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mutantpizza.bsky.social
THE MONTHLY CRUST SEPT-OCT EDITION
Shut up and read about my life and what I've been working on for the past month and a half! #tabletopgames #boardgames #horrorwriting #fictionwriting #scifiwriting #writingcommunity #howmanyhashtagsdoineedtobepopularonbluesky
The Monthly Crust: Sept-Oct Edition
Howdy, Falling Leaves & Pumpkin Dreams; Happy Fall! Autumn is my favorite season of the year. It's not because of the pumpkin spice, although I do enjoy pumpkin pie. I love the crunch of leaves under foot, the color changes as the trees prepare for their winter slumber, the chill of the air. The rain. I love the heavy fall rains and the petrichor that follows.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
firthofdrengist.bsky.social
A History of the Far Future

A brief flavorless timeline of future cosmological events. I created this up as a trial and constraint for future work.

#scifi #scifiwriting #outerspace #origionalfiction #worldbuilding #speculativefiction

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A History of the Far Future | Deep Space = Deep Time
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December 12, 2024 at 1:26 AM
voidscout.bsky.social
"How many times can you die for a cause?"
"More than it takes to win," Alyssa said.
Then she charged.
#FragmentsFromTheVoid #SciFiWriting #WritersOfSciFi
May 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
spaceinkluigi.bsky.social
Planning on borrowing my dad’s old typewriter to see if my word count increases or decreases. What do you think? 😂 #typewriter #writing #scifiwriting #writer #vintage #oldschoolcool #wordcount #vintagetypewriter
November 29, 2024 at 1:38 PM
voidscout.bsky.social
It wasn’t just another derelict ship.
It was her ship.
The one she died on.
Three universes ago.
#FragmentsFromTheVoid #SciFiWriting
May 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
j-hawkens.bsky.social
🌌 Launching "Crafting Cosmos" podcast mid-May! First episode: "Alien Anatomies" explores believable alien biology beyond basic humanoids. For worldbuilders who want truly alien species! #WorldbuildingPodcast #SciFiWriting #AlienDesign
April 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social
I am on the precipice of finishing the first draft of Dharktyde Racers novella 6. Really happy with the finale, but also champing at the bit to get to a short story I'm writing for a collection. I get to work in a sci-fi universe I'm a fan of. More details soon. #WriterSky #SciFiWriting
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
guywolz.bsky.social
Got the fully edited version back from the editor and I'm stoked! Working through it, but hoping for a Christmas/New Year timeline for release.

Working title: Knight

#writing #mmromance #lgbtq #romancewriting #scifiwriting #booksky #amediting #amwriting
guywolz.bsky.social Guy Wolz @guywolz.bsky.social · May 21
Turning 'False Lady' into an OC work. Just got a test snippet back from an editor!
October 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
dark-solar-system.bsky.social
Bored at home? Here are three tales of suspense, horror, and action. A new view of humanity’s future in the solar system. www.amazon.com/author/ckpro...
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#bookrecommendations #scifiwriting
November 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM
johnbogna.bsky.social
Escape the actual horror happening all around us with some fictional horror! Chapter 8 of my dark #scifi novella The Helper is out now. #writing #horrorwriting #scifiwriting #fictionwriting #darkscifi

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The Helper: Part 8
Chapter 8: The Wall + the Waking Room
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January 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
mightylamplighter.bsky.social
What are you other #writers doing to organize your novels? Give me your secrets! (If you want to)
#novelwriting
#fantasywriting
#fantasy
#scifiwriting
#scifi
December 3, 2024 at 9:19 PM
johnbogna.bsky.social
Chapter 10 of The Helper just dropped. We're staggering along the path to the end as July remembers the last one to fall. #writing #writingcommunity #horrorwriting #scifi #scifiwriting #sciencefiction

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The Helper: Part 10
Chapter 10: Closer to your front door
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February 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
thatfantasychick.bsky.social
I'm going live tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. CST to talk about how to turn a simple idea into a Sci-fi/Fantasy concept for film or tv. Join here: youtube.com/live/PNgXP1W...

#scifiscreenwriting #fantasyscriptwriting #screenwritingtips #fantasyworldbuilding #scifiwriting #tvpilotwriting #genrewriting
August 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
writingdorito.bsky.social
Does anyone use #Notion to help organize their writing/brainstorming/whatever? Any good templates you can recommend?

#WritingCommunity #SFFWriters #SciFiWriting
May 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
rikohare.com
Thinking about writing influences and decided that The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks had the greatest impact on me. Mainly because of the theme - transcendance - and it being published a couple of months after his death.

#amwriting #indieauthor #SciFiwriting

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The Hydrogen Sonata - Wikipedia
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September 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
parrydox.com
I’m sharing my three favourite tips for handling worldbuilding without dumping a lexicon on your audience. Learn how to slip in the details and keep them hooked.
Full version on YouTube: youtu.be/7AbEoxtLmWc
#Worldbuilding #WritingTips #Storytelling #FantasyWriting #SciFiWriting #WritingCommunity
September 6, 2024 at 12:39 AM
penemuesquill.bsky.social
During a delicate era of negotiation and revelation, a wannabe internet-famous vlogger goes missing.
A conspiracy unfolds, and the world finally notices CeeCee.

#novels #books #sciencefiction #mystery #scifiwriting #fiction #fictionwriter #writing
The lit silhouette of a slim, feminine-looking person wearing pink bunny ears floating up into a beam of light. She has a mobile device in one hand, raised as if taking a video of her own rapture.
October 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
jpspalding.com
1500 words today.
Got stuck on my last chapter so I jumped ahead till I got to where I knew what was supposed to be happening. Today was one of those days where you fight for every word, but it was worth it~

#scifiwriting #amwriting #writingcommunity #authors 🖋️🔱
A Mac laptop on a kitchen table with a word doc opened to page 147 in this, the third rewrite of my debut novel. Someday it will be finished.
July 30, 2024 at 11:34 PM
rfontaine71.bsky.social
Last night I had a dream that I summoned several different versions of myself either from the future, or parallel realities, I’m not sure which, to help me with something. I think subconscious me is on to something. #scifiwriting
February 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
junojump.bsky.social
It's finally here! After forcing myself to take a month break, I am ready to jump on my manuscript and start dev editing! I ordered a physical draft to help create distance between myself and the work, should be fun to rip it to shreds
#amwritting #writesky #scifiwriting #romancewriting #indyauthor
Ordered a copy of my scfi-romance novel just for me thru Lulu, Cover art and design from GetCovers (only teasing it for now), and formatted with scrivener to practice going thru the whole process. I can't wait to mark it up and paper it in post it notes. So estatic I have gotten this far! Strange Salvage will hopefully be completed in spring 2026.
October 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
poeticgeek.substack.com
If your sci-fi story can't be explained to your mom, is it truly good? The 'Mom Rule' filters out the noise, ensuring stories that last. I know I couldn't explain mine... #SciFiWriting #WritingTips
Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind
My mom was a big reader. She loved mysteries, legal thrillers, and historical fiction, especially if they mixed in a little romance. She whipped through books by James Patterson and Mary Higgins Cl…
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May 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
bsky.chewxy.com
And for some self-promotion, here's a snippet of my #scifi short story that also featured #Go/#baduk/#weiqi (Neil rejected it lol, so it may not be good).

It's about the discovery that the world is running out of a particular fundamental resource.

#writing #scifiwriting #writesky #sff
“Now look,” she said, taking control of the left player and entered the hut. Dust motes swirled in slanted sunbeams from the lone grimy window. A single chair sat beneath a cobwebbed joist. She climbed onto the chair, pulled out the build menu and built a ladder from stones in her inventory. A net hung crookedly on a nail. She snagged it, cast it over the ladder’s top rungs. Finally, she crafted a white pebble which she immediately threw in a hole on the chair. The interior of the cabin dissolved into a vast, impossibly smooth wooden board. Black lines etched themselves into a grid across its surface. Stones of every colour sat poised at their intersections. The castle’s courtyard had vanished; on the right, a different section of the same board now sprawled, its stones arranged in a stark, geometric dance. “Like it?” Yhiwotdar beamed, utterly unbothered by the two men staring like they’d been handed a live octopus. “I created that rule. Took bloody ages.” “Is this a… Go board?” Ikaris asked. The words felt clumsy, alien in his mouth. What the hell. It’s the most complex transformation I’ve ever seen, he thought, and I’ve seen the engine render a snowflake in 127,000 shades of olo. It wasn’t that Yhiwotdar had recreated the Japanese board game in 箱!World, but rather 箱!World itself became the game of Go. This was a game doing things no game should do. “Yep. An infinite Go board. With as many colours as there are players.” “But why— OK. So the adaptive encoding works?” Ikaris was confused. He stole a look at Hiden and saw nothing but proud beaming of a parent watching their prodigious three-year-old master the timing of a quick-time event. “For this transformation, yes. The controls were encoded in the chair, ladder and net. When transformed into the Go board, they are converted into this pattern over here.” Yhiwotdar directed their attention to the top right corner of the left window. A collection of black and white stones were arranged in a peculiar pattern of concentric walls of white stones and black stones surrounding one another. Yhiwotdar took control of the right player and navigated to the same patch of the board as the left player. Then, taking turns as right and left players, she expertly placed black and white stones. First a group of five white stones were captured. Then after several moves, two black stones fell. As she posed to place the last white stone as a throw-in, Hiden asked, “Wait, is this one of the eternal life ko things?” “Er, could be?” she said shrugging. “I don’t actually play Go.” Hiden nodded knowingly and explained, “A ko is a pattern that repeats itself. The pattern on the board. It’s the same as before she started making all the moves.” Of course he knows it, the smug bastard, Ikaris thought. And of course she’s a suck up. Shame she’s legit talented. Click. Yhiwotdar placed a black stone, capturing the white throw-in. The stones settled. A single breath on the screen. And the scene on both windows restored themselves to the lakeside cabin once more.
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
cmaley.bsky.social
We just published a fun article on applying evolution and ecology to world building (for authors and gamers). It's based on a talk I gave at GenCon last year. www.prosocial.world/special-publ... @prosocialworld.bsky.social
#FantasyWriters #DnD5e #TTRPGCommunity #WorldbuildingTools #SciFiWriting
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April 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
corinnepwriter.bsky.social
This week's writing prompt could be your chance to write about aliens 👽
#horrorwriting #scifiwriting #speculativewriters #writingcommunity #writingprompt
October 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM