Redshield Writes

Fantasy and scifi writer with a love of music and a taste for the impossible. Icon by @dreamsofbooksandmonsters, header by @panhasapen. (Follow from @redshield-waits.)

[redshield-writes]

If you're looking for more stories like "my pilot was good," there's good news! I'm currently editing my scifi novel that takes place in the same universe. I hope to query for it soon.

Here are all of my experimental-pov scifi shorts:

you are so tired and far from home - You are on a space station that’s under attack and have one chance to change things.

we don't have to watch the sky - The narrator cares for a pilot that has crash-landed on a remote planet.

my pilot was good - A starship AI stands trial for the actions committed by their deceased pilot.

for you are stardust, and to stardust you shall return - An astronaut meets an angel on the moon. (Inspired by this art.)

Here is the trouble is you are a monster, my adaptation of Theseus and the Minotaur, and my poem Ode to the Backspace Key.

Stay tuned - and stay safe!

[monstermonger]

Keeper of the garden

[matrose]

watch this [walks into the ocean and the saltwater fills the hole in my chest cavity]

[biocrafthero]

perceived skill

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #4165:

i thought of a good writing tip earlier but it's so hot i forgot it sorry

[write-on-world]

[big-blog-of-cheese-day]

[ccorinthian]

Sometimes you gotta get down to brass tacks

[loversandantiheroes]

Fandom in a time of moral panic is so maddening. You don't need to claim something is bad or wrong to justify not liking it. You sure as shit don't need to prove something is good or correct to justify liking it. Stop trying to moralize your fiction, especially if you haven't even figured out how to interpret it properly.

[loversandantiheroes]

Like I cannot stress enough how much you do not need a 5k word essay to "prove" that Glup Shitto's Turbo Asshole Mass Murder route is secretly empowering and actually probably even more healing than the alternative that sends him to fantasy therapy for wayward blorbos. You can just say "bad guy power fantasy tickles my pickle" and go on with your goddamn day. That's all you need. It saves you loads of time and saves me the headache of having to think about how badly you've missed the fucking point of the goddamn narrative.

[aphel1on]

top tier character when "what is wrong with them" requires an answer that begins with "How much time do you have"

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

[daily-prompts]

Write a moment of betrayal where the betrayer believes they are acting out of love.

[nondelphic]

writing is just sitting in front of a computer and making up problems for imaginary people while ignoring your own. fun and casual hobby.

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[goldensunset]

has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author

[sceptixfakemon]

TAG YOURSELF WHAT'S YOUR FAVE MEDIEVAL HELMET

[molabuddy]

holding an oc closely.... if you had a fandom would people be insane about you....

[malwarechips]

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

[imgdist0000]

messier 16 / eagle nebula