I love the USS Athena #StarfleetAcademy

Today’s writing session random research Google terms: “Polynesia” “What is Newtons 2nd Law” “Barnard’s Star” “What is Upmarket Fiction” “Innate Language” “Planetary names” #amWriting #WriteSky #DontJudgeMe ✍️

Just finished book one and started the series (just bought book two in hardcover but I will be getting the paperback when it comes out in August) The hype is REAL. This was so much fun, so honestly thrilling and twisty it was everything I wanted and more #BookSky #BookTok #amReading 💙📚

Maybe an unpopular opinion: Despite it's name, Space Opera has far too little singing.

Here’s my new puppy (she’s 4 and a half years old) a Boston terrier named Fig #DogsofBlueSky 🐾

Space station inspector Jen Ishii is out of his depth in the research outpost of Dr. Isengrim, eccentric and charismatic scientist. An illegal lab in the underbelly of the station will only be the beginning of the dangerous secrets Jen will untangle in UNINTENDED DESIGNS. #BluePit #Q #H #OV #SF #A

PlanetSide Consulting 🪐 The Possession of Ares (Book one in a trilogy) 🚀 a stranger comes to town 🚀 Hypercompetent Specialists 🚀 the Gunslinger devil-may-care 🚀 cyberpunk themes 🚀 rag tag group of misfits #BluePit📖 #W #A #SF #WriteSky

#DreyersEnglish First book of 2026. Going to try to do reviews as I finish the book rather than a pile at the end of the month. Pros Fun, laugh out loud Informative! Actionable! Bite sized! Great examples Cons The last quarter of the book we probably don’t need #BookSky 💙📚 #BookTok #amReading

EVENT HORIZON X STARGATE When tasked with testing new wormhole tech, Ama, an amnesiac, finds that she can speak with her new mycelium starship psychically. Can she find herself in deep space? Or will she lose her head to the Synacran Empire hunting her? #BluePit 📖 #W #A #SF

Consultant Skye Harris and her team must Fer terraforming moving on Ares and before 50,000 colonists arrive in two years—but Ares is a dangerous world that resists every attempt at planetary engineering and holds a buried secret that threatens to reshape galactic civilization. #BluePit #W #SF #A 🚀

PlanetSide Consulting: The Possession Of Ares Murderbot x Firefly #Bluepit When terraforming stalls, you call in the consultants. The men and women of PlanetSide are guaranteed to get your planetary engineering moving again. A snarky, swashbuckling, gunslinging western-in-space 🚀 #SF #W #A #scifi

I’ve returned, hat in hand, with a relativity question. 🙋‍♂️ When you travel at c, you experience no time. But when you travel at a significant fraction of c, for, say, 10 light years, will the time that passes always be 10yrs-or-greater up to when you hit c? Or could it be, say, 6 months? #Physics

I think I’ve grown addicted to the writing process ✍️ more than the end result, CERTAINLY more than querying, just the joy of the habit of sitting down and tackling the outline and executing the events of the story~ #WritingCommunity

Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday! The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026. There will be no cap. More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Today’s writing soundtrack from one of my favorite ambient creators: #WriteSky #amWriting (Are you writing a space opera? This may be the soundtrack for you, haha)

Yessss my short story ‘Big Moose’ 🫎 made the shortlist for @unchartedmag.bsky.social “What the Wild Carries” contest 🏔️ I’m so excited, this is a story I’m really proud of 🤞 and pretty weird compared to my usual topics~ #amSubmitting #WritingCommunity #AuthorsOfBluesky #WriteSky

I got my first short story acceptance to a lit mag! 😤😤😤👏🥳🥹🔥🔥🔥 I was advised to keep things vague until the issue is live but let’s just say I’ll be annoying you all in 4th quarter of ‘26 with my weird story about death~ #AmSubmitting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

December books! I ended with 84 books and these are the last seven. Really strong end to the year. My thoughts/reviews 🧵 #BookSky #BookTok 💙📚

I of course did not believe it when so much writers advice said you’ll really get the hang of things on your fourth or fifth book, but here I am, 45k words into my 4th book and yes, it is vastly better than my previous manuscripts though I love them all equally… #amWriting #WriteSky

YESSSSSSS TOKOMAK FUCKING SUPREMACY LETS GOOOO is 2026 the year we get fusion? Seriously, we went from the first net gain in 2022 and the megajoules and sustained times are just getting longer at an accelerating rate. #Physics #Scifi #Fusion

So much fun writing today and making everything that can go wrong go EXTREMELY wrong. #amWriting #WritingCommunity #scifi

Trust me, there's no such thing as a rough draft or a final draft. It's just you writing forever.

Ive just reached 40k on this manuscript and the chapter outlines have grown a bit. Roughly read left-to–right, top–to-bottom. Every five or so chapters I have a new outline revising the big picture events based on quirks of the previous chapters. #amWriting #WriteSky ✍️

I mean, we’re always excited about our CURRENT manuscript, right? But I’m like, the MOST excited I’ve been about a manuscript in regards to this one. Like, unreasonably so. #amWriting

Dreyers English has no business being as uproariously funny as it is (and clever, and, yes, informative) but most importantly, I find it vindicating 😤

Ladies and gentlemen he’s done it! He’s written himself into a PERFECT CORNER. There is LITERARILLY no way to get out of this one. I’ve never seen anyone stick the landing quite like this. #amWriting

Do you see trends in scifi aliens??? Like you go back far enough and they’re just stoic bald people, but that got old and it became mostly reptilians for a while, then unknowable intangible god entities and then networked mind fungus. Now it seems to be mostly mollusk-based #scifi 🪐📚

There's only one piece of writing advice that's universal. "Read as much as you can." All the rest is potentially terrible, depending on who it's being given to. You just have to figure it out, through experimentation, which means finding out some advice is terrible for you.

Kerbal Space Program is an educational game for learning why launching your enemies into the sun is actually extremely difficult

Just finished book eleven! Waiting for book twelve to come from ThriftBooks! #amReading #BookSky 💙📚

The only USS Defiant I will ever recognize or accept

Crossed 33k on the new manuscript today. ✍️ Also hit 30 days since I started the story. 🗓️ Not quite nanowrimo numbers but much much better writing, haha. My wordcount is closer to the target 🎯 than I worried I would be at 20k~ #amWriting #WriteSky

Meet these great indie thriller authors at the Thriller Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #thriller #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/3U7UtVP

I got really into solving Rubik’s cubes when I was younger. Great party trick, nice thing to do while you’re waiting to get picked up or just chilling with friends. I had a bunch of different types and everything. I could solve any normal cube in about 5 minutes, any start condition~

My heart 🥹 a beautiful review of this little book about warbs. I couldn’t tell it better myself. 🪶📚

Somehow I’ve agreed to provide critique on 35,000 words cumulative across several manuscripts… before Monday. Not beta read, detailed developmental and line edits. lol. #WritingCommunity #AmEditing

The more I write the more a hybrid planner/pantser I become. I’m halfway on this new manuscript and thought I’d share my chapter beat outlines, using the Stone/Parker construction BUT/THEREFORE for dramatic tension. I’m usually one to two scenes ahead in my outline, building as I go~ #WriteSky ✍️

it’s the latest point in the year you can still order a Christmas gift. Know someone who loves birds? 🪶 Loves books? 📚 Loves SHORT books? Check out Black Throated Blue Warbler, a #cozy #nature #fiction I recommend the audiobook, narrated by @jessmorannarration.bsky.social #booktok #BookSky 💙📚

For me it’s a hybrid, I’m always visualizing books but the difference is when I’m in deep flow, really engaging with a book the words seem to disappear entirely and I’m just experiencing the story directly. It’s different than watching a movie, but in some ways it’s deeper. #BookSky 💙📚

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

“And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.” Excerpt From How to Write a Sentence Stanley Fish #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Currently beta reading three manuscripts and I wish I could report them in StoryGraph! Maybe when they come out, lol. #WritingCommunity #amReading

This is an old article, I know, but what does this mean for dark matter theory? Is it simply uncondensed dust between galaxies? Our 70% missing universe? #Physics #Astronomy

I just submitted "Plato Grande 1x01 "The Prodigal Son"" to Flatiron Film Project Spring Film Grants Program via FilmFreeway.com!

'Devil take it, when one has friends, it is not only to offer them a glass of wine, but also to stop them drinking three or four pints of water.' —The Count of Monte Cristo #amReading #BookSky 💙📚

If you’re cold their cold. Bring your widows inside this winter. 🕷️ With @mobydickcissel.bsky.social

I’ve just called an orbital transfer + docking maneuver “the ol’ Hohmann hot potato” and I’m unreasonably pleased with myself. 🥔🚀 #amWriting #SpaceOpera #WriteSky

Actually Boston is the name of the doctor, the monster is Boston’s Terrier.

Finished reading Rose/House by @byzantienne.bsky.social the day before Frank Gehry died and it feels prophetic somehow. A horror mystery novella about architecture that asks the important question: “What if there was a really fucked up house?” #BookSky 💙📚

2800 words on the manuscript today. I really wanted this to be a novella but the writing’s on the wall, we’ll be lucky if we can stick to 80k words. #amWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky