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I’ve been so focused on releasing Only Words that I haven’t done much on Tumblr for, well, awhile. But look at that! My book is out! Still working on getting the print version released, but the e-book is available on Amazon now!

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Insisting on happy endings isn’t about denying innovation. The genre innovates and grows constantly.

But the happy ending is a tenant of the genre and has been since the beginning. It’s not some tired trope that can be inverted or subverted. It’s a fundamental facet of the genre. Like the magic in fantasy, or advanced technology in sci-fi. There are just somethings that are the hallmarks of a genre. For the romance one of those hallmarks is the happy ending.

If I doesn’t end happily it just isn’t a romance novel.

What’s more, calling the addition of sad endings to the genre “innovation” smacks of the criticism romance too often recieves for being “unrealistic” or “too optimistic”. Our novels are considered to be less valuable, and are disdained as useless fluff or trash because we don’t embrace the way “things really are”. They’re dismissed as silly love stories that supposedly distort our perceptions of reality. Don’t we know that things just don’t work out like that in really life?

Yeah. We do. But what they don’t understand is that forcing unhappy or tragic endings into a genre that is devoted to optimism and hope is anathema to romance readers and writers. There’s enough of that kind of “reality” in other genres. That’s not why we read romances.

So this isn’t about stalling out the genre’s growth. It evolves every year.

This is about what makes a romance. Which is not defined by some arbitrary set of rules we just make up exexclude people from our sandbox. What makes a romance has been defined by the desires and expectations of generations of readers and writers.

Getting writers to understand that is for their own good as well. Because if you market a tragedy as a romance because you want to “innovate” the genre? All its going to get you is bad reviews, angry readers, and poor sales.

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“The cruel irony of being a writer is that I can never find the words.”

— Cyrene Beckett, Cyrene of A&A

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Write in the tags that movie you’ve seen so many times over so many years that even though you haven’t seen it in a bit, you can still recite every line as it happens

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Plot twist: actually writing things instead of just thinking about them is kinda fun sometimes

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hey guys i’m 100% new to the writeblr community but i’d love to meet ppl here  👀 if anyone out there wants to like/reblog i’d love to find new blogs to follow and ppl to chat with ; v ;  💖

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Forgot Tumblr existed there for a while due to:

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If writing advice doesn’t work for you, don’t use it.

Can’t write every day? Don’t. Prefer to write every day? Cool, do that. If you find outlining useful, outline. Maybe try it, and if it doesn’t help you, don’t force yourself to stick with it. Use the advice–process-wise, stylistically, plot-wise–that makes your stories better, and if it isn’t working, find something else that will.

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Reading through that one part you wrote at 3AM when you were pretty convinced you were the next Stephen King:

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this is the mood for tonight

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“The less you say, the more your words will matter.”

— Rae Carson, The King’s Guard

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It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died

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(via Book Review: Missing by Ann Jones)

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Writing agent Jonny Geller gives advice to young writers. 

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Reblog if you say "fuck" more than 5 times a day.

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When you try to skip ahead in your WIP but then realize there’s so much more background / foundation you need to write first: