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FIRE SAFE & BRIMSTONE SOUND on sub now! #writingcommunity 📚Dark academia meets the Bible 🪄Deconstruction based magic 👹Horror as a metaphor for toxic theology ✊🏽Black theology vs. White Christian nationalism 🌶️Demons to lovers

#WIPSnips for “Autumn.” The moment she finds out he’s had his eyes on her for quite an awhile—and in compromising situations… From Heavenvault—an airship romantic fantasy *naughty words have been blacked out

#WIPSnips for “suit.” Three guesses if this is a good guy or a bad guy 😅 From There’s Something on the Tracks—NA historical horromance.

A quick flashback to a first kiss, from a currently untitled NA historical urban fantasy.

#WIPSnips for “rice.” The MMC struggles to eat in the aftermath of some gruesome deaths. From There’s Something on the Tracks—NA Historical horromance.

I have been sick and this completely snuck up on me and I am LATE, but the very first #WIPSnips post was on September 18th, 2023!! Happy three years of WIPSnips! Thank you all so much for participating and making this community special. Some of you have been here since day one!

WRITING QUESTION OF THE DAY If you had to pick the magic from one book to be real, which book would you choose and why?

#WIPSnips for “fresh.” Coming to after a tunnel explosion. From There’s Something on the Tracks—NA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips for “wine.” Kind of a weird, out of context bit of a confrontation from There’s Something on the Tracks—NA Historical horromance.

WRITING QUESTION OF THE DAY: If you were hired to write the next book in a popular series, which series would you want it to be?

WRITING QUESTION OF THE DAY: What seems like the hardest genre to write in to you?

WRITING QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you like vocalizations in dialogue? “Hmm,” “oh,” “um,” “mmph,” and things like that?

WRITING QUESTION OF THE DAY If you had to choose one, where’s the best place to put a dialog tag: before the dialog, in the middle of the dialog, or after the dialog?

How can we specify tone in dialog? The most common ways are with the use of dialog tags, plus or minus an adverb, and with action beats. But there’s another more artful way of attributing tone that keeps everything in the dialog itself. Let’s talk about it, #writing www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAbcreRM/

How can we choose the way our MMC/LI smells without being trite or unoriginal? With the use of figurative consistency. Check out the video below! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAXu6kyt/

Episode 1 of All the Best Advice for Spicy Scenes is Also All the Best Advice for Fight Scenes. The title is a work in progress 😮‍💨 The lesson for the day is, don’t forget to vary levels of description.

Concerning the Atlantic article on Daggermouth.

Check out beta reader feedback for FIRE SAFE & BRIMSTONE SOUND.

#writingcommunity Show don’t tell, but if you’re going to tell, tell sexy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSS6Y9FJ/

#WIPSnips for “water,” from There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance. Trauma dumping backstory—but in a romantic way.

Xaden is 6’4 and made of flesh. Kei is 32’5 and made of reactive alloy plating. Pick the taller, harder love interest. MAIDEN AND THE MECH On sub! #SmutPit #S #🔥🔥 #pol #bix

Top three pettiest things I don’t like about dialog. Please stop 😅

We hit a little milestone this week. Of course, it's never about the follower count. It's about community & connection. But, it's pretty cool to hit 10k. Some of you have been here since the first #WIPSnips in Sept 2023. Thanks for hanging out, engaging, having fun & sharing your lovely words. 💜

Fleshing out a character has little to do with their biography and much more to do with the choices they make.

STUPID SPACE BOOK VOLUME 2 NOW OUT! barrows.itch.io/shakedown Contains: Aliens! 👽 Robots! 🤖 Spaceships! 🚀 A disaster ace MC! 💥 Romance? 💓 Adventure! ⛰️ Architecture to make HR Giger proud! 🛰️ Also contains: my love 🪐📚

Let’s take a look at the opening pages of Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing for writing tips about novel openings and the use of adjectives.

#WIPSnips for “elite.” I’ve got “skilled” from There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips for “lifetime.” I’ve got “lives” instead, from There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips for “silent,” from There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips for “insect.” I have “spider,” from There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips for “unknown,” from There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance. The MMC gives himself a pep talk at the end of act 1.

#WIPSnips for “meet.” A cover-up gets underway in There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

They say write what you read, but the rules for aspiring authors are different than the rules for well established authors. Let’s look at a three ways your favorite books are giving you misleading expectations about what to write. #booktok #writingcommunity #author #wip #writing

With my dark academia on submission, it’s time to turn my full attention to my new WIP. Progress is often slow for me at the beginning of the book, but I’ve finished act 1, and with the world and characters set up, I’m excited for all the action, horror, and romance that’s coming! #writingcommunity

#WIPSnips I already used only “pride” in a previous snippet, so I’ll use “respects” instead. Looking up at the stars, the MMC imagines what his future could be like. Fortunately, the FMC arrives to provide a translation. From There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

Hey authors! Did you know I offer editing and query package critiques, along with mentoring? This year I've edited: - reality TV baking show romance - workplace romance - two shifter fated mates romances - an epic fae fantasy sequel - query packages 🔗 ⬇️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnips for “three.” I’ve got it on the very first page of There’s Something on the Tracks—a YA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips for “hoarse.” A henchman notices something about the MMC, from There’s Something on the Tracks—a YA historical horromance.

People complain about the simplicity of his prose, but I don’t think more unconventional syntax, subordinate clauses, or figurative language would necessarily improve this.

#WIPSnips More cave-in action, from There’s Something in the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

Nine times out of ten, use said, nothing, or an action beat. If you’re going to use a non-said dialog tag, use it to communicate something unexpected rather than merely repeating the tone the dialog already implies. #writing

#WIPSnips for “fate,” from Fire Safe & Brimstone Sound—adult dark academia.

#WIPSnips for “smack,” from There’s Something on the Tracks—YA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips for “North,” from There’s Something on the Tracks—a YA/NA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips Into the railroad boss’s strange house, I have “precious” as a synonym, from There’s Something on the Tracks—a YA historical horromance.

#WIPSnips Sometimes the call to adventure doesn’t go smoothly 😅 From Heavenvault—an airship romantasy.

#WIPSnips Putting the theological pieces together later in Fire Safe & Brimstone Sound—my dark academia/magical school book.

FIRE SAFE & BRIMSTONE SOUND The deconstruction power fantasy you never knew you needed. ✅ Contemporary & relevant ✅ Adult fantasy & dark academia ✅ Psychological & cosmic horror ✅ Romance & spice ✅ Underrepresented & #ownvoices #QuestPit #AG #A #DF

Welcome to All Fates Seminary. The more contradictions you realize, the more toxic theology you fight, the more trauma you heal, the more magic you control. Check out the prologue below! #QuestPit #AG #A #DF

FIRE SAFE & BRIMSTONE SOUND Tired of enemies to lovers? Here's "we fell in love surviving together." Tired of fated mates? Here's "this only works because we both chose it." Tired of forced proximity? Tough😅 On sub soon! #QuestPit #AG #A #DF #ownvoices