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Scientist, Nerd, SciFi & Fantasy Fan, Author gideonpsmith.com ✏️ SFWA|BSFA Focus Magazine|Apparition Lit|Stupefying Stories|Wyldblood Magazine|BlackHarePress|FFScribes|100-Foot Crow. Finalist Writers of the Future & NESFA short story competitions. #Codex
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My latest effort at the weekly drabble challenge over at @reachyourapex.bsky.social - come join!

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Open House: On Strangers, Judgment, and the Writer’s Unease Today, strangers are walking through my house. They are peering into closets, glancing at the scuff marks on the stairs, maybe silently judging my taste in rugs or the fact that I’ve never fixed that one crooked cabinet door. I’m not…

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Just a heads up that Master short story author and behind the scenes crewmember at Apex Mag, Kai Delmas, has bandwidth right now. You can check out his services for critiques and coaching sessions for writers over at his profile below :)

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Here's my latest drabble with @reachyourapex.bsky.social‬ - check out their feed, they have new drabbles from different authors every week!

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Keep the Habit: Why Writers Must Keep Writing (Even in the Gaps) One of the biggest dangers for a writer isn’t failure—it’s silence. Life has a way of crowding out creativity. Maybe it’s a high-pressure job, a move, a tough parenting stretch, or the illusion that you’ll "get back to it when things…

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Like drabbles? ‪@reachyourapex.bsky.social has a prompt every week :) Try your hand if you like!

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How to Pitch Non-Fiction to SFWA, BSFA Focus Magazine, and Other Speculative Fiction Venues A couple of people have asked me to write up some advice on this, so I thought 'Why not!'.... When we think about writing for the speculative fiction community, we often think of short stories, novels, and…

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SFWA Guest Blog: “Successfully Talking to the Press About Your Art: Plot It, Don’t Pants It!” I have been fortunate to write guest blog posts before for SFWA on writing realistic science in science fiction, and then another one on using the psychological science utilized in video games to help you…

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Thanks to @sfwa.bsky.social for this opportunity to share my thoughts!

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New Drabble out today with The Horror Tree's 'Trembling with Fear' Series: (sorry that you have to scroll to find it...) horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

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How Themes in Your Writing Can Help You the Author gideonpsmith.com/2025/03/04/h...

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I have a drabble in this new collection from Shacklebound, out today. More exciting than that, are the names I share the Table of Contents with! 😀 www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW61J3K6

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The Top Practical and Inspirational Writing Craft Books that I Read in 2024 I tend to read a lot of craft books. Last year I made a list of 20 craft books I had read giving just a one-line impression of each. It's here if you want to give that one a look. The best thing about doing that was I got…

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Year In Review 2024 For the last two years in December, I have written a 'Year in Review' post, and here is this year's. The main purpose of the original post was to convince myself that although I had not published my first novel, nor even got an agent, I had achieved something in the sphere of…

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Keeping to goals is one thing (which I have blogged about before) but how do you set them? Know thyself! Today's blog on the value of aspirational writer's bios :) gideonpsmith.com/2024/12/03/a...

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” - Hemingway (or Red Smith, or various other people to whom the original is attributed - nonetheless, the sentiment stands no matter who said it, and even if it's a word file, not a typewriter 😉 )

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Just wanted to share my latest piece with those who are interested. This came out today in Apparition Lit, who I'm thrilled to publish with 😀 (there was a prompt that had to be in there - it was "soup") apparitionlit.com/the-siren-si...

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Titles are a perennial topic - and if you want to know what's in at least one Editor's mind when she thinks about this, read Victoria Brun's piece over on 100-footCrow!

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My latest pub is just a small one - a drabble out today in 100-foot Crow. But it's one of my favorite ones I've written :) And it's free to read! 100footcrow.com/running-time...

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Most recent story: Available free, my microfiction in Stupefying Stories. 150 word limit, and had to use the prompt "The off-season" somewhere in the story. stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2024/11/toni...

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I'm finally making the transition from Twitter/X, sorry if the shelves look bare so far!

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