Ryan (is Querying ✉️)

@ry-is-writing.bsky.social

✏️Writing 📚 Publishing 🎲 DnD 🌊 Tai Chi 🌈 Crime 👀 Views expressed are my own. https://linktr.ee/ry.is.writing

Hit another milestone at the beginning of the week on this WIP that's a vibe mashup between Bleach and Majora's Mask! Blew past 75k words so quickly I had to celebrate 80k instead. I'm nearing the finish line and leading up to the final battle. 🎉

A boy standing looking out at a thick wall of mist. Within the mist the face of a demon can be seen. At the top of the image is the text 80,000 words.

Actually hit that 10k words in a week goal! I want to see if I can do it again. I'm getting good at finding little time slots to sneak in a few hundred or a thousand words. Huzzah! 10142 words written this week 68555 total words written for project👺

I've set aside 1 hour a week for "publishing things" where I have to do something that gets my work close to being seen by human eyes. This can either be querying or making moves to start getting ready for self pub. I have too many manuscripts just sitting around, heh.

I keep getting recommended these sword yoga videos and I love if this gets more people/women into swords but the flower technique they use where you essentially let go of the sword when spinning it upsets me. A. It’s dangerous and B. You’re losing that sword if you strike/block with it like that.

Trying to be more active on here so I’m going to try to post weekly writing updates like I do over on Insta 👀 8621 words written this week 44115 total words written for project👺 I’m trying to get better at sneaking in shorter writing sessions when I can. Would love to do 10k a week eventually.

📁 CASE FILE: GAMA // QUERYING 📌 Location: Post-apocalyptic Switzerland 👉🏼 When her brain chip starts failing, Anna must return to the scientific collective she fled, where trusting the mysterious stranger she saved may cost her the only thing she has left. Her sanity ☠️ #QuestPit #Q #A #RS #SFF

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HE SAVED THE KINGDOM ONCE. MAYBE HE SHOULDN’T HAVE. Disgraced Grand Inquisitor Wynsten is hired to find a missing ambassador. Instead, he uncovers forbidden magic and a conspiracy rooted in the blood ritual that made him a legend and ruined his life. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #MY

INQUISITOR FOR HIRE

ADULT DARK FANTASY NOIR · 93,000 WORDS · MULTI-POV · STANDALONE

Once Rysia’s feared Grand Inquisitor, Wynsten now catches adulterers to make rent. When he is hired to find a missing ambassador before an uneasy peace collapses, the case leads him through forbidden magic, vanished daughters, and a conspiracy tied to the royal blood ritual that made him a legend, ruined his life, and fused the empire’s worst secrets to his chest.

A MISSING AMBASSADOR.
A DISGRACED LEGEND.
A KINGDOM ROTTING FROM WITHIN.
OPENING LINES

“The heretics had nowhere left to run. Wynsten had made sure of that.

Months of blood and smoke had led him beneath the Sovereign’s castle, into the old mines carved through the bedrock. A stronghold under the heart of the kingdom. 

These apostates would face justice here or burn.”

Twenty years before he became an investigator for hire, Wynsten stopped a ritual fueled by Rysia’s own royal blood.
A FANTASY INVESTIGATION WITH TEETH

THREE TOUCHSTONES. ONE DECAYING EMPIRE.

The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan - Institutional rot and compromised justice

The Tainted Cup - a secondary-world mystery engine

Chinatown - slow-burn corruption and a poisoned victoryINSIDE THE CASE

A dark-fantasy noir for readers who want the mystery and the damage.

A post-conquest secondary world inspired by the Crusader states

Fallen hero / disgraced legend

Missing ambassador

Forbidden magic

Secrets beneath the city

Corruption at the highest level

Reluctant found family

Power no one understands

Morally gray choices

The disgraced necromancer Dr. William Savage is caught having a one night stand spy from an invading country. As punishment he's drafted to pilot a berserker. When he learns how berserkers are made his questions could lead to the death of their immortal queen. #questpit #f #a

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Resurrected and disgraced priest Dr. William Savage cruises a sketchy foreigner who turns out to be a spy from an invading country. As punishment he's drafted to handle a beserker, who happens to be his boyfriend's father. The secrets of their family's curse lead him to regicide. #questpit #f #a #q

The Marble Garden✨🌿 When a young artist loses his way… As a garden slowly decays… Two forces push each other to the edge of sanity. Then, a complete unknown enters the scene. Silas wanders into a millennia old trap and unknowingly begins meddling in an ancient feud. #questpit #YA #F #H #Q

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THE EARTHLINGS! BODY SNATCHERS x THE RUNAWAYS When a 2nd generation alien sleeper cell is ordered to abduct her human friend, she saves her and goes rogue. Now her fellow operatives must track her down, but should they help her to sabotage the coming invasion instead? 📖 #Questpit #Q #YA #SF

The Earthlings Cover with 4 teens under a UFO on top of a giant alien headA group of second generation aliens sleeper cells have spent their entire lives assimilating to human culture and gathering intelligence for the home world. To them, the eventual overthrow of farth has always been a distant goal meant for future generations.
Now, when ordered to abduct and replace a human girl they have befriended, one of the alien operatives realizes that they have grown to care more for their found home and family than they do for their own people. She sabotages the abduction and goes on the run with the human girl.
Her friends are ordered to track her down, but now questioning their own mission, they find themselves wondering if the entire invasion is a mistake and if they have more in common with these Earthlings than they ever thought...

ETERNALLY DEAD explores how an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom--only it's by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm. When blood shortages hit the Realm, she's forced to confront if living out her rockstar dream is worth dying for🩸🧛‍♂️🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q

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