Frankie, Unpublished

Ugh I might try. Just write the big scenes I know I need. Strange without the connective tissue and emotional through line.

1000% a pantser. I may plot like the major story points in the order I want them. Outside that…it’s unknown until I get there.

And by major story points, I mean the 5 scenes I think can carry a novel hahaha

Yesss this! Like I know what I want to fix. I may just like cut it up. You know? Save the parts I can and weave in my new arcs.

Tapestry it hahaha or quilt?? Maybe quilt is better.

Anyone struggle with zero drafting?

8 chapters short of finishing a draft for a novella but realize I don’t have enough external stakes. I thought it would be shorter and could work a bell jar feel. It needs too much to continue. Two new characters. A new dynamic.

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I also have book banning and censorship as a plot line in my querying novel Shamelessly Wanting. Those mine is library and not teachers.

Good luck to you!

I love seeing themes and story ideas showing up differently in all our works.

In the early afternoon, when the parish gathered in the churchyard for the feast, Matthias spent the hours avoiding Frau Annel. She thrust bowls in his hand, which he promptly offered to others when her back was turned. The food smelled delicious. Yet he couldn't eat, so full was he of want. So ached was his mouth for another sweetness. It was after None that he finally slipped away from the church. Still a summer sun in the sky, he'd have hours yet till Vespers. Hours to spend with his angel. Which Ruin wasn't. They'd said so more than once. Believed in mind, but not in heart. Not today. Words from the prayer's psalm pulsed in his head: intellectum da mihi, et vivam. Give me understanding and I shall live. Live he must. By no other means than with Ruin's smile on his lips, their laugh in his ear, their fingers threaded in his hair. So quick were his steps, brambles scratched at his calves. It was faster to go through the brush than around. As he lowered from the upper river bank into the clearing, he called out for the first time, "Ruin! I seek you." No swish of skirts in the stream. Nor bubble of laughter. He ran his hands through his hair, sweat slicking back errant strands. His shirt stuck to his lower back; he pulled it loose from his trousers. No one by the maple tree, he'd circled its trunk. As he paced back to the bank, he stripped of his shoes, shirt, and stockings; the garments trailed behind him. He dropped to the ground, grass tickling his arms as he laid beneath the sun. Palms pressed to his eyes, he whispered, "Mandasti justitiam testimonia tua: et veritatem tuam nimis. Tabescere me fecit zelus meus"

I have to shelve my Father Matthias draft as I work out foundational issues—it’s more sexual awakening than plot 😅 enjoyable, but not quite what I planned in my head.

Zeal is in Latin at the bottom: zelus.

Psalm 119:139: My zeal has consumed me…

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For the title alone! 💚💚💚🍵🍵🍵

Is it true this has also been written by a Jennifer??

Ooooh I love this! Also the name Bambi is highly underused ❤️

Just want to say my mmc is also named Miles ❤️❤️

Love this premise! Also I am so intimidated to try dual timeline. Would love to know how that was??

Yes me too ❤️ tho I have decided to shelve fruit of ruin because I’ve accepted it has some foundational issues that need fixing before I continue drafting. Ugh! So gonna enjoy a fresh draft elsewhere before I tear it up haha

Crossing my fingers for you 🤞🏻because I want to read that and also try desperately not to steal it now hahahaha

Yes I did the same. Tho I’m a project hopper. But I do finished! Evidenced by the one querying or else even I’d forget haha

I am also querying! Well one is out hahahaha more to come tonight.

Loooooove! Nancy Drew was my childhood.

Embroidery based magic?! I must know more! Have I missed a trend? Because that sounds so original and wonderful!

Oooh love the dark moody premise!!

Writers of messy, unapologetic, morally questionable and sex-obsessed women (and the partners caught in their chaos)…UNITE!

Yes I also comp fleabag!!

This has so many lovely things! Would love to know more!

This sounds amazing!! Would love to know more ❤️ I am also in the query trenches.

Well I love the premise! My cozy idea centers on an inn set in a swamp. Cozy setting. Fireflies and quirky residents and such. Maybe one day I’ll write it hahaha

My WIP also explores grief but is adult dark fantasy. I love seeing how themes are woven across all these genres and age groups.

Thank you! I was worried at first because it gets marketed a lot as separate audiences. But I think there’s desire for just more queer love regardless of its shape ❤️ And there was also no other way to portray these couples haha stuck by my own story.

I would have loooooved this premise as a teen!!!

I’d love to know how you merged heavy themes and stayed in the cozy world. I feel like each time I sit down to plot something cozy…it turns not so. Like where’d this grief come from?

I don’t know if I’d survive reading this, but I love the vibes.

Oh my gosh I looooove this twist on the classic puberty coming of age. Periods are hell—make it so.

This book will make me hungry. You should warn people it must be read with a pastry. Good luck on your drafting!!