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juuuuust saying some big epic huge stuff is happening tomorrow, so if y'all could send all the good vibes??? 💀
#i'm so fucking nervous ngl#it's been since 2021 that i had any material out with editors#idk what i'll do if this book actually sells#indy ta romcom wip#y'all can look at that tag to see just how long i've been working on this manuscript#(i think my agent and i first started brainstorming it in october 2021?)
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also for anyone curious (since i know some of y’all have been here since this was mostly a writing/publishing blog), despite ofmd taking over my brain today, i have turned in my manuscript to my agent for what i hope is the final time before we send it out to editors (which should happen next week, if my agent decides all final edits look good)
#my writing#indy ta romcom wip#she also gave me permission to write historical fantasy so my mind is a-buzzing#(she called me a history nerd bc this WIP touches on so. much. history.)#(it’s about thieves of ancient artifacts)#(and then was like ‘if you ever wanna write historical fantasy 👀)
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Are you on sub yet? 👀
i am! it’s been two weeks as of yesterday. i’m hella nervous, but also hopeful. the book’s changed a lot since i first wrote it, but goddd i really do love everything my agent and i have done w it. it’s a much better book now. one of the biggest changes is the beginning, so here’s the start of chapter 1 bc why not:
There was a perfectly logical reason to awaken in a windowless room with zip tied wrists. And there had to be a logical reason for spotting two guards at the only door, with a third at my five o’clock. Just as there had to be a logical reason for this killer headache, the kind accompanied by a jolt of pain with every blink.
I just had yet to discover them.
thanks so much for asking 🥰🥰
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the kind of annotations my agent gets from me
and to be fair they do also get some actual good comments where i explain something, but they also have to put up with the above
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like genuinely one of the things that worries me most about my own books is how it's so, so, so likely that they'll try to thin out my characters on the cover. like in my last romcom, both my narrator and the love interest are very much not the quintessential tiny cutout drawings you see on romcom covers (and i hate those covers for many reasons, but especially the way they depict characters). my narrator is 5'10 and regularly describes herself as large.
page 2:
...a tall, buff twenty-seven year old woman...
page 6:
Out here in this secluded patch of forest, I could be anyone or anything with my height, my size, my sword. My duster wasn’t very heavy, but I had plenty of meat on my bones to fill it out on my own.
page 72:
I arched a brow and held out my arms: I wore a long-sleeved shirt, but my biceps filled it out quite well. While at university in Virginia, my muscles had shrunk, though not because I lost weight. I still weighed the same, or perhaps a bit more. Either way, I was big and proud of it: no one would look at me and call me thin.
page 154:
...his fingers pressing into the soft pudge of my stomach, my hips, my thighs. I was strong and in shape, but certainly not thin...
and the love interest, too
page 63:
...it was a relief to see actual fat on his stomach instead of shredded abs.
page 150:
Then I pressed my hands to his stomach, glad to feel that soft layer of fat over his muscles, proof he took good care of himself.
please note that this is barely scratching the surface on the number of times i talk about it. i went out of my way to point it out bc publishing has a propensity for ignoring something it doesn't like unless it's bashed over the head with it again and again. and as someone who still deals with anorexia, this is the kind of rep i both needed when i was younger and still need today at age 28. i know i'm not alone in that.
and i'm a little more hopeful bc i'm not afraid to speak up about my characters' sizes and my agent is a huge proponent for body diversity in books (it's right on their MSWL), but the fact remains that some authors--no matter their deal size or agent--have had moments where they're told they have a cover the literal instant the cover reveal is posted on some big magazine website. and if that happens? who the fuck knows what i or my agent could even do.
and granted, these are things that i don't need to realistically be worrying about yet bc we haven't sold this romcom (it's still in edits with my agent, hasn't even been on sub) but i can't help it when i see time and again characters thinned out on covers. it even happened to Tessa fucking Dare, resident historical romance powerhouse. contrary to what this cover conveys, Clio is larger than a size 2:
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Good job on getting your revisions done! 👍
ahhh thank you, anon! 💖💖 i actually just hit "the end" on it, too. tomorrow will be the final reread before i send the manuscript off to my agent! and then i get to celebrate by reading my ARC of Lucky Red (SO fucking excited for that book)
it's been almost a solid month of working on them, but i arranged my job so the past two weeks could be an intense crackdown (i literally started working the moment i woke up and stopped working around 11:30pm, hence why i've barely been online and have abandoned nearly all communication with my friends) so i could meet the april deadline 💀 but honestly i'm so fucking happy with every single change i've made. it's allowed me to really marry the themes, the symbolism, the underlying stories, the references, etc etc etc to the present narrative and the developing romance between the two leads--none of which was very refined in the first draft my agent saw, but she had a vision and helped me find the heart of the manuscript, so yeah. i'm real fucking pleased, even if i am so braindead as a result it's a miracle i remember how to type anything correctly.
it's the exact kinda romcom i'd wanna read, so hopefully publishing will agree when we go on sub! 🥳
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okay i think i have one chapter and the epilogue left and then this goddamn manuscript is finally done and i do not know how to feel about this. finishing a book never gets any easier. i couldn’t wait to write the end every day i’ve worked on it, but now i’m just sad to say goodbye to these fucking hooligans
even though i’m at 103,485 words somehow, which is truly ludicrous. my goal was 70k 🤡
#indy ta romcom wip#kat rambles#but also as soon as this is done and i finish my current client’s manuscript my time should be freed up a bit#fingers crossed for august 15th#bc then i get to actually get back into my inbox#huzzah my agent and i worked out a better deadline to get it to her
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can’t remember the last time i was as excited for someone to read a book i wrote as i am for my agent to read this romcom and i really have no idea why except the urge to be like “LOOK AT THIS COOL THING I MADE. FEEL EMOTIONS OVER IT. HOPEFULLY YOU’LL CATCH THE OFMD JOKES.”
#indy ta romcom wip#i am including ofmd jokes and references for the both of us#bc we are both obsessed
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“Wait,” I whispered and he halted instantly, pulling away from his occupation of giving me a massive hickey. “Do you want me to close my eyes?”
His brows furrowed. “What, to lie back and think of England? I’d rather you didn’t.”
I snorted, couldn’t help it, and shook my head. “No, so I don’t see where your knives are.”
He blinked, as if surprised, and then he exhaled and sat up, shifting to fully straddle my thighs. “I trust you.”
Now it was my turn to blink and swallow hard, my hands landing on his hips, fingers slipping over the strip of skin between his pants and sweater. “Really?”
“Have for ages, Marlo.” He caught my hands, curled them around the hem of his sweater, and brushed his thumbs over my knuckles. “I trust you.”
BECAUSE. I. CAN.
#my writing#indy ta romcom wip#yes this is the trope of a character carrying more weapons than should be possible#but also adjusted a tiny bit to the obvious
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Eugene whispered, “My gender is thief,” in what appeared to be genuine delight.
“Assigned pickpocket at birth,” I murmured, smug at his cackle.
would you believe these two have known each other for less than a day (and their meet cute was a fucking duel with swords)
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"shuffle your playlist. list the first 10 songs then tag 10 people"
thanks for the tag @windewehn! these are all from my romcom's playlist
Looking Back by Aksel
Guns and Roses by Bohnes
Gone by Harry Hudson
Westwood Road by Andy Black
Torch by Black Veil Brides
Sweet Water by Davina Michelle
One Last Time by LP
me and ur ghost by blackbear
strangers by Bring Me The Horizon
Revolution by Bishop Briggs
i'll tag anyone who wants to do this!
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hi!!!! i have a question… i think it was you that mentioned not liking it when a protagonists thoughts are in the narration, like italicized (or maybe myth???? if so i am so terribly sorry feel free to ignore this).. and can i ask why? i have a vague memory of ur explanation and i don’t want to try and butcher it here especially if this is all wrong … but i am curious! honestly just wondering.. especially if i’m asking the wrong person and if so i’m really sorry abt that ;_;
no you’re right, it was me! iirc it came up back when i was reading r breaker. it’s definitely a pet peeve, since i know a lot of writers like doing it, but for me it just takes me out of the narrative, even in third person. when i’m reading, i automatically assume everything on the page is from the POV of whichever narrator we’re currently reading about, so to have italicized thoughts—especially when given the “i thought” or “he thought” dialogue tags—heavily implies that the rest of the narrative isn’t directly from the POV character. it’s jarring for me, since it abruptly differentiates introspection from internal thought, and there’s better ways of including those italicized thoughts directly into introspection.
editing to add an example, bc i found a good one while editing:
I’d looked at the few pictures of Eugene’s mom and stepmom in the house, and it was blatant how in love they were. It was nice, seeing that Eugene’s mom could find that later in life. Hope for us all.
another writer might have put “hope for us all” in italics, but i didn’t bc it’s very clear that “hope for us all” is a thought my narrator is having simply bc we’re in her POV. they also might have changed “It was nice, seeing that Eugene’s mom could find that later in life” to something like “It’s nice his mom could find that later in life.” i didn’t, bc of the above
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if i was part of a secret society that believed "true love" was cursed but wanted to put together a time capsule for future generations of my society, what would i put in it?
and other completely normal things i ask myself while writing
#indy ta romcom wip#kat shitposts#but not really#look paul revere and samuel adams were fucking boring when putting together their time capsule#so fuck that#i'm going all out#HELL SHAKESPEARE WAS PART OF THIS FICTIONAL SOCEITY#SOCIETY*#BECAUSE I CAN#and he put one of his missing plays in it#(yes there's rumored to be missing plays. no the one i included is not one of the suspected ones.)#(mine is fictional and pertains to the society)#this manuscript has been giving me hell i'm entitled to trash talk it on my blog#anyway if you have any suggestions for items to put in the time capsule i'm all ears
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“God, I like you,” I said without thinking, but when his cheeks went pink once again, I couldn’t regret it, not when he pressed his face to my neck and said, “Yeah, I like you, too.”
sometimes i write sweet things
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