Trey
@thatdbetrey.bsky.social
My goals @ 16: be a Hugo & a Nobel prize winner, an astronaut, & governor of Virginia.
@ 65 Settled for writing books on Substack, a PhD in biology, a telescope & a board member.
Words @ https://thatdbetrey.substack.com
Wait, a Hugo isn't ruled out yet :D
@ 65 Settled for writing books on Substack, a PhD in biology, a telescope & a board member.
Words @ https://thatdbetrey.substack.com
Wait, a Hugo isn't ruled out yet :D
#WIPSnips word for 5/15 is Honey
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust and Bran meet a rogue who offers honey. Enough to make them to decide to bend the rules.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust and Bran meet a rogue who offers honey. Enough to make them to decide to bend the rules.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
May 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#WIPSnips word for 5/15 is Honey
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust and Bran meet a rogue who offers honey. Enough to make them to decide to bend the rules.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust and Bran meet a rogue who offers honey. Enough to make them to decide to bend the rules.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
#WIPSnips world for 5/6 "bed"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Water"
Serene returns to her apartment in the tunnels after working in the ice dome greenhouses.
This #WIP is relatively new & only at 40k.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Water"
Serene returns to her apartment in the tunnels after working in the ice dome greenhouses.
This #WIP is relatively new & only at 40k.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈✒️
May 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#WIPSnips world for 5/6 "bed"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Water"
Serene returns to her apartment in the tunnels after working in the ice dome greenhouses.
This #WIP is relatively new & only at 40k.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Water"
Serene returns to her apartment in the tunnels after working in the ice dome greenhouses.
This #WIP is relatively new & only at 40k.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈✒️
#WIPSnips word for 5/5 is "revenge"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
May 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#WIPSnips word for 5/5 is "revenge"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈✒️
#WIPSnips word for 5/4 May the "FORCE" be with you.
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust comes home after a long time away to the delight of Barti
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust comes home after a long time away to the delight of Barti
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
May 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
#WIPSnips word for 5/4 May the "FORCE" be with you.
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust comes home after a long time away to the delight of Barti
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust comes home after a long time away to the delight of Barti
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
This is the 1st #WIP I started 14 yr ago, titled "Water" now (used to be Return to Sion). I moved to finish 2 other #WIP I #amwriting instead, will come back to Water after those done. Unlike the 2 I'm finishing, the MC here is not LBGTQ (her boyfriend is bi though).
#writesky 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
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May 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is the 1st #WIP I started 14 yr ago, titled "Water" now (used to be Return to Sion). I moved to finish 2 other #WIP I #amwriting instead, will come back to Water after those done. Unlike the 2 I'm finishing, the MC here is not LBGTQ (her boyfriend is bi though).
#writesky 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
#writesky 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
#WIPSnips of 5/2 is 'over'
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Climbing a peak to get a view of their homelands.
🌈✒️ #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts 🌈📚🪐
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Climbing a peak to get a view of their homelands.
🌈✒️ #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts 🌈📚🪐
May 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#WIPSnips of 5/2 is 'over'
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Climbing a peak to get a view of their homelands.
🌈✒️ #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts 🌈📚🪐
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Climbing a peak to get a view of their homelands.
🌈✒️ #writesky #writingcommunity #writingprompts 🌈📚🪐
#WIPSnips word for May Day "cup"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog" while Yust and Pau forage for mushrooms
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog" while Yust and Pau forage for mushrooms
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
May 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
#WIPSnips word for May Day "cup"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog" while Yust and Pau forage for mushrooms
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog" while Yust and Pau forage for mushrooms
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚💙 🪐📚 🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
#WIPSnips for 4/30 is "explode"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust's thoughts about the 'plight' his type were put in
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚💙🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust's thoughts about the 'plight' his type were put in
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚💙🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
April 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
#WIPSnips for 4/30 is "explode"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust's thoughts about the 'plight' his type were put in
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚💙🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust's thoughts about the 'plight' his type were put in
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚💙🌈🚀💫 🌈✒️
#WIPSnips word for 4/28 is "clown"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
Don't have clown, but my MC is a bit goofy at times, so using that word.
(A question: Would posting #WIP excerpts give an agent/publisher pause when start #querying? Am new & naive)
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
Don't have clown, but my MC is a bit goofy at times, so using that word.
(A question: Would posting #WIP excerpts give an agent/publisher pause when start #querying? Am new & naive)
April 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/28 is "clown"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
Don't have clown, but my MC is a bit goofy at times, so using that word.
(A question: Would posting #WIP excerpts give an agent/publisher pause when start #querying? Am new & naive)
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
Don't have clown, but my MC is a bit goofy at times, so using that word.
(A question: Would posting #WIP excerpts give an agent/publisher pause when start #querying? Am new & naive)
Currently reading: Averted Vision by BW Moran @bwmoran.bsky.social
Full disclosure, I have a free copy to read & review. I'll be fair & honest.
But if the 1st chapter is any indication... it was intense enough to want to avert my vision (in a good way). & the cover is cool
🪐📚💙
Full disclosure, I have a free copy to read & review. I'll be fair & honest.
But if the 1st chapter is any indication... it was intense enough to want to avert my vision (in a good way). & the cover is cool
🪐📚💙
April 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Currently reading: Averted Vision by BW Moran @bwmoran.bsky.social
Full disclosure, I have a free copy to read & review. I'll be fair & honest.
But if the 1st chapter is any indication... it was intense enough to want to avert my vision (in a good way). & the cover is cool
🪐📚💙
Full disclosure, I have a free copy to read & review. I'll be fair & honest.
But if the 1st chapter is any indication... it was intense enough to want to avert my vision (in a good way). & the cover is cool
🪐📚💙
#WIPSnips word for 4/28 "talk"
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene of Yust, having had an argument with his mother, finding Bran near the shore contemplating a decision he just made.
"talk" shows up far too many times in my #WIP need to reword a few :D.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene of Yust, having had an argument with his mother, finding Bran near the shore contemplating a decision he just made.
"talk" shows up far too many times in my #WIP need to reword a few :D.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫
April 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/28 "talk"
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene of Yust, having had an argument with his mother, finding Bran near the shore contemplating a decision he just made.
"talk" shows up far too many times in my #WIP need to reword a few :D.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫
from #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene of Yust, having had an argument with his mother, finding Bran near the shore contemplating a decision he just made.
"talk" shows up far too many times in my #WIP need to reword a few :D.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫
#WIPSnips word for 4/27 "indeed"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Billy & Calvin go to the movies with Billy's sister Renee. Movie stars Robbie Benson, Calvin's celebrity crush, but they both hate the movie tremendously.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Billy & Calvin go to the movies with Billy's sister Renee. Movie stars Robbie Benson, Calvin's celebrity crush, but they both hate the movie tremendously.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
April 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/27 "indeed"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Billy & Calvin go to the movies with Billy's sister Renee. Movie stars Robbie Benson, Calvin's celebrity crush, but they both hate the movie tremendously.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Billy & Calvin go to the movies with Billy's sister Renee. Movie stars Robbie Benson, Calvin's celebrity crush, but they both hate the movie tremendously.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
#WIPSnips word for 4/26 "decor"
from #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
I honestly didn't think I'd have this word, but there it is. From a scene were Calvin & Billy spend the night in Denver.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
from #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
I honestly didn't think I'd have this word, but there it is. From a scene were Calvin & Billy spend the night in Denver.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
April 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/26 "decor"
from #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
I honestly didn't think I'd have this word, but there it is. From a scene were Calvin & Billy spend the night in Denver.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
from #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
I honestly didn't think I'd have this word, but there it is. From a scene were Calvin & Billy spend the night in Denver.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
#WIPSnips of 4/25 Wolf
Don't have it, though I have "dog" in one #WIP & describe a wolf in another.
I'll go with #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Where Billy visit's Calvin's home for the 1st time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
Don't have it, though I have "dog" in one #WIP & describe a wolf in another.
I'll go with #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Where Billy visit's Calvin's home for the 1st time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
April 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#WIPSnips of 4/25 Wolf
Don't have it, though I have "dog" in one #WIP & describe a wolf in another.
I'll go with #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Where Billy visit's Calvin's home for the 1st time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
Don't have it, though I have "dog" in one #WIP & describe a wolf in another.
I'll go with #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Where Billy visit's Calvin's home for the 1st time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
#WIPSnips word for 4/24 "Magic"
From #WIP I #amIwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Used it twice in 240k words (3 WIP), both here. Billy and Calvin's first skating 'date'.
#writesky #wriitingcommunity 🌈📚
From #WIP I #amIwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Used it twice in 240k words (3 WIP), both here. Billy and Calvin's first skating 'date'.
#writesky #wriitingcommunity 🌈📚
April 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
#WIPSnips word for 4/24 "Magic"
From #WIP I #amIwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Used it twice in 240k words (3 WIP), both here. Billy and Calvin's first skating 'date'.
#writesky #wriitingcommunity 🌈📚
From #WIP I #amIwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Used it twice in 240k words (3 WIP), both here. Billy and Calvin's first skating 'date'.
#writesky #wriitingcommunity 🌈📚
#WIPSnips word for 4/23 "click"
That word does not exist in any of my #WIP so using "pop". The use here is not a sound (which would be the proper synonym of click I think), still
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
(been on vacation, so missed a few days :)
That word does not exist in any of my #WIP so using "pop". The use here is not a sound (which would be the proper synonym of click I think), still
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
(been on vacation, so missed a few days :)
April 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/23 "click"
That word does not exist in any of my #WIP so using "pop". The use here is not a sound (which would be the proper synonym of click I think), still
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
(been on vacation, so missed a few days :)
That word does not exist in any of my #WIP so using "pop". The use here is not a sound (which would be the proper synonym of click I think), still
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
(been on vacation, so missed a few days :)
#WIPSnips word for 4/19 "introduce"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Calvin's first skating "date" with Billy
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From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Calvin's first skating "date" with Billy
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
April 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
#WIPSnips word for 4/19 "introduce"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Calvin's first skating "date" with Billy
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Calvin's first skating "date" with Billy
#writesky #writingcommunity 🌈📚
#WIPSnips word for 4/18 "music"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust, Ry & Barti attend Celfest, Barti for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust, Ry & Barti attend Celfest, Barti for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
April 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/18 "music"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust, Ry & Barti attend Celfest, Barti for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Yust, Ry & Barti attend Celfest, Barti for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
#WIPSnips for 4/17 "dear"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Letters* between Calvin & Billy the summer Billy spent away.
*I did 2 screenshots to give a little more context :D
#writingcommunity #writesky 📚🌈
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Letters* between Calvin & Billy the summer Billy spent away.
*I did 2 screenshots to give a little more context :D
#writingcommunity #writesky 📚🌈
April 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
#WIPSnips for 4/17 "dear"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Letters* between Calvin & Billy the summer Billy spent away.
*I did 2 screenshots to give a little more context :D
#writingcommunity #writesky 📚🌈
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Letters* between Calvin & Billy the summer Billy spent away.
*I did 2 screenshots to give a little more context :D
#writingcommunity #writesky 📚🌈
May I introduce you to Canada Goose's nicer cousin? The Nene. An endemic species of #Hawaii. Descended from a lost flock of Canada geese 500k yo. Adapted to land, less webbing, longer stronger legs. Can fly & swim, but loves land.
Rarest goose in the world, but I see them almost every day. 🌿🪿🪶
Rarest goose in the world, but I see them almost every day. 🌿🪿🪶
April 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
May I introduce you to Canada Goose's nicer cousin? The Nene. An endemic species of #Hawaii. Descended from a lost flock of Canada geese 500k yo. Adapted to land, less webbing, longer stronger legs. Can fly & swim, but loves land.
Rarest goose in the world, but I see them almost every day. 🌿🪿🪶
Rarest goose in the world, but I see them almost every day. 🌿🪿🪶
#WIPSnips word for 5/16: "wet"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Birthday gifts
#writesky #writingcommunity #LGBTQ 📚🌈
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Birthday gifts
#writesky #writingcommunity #LGBTQ 📚🌈
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
#WIPSnips word for 5/16: "wet"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Birthday gifts
#writesky #writingcommunity #LGBTQ 📚🌈
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Birthday gifts
#writesky #writingcommunity #LGBTQ 📚🌈
#WIPSnips word for 4/15 "fear"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene when Yust returns to his nascent family after a month away training to be a Memory.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene when Yust returns to his nascent family after a month away training to be a Memory.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
April 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/15 "fear"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene when Yust returns to his nascent family after a month away training to be a Memory.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene when Yust returns to his nascent family after a month away training to be a Memory.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
#WIPSnips word for 4/14 "chill"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene where Yust and Bran take a trek to the sea to gather seaweed. It inspires Yust to make a fateful decision.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene where Yust and Bran take a trek to the sea to gather seaweed. It inspires Yust to make a fateful decision.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
April 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/14 "chill"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene where Yust and Bran take a trek to the sea to gather seaweed. It inspires Yust to make a fateful decision.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
From #WIP I #amwriting "Fog"
Scene where Yust and Bran take a trek to the sea to gather seaweed. It inspires Yust to make a fateful decision.
#writesky #writingcommunity 🪐📚 📚🌈 🌈🚀💫
#WIPSnips word for 4/13 "comply"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Scene when Calvin goes rollerskating with Billy and his sister, soon after Calvin and Billy meet for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 📚🌈
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Scene when Calvin goes rollerskating with Billy and his sister, soon after Calvin and Billy meet for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 📚🌈
April 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#WIPSnips word for 4/13 "comply"
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Scene when Calvin goes rollerskating with Billy and his sister, soon after Calvin and Billy meet for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 📚🌈
From #WIP I #amwriting "Baptism for the Dead"
Scene when Calvin goes rollerskating with Billy and his sister, soon after Calvin and Billy meet for the first time.
#writesky #writingcommunity 📚🌈