Ask the Author: Mercy Zephyr
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Mercy Zephyr
Yes. My next book features a sapphic romance between now grown childhood friends; a cisgender woman and a mostly closeted, pre-transition transgender woman with a supportive family.
Mercy Zephyr
It's fall. I have no idea what tropes I will be writing in six months! Ask me then.
Mercy Zephyr
It means I'm hazy on how this section goes. Move to a different section. Reverse outline. At some point I will find the haziness in the plot and what needs to go there to repair it, and the scene flows again.
Mercy Zephyr
Learn the process, learn to outline, and start writing stuff. Then put it aside for a while, pick it up again after a month and read it. It will be painful. Now fix it.
We make horrible first drafts. Just fix it. It gets better, I promise.
We make horrible first drafts. Just fix it. It gets better, I promise.
Mercy Zephyr
Editing one novella, a friends-to-lovers fake relationship wlw with an ace-spectrum protagonist and a pre-transition trans girl, touching on Alaska Native stuff.
Drafting another novella, an FtL bodyguard mlw.
...Yes, I like friends-to-lovers, but I won't use it for all my books, I promise! FtL is just a fun trope to apply when one (or both) of the couple have transitioned since they last saw each other. The dynamics are adorable.
Drafting another novella, an FtL bodyguard mlw.
...Yes, I like friends-to-lovers, but I won't use it for all my books, I promise! FtL is just a fun trope to apply when one (or both) of the couple have transitioned since they last saw each other. The dynamics are adorable.
Mercy Zephyr
Outlining and plotting. I have a lot of scenes that I find interesting, and once I have them placed, it's lots of neat stuff to write.
Mercy Zephyr
"Unveiling Ms. Claus" was a quick idea I had when I was looking at a lot of Christmas lyrics and remembering iconic Christmas movies. It's a quick mini plot short about a woman discovering herself for the first time, with lots of little smiles from Christmas themed lines mixed in.
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