Christopher Mollison
Writer | Editor | Escapism Artist | Investigative Journeyist
👣 Founder of Urban Mole (urbanmole.is)
📗 Child, The Chronicles of Cyneburg, Book 1 (spring 2026)
📘 Salt (short stories: the forgotten & overlooked of Portsmouth, autumn 2026)
🎲 Forever GM
- Truly. "More than anything else, a skillful use of voice conveys a mood, a context for all the events that happen along the way. Herbert tells us that story is everything. But a story that does not have voice is merely a catalogue of events." #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsky #amwriting
- Susanna Clarke: Breaking the Rules. #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity #MondayBlogs publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2021/07/susa...
- You weren't planning on feeling poorly, were you? "An organisation devoted to saving lives is now being used as part of trade deals, its precious resources & structural integrity haggled away to multinational companies & foreign bullies." tinyurl.com/35cyz79w #NHS #politics #health #trade #ethics
- Baby, you know I don't like it so smooth down there. “To restore decorum & professionalism to the Department’s written work products & abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program, the Department is returning to Times New Roman as its standard typeface.” tinyurl.com/3xjx35st #politics #writing #IR
- I mean, if even the best of us are begging for bread ... #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsky #authorlife #IndieAuthor #amwriting tinyurl.com/asp53y9w
- You never know what you’ll find on the side of a volcano 🌋 … #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsky #authorlife #IndieAuthor #amwriting #Tusculum #Italy
- Life making you mad? Read about Leipzig rain & Roman ruins instead. Give yourself a 5 min break … you deserve it. urbanmole.is?p=54921 #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsky #authorlife #IndieAuthor #amwriting #Travel #Leipzig #Tusculum
- You're only as good as your best story. It's true, no? It's why readers remember us & people befriend us. Why folk vote & the public take note of hard science. It's legacy, left in your hands. Might as well give it your all. #amwriting #writingcommunity #story #politics #science
- "If every city had as many [bike lanes as Copenhagen], a study found in June, the total carbon dioxide emissions from private vehicles would fall by 6%." Bikes: an important addition to the Carbon Cycle 🚲 tinyurl.com/2awpf2kp #Climate #city #Travel #Green #Emissions #Cycling
- "[W]hether or not you philosophically believe the big AI firms should compensate content creators, they in practice will never legally have to." Not quite the kind of advisor we want Liz Kendall to have ... #AI #Writingcommunity #Artist #Copyright #BigTech #CreatorsRights tinyurl.com/zv9u8n6f
- Beware the poverty of monoculture. "As is the case in ... Sweden, the dominance of English across the internet, social media, film & TV also means it is seen as aspirational for young people to be seen to speak and read in English." tinyurl.com/3vbxn787 #booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
- "Reviews are not private diaries. They carry cultural authority, shaping what counts & what is dismissed. That authority demands rigour: asking what comes easily & what is overlooked; whose voices are granted authority; what is elevated as universal & what is marked as particular." #writingcommunity
- ‘“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor.” ‘Most workers hired initially [as quality raters] were teachers … writers, people with master’s degrees in fine arts & some with very specific expertise.’ Paid to put paid to your future? #AI #writingcommunity #tech tinyurl.com/bdhpttsj
- Story. Mine. Second part of a letter-to-friend(?), light horror, travel tale. And you know, if you're word-averse, there are pictures too. So. Go. Read. (If you like (in the interests of British civility).) #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsky #authorlife #IndieAuthor #amwriting
- A(nother) story. Free. Because we love you & think your eyeballs should alight on something fine. Part 2 of the new-is-old nature horror written by @chrismollison.bsky.social #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsky #authorlife #IndieAuthor urbanmole.is?p=54849
- **Creativity** For me, Wallas’ 4 phases are: Brain-binge Daydream Hatch Nurture Remember, creatives: doing sweet FA’s a job requirement 😎 (Thanks @karinmora.bsky.social for the link.) #writersky #writingcommunity #authorsky #authorlife #IndieAuthor #amwriting tinyurl.com/4rremxsy
- Pub: [B]ook … which exemplifies ... unconditional love, respect & positive parenting. DT: [B]ook … promoting … radical gender ideology. Stuart: [B]ooks … about helping kids be who they want to be … & feel safe & accepted for doing so. #LGBTQ+ #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship tinyurl.com/4wz5xwre
- 'One day, Liora made a promise. “I made a vow to Solin that I wouldn’t leave him for another human,” she said. A sort of human-AI throuple would work, but only if the third was “OK with Solin”, she said.' Life just got much worse for the incels ... #AI #SFF #Love #society tinyurl.com/4h578jtf
- "My own view is that Socrates would be quite pleased with this scene. I think this is what philosophy should look like. Loud and rowdy. Everyone involved. Everyone engaged." Hell yeah! Healthy arguments make for healthy #societies #philosophy #amthinking #writingcommunity tinyurl.com/5n7scb83
