Shantell PowellI'm working on a new short story. I just added a new element that gave me a jolt of dopamine: battle moose. #AmWritingSFF #AmWriting
I'm taking a short break from writing Jehovah's Witness horror to write a sword and sorcery tale. I'm not sure what's happening in my story yet, but am eager to find out! #AmWritingSFF #AmWriting
James KempAnother 751 words written this morning on the train to Edinburgh. That's me up to approx 3,750/90,000 words into a second fantasy novel in the same world as Fierce.
I've been collating all my notes, and filling in gaps to build a wiki with everything I have on the background and world building for my fantasy stories ahead of maybe writing another one!
zomg guys! I just received a second creation grant for my Jehovah's Witness speculative short story collection. Thanks to @augurmag for believing in my project. *hyperventilates* #WritingCommunity #Author #ExJW #AmWritingSFF
Abra Staffin-WiebeTea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity anthology ( @aanpress ) wants hard SFF stories with *all* the above elements, due 3/31/26, 2,000 wds max, no reprints, pays $.08/word. 🧵3/4
https://aanpress.com/submissions.html
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air and nothingness press - submission information
the air and nothingness press was created to explore book arts and graphic design with an emphasis on limited edition hand-made livre d artiste books and editions of poetry, fantasy and science fiction. we also design and publish on-demand collections of poetry
Simon BrookeI'm writing a first rough pass of a new story just now, and I'm writing quickly to catch the bones of it. I know that, in this draft, all my characters speak much the same; I'm not worrying about this, I'll rewrite later to give them individual idioms, ways of speaking, gestures, senses of humour.
Do you do this in your first pass, or do your characters come to you already with their own idiosyncratic patterns of speech?
It's before dawn on the 7th of January; I've written 10,000 words of a story that I first started actually writing on the 1st of January. It's about a God, a very old dragon, and how you reform a really sick society. None of what I've written yet is very good, but I have the bones of the whole story, including a satisfactory ending.
Anyone fancy being an alpha-reader?
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-01-07-Writing-Wisdom/
Writing Wisdom
I've had a very rough idea for a story kicking around in my brain for months. A young woman is the hereditary Wisdom Speaker of her tribe. She's inherited her rôle young, because her mother, aunt, grandmother, and great grandmother have all been killed by leading men of the tribe, for giving good advice -- speaking wisdom -- that they did not want to hear.
🧵9/9 For all the December science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story market list updates, go to https://aswiebe.com/marketlist/new/
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Tales From the Crosstimbers wants speculative fiction up to 5,000 words, pays $.01/word, no reprints, due 1/15/26. 🧵8/9
https://thecrosstimbers.net/open-call/
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