✍🏻 Plot Notes:

Draft an emotionally repressed man with childhood trauma and force him to fall in love.

#RomanceWriter #WritingRomance

Congrats! 🍾 What a big win to start off the weekend. Love the cover.

The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition Find it. Write it. Cite it. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. ¶ It is the indispensable reference for ...

Yes, lowercase! I confirmed with CMOS www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/f...).

Me: I’ll write a sweeping historical romance with depth and nuance

Also me: Googling "words that start with S"

Present me: Googling if "google" is capitalized as a transitive verb

#WriterBrain #authorproblem #writingstruggles

Ohhuhho, this is prolly my favorite reveal for Sticker Saturday.

If we ever cross paths in the wild, crack open (or 🎧) your 🌶️ read & sit w me. No questions asked.

#romancereader #spicybooks #stickersaturday #STFUATTDLAGG

✍️Plot note:

- Insert brooding hero with emotional range of a crouton.

#AmWritingRomance #RomanceWriter #writingabook

🫢 Lies I Tell Myself:

“I’ll write every day.”

*writing log*
Monday: 307 words
Tuesday: Scrolled Insta for vibes
Wednesday: Rewrote words 3-297 (still reads like a Saltine)
Thursday: stalked my Pinterest boards
Friday: cried about tropes

#Amwritingromance #LiesWritersTell #authorproblem

Waiting on my pre-order of Stephanie Archer’s Gloves Off like . . .

#bookrelease #glovesoff #spicybooks #romancereads

Typing “she sighed” for the 47th time, and wondering if my heroine’s lungs are gonna give out. 😢

Sharing a resource:

👁️ Eye twitches
😈 Naughty nuance
❤️‍🔥 Slow-burn body language
😬 Jaw clenching

#RomanceWriters #WritingTools #EmotionThesaurus #ShowDontTell #RomanceAuthorLife #WritingCommunity

*Writing to Billie Eilish's "bury a friend".*

*cackles*

#WritingMood #ManuscriptMonday

Anyone else read "Debrett's" as "Debra" in their head?

*Writing Character Arc*

Wait, does the heir apparent keep a courtesy title if I kill off the father?

Does the mother become a dowager before or after her son takes the title and marries?

Hang on—hey, Debra?! . . .

#HistoricalFiction

Sticker Saturday! The slow burn reveal of my laptop adhesives continues.

Mr. S teases I carry books around like a teddy bear, and I'm like, kinda, yeah.

Even if I don't open the book, sometimes just knowing it's there, or just getting to hold it, is enough.

#booksky #amreadingromance

✍️Plot notes:

“Lady Jane” is fine if her father is a viscount, earl, marquess, or duke.

If married to a baron, she’s “Lady Jane". But "Baroness Whatever” if she's already a Baroness in her own right.

A duke’s daughter who married a commoner? Still “Lady Jane.”

#FactCheckMe #HistoricalRomance

🤫 Lies I tell myself:

The diversity of my sentence structure is directly proportional to the amount of Walker's shortbread I consume.

#AmWriting #HistRom

🥵 Spoiler: there’s binding, multiple clauses, and absolutely no passive voice from *that* sub(section).

#darkromancereads #cmos #chicagomanualofstyle #spreadthosepages

Peerage fun facts for my fellow 💗 historical lovers-lovers.

Not every “Lord” is a peer. Some are just fancy judges. 👨🏻‍⚖️

Baronets? Not peers. Kinda just hereditary land-owning overachievers with a title complex. 👨🏻‍🌾But you can call them "Lord Whatshisface".

#WriterLife #AmWritingRomance

Rounded vertical peach colored rectangle with two cowgirl boots illustrated in the middle and above say Chestnut and below says Springs representing the series by Elsie Silver.

I’mma slow burn it for you with my laptop stickers.

Starting w this gem bc I’ll never look at a hay maze (or baseball cap or hot tub or front porch) the same way after Heartless. *I* will never be the same after Heartless.

#stickersaturday #elsiesilver #chestnutsprings #cowboyromance #heartless

Manifesting the ability to write a 19th-century love scene.

In my head:🔥.

On paper: WebMD made out with a car manual.

#HistoricalRomance #AmWritingRomance

Struggle bussing it through writing my first historical romance. 🚌 Where my seat buddies at? #WritingCommunity #HistoricalRomance

*phf phuf* *Tap tap* This thing on?

*Sits on folding chair*
Hi, my name is Elizabeth, & I’m attempting to become a first time romance author.

👋 May your day be filled with modifiers that do not dangle, dialogue tags that default to “said”, and Oxford commas that do not yield. Amen.

#booksky