New chapter's live.
Town’s on fire. Lawman's bleeding. Jail's blown to hell.
Eddie Harlow’s on the run. Ida lit the fuse.
Red Moon Reckoning – Chapter Seven: HARDTACK AND HELLFIRE
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#WeirdWest #NeoPulp #DustAndDragons #WritingLife
Red Moon Reckoning is a Weird West story about cursed gold, dead gods, and the price of blood.
First chapter’s up.
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Bullets, betrayal, and cursed dragon gold—welcome back to the Twilight Territories! Ready for a thirsty detour? Chapter Six drops today. #indieauthor #fantasy #serialfiction #WeirdWest #NeoPulp open.substack.com/pub/jpfinch/...
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
—Somerset Maugham
#WritingCommmunity #WritingQuote #SomersetMaughamQuotes #NewWriter #NoviceWriter #AspiringAuthor #JustWrite
New chapter’s up.
A name not meant to be spoken.
A gambler who knows too much.
Jake Fletcher wakes up with more than a hangover.
The Velvet Inquisitor is live.
Some reckonings knock first. #weirdwest #serialfiction #indieauthors #fantasy open.substack.com/pub/jpfinch/...
Don’t wait for the gatekeeper to open up.
Burn the motherfucker down and walk through the smoke.
#PulpPunk #DIYWriting #WriteLoud #NeoPulp #writing #writingadvice #LiteraryOutlaw
New chapter’s up.
A name not meant to be spoken.
A gambler who knows too much.
Jake Fletcher wakes up with more than a hangover.
The Velvet Inquisitor is live.
Some reckonings knock first. #weirdwest #serialfiction #indieauthors #fantasy open.substack.com/pub/jpfinch/...
Reread The Tower of the Elephant. One of my favorite Conan stories. Got me thinking why these old pulp tales from damn near 100 years ago still hit so hard.
Wrote up some thoughts. Blood, starlight, and something like grace.
#Conan #PulpFiction #bookreview
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I musty say I relate more with these statements more than anything I’ve seen or heard about writing in a long damn time… #💙booksky📚 #writers #literature #mentalhealthmatters
New chapter up: THE SILVER DEBT
A train carves through the desert. A glass of wine trembles. The coin is no longer lost it’s in Beauregard’s hands, and his brother is watching.
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#WeirdWest #NeoPulp #fantasywriters #serialfiction #indieauthor
I #write for me.
If you enjoy my #words that’s great, but it’s not why I write.
Sharing my #writing unfiltered is what drives me…
I am proud to be an #indie #author.
22 #books written and 16 #published and many more to come.
#Booksky #indieauthor #authors #writers #readers #reading #writing
The desert doesn’t forgive.
Neither does Marshal Thrusk Blackspur.
Chapter Three of Red Moon Reckoning is live:
The Rat Runs.
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I say this with all due respect, but go fuck yourself.
Today's writing quote: :when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description & lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”―Stephen King, #writing #writingquote #writingcommunity #writesky
It's like trying to be a great chef but refusing to eat.
Self publish. Because fuck the establishment.
I wrote about the trash that taught America to read.
Dime novels: printed on garbage, full of outlaws, and somehow the foundation of our literary canon.
They didn’t last—but they mattered.
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#NeoPulp #WritingLife #DimeStoreWisdom #Writers #LostMedia #TellYourStory
I don’t post chapters weekly because I think I’m the next bestseller.
I post them because it gives me a goal. A deadline.
And it gives me accountability—
even if it’s just to myself.
#AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #SubstackWriters #WritersOfBluesky #SerialFiction #Write #WritingLife
Start small. Give yourself SMALL goals you can complete quickly, while inspiration and courage hold out.
There ARE people whose first writing work is a series of epic novels. But they are rare.
When you are starting, make a goal of a page, a paragraph, even a sentence.
Completion is triumph.
Hit 15k words in the new novel and didn’t even realize it.
Guess I was too busy chasing ghosts.
#AmWriting #WeirdWest #WritingLife #NeoPulp #IndieAuthor #PulpFiction #FictionInProgress #WritersOfBluesky #WordCountMilestone
💬 The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
📖 — Erasmus ✍️
Chapter 2 of Red Moon Reckoning just posted.
The gambler knows the name.
The bounty hunter says it anyway.
And somewhere, a serpent stirs.
#RedMoonReckoning #WeirdWest #NeoPulp #DustAndDragons #DarkWestern #PulpFiction #SerialFiction
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For me it's probably just because someone looked at 'em funny.
Your scars are the map of your heart. Writing is learning how to read the roads.
#WritingLife #TruthOnThePage #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritersOfBluesky #NeoPulp #WordsMatter
Writing’s like drilling for oil.
Most days it’s just sweat and dry ground.
But then—boom—a gusher. Black gold. Story everywhere.
That’s why I keep turning the crank.
#AmWriting #WritersLife #fantasywriters #WeirdWest #IndieAuthor
Even slow forward progress is progress! ✨ #writing
Chapter One of my Weird West serial is up now.
Think dragons, bounty hunters, cursed coins, and fever dreams in the desert.
#WeirdWest #NeoPulp #SerializedFiction #amwriting #fantasy #WIP #WritersOfBluesky #SubstackWriters
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Does a sculptor worry that the stone doesn't already look like a perfect statue when he starts?
Editing is the most important element. Writing is just vomiting words onto a page, editing is where you actually make art.
Red Moon Reckoning is a Weird West story about cursed gold, dead gods, and the price of blood.
First chapter’s up.
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