✍🏻 Plot Notes:

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

#RomanceWriter #WritingRomance

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

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