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Caty McGill
@thehauntedcelt.bsky.social
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She/Her. Writer of paranormal fiction with a Celtic twist. Caffeinated cat lady. @thehauntedcelt wherever your media socials.
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That's a wrap...on this draft, anyway. Time to put away the paranormal and get cozy for a little while. For the #WriteBraveChallenge I will be working on the sweet romance story I outlined for the last WBC. Follow @SeeBridgetWrite on IG for updates.
Weekday writing?? Yup, brought my laptop to work for some lunch hour writing sessions this week. Getting closer to the (draft) finish line. #amwriting
It's coming! Time for the Fall 2025 #WriteBraveChallenge hosted by @WritersAtelier
Join us and get your writing project done!
Word count slowly creeping up but there's still a long way to go. #amwriting #amwritingparanormal #thehauntedcelt #WritingGoals
It's coming! Time for the Fall 2025 #WriteBraveChallenge hosted by @WritersAtelier
Join us and get your writing project done!
And now for the accurate Week 10 update! Broke the 40K mark, which is very exciting for a "minimalist" writer like myself, who struggles with meeting the genre expectations of word counts. Still plenty of work to do. #amwriting #thehauntedcelt #writingcommunity #writerslife #blueskywriters
Oops! I forgot to update my word count from week 8 to week 9, d'oh! So, at the end of week 9 (8/15) we were actually at 39,801. Past the halfway mark! #amwriting #thehauntedcelt #blueskywriters #writingcommunity #writerslife
Took a break and now it's back to the grind! Writing into uncharted territory now, adding new scenes to amp up the tension. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersofbluesky #thehauntedcelt
Last week? Yeah, I accomplished nothing. It happens. As writers, we can't get in the habit of beating ourselves up when we don't write. What we CAN do is get back to it. #amwriting #blueskywriters #getwriting
Progress at 64%! Still a long way to go but things are on track. #blueskywriters #amwriting #writinglife
How did I up my word count by 20K in one week?? By inserting all the 3rd draft material that is being kept into the final ("final") draft 😄#amwriting #amediting #thehauntedcelt #writinglife #writingcommunity #halfwaythere #skywriters
Adventures in editing continue. Is it really just "editing" when you've rebuilt your protagonist, reintroduced a previously cut character, and reframed the whole inciting indecent? #thehauntedcelt #amwriting #amediting #isthereanybodyoutthere #writerslife #skywriters
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Fake agency alert: Dan Baror International Literary Agency, obviously trying to trick writers into believing they're being contacted by Baror International Inc. (a real agency). The About Us page has been "borrowed", in re-worded form, from the real Baror website danbaror-intliteraryagency.com
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As long as they're not the "mom's for liberty" type because, no.
Not a lot of progress this week, honestly, but there was a little. #amwriting #amediting #skywriter #writersofbluesky #writinglife
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“Nobody could have seen this coming.”

In fact, it was entirely foreseeable. When governments undermine or defund the systems & experts responsible for monitoring environmental and weather conditions, it eliminates warnings and leaves people unnecessarily vulnerable to disaster.
Finally got to watch this absolute masterpiece last night and am spending the day reading/watching all the analysis I avoided so it wouldn't be spoiled 😄 There are so many layers of brilliant storytelling in this film. #sinnersmovie
They pass this crap #budget but a lot of the effects won't be felt right away. This is intentional. People who are outraged now will be dismissed as alarmist when nothing happens immediately. The really bad stuff will happen after 2026 & they'll shift blame to newly elected democrats. Dont forget.
Today's agenda:
Weep
Yard work
Coffee
Attend writing workshop
Get some writing done
Binge ER reruns
Scream into the void
#anxiety #writingwhiletheworldburns #writinglife
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For those who say “Illegal is illegal.”

On this Juneteenth, remember: slavery was once legal. Harboring a fugitive enslaved person? Illegal. Black freedom? Illegal. “Illegal is illegal” has always been used to defend injustice.

Legality ≠ morality. Justice calls us higher.
Opposing a king is literally the most patriotic/American thing you can do 💅 ☕️ #flagday