Scott BaroloNov 21, 2022

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

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! 👀”
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Show threadpoppa liz
@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.
Dec 8, 2022 at 1:19amWeb
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!!