Bridgette Dutta Portman
@bdportman.bsky.social
Playwright, author, educator. Author of the Coseema Saga. Currently querying a YA sci-fi novel. 📚 💫 www.bridgetteduttaportman.com
I had originally planned to finish a whole draft of this novel by the end of the year. That isn't going to happen, but reaching 50K words (especially since I started with almost nothing) feels like an achievement. #WIP #amwriting #writingcommuity
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I had originally planned to finish a whole draft of this novel by the end of the year. That isn't going to happen, but reaching 50K words (especially since I started with almost nothing) feels like an achievement. #WIP #amwriting #writingcommuity
Just had to kill off a character who didn't deserve it because of Plot and I'm feeling like a jerk. #writerproblems #writingcommunity #amwriting
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Just had to kill off a character who didn't deserve it because of Plot and I'm feeling like a jerk. #writerproblems #writingcommunity #amwriting
Me: I'm going to have my characters take a quick side-quest into this underground ice maze.
*20,000 words later*
Guess I'm renaming this novel THE ICE MAZE.
#writerproblems #writingcommunity #firstdraft #amwriting
*20,000 words later*
Guess I'm renaming this novel THE ICE MAZE.
#writerproblems #writingcommunity #firstdraft #amwriting
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Me: I'm going to have my characters take a quick side-quest into this underground ice maze.
*20,000 words later*
Guess I'm renaming this novel THE ICE MAZE.
#writerproblems #writingcommunity #firstdraft #amwriting
*20,000 words later*
Guess I'm renaming this novel THE ICE MAZE.
#writerproblems #writingcommunity #firstdraft #amwriting
Hit 41K words on my #WIP. Aiming for 50K by the end of the year. #Writingcommunity, what are you hoping to finish by New Year's Eve?
#Amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingYA
#Amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingYA
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Hit 41K words on my #WIP. Aiming for 50K by the end of the year. #Writingcommunity, what are you hoping to finish by New Year's Eve?
#Amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingYA
#Amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingYA
I had the chance to read an ARC of @clairejoyance.bsky.social's new novel, To Reap What is Sown (Threads of Destiny #4). If you're looking for an inclusive fantasy with a complex female lead (and plant magic!), check it out! You can find the whole series at www.barnesandnoble.com/s/claire%20e...
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I had the chance to read an ARC of @clairejoyance.bsky.social's new novel, To Reap What is Sown (Threads of Destiny #4). If you're looking for an inclusive fantasy with a complex female lead (and plant magic!), check it out! You can find the whole series at www.barnesandnoble.com/s/claire%20e...
Never thought I'd be Googling "zebra mating habits" for a play, but here we are. #writerproblems #playwriting #writingcommunity
November 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Never thought I'd be Googling "zebra mating habits" for a play, but here we are. #writerproblems #playwriting #writingcommunity
"[Pilgrimage] makes you leave the theater thinking about the women in your life — whom you’d trust with your darkest secrets, whom you could ask to join you on the journey of a lifetime or for care in your neediest hour." Thank you @lilyjaniak.bsky.social for your review in the Chronicle! #newplay
Review: ‘Pilgrimage’ portrays Muslim women with the complexity they deserve
Golden Thread Productions and Z Space are billing the script as the first world premiere co-written by an Afghan American woman in the United States.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"[Pilgrimage] makes you leave the theater thinking about the women in your life — whom you’d trust with your darkest secrets, whom you could ask to join you on the journey of a lifetime or for care in your neediest hour." Thank you @lilyjaniak.bsky.social for your review in the Chronicle! #newplay
Art by Morning Star Designs #IndigenousPeoplesDay
October 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Art by Morning Star Designs #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Thrilled to announce that PILGRIMAGE, a play I cowrote with Humaira Ghilzai, will have its world premiere at Z Space in San Francisco!!! Previews begin Oct. 24. For info and tix: goldenthread.org/productions/...
#newplay #bayareatheatre #theatre #afghanwomen #muslimwomen #pilgrimageplay
#newplay #bayareatheatre #theatre #afghanwomen #muslimwomen #pilgrimageplay
October 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thrilled to announce that PILGRIMAGE, a play I cowrote with Humaira Ghilzai, will have its world premiere at Z Space in San Francisco!!! Previews begin Oct. 24. For info and tix: goldenthread.org/productions/...
#newplay #bayareatheatre #theatre #afghanwomen #muslimwomen #pilgrimageplay
#newplay #bayareatheatre #theatre #afghanwomen #muslimwomen #pilgrimageplay
As a sci-fi writer and general space nut I find this really exciting. Sure, they won't be landing, just flying around it, but still -- THE MOON. 🌓 And the fact that this crew includes the first Black person and first woman to visit the Moon makes it even more exciting! #moon #artemismission
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First U.S. Artemis astronaut mission around the moon on track for April, officials say
NASA officials on Tuesday said the agency's first crewed flight in its Artemis program - a trip around the moon and back - is on track for launch in April next year and could potentially be moved up to February.
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September 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
As a sci-fi writer and general space nut I find this really exciting. Sure, they won't be landing, just flying around it, but still -- THE MOON. 🌓 And the fact that this crew includes the first Black person and first woman to visit the Moon makes it even more exciting! #moon #artemismission
Too true
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Too true
Enjoying my last weekend before things get busy (start of Fall semester). Coffee, sunshine, and working on my #WIP.
a cartoon drawing of a gravestone that says r.i.p. on it
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a gravestone that says r.i.p. on it
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August 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Enjoying my last weekend before things get busy (start of Fall semester). Coffee, sunshine, and working on my #WIP.
The Twin Stars ebook is on sale today! If you like #portalfantasy, #YAfantasy, #YAscifi and #mentalhealthrep, check it out: www.amazon.com/Twin-Stars-C...
#OCD #mentalhealthmatters
#OCD #mentalhealthmatters
August 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Twin Stars ebook is on sale today! If you like #portalfantasy, #YAfantasy, #YAscifi and #mentalhealthrep, check it out: www.amazon.com/Twin-Stars-C...
#OCD #mentalhealthmatters
#OCD #mentalhealthmatters
Part of having #OCD is dealing with a lifelong weight of mostly irrational guilt. I think that's why so many of my characters deal with guilt of some kind or another. It's also probably why guilt is the major theme of my #WIP. We write for a lot of reasons. Wrestling with our demons is a major one.
August 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Writing retreat! 💻
August 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Writing retreat! 💻
Hello. I am a pregnant woman in a film. My water breaks and the baby is coming NOW. It's born five minutes later.
Hello. I am an expendable character in an action film. If you shoot me with a regular gun I will scream in pain before I die. But if you shoot me with a silencer I will - obligingly - just let out a quiet gasp.
Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. I never use the toilet.
July 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hello. I am a pregnant woman in a film. My water breaks and the baby is coming NOW. It's born five minutes later.
I felt like something was missing from my #WIP. I think I may have figured out what it is. I've made a change that both raises the stakes and increases tension. Because things weren't hard enough for my protagonist, ya know? *Chases MC up a tree & pelts her with rocks.* #writingcommunity #amwriting
July 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I felt like something was missing from my #WIP. I think I may have figured out what it is. I've made a change that both raises the stakes and increases tension. Because things weren't hard enough for my protagonist, ya know? *Chases MC up a tree & pelts her with rocks.* #writingcommunity #amwriting
23,000 words into my WIP and hoping to hit 25,000 by the end of the week. Not always sure WHAT I'm writing, but words are coming out. So...win? How are you doing, #writingcommunity?
a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy holding a piece of paper
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July 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
23,000 words into my WIP and hoping to hit 25,000 by the end of the week. Not always sure WHAT I'm writing, but words are coming out. So...win? How are you doing, #writingcommunity?
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"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
Reposted by Bridgette Dutta Portman
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
June 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
Reposted by Bridgette Dutta Portman
Proud of my Congressman Ro Khanna for introducing the Iran War Powers Resolution. The Founders intended for CONGRESS to have the power to declare war, not the President--and for good reason. Please call your reps and ask them to support this resolution. #nowar #nowariniran
No war in Iran.
It's time for every member to go on record.
Are you with the neocons who led us into Iraq or do you stand with the American people?
I am proud to co-lead a bipartisan War Powers Resolution with Rep. Massie that is privileged and must receive a vote.
It's time for every member to go on record.
Are you with the neocons who led us into Iraq or do you stand with the American people?
I am proud to co-lead a bipartisan War Powers Resolution with Rep. Massie that is privileged and must receive a vote.
June 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Proud of my Congressman Ro Khanna for introducing the Iran War Powers Resolution. The Founders intended for CONGRESS to have the power to declare war, not the President--and for good reason. Please call your reps and ask them to support this resolution. #nowar #nowariniran
Reposted by Bridgette Dutta Portman
Read this entire feed and then make your phone calls , then get to a protest tomorrow. If not now, WHEN?
1. If you haven't already: find a protest.
www.nokings.org
2. Fellow Californias, please call your electeds (federal and state), and demand they issue statements - e.g. @buffywicks.bsky.social's statement is a good example.
* Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121.
* findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
www.nokings.org
2. Fellow Californias, please call your electeds (federal and state), and demand they issue statements - e.g. @buffywicks.bsky.social's statement is a good example.
* Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121.
* findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
www.nokings.org
June 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Read this entire feed and then make your phone calls , then get to a protest tomorrow. If not now, WHEN?
I laughed way too hard at this
June 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I laughed way too hard at this
Auria yearns to go to Earth. When she allies with an unscrupulous politician who vows to help get her there, the consequences of her actions could shatter her world.
Lotta teen angst but there IS a happy ending and JOY is what I want for these characters!
#joypit #YA #COA #SF #DIS #mentalhealth
Lotta teen angst but there IS a happy ending and JOY is what I want for these characters!
#joypit #YA #COA #SF #DIS #mentalhealth
June 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM