I guess I’m back… When I was younger, I wasn’t naturally the best at anything but I deeply, deeply wanted everyone to believe that I was. Don’t get me wrong, I was usually top 3 but I was rarely ever #1. In elementary and middle school, I was top 2 and in high school I…

(An excerpt from my short story, adore you, loosely based on my play, Adored You) Seventy fucking five dates.  Last year, I went on seventy-five dates. It was based on a challenge to go on at least one date every weekend of the year but because I’m an overachiever I decided I was going to…

(First draft; An excerpt from my short story who we were) The thing no one tells you about wedding dresses is that after a while even the simplest, the most expensive, the loosest or tightest fitting ones all start to feel like prisons after a while. Even if you love your spouse, even if it’s…

Below is the first draft of my short story oranges. It is adapted from a play I wrote. I plan to make edits soon and would be happy to hear any feedback oranges It happened over time, in an instant.  The world was dying, of course we knew that. Whether or not we’d planned to…

It’s been a while 🙂 So anyway, here are two mini-blogs in one to make up for lost time. The first one was going to be called You and I Both Loved which is all about editing my plays from like 2015 and what a mind fuck that is. The second one was going to…

I very recently wrote an honest cover letter and thought it might be fun to keep the momentum going and write an honest artistic statement: An Honest Artist Statement from the scattered, sleep-deprived, narcissistic mind of Rachel Lynett I want to write specific, non-universal weird shit. I don’t want my plays to be relatable. I…

I’ve been hesitant to write about this for a while because I know how this kind of thing can be taken the wrong way if I’m not perfect in my description. And I am never perfect in my descriptions. I am a mess in progress so I start this by saying this is my specific…

I’m baaaack. I thought for a while about moving this blog, how I wanted this blog to change, and what was the real reason to keep it going. It caused me a lot of trouble and I convinced myself it wasn’t worth it. But then I remembered that this is for me, for me to…

It’s been a while since I wrote a post. The original idea was that I’d write a post on the 15th and the 30th (or end of the month). But when I made that plan I was traveling all the time for playwriting. After the pandemic, the posts got really insular and circular and I’m…

My blog the last few entries have been me mostly angsting and I want to return back to when this blog was meant to be filled with advice and lessons learned for aspiring writers. So that said… I’ve sworn by José Rivera’s 36 Assumptions on Playwriting and have thought a lot about what my advice…