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Thomas Gaffney

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https://www.thomasgaffney.com/ Horror Author. Horror Writers Association Member. Co-Chair of the PGH HWA Chapter. Emerson MFA PopFic Graduate. SNHU MA Screenwriting Student. He/Him.

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Lo único más poderoso que el odio, es el amor

09.02.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Was on a Writer's Digest University class on writing prologues, and someone in the questions said they were writing a historical thriller set in the EARLY 1980s, and I instantly died, turned to dust, and blew away...

05.02.2026 19:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blog | Thomas Gaffney It's Been Ages - REALLY AGES | Where to begin... Well, crap. I've started this blog, like, TEN times now, and I still can't finish it. The section beginning with “So much for blo

It's Been Ages - REALLY AGES

03.02.2026 20:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm always looking for a new writing community and ways to get my work out there, so I'm checking out gavagai after getting an email about it from Writer's Digest. It's an interesting concept ...

03.02.2026 19:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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First day of school for Screenwriting! Hoping that burying myself in homework will help me forget about Norway...
#SNHU

02.02.2026 21:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I sure am glad that Max woke up from her coma, because as much as I love Kate Bush, I feel like I’ve had Running Up That Hill on repeat in my brain for the last eight years, and I’d like to change it up…

28.12.2025 18:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Writing. Almost 8,000 words over the past 5 days. Might be my highest output over a short span in a long time.

28.12.2025 02:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I have at least 18 books in various stages of started, put down, haven’t picked back up, but want to finish. So, what’s one more! Hoping to get this done before seeing Sarah Langan in early January at Seton Hill.

20.12.2025 23:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Many thanks to the random person in Spain, who recently bought a copy of my eight-year-old collection of short stories, Stranger Things Have Happened!
#IGotASale

20.12.2025 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wish I could watch the new Knives Out movie without it being sponsored by that slop Microsoft Copilot…

15.12.2025 23:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Stephen King: I killed poor, innocent Georgie in the beginning of IT.

Andy Muschietti (writing Welcome to Derry): Hold my beer mug full of numerous dead children.

09.12.2025 03:51 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Black Kenobi

20.11.2025 01:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blog | Thomas Gaffney Words, Words, Words | According to trackbear (a site that I've been using since nanowrimo went to hell), I have written something (Fulbright essays, blog posts, short stories, m

Words

13.11.2025 20:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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01.11.2025 01:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blog | Thomas Gaffney Things are Moving | Wow. Okay. It's been a while since I posted anything. I've started this blog post, like, four times now and just never finished it. I'm trying to remember ever

Been a minute...

31.10.2025 17:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blog | Thomas Gaffney Random Updates and Misc Things | So the official deadline for the Fulbright application is fast approaching. I have a second letter of sponsorship from The Norwegian Folk Museum F

Random Updates

06.10.2025 15:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blog | Thomas Gaffney Weird Writing Spot | So, I've been in a weird writing spot. I want to write. I don't know what I want to write. I have ideas. But I also need new ideas. I have stuff that I want

Weird writing spot

25.09.2025 14:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When Life Gets You Down | Thomas Gaffney Work sucks right now. Someone in my company is ruining a project I'm working on, and I'm done. Mentally and emotionally tapped out. I'm over it.I'm trying to stay focused on Fulbri

So done...

11.09.2025 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slowly Getting There | Thomas Gaffney So, I'm getting near the submission time for the Fulbright application. I think my Statement of Grant and Short Answer Essays are all good and ready to go. I have emails out about

Teaching material?

03.09.2025 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bad News & Good News & Better News | Thomas Gaffney So, I've sent out several emails, looking for a sponsor in Norway for my potential Fulbright project (if I get it). And most of the replies have not been ... good? Tho, this happen

Looks like I got a sponsor and housing!

28.08.2025 13:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I just finished sending out over 40 emails to various professors in Norway, looking for a Fulbright sponsor. There a few professors that would be a perfect fit (IMHO), so finger crossed ...

25.08.2025 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So Much Writing - So Little Time | Thomas Gaffney I had Fulbright revisions due this past Wednesday (the 13th), so I figured I'll get ahead for once and get them done early. I got them done the weekend before they were due (9 &amp
18.08.2025 16:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Writing Advice! Because I'm Mentally Tapped Out | Thomas Gaffney I started this right after I posted my previous post, to get a head start on things, since I'm always behind on stuff. Like this past weekend, I spent any free time working on revi
11.08.2025 01:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#RIP Optimus Prime

08.08.2025 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Fulbright #HELP

04.08.2025 17:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Do People Do This? | Thomas Gaffney Man ... I have a website I use to track my writing goals, keep me motivated, and feed me the dopamine when I hit my marks. (it looks like I'm way behind - I am - because I scrapped

I can't believe there are people that constantly blog. This is a pain in the butt...

02.08.2025 22:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some days I write 27 words, and those words are a struggle. The other day, I was at -106 words for the day. Tonight, I had an hour to kill while waiting for the missus to get out of work, and I stopped by the nearest Starbucks. I guess I just needed to get out because I wrote 539 words in an hour.

01.08.2025 01:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Falling Behind | Thomas Gaffney Naturally, on a blog post titled Falling Behind, I'm writing a blog post when I should be working on the first draft of my next book idea. Or working on Fulbright stuff. Or helping one my Emerson clas...

Bloggity blog...
thomasgaffney.com/blog/falling...

26.07.2025 20:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Updates and Self-Sabotage | Thomas Gaffney Welp, I'm doing it again. I'm applying for the Fulbright Scholarship in an attempt to go to Oslo, Norway to research the Huldra folklore for a horror story I want to write. I will admit, I got my hope...

What's this? A blog post?!?

19.07.2025 01:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SO IT BEGINS. I have taken an old manuscript I wrote about 9-10 years ago, re-plotted it, and have started a full re-write...

26.06.2025 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0