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Rylan ✨is writing✨📖
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Writer of whimsy and monsters 🎃✨
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Cat mom 🐈🐈‍⬛ Poker gf ♥️🃏
Seeker and giver of kind words 💜🖤🩶
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“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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The English language took “kill your darlings” too literally in the earlier drafts. These are so pretty 😭 bring back 😭
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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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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
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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
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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
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When you feel like your writing is bad, just remember the wisdom of the cuddly bandit creature 🙏 🦝 🌈

Keep writing!

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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
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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
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I knew it. I’m doing it. 😈
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@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
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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
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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
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Oh no 😂 Dang strandings always be stranding people! 🤦‍♀️
May 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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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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Anyone else’s brain do this after finishing a first draft? 🙃🤦‍♀️
November 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM