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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · 28d

I signed my name in Nov 2001.
By Apr 2002, I was in uniform.

9/11 didn’t just change the world—
it changed my path.
I carry its fire still.

#NeverForget #911Anniversary #GuyaMaican #WritingAlchemist #AlchemyFromAshes #TheGuyaGuild #BlackAuthor #Storyteller #WriterLife #AuthorLife #AuthorOfBluesky

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Aug 29

Every draft, every edit, every late night adds to the legacy.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Aug 22

Progress isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s just steady, page by page.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Aug 15

I got my first reject a week ago. It took me down for a minute. But I realized I was just getting started.

#WritingAlchemist #TheGuyaGuild #WriterLife #WineAndWriting #BlackFantasyAuthor #AmWritingFantasy #GuyaMaican

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Aug 15

Every book has its secret ingredients.
Mine?
Wine. Late nights. And giving my characters a look when they start making choices I didn’t approve in the outline.

What fuels your creativity?

#WritingAlchemist #TheGuyaGuild #WriterLife #WineAndWriting #BlackFantasyAuthor #AmWritingFantasy #GuyaMaican

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Aug 8

Tomorrow is Lion’s Gate — a cosmic alignment for expansion, clarity, and stepping into what you’ve been building for lifetimes.

For me, that means more than just writing.
It’s writing with intention.
Every scene, every character, every twist is a spell cast for the future I’m walking into.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Jul 25

I have officially entered the querying trenches.
No panic. No noise.

Just precision. Alignment. Intention.

May the right 1s feel the fire behind the pages.
May the rest step aside.

#WritingAlchemist #QueryingAuthor #TheGuyaGuild #FantasyWriter #BlackAuthorMagic #LegacyInProgress #AlchemyInMotion

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ok real quick—
Yes, I missed last week.
I got my edits back from my editor & fully disappeared n2 the work. One blink later, it was the weekend.
I didn’t forget y’all. I just time-traveled through revision mode. 💻🔥

Now I’m back—with 2 many ideas, not enough bodies, and the same fire driving it all.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Jun 27

I was never here to be liked.
I was here to light the damn map.

This Pride, I’m not reflecting. I’m declaring.
This is my design.
This is my daimon.
This is my divine.

#CreativeAlchemist #PrideMonth2025 #QueerBlackAuthor #FinalForm #TheGuyaGuild #NotALabel #GuyaMaican

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · May 31

And just like that, 📖 2 is completely drafted and we have the entire outline for 📖 3 #writer #author #authorlife #writerlife ##writingcommunity

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · May 30

✨ Dampium: A Realm of Scions and Betrayal
Book 1 of The Legacy of the Daivaras
A fantasy steeped in betrayal, bloodlines, & a queerness they tried 2 silence.
Coming soon from Guya Maican.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · May 20

After much outlining, much plotting and much planning, I can now honestly say 4 chapters of 📖 2 are more complete. #writer #author

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Mar 21

Happy Spring Equinox

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Mar 19

Annnnnd ofc. A bi$h takes a nap and wakes up with a whole new story. Why does this keep happening to me?? (Don't take me seriously, I love when this happens. I just get mad cuz I can't write it all fast enough.) #writer #writingcommunity #author #skywriter #writerlife

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Mar 18

Trying to come up with a name for a side character but the name needs to be very unique. I want the MC to love her name so much she says it all the time just so she can hear it. I'm struggling. I want it to start with a B #writingcommunity #writer #skywriter #author #writerlife

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Mar 14

Happy Full Moon in Virgo and Lunar Eclipse. 💋🪄✨️

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Mar 4

I thought I only wrote 100 words, today. Turns out it was more at 300. Yay!! Go me #writer #author #writingcommunity #skywriter

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 28

We don't. The oldest left today at 15 and a half years. Youngest at 11 years. The oldest, 2 days before my birthday.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 28

Both my princes are over the rainbow bridge. Miko ( #yorkie), Sept last year. Fuji ( #shihtzu), today. 💔💔🌈🐶
#rainbowbridge #furbaby #furbabies

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 25

Very

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 25

These memes don't have to be so loud about this.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 25

😂😂mine is "sighed". He sighed, she sighed, everybody sighs

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 25

Jesus it was like watching an episode of The Handmaid's Tale almost. Except this is REAL real.

Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 25

I experienced this on a deployment once. Considering what happened the following week due to an attack, yes I would say it is good luck.

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Guya Maican (is querying ✍️🏾📚) @guyamaican.bsky.social · Feb 25

Listennnnnnnnn #skywriter #author #writingcommunity #writer

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