Morning everyone! Happy #SumLuv Alex is in his mid 30s while Jessica is still in her 20s. The central plot to their relationship is that he is teaching her how to be cool and let go. She wants to be less Type A and more cool girl. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sometimes characters meet at very similar stages of their lives, but sometimes there's a mismatch—in age, in life experience, in background, in sexual appetite... Are your characters as worldly as each other? Does their baggage make a matched set, or do they need help carrying some? #SumLuv

#SumLuv When a dysphoric farmer trapped in a miserable marriage decides to help a notorious beast instead of harming it, he finds safety in the arms of something he had been taught to fear. Beautiful, But Deadly 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ A queer monster romance novella with folktale vibes, a dark tone, and high heat. ❤️‍🔥

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4w ago

Let's get pitchy with it, #SumLuv 🧡 I wanna get hype seeing you get hype about your project If you don't have a pitch deck or a book trailer, that's totally cool! Write us a 🔥 one-liner with all the bold, precise, exciting language you can fit in it and edit up your favorite excerpt 😍

Falling Apart Together 🧟 Trans Masc MC 🧟 Found Family 🧟 Type A Female meets Type Chaos Male 🧟 Friends To Lovers 🧟 Serial Kidnapper 🧟 Mental Health 🧟 No Rules Supernatural Nightclub #SumLuv #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4w ago

Let's get pitchy with it, #SumLuv 🧡 I wanna get hype seeing you get hype about your project If you don't have a pitch deck or a book trailer, that's totally cool! Write us a 🔥 one-liner with all the bold, precise, exciting language you can fit in it and edit up your favorite excerpt 😍

#pretendpanel I’m really into the cute drawn covers with the couples for romance novels atm. Honestly something like that or anything where I get to see my characters on the cover. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 4w ago

#pretendpanel I am so very interested in hearing what y'all have to say to this one... August 14th: What did you/would you look for in an ideal book cover for your story? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

I just got a payout from Draft2digital that was 75% from Overdrive. USE YOUR LIBRARIES! Yes, us authors get paid! Request our books!

No comp titles for your book's plot? No problem! Comp the fanbase. "For readers who loved [author]'s worldbuilding but want more romance" works better than forcing a match that isn't there.

There’s a few things. 1) Alex isn’t emotionally ready for a relationship so he want to be friends with benefits which Jessica agrees to 2) Alex gets kidnapped and Jessica gets hurt in the rescue now she doesn’t want a relationship But there is a HEA I swear 😻 #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4w ago

Even the coziest of romances has some tension, some aspect between them that must be unlocked over the course of the story to bring them closer Is there some insecurity or some misunderstanding that must be overcome? Perhaps there is a very literal plot machination keeping them separate #SumLuv 🧡

This is why I’m a huge fan of writing what I call my crap draft. My first entire draft only ever sees the light of day when I write and edit it. After that my first draft goes to people. It helps me ride the line between panster & planner. #WriteSky

Paul Tobin@paultobin.bsky.social · 4w ago

I can't stress enough the importance of making shitty things. Shitty writing. Shitty art. Shitty paintings. Shitty films. Shitty songs. Shitty sculptures. Shitty is beautiful, because it's human. There's no glory without shitty. Get out there and shit things up.

Quick follow up to yesterday's post about fake beta reading/editing scams. I wrote about this in detail on Patreon a wee while ago. I forgot about it until today, but if you're interested, here it is (totally free public post) www.patreon.com/posts/157968... 🏷️ #Writeblr #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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Alex initially likes Jessica because she’s hot. But after seeing her punch an entitled prick he’s basically in love. Jessica moves slowly she wants Alex to teach her to let go but the more time they spend together the more she starts to like him and love him. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4w ago

Tomorrow we'll chat about what keeps them apart Today, I want to know what brings them together! What do they find intriguing or admirable in the other, maybe despite circumstances? What keeps them from simply being strangers in each other's stories? #SumLuv 🧡

The heat in Falling Apart Together is a camp fire slowly building. As you add more and more sticks it grows until suddenly someone dumps kerosene on the fire and it explodes leaving a tense passionate moment that burns out character completely leaving them confused. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Closed door" "high spice" "🌶️🌶️🌶️" YAWN! We can get a little more creative with describing the amount and explicitness of physical affection and sex in our works, so tell me: are you on the ridge of a volcano, or the top of icy Mt. Everest? Hit us with your metaphors 🧡 #SumLuv

I wanted to make a playlist for them but never did. I didn’t even come up with a good song for them which makes me so sad. One day I will. OR when I’m published my fans will so I don’t have to lol 🤣 #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Is there a specific song in your text that is "theirs" or that plays a role in their romantic feelings? Alternatively, is there a song that reminds you of their dynamic? #SumLuv

I think if I did translate it I would slip out of romance and into thriller. I’d just change my plot to focus more on the serial killer. However moving the type of romance would be hard. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Kind of a silly one today. Could you change subgenres for this story? Have you?? Would it drastically change the story? What would be the funniest romantic subgenre to swap your characters into? 🧡🧡 #SumLuv

Writing paranormal romance lets me break the mold of contemporary romance and spin it just a bit on its head. I get to use fantasy elements with out having to build a world from the ground up. Which is super nice for me. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

The romance umbrella is beautiful and broad, as evidenced by all of you! 🧡🧡🧡 Why is it fun or interesting—or challenging, even—to tell a romance in your subgenre? Tomorrow I'll ask you about subgenres you didn't pick. Today I wanna hear about the one you did! #SumLuv

My novel features: Found family, and he falls first. I love: Enemies to lovers, only one bed, and he falls first. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

I confess, I don't have a great grasp of the specific terms for romantic tropes (I know it when I see it lol) but, for better or worse, they are a good marketing tool. What about you? Do you love when There's Only One Bed? Not sure? Describe it! Maybe we can help you out #SumLuv

Since my novel is paranormal romance I had a lot of fun building our world featuring supernaturals. Figuring out how they impacted laws and history really was fun. So I guess the answer is the world building itself. Theres so much in here I couldn’t possibly share it all. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Sometimes it's a character unto itself in a romance! We have subgenre prompts coming up where we can chat more broadly about types of settings, so for now I would love to hear about your *specific* setting and why it's fun/interesting to write a romance in 🧡 #SumLuv

I honestly can’t remember my first romance novel. But the one I think of as my first was probably The Fault In Our Stars. I’m sure I read romance before that but it’s the one I remember most clearly. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Do you remember the first romance novel you read? Where did you get it from? 🧡 #SumLuv 🧡

I’d say that it’s semi lust at first sight. They meet at a night club and think the other is hot, but they do come out not kissing or anything. They decide to be friends and over the story they fall in love. It’s like medium burn instead of slow. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Meet cutes don't have to be "cute"! They are a plot device 🧡 But! Let's talk about how they DO feel about each other early on! Is it fairytale love? Is it *lust* at first sight? Hate at first sight? All?? Snips here are welcome (always welcome if you want to answer anything with a snip) 🧡 #SumLuv

I love a good meet cute! Mine has a semi meet cute but it’s not insta love. They meet in a night club and decide to be friends but that changes over the course of the book. So I guess it kind of passes as one. #SumLuv #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

"In which somebody runs into somebody else, and then something falls, and they begin to talk, and their eyes meet and they realize they are attracted to one another" —Rodger Ebert Do you have a classic one? Or one that passes 😆 Did you avoid altogether? Snips welcome! #SumLuv

My two leads are Jessica and Alex! Jessica: Female human, Type A, recently jobless, struggles to accept help, learns to love life and become a painter Alex: Trans Male, Zombie, just trying to live life and have fun, falling head over heels for Jessica while avoiding a serial killer #SumLuv

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Who are you writing about? What makes a romantic story about them interesting? Note there will not be a character art or face cast prompt, so feel free to do that here if you'd like! Don't forget alt text for images if you post them. #SumLuv

100% late to the party My name is Krystal and I’m a queer, neuro spicy, female author based in Texas. I write queer paranormal romance with a touch of heat. #SumLun #WriteSky

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcome to 🧡 Summer of Love 🧡 a daily prompt game for everyone writing in the romance genre! What's up? What are you working on? How long have you been writing? Tell us everything! Well, tell us enough 😅 I'm excited to chat with you this month. Don't forget to tag #SumLuv

Out of 81k I only use the word test once lol. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amwritingromance

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4w ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 11th is "test" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Wow look who finally came back. Me! I took a writing break and just didn’t wanna age verify. Thanks Texas lol. But I’m back 😍

#QueerPrompts Alex explained trans to Jessica but not because he’s forced to they are just talking. Similarly Jessica and him talk about their sexuality via just talking. My stories are always queer heavy so everyone’s just kind of a part of the community in some way.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QueerPrompts June 6: Do your queer characters have to explain their queerness?

#QueerPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky We actually don’t discuss the environment much in this story. However I think that it might come up in other ones.

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QueerPrompts June 5: World Environment Day: Free Friday or does your story address environmental issues?

bookshelf scavenger hunt: pride edition!! 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️ ff book: Smash or Pass 🧡mm book: The Fake Divination Offense 💛bisexual book: Unromance 💚book with a trans character: Rules For Ghosting 💙book with an aspec character: Kiss Me Maybe 💜book with an nb character: Sing Anyway #booksky

Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻@applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

bookshelf scavenger hunt: pride edition!! 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️ ff book: Name Her Holy 🧡mm book: The Traitor & The Wretch 💛bisexual book: Of Knights & Books & Falling in Love 💚book with a trans character: Magic Riot 💙book with an aspec character: Royal Rescue 💜book with an nb character: The Fox & The Dryad #booksky

#QueerPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky Jessica: Considers herself straight because trans men are men not women Alex: Trans man, pansexual Tyler: Demi Romantic Grayace Maria: Butch lesbian and proud of it

🌈CJ Aralore@cjaralore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#QueerPrompts June 4: Character(s) queer identity(ies)

A reminder that there are 38 queer books for $40 in the A Good Day to Pride Hard bundle from #PrideBookFair! Sweet & Wild is available with a ton of other WONDERFUL queer books! Only until June 8th! Pride Hard! itch.io/b/3678/pride...

QRP with your pride flags

Jeb 🏳️‍⚧️@jebdarsh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

QRP with your pride flags