Kate 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.

I 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.

i 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-book

many 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.

I think it’s @kateclayborn.bsky.social who has recommended this a bunch of times and I’m finally reading and loving it.
#currentlyreading

i 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

tbh hot frosty was a good time

i’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)

does bluesky like puppies 🖤

Lorraine Heath could write Old Man and the Sea but Hemingway could never write The Earl Takes All (gorilla twins iykyk)

what 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

everyone, 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?