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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 14

everyone, it’s me, kate. you might know me from such books as georgie, all along & love lettering. you wanna talk about romance novels on here or what?

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · May 20

thank you so much!!! 🩷

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Apr 4

❤️❤️❤️

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 18

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · Mar 17

Kate writes about the "cumulative sentence" in detail here and how it's used in romance novels and lands in this beautiful place about the impact of this sentence specifically in romance novels. Man, Kate can just write.

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 15

i know i neglect this platform a lot but for those of you who may have been missing my musings on romance prose here’s a little something 🖤https://kateclayborn.substack.com/p/i-finished-my-book

I finished my book!

so of course I want to talk about syntax

kateclayborn.substack.com

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 17

oh man thank you so much ❤️

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 16

thank you so so much 🖤

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Sylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · Mar 16

I was absolutely delighted by this newsletter - to learn there is a name for something I do all the time in my writing, to understand better why it works, is so helpful.

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 15

i know i neglect this platform a lot but for those of you who may have been missing my musings on romance prose here’s a little something 🖤https://kateclayborn.substack.com/p/i-finished-my-book

I finished my book!

so of course I want to talk about syntax

kateclayborn.substack.com

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 16

thank you so much 🖤

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 16

thank you for reading! ❤️

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 16

thank you so much 🖤

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Mar 15

i know i neglect this platform a lot but for those of you who may have been missing my musings on romance prose here’s a little something 🖤https://kateclayborn.substack.com/p/i-finished-my-book

I finished my book!

so of course I want to talk about syntax

kateclayborn.substack.com

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Jan 11

(im tryna get better about posting in two places, not always successful, v sorry)

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Jan 11

but then i’ll say to myself, self, you’re overthinking it; just keep going! well guess what! i’m never overthinking it when i have that instinct! i’m *feeling* it! as a romance writer i should know to recognize that as essential

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Jan 11

many years in and sometimes i still don’t always trust my most solid writerly instincts, especially when i am too focused on something like a word count. i’ll write a transition into something in the story and i have an actual feeling in my body: this isn’t right.

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Dec 25

i keep telling myself i’m gonna do that and then forget every time 😩

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Dec 22

thank you so much ❤️

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Keris Fox @keris.bsky.social · Dec 18

I think it’s @kateclayborn.bsky.social who has recommended this a bunch of times and I’m finally reading and loving it.
#currentlyreading

Cover of the romance novella, A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecelia Grant

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 30

i bet a lot of those ideas touch each other (not in a romance way alas)

kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 30

(btw i do think it’s possible to make meaningful observations about this network while you’re living in it—i just mean that it’s challenging to see it all at scale without the benefit of time/distance. let’s hope we get the opportunity to have that)

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 30

genre fiction is so illuminating in this regard in part because of volume and pace of production and innovation, and the romance genre in particular has been nimble in these ways (“nimble” does not equal progressive, let me be *real* clear on that)

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 30

some of the best literary criticism ever written has been mindful—maybe even obsessive—about this idea of network, about tracing all the ways a text or set of texts is touched by all sorts of things at the same time. politics, tech, religion, identity, economics, geography, climate, whatever

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 30

i say “in time” because i think it’s challenging to be inside one of these networks and see a very layered movement in literary history clearly—but i genuinely hope people who take genre seriously will study this period

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 30

i write contemporary romance so i want to be careful not to talk about this in a way that’s unwelcome from an author, but i do think that in time, there will probably be a lot to say about the network of influences that brought genre romance to where it is today

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · Nov 30

I think contemporary romance is in a bad place. And I don't know if it's a chicken or egg problem, but the lack of real conflict/tension in the books has authors pursuing 2 strategies to create it.

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kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · Nov 23

do u want to dissociate? if so then yes

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