JD Vollans

This is devastating. I'm sorry for your loss.

I don't have anything to promote directly this week, but I've got a new hybrid weirdfic/litcrit blog launching in the new year, so feel free to watch this space if you're interested.

Thanks for running the #SFFchat, C.J.

I've had a long stewing scheme for a Space Opera based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. It's probably my most ambitious plan, and it's about 6 years in the making so far. It's got to have social climbing with galactic stakes, attitude and the most glorious villainess ever. #SFFchat.

I have three WIPs, but I've been talking about Lindsey this whole time, so I'll keep on with that.

Lindsey is nominally employed as a medical aide by Doctor Tsang, who runs an underfunded community clinic. He's the only person who knows about her condition. (That is the dying thing). #SFFchat

Well, short stories don't have chapters, so here's the last line of the first scene.

"From out of the blurring blue a shadow more massive than all the rest, with craggy jagged features, shot down toward Lindsey, piercing the surface of the water."

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#SFFChat

Lindsey dies a lot.

Well, if I take my story about a spontaneously, recurringly dying girl and, I just finished Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson's Skyward Flight novellas, so . . . a recurring series of small fighter craft crashes probably.

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15 minutes until #SFFchat! All writers of SFF are welcome in front of a snowy castle

15 minutes until #SFFchat!

All writers of SFF are welcome

Hey, I'm JD today, he/him (it/that?) and I write weird and unsettling stories, sometimes in space. It's short story season, and I've got military SF, magical realism and Gothic horror all on deck. No, I don't feel like picking a lane -- it's fucking Christmas-time, y'all. #SFFchat

I've been pretty lax on updating over here recently, partly because of NaNo and partly because it's nice to have a life away from a computer screen. My post-NaNo writing break is over, though, so I'll probably be back to procrastinating over here too. #Author #WritingCommunity

Belated #NaNoWriMo update: I did the thing. Completed draft @ 50,002 on the 29th. Gave myself a detox day yesterday, no words only pictures. #author #WritingCommunity

It's all gonna be ok.

We'll rob their house together.

Breathe and remember: you don't want to be that writer.

You just want their money.

Quick #NaNoWriMo update: Everything is trucking along. Slipped behind for a little while a week or so ago, but caught up the other day and now I'm back at cruising speed, if not nosing ahead. Thursday may bring challenges, but we'll see. #WritingCommunity #Author

That is a significantly cooler looking cover than the one I've got.

The first Bluesky #SFFchat will be coming to you this Friday at 2pm CST. All SFF writers welcome. Spread the word!

The first Bluesky #SFFchat will be coming to you this Friday at 2pm CST.

All SFF writers welcome.

Spread the word!

#authors #writingcommunity #queeradultSFF

That sounds pretty great.

Happy A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Weird, cos' I remember them faltering pretty much constantly.

I read this and it was very, very good.

Uh, so I'm basically always in a state of mild terror, and all my stories kind of scare me. But one of my more stubborn WIPs, a novella about a ranch, has a moment where the process of making vellum is described in some detail and it's awfully hard to write every time I revise. #HorrorWritersChat

I hate that I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I'm just not that well versed in the indie horror scene, but if anyone wants a break from the terror, I'll shout out my friends at @worldsmyths.bsky.social , who publish indie fantasy anthologies and novellas. #HorrorWritersChat

This one's kind of difficult. In my current work, it's probably Hal's dad, Leonard. He's not a major character, seeing as he's dead and kindness is part of the reason for that. Being good in a savage environment is unfortunately rarely rewarded. He dared to dream of a better time. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm JD again, writer of spooky and disgusting heresies against the hegemony of "actual reality". For now, I'm hauling on my #NaNoWriMo project, which accounts for November. December is short story season, and I hope to get 3-4 drafts of already outlined pieces done then. #HorrorWritersChat

Yeah, it really only works with a good outline and a program like Scrivener that lets you break up scenes.

Also, I think I've listened to three different instrumental arrangements of Everlong in the past fifteen minutes.

I'm so sleepy today. I've been tracking pretty much exactly on par for #NaNoWriMo all week, so that's fine basically. I think I'm going to skip past the middle and work on the back end of the novel for today, see if I can get a feel for the momentum at the far side. #WritingCommunity #Author

Today I'm trying to promote my stories, follow new people, and generally falling down the sinkhole of social media. I'm still not even sure if I am doing bluesky right yet, but nevertheless I'll keep posting haha. Anyone wanna do a follow swap? I want to meet more authors 🙂

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Alas, there really isn't anything going in my district. Not one school board seat, not one judge, not one council member. I'm almost kind of upset about it. I've got wild voting energy right now, and there's nothing to vote about.