Lily Traina
@lilytrainaauthor.bsky.social
Queer romance writer, lifelong fangirl. Lover of happy endings, nice boys, and evil women. Kpoppie, sports liker (KC & BOS + Ferrari). Mount Holyoke 2019 she/her. lilytraina.com
when the enemies finally realize they might also be lovers (and they were both girls)….
If I had a nickel for every time I wrote a het romance where, by the time I’m halfway through drafting, it seemed like the MMC had a repressed crush on his male best friend, I would have two nickels. Considering I’ve only written 2 het romances, it’s real weird that it happened twice!
This is very sad news. She was a lovely writer, and an absolute pro.
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
nytimes.com
Confessions of a Shopaholic was one of the first adult chick-lit books I read as a teen stretching my legs into the genre. RIP Sophie Kinsella, what a queen of the genre.
just pulled a real life william carlos williams “this is just to say” on my mom vis a vis an apple she was gonna take on the plane tomorrow
I don’t go back and forth much, but I always occupy a self-imposed break from one project (between editing rounds, usually) by diving into another one. It helps to fully clear out the cobwebs! #WritingCommunity
Susan Savage Lee@susansavagelee.bsky.social · 11mo agoDo you work on multiple writing projects at the same time? Right now, I’m working on some short stories, a novel, and a translation #writingq #WritingCommunity
current editing agony: trying to decide between "could" and "would".
I feel like I should say more but truth be told I don’t know what to say outside of pasting in the thesaurus listing for “excited”! Thrilled! Cheesed! Mostly though I’m looking forward to the future and hopefully getting Seeing Stars on shelves in a year that starts with a 2 :D
Lily Traina@lilytrainaauthor.bsky.social · 12mo agoSo very excited to announce that I’m now represented by Laurie McLean at @fuseliterary.bsky.social !
So very excited to announce that I’m now represented by Laurie McLean at @fuseliterary.bsky.social !
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
realizing i probably shouldnt have changed every single piece of my profile at once bc now i fear none of you know who i am lmao
watching Slow Horses w my dad and man…this show keeps killing my favorite characters!!
New pen name alert! Traina was great grandmother’s maiden name before immigrating to the US, and I’m so honored to be adopting it for my writing career 💕
Draft 1 of Queens of the Sun is complete! My messy little lesbian time loop is at 95k and ready for editing 😎
didnt get much writing done today but i did finish my fantasy football draft plan spreadsheet so. not wholly unproductive.
absolutely ridonkulous catch by kyle isbel. myyyyyy goodness. #Royals
A fun challenge of writing is trying to find names that I like enough to give to characters but not enough to save for a future child
Happy Laufey 'A Matter of Time' release day to all who celebrate
also hello writer friends <3 sorry for not being around more often; I've been in mega-drafting mode and am almost done with my first draft of Queens of the Sun!! We're at 78k with 2-ish (very long, meaty) chapters left :0
Writers, we have to let go of synonymizing everything. A little repetition is okay. Not all nouns even have exact synonyms, and we dont need to invent them. I would rather read the words “ice cream” three dozen times a page than the “sweetened coolness” I just read.
this is so stupid but i love it. they're in their optimistically nihilistic (aka, nothing matters so we might as well party) era of being stuck in a time loop and the sexual tension is starting to become unbearable. Oh, and August still thinks Kenna is straight. #SnippetShare #WriteSky
Shadow Spark Publishing@shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · last yr.Iiiiit's Hump Day, folks! Let's get a page from your wip. Maybe it's the middle for you? Give us a line from PAGE 133 Haven't gotten to page 133 yet? How about just 33, then? #Wednesday #HumpDay #indieauthors #WritingCommunity #snippetshare #WritingQ #snippets
imagine giving up a grand slam in the first inning oh wait i can because i am a royals fan
baseball commentary is such a gift...nats commentators talking abt salvy and saying he smells good (???) and then a few minutes later when the nats strike out of the inning: "well the catcher might smell good, but this score stinks!" I need to level up my dialogue game...
Fantasy! I have so many brainworms of fantasy story ideas I cooked up as a teen that I think could probably be developed well if I had the time to dedicate. #WriteSky
Susan Savage Lee@susansavagelee.bsky.social · last yr.If you couldn’t write in your current genre, which one would you choose, and why? If I couldn’t write horror, I would try sci-fi because it has elements that are similar enough #writingq #WritingCommunity
adding the most niche floridian things I can think of to this manuscript--today, it's the stretch of highway chock full of anti-abortion PSAs interspersed with ads for Cafe Risque
It took like 3 major rewrites before Addie had a real character arc, and I’m worried it’s happening again with my current WIP. I think I focus too much on getting plot down bc I’ve struggled w it more in the past, so character work often doesnt come through at first. #WriteSky
danricewrites@danricewrites.bsky.social · last yr.It's time for Sunday's #WritingQ!!!!!! Who is your most difficult character to write? #WritingCommunity #QOTD