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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖
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Writer of whimsy and monsters 🎃✨
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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖 @rytingwithcats.bsky.social · Feb 26
Candice’s boyfriend disappears with her life savings.
 
She tracks him down at his new workplace: a candy factory “built on hopes and dreams.”
 
She lands a job there to confront him, but after learning the company’s sickly sweet secret...
 
She might never clock out.
 
#WSPitW #SF #A #LGBT #WSPit
Title: Planet Break Room. In the distance, a woman stands in front of a drab, snowy city at night. Behind her, a pond reflects a magical wonderland. Superimposed in the sky, a man's eyes stare ominously. Planet Break Room description. Candice's boyfriend disappears with her life savings. She tracks him down at his new workplace: a candy factory "built on hopes and dreams." She lands a job there to confront him, but after learning the company's sickly sweet secret... She might never clock out. Tropes & Themes: Corporate greed, work/love balance, frenemies, rightsizing, incompetent Ai, and queer main characters. Planet Break Room comparable titles: Severance on AppleTV meets Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Severance's ominous corporation hiding a secret paired with the whimsical candy land of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
New episode of the podcast I’m producing with these two goofballs 🙌 “Comparison is the thief of joy” and other tips on healthy hating to keep your draft on track 😎😂

Seriously they are so much fun, give it a listen!
thecrumpet.bsky.social ✨Meagan Thompson-Mann is back in the querying trenches🫠 @thecrumpet.bsky.social · Aug 26
Sorry my audio interface pooped the bed -- I think I was recording through my laptop, and that laptop was submerged in a vat of lemon curd. But Episode 4 of @badlitfriends.bsky.social is up! @rytingwithcats.bsky.social made @kirkrafferty.com and me sound like we can string sentences together!
Comparison is the Thief of Joy (S01E04)
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August 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
“Even when Lydia closes her eyes, the stains still creep into her nostrils."

TY for this honor! 🥰🤩

PWS began while I struggled with my own demons—art imitating life more than I realized at the time.

I'm proud of this first page, and can't wait to share the rest!

#PageOnePrize #writingcommunity
Playing with spiders, a novel by Rylan Rafferty, won an honorable mention in the 2025 page one prize contest by gutsy great novelist
August 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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badlitfriends.bsky.social
There's a reason we have our amazing producer @rytingwithcats.bsky.social to save us from podcast infamy -- Meagan's outline currently contains a reference to Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in the context of query personalization. #badlitfriends is bad, but we're not (huge) sadists.
thecrumpet.bsky.social ✨Meagan Thompson-Mann is back in the querying trenches🫠 @thecrumpet.bsky.social · Aug 15
Just me, drafting the outline for Episode 3 of @badlitfriends.bsky.social. @kirkrafferty.com and I have more takes of varying quality and heat, this time on Reddit's r/PubTips and the burning question nobody wanted to hear: in this capitalist hellhole, should I pay for an edit of my MS on layaway???
a woman writes on a whiteboard that says " to " in red marker
Alt: a woman writes on a whiteboard that says " to " in red marker
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August 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
The English language took “kill your darlings” too literally in the earlier drafts. These are so pretty 😭 bring back 😭
#writingcommunity
Susie Dent @susie_dent l love the old markers of time. To go with 'fortnight' (fourteen nights), English once had the lovely 'sennight' (seven nights) for a week, too. 'Yestreen' meant 'last evening, 'ere-yesterday' was the day before yesterday, and 'overmorrow' the day after tomorrow.
June 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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akwwrites.bsky.social
Desire to finish the old project is no match for the urge to start the next one

💙📚
#books
#writing
#booksky
June 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
These never get old 😂 🤣
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Lucy Huber @clhubes Men writing women characters: She was beautiful but didn't know it. She was 5'7 and 101 pounds. Her feet were size 3. Her hat size was Infant. She'd never thrown up, even once. Her periods lasted 45 minutes. Her top was see-through.
June 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
Ah yes, good times 😇
C.G. Drews @PaperFury "you're not like the other girls," the boy said. "oh actually most of us are like this," the girl said comfortably as she shifted back to her true dragon form and ate him.
June 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
Okay, who do I need to surround? 🙋‍♀️
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the_whimsical_muse writes: Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.
June 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
Stop remembering my cringies! 😭
June 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
When you feel like your writing is bad, just remember the wisdom of the cuddly bandit creature 🙏 🦝 🌈

Keep writing!

#writingcommunity #inspirationalquotes
A raccoon gazes thoughtfully at a rainbow. “There is no trash can't There is only trash CAN!”
June 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
I would also like to add ✨ fashionable ✨ to this list 🥴
@TaraWineQueen writes: I identify with Frankenstein's monster because I, too, am: - Intellectually curious - Held together by a thread - Seeking love and affection - Interested in burning down the homes of those who have betrayed me - Scared by my own reflection - Better in theory than real life
June 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
I knew it. I’m doing it. 😈
#writingcommunity
@MerriamWebster writes It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with. The idea that it should be avoided came from writers who were trying to align the language with Latin, but there is no reason to suggest ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong.
June 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
People love your work, there is no escape! 🎃
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50 Nerds of Grey • The Fourth Way Ijust discovered ominous positivity and I'm obsessed. -You will be fine you have no choice. -Everything will turn out okay you cannot stop it. -You will succeed it's inevitable. -Better days are already coming it's too late now.
May 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
Inspiration from the best 💖
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"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will." Stephen King
May 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
Oh no 😂 Dang strandings always be stranding people! 🤦‍♀️
May 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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My historical thriller, The Cosmonaut, has been recognized as a Top 1% project on The Black List!!! It’s on sub now, #Editors (See my bio for contact info) #writingcommunity #historicalfiction #thriller Thanks @theblcklst.bsky.social!!!
May 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
This will be fun! 🤩 Who else is joining us in the AutoCrit Short Story Writing Challenge??
#writingcommunity @autocrit.bsky.social
saimarie.bsky.social Sai Marie @saimarie.bsky.social · May 6
My next #amwriting event is The AutoCrit Short Story Writing Challenge that began today and continues through with four more check-in points:
Stream 1: May 6th.
Stream 2: May 13th.
Stream 3: May 20th.
Stream 4: May 27th.

We got a theme, and they just announced it today!
#writerscommunity
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Can anyone else relate? 🙃
#writingcommunity #booksky
May 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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This book is 🔥and I can't wait to read it. But @rytingwithcats.bsky.social and I were thinking that if we were the groundskeeper, we'd just sit back and watch. Let the billionaires pull themselves out of the homicidal house by their bootstraps.
#writingcommunity #books #horrorbooks
Deal of the Day Pulitzer Prize-winner Leonard Pitts Jr.'s THE ANGRY HOUSE, about a traumatized, sentient, and psychokinetic former slave cabin on the grounds of a onetime plantation being turned into a destination resort for wealthy tourists, and the young Black groundskeeper who is the one person who can somehow hear the house, which warns him that, if the Dionysian opening celebration planned by a dotcom billionaire and despicable political aspirant goes ahead …
April 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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kirkrafferty.com
In case you're worried that you don't know where your story is leading you...
March 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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frombeyondpress.bsky.social
Dannye Chase (@dannyechase.bsky.social) tells us how to write accurate building fires in the next installment of Specific Knowledge, in which spec fic authors correct common mistakes in an area of their expertise.

frombeyondpress.com/blog/specifi...
Black and white image of a city skyline on fire, with text "Specific Knowledge: Dannye Chase on Structural Fires"
March 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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kirkrafferty.com
My 10k-word short story is now a 17k-word novella. Go drunk Kirk, you're home.
March 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
rytingwithcats.bsky.social
Candice’s boyfriend disappears with her life savings.
 
She tracks him down at his new workplace: a candy factory “built on hopes and dreams.”
 
She lands a job there to confront him, but after learning the company’s sickly sweet secret...
 
She might never clock out.
 
#WSPitW #SF #A #LGBT #WSPit
Title: Planet Break Room. In the distance, a woman stands in front of a drab, snowy city at night. Behind her, a pond reflects a magical wonderland. Superimposed in the sky, a man's eyes stare ominously. Planet Break Room description. Candice's boyfriend disappears with her life savings. She tracks him down at his new workplace: a candy factory "built on hopes and dreams." She lands a job there to confront him, but after learning the company's sickly sweet secret... She might never clock out. Tropes & Themes: Corporate greed, work/love balance, frenemies, rightsizing, incompetent Ai, and queer main characters. Planet Break Room comparable titles: Severance on AppleTV meets Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Severance's ominous corporation hiding a secret paired with the whimsical candy land of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
February 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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thecrumpet.bsky.social
THE WEDDING PEOPLE x SANDWICH x THE PAPER PALACE

THIS ENDS NOW: Matrimonial escape artist Lainey is finally ready to stop running from good men. But 1st she'll have to confront the charming, ruthless ex who taught her that love equals danger—and rewrote her heart's warning system. #A #WF #Q #WSPitQ
A collage of photos: a classic red Vermont farmhouse in autumn, with a low stone wall in the foreground; the title of the novel, “This Ends Now”; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open; a blazing bonfire at nightfall; a dark-haired man wearing glasses lying on the ground, in profile, with a dark-haired woman to his side, holding him; the interior of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, showing a Gothic cathedral-like entrance; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background.
February 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Tolstoy tragedy collides with Steinbeck America. A Soviet cosmonaut crashes in cold war America. A novel of survival, secrets, and impossible choices.

❤️Enemies to found family
⚔️Action/Adventure
💔Betrayal
👥️Character-driven
💀Tragedy

#WSPitS #A #Hi #T #Editors On sub with @roseclifflit.bsky.social
A mood board for Kirk Rafferty's "The Cosmonaut and the Fisherman." Photos of a 1960s era cosmonaut helmet, a woman with a pistol, a man with a pistol, and the silhouette of a woman and two children, flanked by images of the American flag and the Soviet flag. In the center, a space capsule re-entering earth orbit in a feiry plume. The center image is inside a round "gun scope." The caption reads: Texas, 1961. Disavowed by her own government, a stranded cosmonaut and her two unlikely allies must escape a relentless FBI agent with his own agenda.
February 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM