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Coffee addict and cat dad. I also write words sometimes. Website: https://www.thechiaroscuro.net/

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · Jul 7

Book One of Legend of Ascension is available on Amazon! Holy crap, it's real!

Website: www.thechiaroscuro.net
Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGWS1GYP

A book cover that reads "Legend of Ascension: The Shrouded Peaks. Book One, Boots Walker." It features a man carrying a guandao walking up a winding staircase on the side of a mountain.

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 20h

Probably the single best piece of advice anyone could give or get.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 20h

Anecdote time. This shift, pivoting to defining success strictly in terms I had 100% control over, has done more for my career as an author than any other single thing.

Focus on what you can control, and you'll be shocked at how far that alone can take you.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 20h

This is easily some of the best advice you can possibly give or get. #indieauthor

Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 20h

A bit of advice for not going insane in publishing: tie your sense of worth and accomplishment to stuff you control. #booksky

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 1d

"Youth is wasted on the young." Maybe someday, I'll stop finding new ways this saying is true.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 2d

Thats supposed to say "finally getting around to writing it" smh.

Had to finish my other series first. /ded

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 2d

#weeknightwriters

~70% done with the first book of this new series. Been sitting on this one for over a year, and now I'm finally getting abundant to profiting it. So hyped for when I get to show it to everyone. #LitRPG

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 2d

Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your #FirstDraftFall planning is going! Are you plotting anything? Pantsing? Somewhere in between?

Notepad that reads: #WeeknightWriters Introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going!”

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder. There's plenty of room for a familiar concept done well. More cake! is real.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 4d

Just found out about these guys. Goddamn, does this album go hard. #FIRN #darkfolk #blackmetal

youtu.be/oNBTq-WdYVg

FIRN - Frostwärts FULL ALBUM (Official Audio)

YouTube video by HOUSE OF INKANTATION

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 4d

I see Wayfarer Redemption. Love that series.

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 4d

Obviously I'm kidding about the nonfiction part. You're allowed to read nonfiction. Just if that's the ONLY thing you read, know that I don't understand, and have no desire to.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 4d

I despise gatekeepers. Moreso those who try to gatekeep books. Read what you like. (Unless its nonfiction)

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 5d

Draft should be done and out to betas by mid-late November.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 9d

One of the greatest shifts I've had over the last few months is learning to really "count" the non-writing parts of this job as work.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 10d

Also, The Shrouded Peaks has crossed the 1 million page reads mark. Massive thanks to everyone who's checked it out!
#indieauthor #progressionfantasy #xianxia

You can find the complete series here.
www.thechiaroscuro.net

Darklight Books

Progression Fantasy by Boots Walker

www.thechiaroscuro.net

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 10d

This album dropped like, 2 weeks ago. Solid listen, all the way through.

youtu.be/Mn1NWUJ4HkA

Khan - That Fair and Warlike Form // Return to Dust (Full Album 2025)

YouTube video by Khan Official

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 10d

I read Foundation. Even as a teen in the 90s who would read anything, I found it boring AF.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 11d

As I've become fond of saying, don't be a gatekeeper, become the gateway that lets people experience something new. (Also, nobody likes an elitist).

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12d

It's interesting to me that when I and other authors suggest starting people new to SF/F on contemporary titles as an easier step-in to the genre, there are people who seem to think this means we think no one should read anything in SF/F that's more than 20 years old, EVER. This is, uh, very silly.

Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like there's a certain, very loud segment of specfic fans who are just really into gatekeeping genre. If you don't read what they consider the classics, you aren't a "real fan" in their eyes. Which is, of course, utter nonsense.

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Boots @bootsrr.bsky.social · 11d

Dickens wrote serial fiction.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 12d

I love the transition from pulp to literature that Sherlock Holmes managed.

Doyle even came to hate the character and killed him off, but was convinced to bring him back.

What's "pulp" now may be classic in a decade or two.

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