Latest posts tagged with #sciFiWriting on Bluesky
Artist rendition of a Moon clearing the division on Saturn's rings Kevin M. Gill
Saturn is my favorite planet 🪐, so much so that in my Sci-Fi novel there is a scene of a space salvager flying her ship into a division - the space between rings where small moons and city sized blocks of ice clear away the debris.
Artist credit: Kevin M. Gill - amazing! ❤️
#scifiwriting
I am prepping to enter my 1st ever writing contest, "Novel Beginnings" -5k word excerpt of your fiction book.
It's a little scary how many formatting rules they had buried in the about sections, even more in Q&A. I can only imagine how high the Disqualified count will be.😨
#amwriting #scifiwriting
“You always miss me,” she spoke in the soft cadence one uses with a tiny chick, taking his rope from her neck bag and wrapping it around his head behind his eyes, “don’t you?” Bimbam-ten chuffed, almost like a txentx but deeper, and bent to tap his snout against hers. Lapax returned the sound and the gesture.
In today’s instalment of The Gift of Gloves: Lapax is a horse (reithan) girl.
#WriteSky #AmWriting #xenofiction #SciFiWriting
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I write about gay boys and headstrong girls without a highway option:
#EpicFantasy #IndieAuthor #SciFiWriting #IndieSFF #Fantasy
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Hi everyone, I’m an author who really loves sci-fi, and I want to keep doing this for a long time while learning along the way.
I’m writing The Heir of the Doan Legacy (my first series). If you’re open to it, I’d love your feedback so I can improve in the next chapters.
#SciFiWriting #Writing
"Allan’s grip on the Roxton revolver tightened. The auxiliary power filled the corridors with an infernal glow. Where was the crew?"
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"The boundless galaxy stirred a cocktail of sensations – awe, allure, excitement ran hot through her veins again..."
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"Beatrice gave her drenched headband a twist and wiped the sweat off her brow. The next lap of the race was about to start. Three. Two. One..."
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Submissions are now open! 🎊 Send your submissions to michiganmagicwriters@gmail.com.Work must be a maximum of 3,000 words, be original, and previously unpublished! More details to follow!
#michiganmagic #writingcontest #creativewriting #scifiwriting #fantasywriting #jihyunyun
Behind the Kronos Nebula lies a living world teeming with life, and Allan O'Brien MUST join the expedition in: The Planet Lost In Time.
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"Allan O'Brien had never known a real forest, but he could imagine one..."
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Generate sci-fi warrior character descriptions with attitude & unique traits
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#characterGenerator #sciFiWriting #gameDesign #NPCcreation #writingTools
Here is a great stocking stuffer for that science fiction fan on your holiday list. Versions are available for Kindle, Nook, Apple-audio, and Paperback.
Visit: books2read.com/The-Dark-Solar-System-Series
#bookrecommendations #scifiwriting #nowreading #booklots #lotofbooks
What happens with drama at a pharmacy?
Would you be as bold as this pharmacy tech?
I rewrote the first 23 chapters of "From Criminal to Hero."
These two snippets are from Chapter 23.
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#scifi #writing #booksky #scifiwriting #royalroad
Do sci-fi writers ever write wild tech just to see how far is too far... then realize it's almost real already? Trying to surprise genre-savvy readers is a trip. What’s the last concept you had to push further to keep it fresh? #scifiwriting #amwriting #booksky #writingcommunity
“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.
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
Generate sci-fi warrior character descriptions with attitude & unique traits
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#characterGenerator #sciFiWriting #gameDesign #NPCcreation #writingTools
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
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
This week's writing prompt could be your chance to write about aliens 👽
#horrorwriting #scifiwriting #speculativewriters #writingcommunity #writingprompt
“Even on the eve of launch, trouble finds its way to us.”
Signal 2: Pre-Launch Complications
The crew of the USS Opportunity faces their first test — a mysterious quarantine beacon from deep within the Waste.
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#StarTrek #CaptainLog #SciFiWriting #SignalsFromOppy
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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.
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
The title reads "Hidden Stickers" and shows the back page of a book decorated with a celestial-themed sticker that has the name of the book title, which is "Just One Command" by M.E. Harker.
A hand placing a spaceship sticker on a page.
Picture of a celestial themed sticker. The text overtop reads "The designs are tricky to cut" and then has an ellipsis leading to another image.
Picture of a celestial themed sticker. The text overtop reads "But so worth it"
Hid some stickers inside books for an upcoming event 👀
A few lucky takers will get a lil extra bonus!
#SFF #SciFiBooks #SciFiWriting #Author #Stickers #OkayButTheyreReallyCute
I got a D in GCSE physics and I'm about to read Greg Eagans ,'Schilds Ladder', also known as the hardest sci-fi ever written.
Challenge accepted. See you on the other side.
#scifi #scifiwriting
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.
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
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
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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