So I found the old Super Nintendo game Wing Commander I played when I was 12 on EA Games for $2! I'm regressing to childhood on my laptop now. Much needed respite from the barbaric querying trenches! #writerslife #gamer

#WIPSnips #Disability #Romantasy 9/27/25: SWIFT My urban fantasy novel, 'Nephilim' Emily & Michael infiltrate The Order's labs when they're attacked. When Emily is wounded, Michael forgets he's the "Good Guy" for a moment.

I guess only a real writer would keep writing when the deck is so hopelessly stacked against them in the traditional publishing industry. Here I go, shifting back to my urban fantasy tale. All so it can sit on my laptop for eternity. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

#WIPSnips #Fantasy #WritingCommunity WIPSnip Word: RED, 9/18/25 Cullen discovers the point location in Manhattan where the Shadows breached and entered the 21st century...

#WIPSnips #Booksky #Fantasy 9/17 word: DIFFERENCE M's first meet with teenage genius Emelia and casually offering the girl troves of 61st century scientific knowledge. Nothing could go wrong right?

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Fantasy 9/16 word: PRACTICE

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Amwriting 9/15 word: OTHER Cullen stumbles over Angie's past traumatic moment, and neither knows how to get through it---Angie winds up changing the subject. Healing isn't a one and done thing, it's process and it's a marathon.

#Booksky #WritingCommunity Making hard Sci-Fi, homey and cozy through character-perspective... Sure it can be done.

#WritingCommunity #Spaceopera #Urbanfantasy #Booksky

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Fantasy Today's word: POCKET Cullen trying to hide his social unease and an injury that would have left him in a wheelchair if he hadn't been born in the 61st-century while meeting his 21st-century girlfriend Angie's friends for lunch.

Reading recommendations needed: Looking for books that start in one genre and evolve into another. Not talking about portal fantasy - more like stories where the scope expands dramatically. What have you found? #Booksky #WritingCommunity #Fantasy

#WIPSnips #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity 9/12 Word: WORST Rachel Offenhouse the leader of the SGI (Strategic Global Initiative) a group of international military and scientists headed out of Roswell now learning things are worse than she even imagined...

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #Fantasy WIPSnip 9/11: HALF Angie isn't known as the Sass-Blaster 9000 for nothing. Cullen's 6'6 and Angie's 4'11, you think that means anything to her at all?

#FantasyIndiesSeptember #AmWriting I wrapped up Times Destiny: Shadowverse @ 99,000 words and have already began it's sequel, Times Destiny: Yesteryear currently sitting at 73,000 words. The steamroller keeps pushing ahead!

In Times Destiny, Angie a 21st century barista and Cullen a 61st century starship commander have psionic powers drawn directly from the universe. Angie is a powerful telekinetic while Cullen's empathic powers led to his acumen in starship combat. #FantaysIndiesSeptember #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnip #WritingCommunity #SFF #AmQuerying Today's word: Ability. Introducing M an AI in an android body who could be described as the 'Anti-Data' from Star Trek's Next Generation. Rather than aspiring to be human, M seeks to become their true self, whoever that may be.

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.73 (lookback time 6.67 billion years) with coordinates (149.95922, 1.71822). 28 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.🔭

Times Destiny's newest pitch. No more poking at the prose or fiddling with the graphics...oh who am I kidding? For now it's here though. #WritingCommunity #SFF #AmQuerying #Fantasy

#FantasyIndiesSeptember #WritingCommunity Something in Times Destiny that surprised me? How alike magick and science actually could be. It's all about perception. So how the universe works varies depending on how you look at it.

#PitchDis #WritingCommunity My favorite thing about Times Destiny? Juxtaposition. Taking two wildly different things and seeing how they actually belong together because of the unifying human element. Humans...despite our differences, are essentially more alike than we're different.

#PitchDis #WritingCommunity #Disability #Amwriting Halloween costumes for my MCs... 21st-century barista Angie would lean into her urban witch vibes, pointy hat & a broom that matched her Katy Spade bag. 61st century starship commander Cullen wouldn't see the point, but for Angie he'd try.

#FantasyIndiesSeptember #Booksky #WritingCommunity #SaturdaySnippet Our 61st-century starship commander Cullen is teaching his 21st-century witchy girlfriend Angie how to fly a starship, and they have this moment. It's such a flirty, fun chemistry between them...

#FantasyIndiesSeptember #WritingCommunity #SpecFic #Fantasy Just a little aesthetic board for the elements from Times Destiny on Freebie Friday.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommuntiy #Fantasy #Romantasy Cullen offers Angie an out, but she tells him what's gonna happen...

#FantasyIndiesSeptember #WritingCommunity Angie cooks up potions in her apartment on her teal and chrome cooktop. She also makes her herbal tailsmans. Cullen restores and races vintage starfighters. His prize piece is an 80 year old Scimitar starfighter with an original antimatter shunt hyperdrive

#FantasyIndiesSeptember #WritingCommunity Cullen grew up on an aquafarm in the 61st century, homeschooled before Stellar Force Academy. Angie has a BA of Arts which she laments as she pours coffee for a living. Emelia would have had her doctorate in astrophysics by nineteen--prodigy that she is.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Romantasy Cullen rendezvous with Angie in a spooky 19th century village splintered off from our world. She decks him, but she's still happy to see him. Just got to make him work for it.

Always write what you want to write. Don't rely on trend-chasing literary agents who are all too eager to jump on the next fad, the next hot potato idea to guide your keystrokes. My nickel's worth from the Hermit Cave today. #WritingCommunity #Booksky #Amwriting

#FantasyIndiesAugust #Booksky Favorite character My favorite in Times Destiny is hands down Angie. Telekinetic barista who's short stature only serves to condense her fiery temper. Her boyfriend Cullen likes strong women and Angie's nickname 'Firecracker' is well-earned.

#FantasyIndiesAugust #WritingCommunity Do I stick with one genre? That's like sticking to one emotion--why would you? One genre is a launch platform to an unexplored universe of possibilities you never thought possible.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Fantasy 8/28: Broad

#WIPSnips #Fantasy #WritingCommunity #Romantasy 8/27: Stand Ah Times Destiny, one part urban fantasy, two parts epic science fantasy...all bundled up by a heated romantasy.

#WIPSnips #ScienceFantasy #WritingCommunity 8/26- Adventure

#FantasyIndiesAugust #Fantasy Folklore & Myth in WIP Thousands of alien races knew the myth of the Guardians in the 61st century. With crystalline starships and wielding fantastical magiks, the Guardians, a civilization spanning billions of years, acted as protectors of the less advanced worlds.

Tell me if I'm an oddity. I HATED writing as a kid. When I turned 17, a switch must have flipped because I got ideas so profound I felt compelled to write them down. Many writers say they've always loved to read and write. For me, it was like a switch turned on at 17. #WritingCommunity

#FantasyIndiesAugust #WritingCommunity Day 25 I have dual protagonists, Angie & Cullen and each confides in the other. Angie never thought she'd find a man who wouldn't hurt her, and Cullen following his ex-wife's affairs never thought he could trust a woman again. They're each other's confidants.

#BlueSkyCommunity #BlueSkyArt ?? Art---I suppose? Can you imagine finding this, and NOT knowing about it??? youtu.be/jdIrgkcnIrw?...

#PitchDis #writingcommunity I'm definitely a pantser. I love getting a fantastic idea, feel the rush of excitement and dive into the story with absolutely no clue where I might wind up.

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #Booksky #Fantasy Being a foodie comparing the multiverse to sam-iches is delish 😀

#PitchDis #WritingCommunity Main Characters--Times Destiny has dual protagonists. Angie, a telekinetic Manhattan barista who loves graveyards and her floppy-eared bunny Fiona. Cullen, Stellar Force colonel from the 61st century who grew up on his moms' farm and restores antique starfighters.

#PitchDis #Booksky #WritingCommunity My WIP explores themes of Identity & Heritage. A barista & starship commander discover humanity's ancestors wielded magicks & forged suns while learning trauma shaped but doesn't define them.

#FantasyIndiesAugust #AmWriting #Fantasy #ScienceFantasy #Romantasy When the Shadows, a foe from a forgotten past, invades 21st century Manhattan, a telekinetic barista and starship commander from the 61st century must unravel a magickal destiny from an age when humans forged stars.

#FantasyIndiesAugust #Amwriting Is your MC a morning person? Cullen is for sure. Even before regimented military training, Cullen was rising before dawn for work on his moms' farm. Angie, is a night owl. Her late shift lets out at midnight and she won't go to bed until 4am.

#WritingCommunity #Amwriting What do you do when the 'gatekeepers' in Traditional Publishing are more interested in pushing agendas than books? Let's say I'm starting to see why people publishing their own books on their own terms.

#FantasyIndiesAugust #WritingCommunity Superstitions in WIP. Not as much superstitions as myth in Times Destiny revolving around a race of beings known to thousands of alien races as the 'Guardians.' They were regarded as just lore until relics were found on far flung worlds suggesting otherwise.

#PitchDis Day 1 & 2 I'm William, and I've been writing since I was seventeen. How I began is odd as I just woke up with ideas that compelled me so I needed to write them down. I hated writing before this! I'm working on Times Destiny a science fantasy romance saga, looking to meet cool folks.

#WIPSnips #Fantasy #WritingCommunity 8/17- Crawl

#FantasyIndiesAugust #WritingCommunity Romance anchors galactic level stakes in Times Destiny. Angie & Cullen's blooming romance breathes life into ancient magicks that once ignited stars, yet Cullen still forgets to put the toilet seat down! ✨🪄🚽🫢

Thought from the Hermit Cave this morning: I'd rather live next door to LGBTQ folks than Evangelicals. At least LGBTQ folks just want to live their lives in peace and I won't have to worry about them trying to convert me. More than I can say for the Evangelicals. #BlueSkyCommunity