Scott Barolo

Let’s do this! 5 things about my WIP:

1️⃣ Regency romantic comedy
2️⃣ falling in (forbidden) love over botanical experiments in the conservatory
3️⃣ hearing-impaired heroine
4️⃣ P.G. Wodehousian eccentric aunts in a large country house
5️⃣ there’s a sweet long-snooted dog

#5ThingsWIP #romance #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #bookstodon #romancelandia

Nov 21, 2022 at 10:26pmWeb
Show threadScott BaroloNov 24, 2022

...regarding the above WIP:

#Romance novels helped me start reading fiction again after by pandemic brain gave up. Somebody on Twitter recommended Sherry Thomas's Ravishing the Heiress, and it got me started writing.

Since then I've learned that romance novels are often in loosely connected series, & it's been fun planting seeds in my romance #WIP that could turn into books 2 and 3. It also helps make the minor characters more fully formed.

Writing has been so much fun & wonderful 🧠 exercise.

Show threadScott BaroloNov 24, 2022
[continued] I 💕love💕 that tradition in romance novels—bringing the first book’s minor characters forward to star in later books in the series. It reinforces the idea that everyone is the hero of their own story. It enriches each book in the series.
And it’s a nice wink from author to reader: “you just wait and see what those two get up to later! 👀”
#romancelandia @bookstodon
Show threadpoppa lizDec 8, 2022
@sbarolo my favorite thing about series like this is that everybody gets a happy ending. The groom's bookish second sister in the first novel always finds a librarian rake to tame in the second.
Show threadScott BaroloDec 8, 2022
@lizawesome YOU get a rake and YOU get a rake and
Show threadpoppa lizDec 8, 2022
@sbarolo *gasp* is that the long-suffering dowager's old flame back from fighting napoleon with a bitchin new scar?!
Show threadScott BaroloDec 8, 2022
@lizawesome lmaoooo how are you reading my WIP
Show threadpoppa lizDec 8, 2022
@sbarolo I knew you'd only use the best tropes! I can't wait to read it!!
Show threadTom Bradley Jr. 📚🇺🇸🇺🇦Nov 21, 2022
@sbarolo
1. Murder mystery set in January 2017
2. Based on a real unsolved murder case from 1931
3. Involves another (fictional) unsolved murder from 1938
4. Victim was disliked by many, many people
5. Case threatens to wreck my MC's relationship with a key ally.
Show threadScott BaroloNov 21, 2022
@tombradleyjr Intriguing!
Show threadTom Bradley Jr. 📚🇺🇸🇺🇦Nov 21, 2022
@sbarolo Thanks! Now all I have to do is quit #procrastinating and do some actual #writing.
Show threadScott BaroloFeb 10, 2023
@tombradleyjr word
Show threadBeardo The Bearded OdalisqueNov 22, 2022
@sbarolo every point is so good but you absolutely have me at long snooted dogs...
Show threadScott BaroloNov 22, 2022
@Bearded_Odalisque boop
Show threadPrincess of Whales Nov 22, 2022
@sbarolo this sounds amazing!
Show threadScott BaroloNov 22, 2022
@princesaballena thanks Princess! 😊
Show threadSarah FackrellNov 23, 2022
@sbarolo Um, this sounds AMAZING
Show threadScott BaroloNov 23, 2022
@design_law thanks for the encouragement! 😊
Show threadStephanie JNov 23, 2022
@sbarolo sign me up.
Show threadScott BaroloNov 23, 2022
@Slolee thanks for the encouragement—I’m posting about what I #AmWriting to pressure myself to finish, and it’s good to know there are a few people who might be interested in reading it 😊
Show threadKim Campbell ThorntonNov 25, 2022
@sbarolo Sounds perfect!
Show threadSol KawageNov 25, 2022
@sbarolo ok but please make it dirty
Show threadScott BaroloNov 25, 2022
@sol lol my students will tease me so much! Tell you what, I'll post a spicy bonus chapter and make it freely available to anyone who promises to never interact with me in person
Show threadSol KawageNov 25, 2022
@sbarolo I cant promise that! I would love to interact and discuss, the dirty scenes in particular.
Show threadtimrcovellNov 25, 2022
@sbarolo
5 things about my WIP:
1️⃣ Contemporary romance set in downtown Halifax
2️⃣ falling in love while posing for romance novel covers
3️⃣ bi hero, ex-model
l4️⃣ A road trip to Ontario includes burning one car and stealing another
5️⃣ The road trip also encounters 'only one bed'
Show threadBethBarnesNov 26, 2022
@sbarolo I need this in my life immediately. Especially the aunts and the snoot.
Show threadScott BaroloNov 26, 2022
@BethBarnes thanks for the encouragement—I’ll let you know when it’s done cooking :)
Show thread🌈 Katherine ✡️Nov 28, 2022
@sbarolo oh gosh I’d love to read this!!’
Show threadScott BaroloNov 28, 2022
@zombizombi aww thanks! I hope to finish it!