kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026chaotic meme carousel bluesky flyby; the Paris match is out today and i love you all ✈️🇫🇷🩷 1110
Reposted by kate claybornJessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 17/03/2025Kate writes about the "cumulative sentence" in detail here and how it's used in romance novels and lands in this beautiful place about the impact of this sentence specifically in romance novels. Man, Kate can just write. 1259
Reposted by kate claybornSylvie Fielder @sylviefielder.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I was absolutely delighted by this newsletter - to learn there is a name for something I do all the time in my writing, to understand better why it works, is so helpful. 131
kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025i know i neglect this platform a lot but for those of you who may have been missing my musings on romance prose here’s a little something 🖤https://kateclayborn.substack.com/p/i-finished-my-bookkateclayborn.substack.comI finished my book!so of course I want to talk about syntax 1322
kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025many years in and sometimes i still don’t always trust my most solid writerly instincts, especially when i am too focused on something like a word count. i’ll write a transition into something in the story and i have an actual feeling in my body: this isn’t right. 1270
kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024i write contemporary romance so i want to be careful not to talk about this in a way that’s unwelcome from an author, but i do think that in time, there will probably be a lot to say about the network of influences that brought genre romance to where it is today 4582
kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024i’ll tell u one thing romance books taught me! that a day of foibles like the one i had would conclude with a much more handsome stranger!!! (no offense to v handsome mr c but u are not a stranger) 2310
Reposted by kate claybornErin Leafe @erinleafe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Lorraine Heath could write Old Man and the Sea but Hemingway could never write The Earl Takes All (gorilla twins iykyk) 4483
kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024what if i opened a place called the kate clayborn school of romance novel small gestures. and what if one of the lesson plans was about that moment when a main character rubs a lock of their beloved’s hair between thumb and forefinger. it’s only ever the thumb and forefinger in the prose do u notice 121204
kate clayborn @kateclayborn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024everyone, it’s me, kate. you might know me from such books as georgie, all along & love lettering. you wanna talk about romance novels on here or what? 382505
