Margery Bayne
@margerybayne.bsky.social
Librarian by day, writer by night. Like a superhero but with a lot more paper cuts. she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜@margerybayne on http://Medium.com
From Safe Haven:
It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
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It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
From Safe Haven:
It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty?
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
From Safe Haven:
From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
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From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
From Safe Haven:
From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
This is our blue promise,
Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
medium.com/intangibleth...
#Poem #Poetry #QuickReads #WriteSky
Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
medium.com/intangibleth...
#Poem #Poetry #QuickReads #WriteSky
Blue Promise
A poem of the nighttime sky
medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is our blue promise,
Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
medium.com/intangibleth...
#Poem #Poetry #QuickReads #WriteSky
Satin as the evening breeze
- a poem
medium.com/intangibleth...
#Poem #Poetry #QuickReads #WriteSky
From Safe Haven:
A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
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A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
From Safe Haven:
A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
My full manuscript request ended with a rejection. Sigh. Back to the querying trenches. #AmQuerying
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My full manuscript request ended with a rejection. Sigh. Back to the querying trenches. #AmQuerying
From Safe Haven:
It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
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It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips
The word for November 17th is "spend"
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The word for November 17th is "spend"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
From Safe Haven:
It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Nothing like having the insurance agency of the truck that rear-ended you in an at-fault state with a witness and a driver who admitted fault multiple times completely ghost you. (Been having a bad week)
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Nothing like having the insurance agency of the truck that rear-ended you in an at-fault state with a witness and a driver who admitted fault multiple times completely ghost you. (Been having a bad week)
I've read a lot of the Great Gatsby retellings since it went into the public domain and I find it interesting how long most of them are compared to the original. Just a testament to how effective the original less than 50k words of the original were.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I've read a lot of the Great Gatsby retellings since it went into the public domain and I find it interesting how long most of them are compared to the original. Just a testament to how effective the original less than 50k words of the original were.
From Safe Haven:
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From Safe Haven:
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Creativity is a renewable resource. 💖
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Creativity is a renewable resource. 💖
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Mile Markers, or All You Leave Behind is Ashes
A short story about grief, friendship, and road trips
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November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Mile Markers, or All You Leave Behind is Ashes
A short story about grief, friendship, and road trips
medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose.
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
medium.com/intangibleth...
#WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Where are the main places you get reading recs from? For me, from friends/family, from what my friends are reading and reviewing on goodreads, library browsing (I'm a librarian, so this happens every day), searching for books with specific tropes, archtypes, or readalikes to books I like.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Where are the main places you get reading recs from? For me, from friends/family, from what my friends are reading and reviewing on goodreads, library browsing (I'm a librarian, so this happens every day), searching for books with specific tropes, archtypes, or readalikes to books I like.
But Sincere, his best friend... His shoulder to lean on, cry on, vent to, who was always ready to lie and say Perry was with them when he wasn’t, and always amicable to Perry trailing off mid-conversation to start scribbling out a new plant theory.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
But Sincere, his best friend... His shoulder to lean on, cry on, vent to, who was always ready to lie and say Perry was with them when he wasn’t, and always amicable to Perry trailing off mid-conversation to start scribbling out a new plant theory.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
The aestetic value of owning an old fashioned typewriter sharply declines when you have to move it. 😬
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The aestetic value of owning an old fashioned typewriter sharply declines when you have to move it. 😬
I used to only write stories chronlogically (probably because I started with fanfic where you push serially), now I jump all around the place in my first draft. It's a patchwork quilt that I make make sense later. #WritSky #WritingCommunity
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I used to only write stories chronlogically (probably because I started with fanfic where you push serially), now I jump all around the place in my first draft. It's a patchwork quilt that I make make sense later. #WritSky #WritingCommunity
Raise your hand if you break the rule of only using "said" in your dialogue tags. 🙋♀️
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Raise your hand if you break the rule of only using "said" in your dialogue tags. 🙋♀️
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
From Safe Haven:
Haven didn’t live all that lavishly... He had nice things, but not a horde and nothing show-off-y. He had a lot of space, but only filled the necessary parts.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Haven didn’t live all that lavishly... He had nice things, but not a horde and nothing show-off-y. He had a lot of space, but only filled the necessary parts.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips
The word for November 3rd is "nice"
Regular reminder to put Alt Text on your graphics!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The word for November 3rd is "nice"
Regular reminder to put Alt Text on your graphics!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
From Safe Haven:
Haven didn’t live all that lavishly... He had nice things, but not a horde and nothing show-off-y. He had a lot of space, but only filled the necessary parts.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Haven didn’t live all that lavishly... He had nice things, but not a horde and nothing show-off-y. He had a lot of space, but only filled the necessary parts.
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
As a writer who started their writing journey with fanfiction, many of my earliest writing lessons were by trial and error experience. One such lesson was learning how to come up with story titles.
writingcooperative.com/how-fanficti...
#WritingAdvice #WritingTips #Fanfiction #WriteSky
writingcooperative.com/how-fanficti...
#WritingAdvice #WritingTips #Fanfiction #WriteSky
How Fanfiction Taught Me to Write Better Story Titles
The good, the bad, and the bizarre
writingcooperative.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
As a writer who started their writing journey with fanfiction, many of my earliest writing lessons were by trial and error experience. One such lesson was learning how to come up with story titles.
writingcooperative.com/how-fanficti...
#WritingAdvice #WritingTips #Fanfiction #WriteSky
writingcooperative.com/how-fanficti...
#WritingAdvice #WritingTips #Fanfiction #WriteSky
From Safe Haven:
Depictions of the earliest human ancestors often showed them rubbing sticks together until fire sparked. What were words but modern humans’ kindling? An alluring friction of banter?
#WriteSky #WritingPrompt
Depictions of the earliest human ancestors often showed them rubbing sticks together until fire sparked. What were words but modern humans’ kindling? An alluring friction of banter?
#WriteSky #WritingPrompt
The #WIPSnips word for November 1st is "ancestor"
Not really "spooky" but it's Día de los Muertos!
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Not really "spooky" but it's Día de los Muertos!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
From Safe Haven:
Depictions of the earliest human ancestors often showed them rubbing sticks together until fire sparked. What were words but modern humans’ kindling? An alluring friction of banter?
#WriteSky #WritingPrompt
Depictions of the earliest human ancestors often showed them rubbing sticks together until fire sparked. What were words but modern humans’ kindling? An alluring friction of banter?
#WriteSky #WritingPrompt
From Object Impermanence:
"The coldness had almost completely taken over, from toe to fingertip, head to heart. Everyone thinks of anger as hot, and of monsters as loud. But anger is more like a snake: cold-blooded and lying dormant until threatened enough to strike."
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"The coldness had almost completely taken over, from toe to fingertip, head to heart. Everyone thinks of anger as hot, and of monsters as loud. But anger is more like a snake: cold-blooded and lying dormant until threatened enough to strike."
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Happy Halloween! Anyone doing fun party stuff? (I have no IRL friends where I live so let me live vicariously through you. 😂)
The #WIPSnips word for October 31st is "monster"
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The #WIPSnips word for October 31st is "monster"
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
From Object Impermanence:
"The coldness had almost completely taken over, from toe to fingertip, head to heart. Everyone thinks of anger as hot, and of monsters as loud. But anger is more like a snake: cold-blooded and lying dormant until threatened enough to strike."
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
"The coldness had almost completely taken over, from toe to fingertip, head to heart. Everyone thinks of anger as hot, and of monsters as loud. But anger is more like a snake: cold-blooded and lying dormant until threatened enough to strike."
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
Last day (unless I forget to go in and change it, let's be real) of my ebook sale! Creepy short reads perfect for the spooky season, and also great to boost that goodreads challenge goal if your running behind, lol.
#BookSky #BookSale #ShortStories #IndieAuthor
books2read.com/impermanence
#BookSky #BookSale #ShortStories #IndieAuthor
books2read.com/impermanence
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Last day (unless I forget to go in and change it, let's be real) of my ebook sale! Creepy short reads perfect for the spooky season, and also great to boost that goodreads challenge goal if your running behind, lol.
#BookSky #BookSale #ShortStories #IndieAuthor
books2read.com/impermanence
#BookSky #BookSale #ShortStories #IndieAuthor
books2read.com/impermanence
My witch short stories do have something for this one!
The Witch said, “That doesn’t need a spell. Just a disguise. I suggest you learn how to slouch.”
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The Witch said, “That doesn’t need a spell. Just a disguise. I suggest you learn how to slouch.”
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
🎶 I put a spell on yooouuuu... 🎶
The #WIPSnips word for October 30th is "spell"
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The #WIPSnips word for October 30th is "spell"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My witch short stories do have something for this one!
The Witch said, “That doesn’t need a spell. Just a disguise. I suggest you learn how to slouch.”
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt
The Witch said, “That doesn’t need a spell. Just a disguise. I suggest you learn how to slouch.”
#WIPSnips #WritingPrompt