Robert Viking

Weekly Scoresheet ✒️🎵 • Historical Mystery First Draft: 2,504 words. • Historical Fantasy Submissions: four new queries, two rejections. • Repertoire Additions: "Corcovado," "At Last." #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #BookSky #MusiciansOfBluesky #MusicCommunity

"Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night." Romeo and Juliet 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday

Weekly Scoresheet ✒️🎵 • Historical Mystery First Draft: 2,000 words. • Historical Fantasy Submissions: Three queries; three rejections. • Performance: Guitar in the Portsmouth, NH, South Church Band, October 18. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #MusiciansOfBluesky #MusicCommunity #BookSky

When do you stop building your repertoire and start mastering it? Five questions every musician should ask. #MusiciansOfBluesky #MusicCommunity robertviking.substack.com/p/music-five...

Here's an essay about the first #Shakespeare #movie, with random fun facts about Dracula and a poison-rat-infested skull. #FilmSky #SilentFilm www.shakespeareflix.net/2026/09/firs...

We often see writing as a choice between plotting and pantsing. In my new essay, I explore how some of the most creative work can happen inside a detailed plan. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #5amWritersClub robertviking.substack.com/p/novel-buil...

Good morning, #amwriting peeps, Anyone care to join me for a 20-minute #writingsprint? #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity

For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping. Antony and Cleopatra 5.2 #ShakespeareSunday

Hey, #Shakespeare movie buffs, I published an essay about Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet on my blog. #filmsky www.shakespeareflix.net/2026/09/laur...

Good morning, #5amWritersClub, I had a good night's sleep and am ready to write an essay on my first experience of #Shakespeare, the Classics Illustrated #Hamlet. Happy writing, everyone.

Many writers feel pressured to secure an agent now or begin the self-publishing process. Sometimes the most powerful move is patience--the "hypermodern approach to a writing career." #writingcommunity robertviking.substack.com/p/hypermoder...

O, still Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! Pericles 3.1 #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

Good morning, #5amWritersClub! I have to fix the mistakes I made yesterday.

"We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart." Hamlet 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

I'm seeing The Odyssey in four hours and have one question: will it be so good that, while I'm watching, I'll forget Matt Damon was a crypto shill?

Unexpectedly, I'm visiting the #5amwritersclub.

I loved Michelle Moran's (@bymichellemoran.bsky.social) vivid and engaging _Nefertiti_. I wished it was three times as long. #booksky #HistoricalFiction

On my recent trip to Egypt, I was very glad I had read Toby Wilkinson's Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt. #BookSky #travel #Egyptomania

Every chapter of Toby Wilkinson's World Beneath the Sands made me feel the wonder of discovering ancient #Egypt. I give it five pyramids. #booksky 💙📚 #egyptology #archaeology

I loved @claymcleod.bsky.social's fever dream of a novel, Ghost Eaters. I'm eager to read more of his work.