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I would love to be friends with the entire Phoenix crew IRL #writinglifemonthly

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TBH, my instinct is usually to write romance where sex isn't considered until after the end of the story, but I'm not opposed to either option. I do think sex scenes need to be load-bearing if included, though. #WritingLifeMonthly

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From The Happy Secret of It All: books2read.com/u/470Rd7 #WritingLifeMonthly

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#WritingLifeMonthly #Day30 Since I’m resuming work on my #TimeTravel epic in 2025, I have oodles of goals this year. For June, I’m blown off most of them to do since volunteer work.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day29 This is another area in which I am guilty. I’ve had people ask if my descriptions are literal or metaphorical, which tells me I am missing that mark.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day28 As a reader, I don’t like every ending to be a zinger. (I remember a NF biography of a CEO that was excruciatingly zingy.) But I do like throwing a right hook from time to time.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day27 I edit far longer than I should, and I don’t think that means I cut all the right pieces.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day26 I’m never one to info dump. I like sprinkling info in little nibbles, even if they come with a bite of chili pepper also sprinkled with them.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day25 I wonder what’s denser: my paragraphs or my Bluesky posts. I’m guilty of both.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day24 I like hacking away at the useless sentences, but I have to be honest, I’m the one who put them there in the first place. Thank goodness for editing.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day23 Clichés – I try to avoid them. I’m not always aware when I’m in one bc they’re increasing every day.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day22 Not a problem – I’m not a poet and I absolutely know it.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day21 I enjoy snappy dialogue. I hope my readers do, too.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day20 Rhythm! Repetition! I’m on it! Two-thirds of the way through the month and I’m realizing all those things I learned in school stuck. Of course, I have yet to use trig even once.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day19 Gosh, I hope my sentences have plenty of variety. It may be crazy old-school of me, but all those sentences I diagrammed in middle school made an impression.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day18 I love the vivid descriptions! I’ve spent my last four novels honing those images.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day17 I use Word’s Read Aloud feature. It’s a great way to catch everything from typos to proof that the author [hey, that’s me] is babbling.

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day16 I trust the reader ridiculously, maybe even too much. Is that okay?

#WritingLifeMonthly #Day15 I remember having this conversation in Newspaper class in my sophomore year of high school. #EasterSunday