogy explores ideas in an epic scale of space opera that has never been matched. Independent of the author, the cantos will continue to be a cornerstone of unmatched unabashed science fiction. #DanSimmons 🪐📚

Update! Contract signed so I can share! My story, Planet of the Pygmy Rhino 🦏 🪐 will appear in @clubchicxulub.bsky.social next issue! And you get to listen to it as a produced narrated piece with music and my voice 😵‍💫 Get ready for the most unhinged shit~ #Authors #ShortFiction #WriteSky #LitMag 📚

Some more Starships,Shuttles, and Starfighters to cleanse your timeline this Wednesday. This week has passed by pretty fast hasn't it? #StarTrek #StarWars

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Congratulations everyone

Update: I’ve go my copy! It arrived so quickly! #amReading #BookTok #FantasyNovella

Novellas are a virtue in self/indie publishing. Novellas allow experimentation and weirdness and it’s easy to take a chance on a new author when it’s sub 30k words. All that to say, I’ve got a weird little novella (over 250 copies sold!): black throated blue warbler #BookSky Mybook.to/BTBW

Moving has a way of throwing any semblance of a schedule into total upheaval, but also, breaking you out of a funk, pushing new ideas and new perspectives—which I hope to have time to write eventually… #amWriting

“Beautiful feelings make bad literature.” The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai #amReading #WritingCommunity

Edits done, manuscript with beta readers, month and a half deadline. Feeling like an empty nester! All I want to be doing is DRAFTING, but I have considerable prepro work left on my next story idea before I can properly dive in 😩 #amWaiting #WritingCommunity

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One of the fun parts of self pub is you get to experiment with formats and prose and readers can risk something totally new. I just ordered my physical copy to read and add to my shelf of Friend’s Published Works™️ #amReading #WritingCommunity ✨

My friend @egist.bsky.social published her first novella today! I critiqued an early draft. Support her and read more weird fantasy! 🤩 the logline: In a future where emotions are controlled by the government, one young woman risks everything for love and freedom. #BookSky #BookTok #WriteSky 💙📚

Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten." #copyediting

Characters voice is all about identifying common mannerisms and phrases specific to a character, for instance, one of my southern drawl characters says “slipperier than a greased up salamander” while the other one says “faster than a coyote with his tail on fire” #WritingCommunity Voila, arte 🤌 /s

When you’re writing, does your mind ever feed up a great word that fits the rhythm of the sentence but is absolutely not the correct meaning?? I’m like, damn, I wish this had a different definition because it fits so well. What kind of writer insanity is this? Why brain, why? #WriteSky #amEditing

Putting a few hours into revising the manuscript today. Over the halfway point, still set on getting this in the hands of beta readers in a week and a half! #amEditing #WriteSky ✍️

Butlerian Jihad but it's Octavia

As I dive into writing ✍️ a fifth book I feel like I’m just starting to get the hang of this and also I catch myself writing the same kind of scenes and I need to physically stop myself and do something different! #amWriting #WriteSky

There’s a skit in here somewhere, an interview with the man known as “Waymo Autonomous Vehicle #343” about how he dreams Waymo, acts like a car when he’s home from work with family, feels wheels as a phantom limb, starts dressing up like a car, takes his job VERY seriously @bencollins.bsky.social

Help! Im reading too many things at once. I just need to finish one of them 🥺#BookSky

You know the sunny spot slaps when she’s in full roadkill mode. #DogsOfBsky 🐶

An excellent discussion about, well, it’s in the title and it really speaks to writers, and it spoke to me. Had to share~ #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

USS Defiant appreciation post 💙🩶 To be honest, at first I HATED this ship. But over time, she’s grown into one of my all time favorite designs in Star Trek!

In response to query letter feedback I have changed the title of my novel, the length, and the ending! This must be why @maryrobinettekowal.com recommends writing the query before the novel, to identify these issues early on

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Hell yeah! Ambient Civilizations just posted a new track. 🤩 This is my go to channel now for writing ✍️ background music. Unmatched for scifi writing #amWriting

We saw some snow geese this weekend! Turn up the volume! #BirdsofBsky 🪶

And afterwards, getting some lunch~ #DogsOfBsky

Why do I love Captain Sisko/Avery Brooks? Brook's Acting Ability to project being visibly pissed off and with the right tone of voice can really scare the crap out of you if you piss him off. Honestly it's one of the most entertaining things from DS9 to me. #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #Treksky

Fig out for a walk.

Visited the Amache Japanese internment camp in southern Colorado today. #Historical #Colorado

Ahhhh I have fun news coming but I need to wait till the contract is signed before I say anything. A big milestone for me~ #WriteSky

Update, an amazing talk this month! 😆 Thanks @creativemornings.bsky.social a wild and interesting creative journey~ #Creatives

Today’s #CreativeMornings Denver is in a beautiful church downtown. Very cool! 😎 #CMDenver #creatives

Six days of our subs window gone, just over 24 hours remaining! One acceptance so far, several contenders forming a longlist... There's still time to join them! mythaxis.co.uk/submissions....

Last book read: The Stars Will Be Our Ocean (beta read) by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Current read: Bee 🐝 Speaker by @aptshadow.bsky.social Newest on TBR: Light from Uncommon Stars Next Read: Down Below Station by CJ Cherryh #bookSky #amReading

I’m signed up for the @writingdaywksp.bsky.social Seattle writers conference in May! Love the scifi representation among the agents! I went once a few years ago and it was life changing, really spectacular for a single day event. It’s worth it, I’m flying out for it! #WritingCommunity

This has become my pre writer’s workshop ritual at this point~ #WriteSky

Update: the first draft is finished! A wild ride of 3 months, perhaps the fastest I’ve finished a draft. #WritingCommunity

I think my favorite thing about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the relationship between Odo & Quark. Like they fight all the time but they enjoy it. You know if one of them left the station, the other would be totally lost.

As I write the epilogue to my fun space opera book about terraforming gone wrong, I return to the tried and true music track that I’ve probably listened to 100 times over the course of crafting this story~ #amWriting #WriteSky

Reading The Count Of Monte Cristo and there’s a line that goes: “the expression on Signor Pastrini’s face… would be impossible to describe” And apparently the greats can get away with anything 😆 #BookSky #BookTok #amReading

By the way the audiobook of my Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning novella AND WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU TONIGHT is still 85% off (!!) at @libro.fm for seven more days! They got a little countdown there! :) Death! Revenge! Feminine rage! Weird canal fish!

My first time diving into a sequel as part of a planned trilogy and it is so difficult to wrap my head around 😵‍💫 so far I’ve got a list of ‘unresolved conflicts’ and the starting conditions for each character. I just hope I can match the tension and twists of the first book 🚀 #WritingCommunity ✍️

“…as a writer you don’t have to explain everything—you don’t have to recruit your character’s feelings and line them up across from your character’s actions, with the black-and-white symmetry of a chess game.” -Karen Russell Read this for a writing workshop and it really spoke to me 🧵 #WriteSky ✍️

While it was still sort of nice out, we took Fig to wash park for her first time—needless to say she was overstimulated by the smells and the people and the squirrels. A good breather from writing to reset and digest the fresh outlines before I dive in. #DogsOfBsky 🐕 #WritingCommunity

The sci-fi art of John Berkey Berkey, along with Burns, Foss, Harris, Whelan and Mead defined sci-fi art for me growing up.

Today’s random writing research search terms: Plant endosperm inertial frame Mise-en-scéne Earth Harp Dog Star, Sirius #amWriting #WriteSky #SciFi

Continuing to fill out my character chart for PlanetSide 🪐 even as I hit 57k words on the manuscript itself. All these insights in how characters are similar or different, how they see each other and why they butt heads, I’ll need l for the sequels~ #amPlotting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity