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Paul Dixon

@pauldixon.bsky.social

By day: Mild-mannered climate geek working to decarbonize the power grid. By night: SF&F Author of Carpathians and more! Links: Owlskirk: https://a.co/d/5DE3Nq8 Carpathians: https://a.co/d/6lYc08V Starfall: https://a.co/d/hR5yHbL

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 34m ago

Yup. This. Writing, like all creative endeavors, is about the journey. The process literally transforms the author, which is why the result can transform the reader. Skipping that step is exactly analogous to driving a marathon, helicoptering to a mountain-top -- pick your metaphor.

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18h ago

I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 41m ago

From Second Carpathians #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2h ago

The #WIPSnips word for September 11th is "exhaust" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 17h ago

From Second Carpathians #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

It was so strange. Per had been alone for so long, desperate for human company, and now here they were, what remained of the only people he’d ever known — and he didn’t know what to say, wasn’t sure he wanted to talk to anyone at all. He was drifting in a haze of survivor’s guilt, half-listening to a series of conversations, clasping forearms in the manner of the Singlests, as though they were greeting each other back home. Calling each other brother and sister, eating nervously, no one speaking of their missing comrades, so many lost, nearly all of them before they came to this place, and another half now gone.
Khunkuseh’s skinamotography flashed. He’d adopted his own namesake, the horrific predators, murder sharks the Singlests had called them, snaggled-toothed horrors that had evolved a mouth full of stiletto-like teeth to punch through the armored carapaces of the shallow-water crustaceans that were their food. Per winced, remembering; he’d been caught by the tide once, stranded, forced to swim a lagoon he had no business in, and gotten nicked by one, an idiot carnivore mistaking him for their natural prey, probably just curious about the fleshy, odd-smelling human in the water where nothing like it had ever been. There was some sort of anticoagulant in the bite, which had kept the wound from sealing shut. He’d bled for three days before one of the elder biologists found a way to staunch the flow, been anemic for a week after.
No, Per and Khunkuseh hadn’t gotten along, particularly, but he felt a moment of empathetic dread. They shared the same fate now.

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The #WIPSnips word for September 10th is "teeth" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 3d ago

From Second Carpathians #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“That,” it said at last, “may be difficult. Fortunately, we have some time. Not infinite time, but our journey will require sublight travel to reach the first transition point. I will do what I can to prepare a more comfortable physical accommodation.”
“Thank you,” the Interlocutor said.
“You are welcome.”
It ceased paddling. They were in the middle of the lake here, the far shore not yet in view. The humans did the same, looking at it expectantly.
Were they ready? To learn the rest of the People’s story, what had happened, the fate they had made for themselves? The decision that lay ahead?
It could wait. Turn its attention to building them a habitat in which they could move, walk, talk, breathe, feed.
The effort might fail. These humans might be driven into mental instability under its care. Might even die.
It was not a zookeeper. How it missed its chorus! Even its Cousin’s voice, irritating as it had frequently been in its moralizing, would have been welcome.
But it was alone. In here, in this simulation, and out there, in the broader universe. With only these humans for company, and naught but the Overmind awaiting, where they must go.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 3d ago

The #WIPSnips word for September 8th is "mental" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 3d ago

From Second Carpathians #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4d ago

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for September 7th is "elevator" which is what I've been spending all week waiting forever on and packed into like a sardine at Dragon Con. 😂 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 6d ago

From Second Carpathians #WIPSinps #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 6d ago

The #WIPSnips word for September 5th is "panel" I'm moderating two panels today at Dragon Con, so it felt like an appropriate word for today. :D #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 7d ago

From Second Carpathians #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

Nya set the crate aside and opened another. “Aha! Here’s what we’re after.”
“More fishing poles?” Feyis asked.
“Nope. Paintable explosives.”
“What was that?” He looked more closely as she extracted a small tube of gel, then passed it to him. He read the label, whistled quietly.
“This is serious stuff,” he said. “Where’d you find it?”
“I requisitioned it.”
“And the university just gave it to you?”
“It was for fieldwork. Widening tunnels in the karst country, mostly. Caving, exploration, you know. That sort of thing.”
“You used this when you were out… caving?”
“Yeah.”
“That sounds… absurdly dangerous. Even by my standards.”
“Well, my administration might have been hoping I’d collapse a cavern roof on myself. Open up some headcount the easy way.”
“And then they just shoved it down here in storage with the rest of your things?”
“Like I said, Feyis. They never paid much attention to me.”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · last wk.

The #WIPSnips word for September 4th is "collapse" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · last wk.

From Second Carpathians. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“Shhh.” She put a finger to Per’s lips. “Just listen, Per. The agent asked me to tell you something.”
“ What is it?”
“They’ve put something in your blood.”
“We’ve been in deep space. There are a lot of drugs coursing through my blood.”
She shook her head. “Not those. Not pharmaceutical at all. Nanotech. A full strain, spread all through your circulatory system.”
“What does it do?”
“Clotting. On-demand. If the agent gives the word, micro-clots will begin to form. You’ll experience it as a series of micro-strokes. Could take hours. Could last years.” Her eyes watered, whether out of concern for him, or some memory of the same fate having befallen someone else she’d been tasked to handle, he couldn’t say. “It’s a hard way to die.”
“Nanotech,” he said. “And here I thought Intertech were biologists.”
“We are. Steps this extreme are unusual. Counterproductive, even. Hard on morale. Control systems are much more effective with voluntary participation.”
“Like me, with you?”
Katriana smiled, the tears gone as quickly as they had appeared. “I knew you’d understand.”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · last wk.

The #WIPSnips word for September 3rd is "effective" Dragon Con is getting into full swing today. I'll do my best to keep an eye on #WIPSnips, but DM me if you need me! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · last wk.

From Second Carpathians #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Visser nodded faintly at this, as though confirming some understanding, or maybe having extracted an admission of sorts. They passed the rest of the ride in silence. They were nearly at the top of the building now; off to his left, Herecic could see the sparkling streets of Paradise’s capital. This was a shared city, with architectural styles competing for dominance just as their corporate owners did. There were the characteristic blocky structures of Magellanix, built to recall castles, battlements, and kings from eras long past. Elsewhere, the sweeping, tapering spires of TransGalactic held form, that company incapable of manufacturing anything that didn’t on some level resemble a spaceship. And, of course, he saw the organic-chemistry-come-to-life stylings of the InterTech constructions, this complex the greatest among them.
To his right, he was now afforded a bird’s-eye view of the inside of the pyramidine ring. This held a botanical center, populated with what would have appeared to the untrained eye an unremarkable collection of bushes, vines, grasses, and dwarf trees, all interspersed with ponds, fountains, and pathways along which a handful of InterTech employees strolled. But even from this height, Herecic knew what he was seeing. This was no mere flower garden.
The flora planted here was responsible for the most profitable drugs InterTech had ever brought to market.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · last wk.

Woah! It's September! I am so ready for some cooler weather in this hemisphere. The #WIPSnips word for September 1st is "garden" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything. futurism.com/artificial-i...

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Second Carpathians #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

When the arrival day came at last, Per decided to mark the occasion by writing Kester a letter. But nothing electronic; he refused to pen something anyone else could ever read. He harbored no illusions about the quality of the surveillance systems tracking his every movement; he was far too valuable an asset for something as simple as his time alone in his cabin, or his use of the Levene’s interfaces and entertainment systems, any notes he wrote, content he viewed, games he played, all of it observed, recorded. Herecic had told him as much, and why would he lie?
So he found a weaver-tech and asked her to make him paper and pencil. The crewwoman laughed, no doubt amused by this rube colonist wanting something as anachronistic as a stick of graphite and a piece of canvas on which to scrawl.
“You sure you wouldn’t rather just chip away at a slab of rock?” she said. “I could spin you a stone tablet, if you prefer.”
“Glad you find this amusing,” Per said acidly. “Can you do it? Or should I ask the doctor to forward my request up your chain of command?”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for August 31st is "chip" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Adroit for adept. From Second Carpathians. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 29th is "adept" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Or refuse to look at the manuscript it's working because it. just. can't...

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

This.

Abra / Jessica Conwell, Random Trans Woman 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻@pairofclaws.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am once again asking people to stop shitting on self publishing. Self publishing is one of the best ways for marginalized people to get their stories told, and we work hard as fuck. Stop equating selfpub with low quality, low effort.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10mo ago

Some people are very good at writing sex and some people are good at believing that they are good at writing sex, the first is a tremendously impressive skill and the second is what makes for deeply uncomfortable author presentations at science fiction conventions

Kate@cabbagepatchcat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There's nothing wrong with literary porn, but some of the crap those guys wrote was "Have you actuallly ever HAD sex?"

Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Second Carpathians. Almost onto the final act. Paso a paso! This is gonna happen... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 27th is "moth" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Technology-free classrooms... a'yup. Never mind going back to the future; feels like in some (but not all!) very key regards, the trick is figuring out how to go forward to the past...

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2w ago

The University of Chicago Sosc Core "A.i." ban mentioned in the video: chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Second Carpathians. Nya's POV. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The Artifact’s surface shimmered under its shroud, in the glare of the worklights the team had erected. A timer had appeared on its side, aquamarine in color, the centerpoint of the visible spectrum, rendered in symbology they could readily understand, counting backward from eight hours to zero, one second, one heartbeat at a time.
But as Nya stood in the small vestibule, all she could see was the door that Piotre Raskovich and the Interlocutor had just stepped through, disappearing in an instant, there one moment and gone the next. Faster than the eye could follow; faster, even, than the frame rate of the cameras recording the event; faster than Planck time, maybe — who knew? Gone without cry or call, no sound at all; no backward look over their shoulders; no smoking residue or dessicated husks spat back at them.
They had vanished, but that black portal to nothing space, albedo zero, perfect darkness still yawned open before her.
A second ticked by, and another. She knew she didn’t have much time. What human ever did? There were always timers, a lifetime metered out in three billion heartbeats, a species in the slow background accumulation rate of genetic error. Mitochondria drifted and so did continental plates; the universe expanded, contracted, expanded again, but always on a clock. This breath, this heartbeat, this relationship, this one chance to change her life forever.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 26th is "symbol" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Climbing down into the submarine, she experienced a moment of claustrophobia she hadn’t expected, the old nightmare of the Jonestown diving bell returning in shocking clarity. Her heart rate quickening, breath coming faster; there was a dissociative sense to it, as though this high-tech sub was just another repurposed shipping container, no different from the one they had so cleverly crafted from the detritus of civilization washed up on their shores. She remembered cracked air hoses, the taste of stale air, the terror of the depths opened up to them, and the dull agony of lost friends…
Focus, the phantasm told her sternly. Fear is useful. Panic is not.
The moment passed, replaced by a wave of gratitude. Where would she be, without her conditioning? Not here, certainly.
Not living this life.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 25th is "panic" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPromtps

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 3w ago

From Second Carpathians. Which I really should be working on right now instead of reading posts about AI on Bluesky... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 3w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 18th is "press" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 3w ago

This. I profoundly hope students writing long-hand is part of the coming backlash.

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 3w ago

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4w ago

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for August 17th is "dark" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social · 4w ago

Apologies to those who know this already. If you're an aspiring author who submits a manuscript to what looks like a traditional publisher, and they write back saying that they adore your book but want you to pay £3k or so for an 'editing service'... Please don't sign with them.

Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 4w ago

You shouldn't have to worry about this happening...but unfortunately you do. Helpful advice on what to do if you suddenly find your book for sale under somone else's name selfpublishingadvice.org/spammers-and...

Spammers and Scammers: What to Do When Your Book Is Sold Under a False Name — The Self-Publishing Advice Center

Welcome to Spammers and Scammers, our third edition in this series where we look at different scams targeting our indie author and publisher community so we can stay educated and protected from bad ac...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 4w ago

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 16th is "basket" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 4w ago

From Second Carpathians. Per in over his head. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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The #WIPSnips word for August 15th is "spicy" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 4w ago

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 14th is "horizon" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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August 14 - horizon
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 4w ago

✨ Our 40th anniversary winner! ✨ When There Are Wolves Again by @catamaroon.bsky.social 🐺 An “ambitious study in the power of long-term hope in the face of climate breakdown” 🌍 If you haven't read it already, this is the book you need right now 👉 uk.bookshop.org/a/14057/9781...

Cover of When There Are Wolves Again, winner of the 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.

Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 4w ago

For me, it comes down to this. What AI costs us is the change in the human that would have resulted from their doing the research (or performing any other focused task). It's not just skill erosion; it's not whether the end result is inferior; it's the lost value of the missing journey.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · 4w ago

What? No. This is just more nonsense from the AI Koolaid-drinkers. And do you know what we call creating a "well-structured large historical dataset" and identifying a topic, analyzing sources, and writing? It's called the work of actual human historians. AI can't do this.

Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 4w ago

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 13th is "sniff" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts