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Andrew Halliwell
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I've been around a bit. Grew up in Oldham, university at Keele and a few years living around Stoke-on-Trent, then a few more living in Bromley, South London.
I've tended to base my fiction in those areas, too.
DO NOT BLIND MSG ME! Sick of it.
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The #WIPSnips word for December 19th is "high" #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

From book 6
The prison governor and judge discuss Eric's case after his release from block 8 (the closest mankind's come to hell on earth).
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 18th is "request" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
The plot to get the Baron continues by selecting which bank to rob.
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 17th is "clay" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
The only context thqt needs adding to this scene is that Rhy and his brother Tad are from that world, not the one Eric's from (where he got Wallace and Grommit and a whole host of other films from). In Rhy's world, black and white silent films are still the norm.
December 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 16th is “moist”
A word even Suzie Dent hates.
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From book 5
My MCs begin their first big military exercise as part of their basic training...
December 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Might as well show the others, then...
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Although, the cover I'm familiar with is...
December 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
spike1967.bsky.social
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for December 15th is “blanket”

From book 5
My two MCs plot the downfall of the Baron, a mob boss who runs a criminal organisation that spans the whole county from his prison cell in Stafford. While one prepares his new, permanent home, the other receives his orders concerning his return to prison.
December 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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The #WIPSnips word for December 14th is "line" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
Doctor Van Holder (the man my MC was tasked to deliver medical breakthroughs to) and Professor Birk (inventor of the string resonance manipulators my MC's been using while travelling the multiverse) meet on the witness stand for the second day of my MC's retrial.
December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 13th is "control"

From book 6.
Alas, no pet pics, though. No pets.
My MC has a vindictive streak when it's needed, and this time, he thinks it's needed. As his next door neighbour liked it there because he could enjoy the screams of everyone being tortured, my MC's suggestion... Deafen him. Turn of the auditory centres of his brain.
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 12th is "smash". #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
My MC, recently freed from block 8, cut out of the cage, punished for not following the orders of his cell (an order that was impossible anyway) and injured the next morning, faces the doctor's assistant who refused to help him when the punishment started.
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 11th is "full" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
Mr MC's retrial in hightech world, after being wrongfully convicted of every crime the police couldn't solf in the past 20 years. As a black grade prisoner, they have 3 rules, no violence, no contraband allowed in their cells and no drugs. Failure to follow those rules means being sent to block 8, which is as close to hell as it's possible to manufacture. The police tried three times to get my MC sent there, two by contraband, one by contaminating a urine sample, the latter one succeeded, but fortunately, he had his retrial scheduled. And this is it.
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 10th is "pipe" #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

From book 5
My MC offers advice as the first machine reaches the meteorite.
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 9th is "design" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
My MC collects a chair from Buckingham Palace, a true work of art in his opinion.
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The word for December 8th is "fourth" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
After attracting the attention of the Baron while in prison, my MC received a hand delivered letter after his release ordering him to break into a jewellers and steal the contents of their safe, but he came up with a cunning plan. Invent a new criminal mastermind encroaching onto the Baron's territory, so instead of stealing the contents, he broke in three times, once to steal the contents, placing a letter from "The Duke" in their place, once to steal the letter and a third time, with the help of his little brother who could shift, put the contents back. Now, training with the army, he's received his second set of instructions. He demonstrates to the other men in his tent how to decode them, then shows them what his computer can do.
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 7th is "empty"

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From book 5
My MC, Diah, requests hard labour while booking into the prison for the second time and suggests my other MC, Eric, be given the same.
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 6th is "hook" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
First day back in prison for Diah, first day ever, apart from the slavery from book 1, for Eric (who's in on a made-up charge to keep an eye on Diah).
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 5th is "screen" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

From book 5
The breaking up of the meteorite begins with a little experiment, a small explosive charge. A large explosive charge is known to be devastating, having wiped out half of Manchester when someone tried it in another world, so, just a firecracker.
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for December 4th is "city" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
After encountering a slave living rough in a nearby world while on an exercise with the army cadets, Lance directed him to their village, explaining who the majority of the inhabitants were. A couple of days later, he and doctor (and now major) Cal Anderson return to that world to see if he made it, encountering that world's version of Eric (my main MC). They learn a lot of how things transpired differently there, while telling him how things worked out for them.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

From the complete radio scripts. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Actually, I remembered it off by heart so I didn't need to copy it)
Exerpt from the seventh episode of the radio series, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
spike1967.bsky.social
The #WIPSnips word for December 3rd is "dominant" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
Block 8, a place where the worst of the worst end up if they break any rules. A place of incessant torture, a place where they have total control over every aspect of your being, even how you feel, A place where the first thing that happens is you're welded into a cage with metal collar and restraints that fuse you in place. Utterly immobile. Due to some trickery by the police, my MC ended up there. Fortunately, he's out again now due to a retrial, but he doesn't know everything that metalwork he's wearing does, yet.
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for December 2nd is "percent" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 5
My MC and his friends (including a few duplicates) take on some army training. One thing they need to learn is the phonetic alphabet, but as it's different in this timeline to the one they're familiar with, they've got to unlearn the old one, too.
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Welcome to December and a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for December 1st is "belong" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 2
My MC offers his friend Jeb a house, not as a rental, to own, forever.
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The #WIPSnips word for November 30th is "number" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

From book 6
Having finally been vindicated, but too late to save him from "Block 8" and everything that goes with it, my MC gains access to the outside world for the first time since his imprisonment, to be bombarded by begging letters;
November 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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#WritingPrompt
A snippet of a snowy scene from my 5th book
On his way 5o deliver coal to a nearby village, Rhy spots his brother and friends sledding.
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM