Rory

🕯️He/him🕯️ Writing NA, SFF, and LGBTQ+ fiction 🕯️ Trans, gay, and working on several WIPS 🕯️ Check out my art account @Bahsill ! My love: @lucchesi_RE ❤️

[Rory @writinglanterns]

🕺 Proper intro post -- My name is Rory!! I'm a transmasc artist/author writing all things queer! My current WIP is a cyberpunk superhero SFF novel tentatively named Alternity, and no I won't shut up about it <3

#WritingCommunity

[R.E. Lucchesi @Lucchesi_RE]

I write because storytelling has always been a part of my life. My books always have important messages in them, and they're about ND and LGBTQ heroes getting their peace no matter how hard life gets. Two people have told me my stories saved their lives, and that sticks with me.

[Rory @writinglanterns]

My brand is "not quite serious author seriously writing a lot of really weird literature"

[R.E. Lucchesi @Lucchesi_RE]

Working on a gay cowboy horror novel to keep my brain distracted while I query. 🤠

[Rory @writinglanterns]

@Lucchesi_RE I'm so ready

[R.E. Lucchesi @Lucchesi_RE]

#QueerPrompts day 3: The Allies is set in 1920s - 1940s Louisiana, Europe, and then New York! It starts out in a mysterious orphanage/super soldier facility, then transitions to WWII, and then the mafia two years after. So, the setting varies as time goes on.

[Rory @writinglanterns]

@Lucchesi_RE My number one fan 🥺

[Rory @writinglanterns]

#QueerPrompts Day 2: Not super well, I haven't been able to write as much as I'd like to 😭 But I have been piecing plans together in my head and I think I'm in a good position to keep going with any number of WIPs and I've been rediscovering the joy of self indulgent writing heh

[Rory @writinglanterns]

@Lucchesi_RE You've been doing a fantastic job!! :D

[R.E. Lucchesi @Lucchesi_RE]

#QueerPrompts day 2: My summer writing goals have gone well! I finished the last round of edits for The Allies last month and went on to start querying! Now I'm steadily playing with other WIPs and ideas to see what sticks while I'm at it. 🥰

[Rory @writinglanterns]

@Lucchesi_RE Done... >:)

[Rory @writinglanterns]

Hi, #QueerPrompts !! I'm Rory, a disabled trans man writing a horror/detective novel: Remember You Will Die. Lyle is a disabled gay man battling illness and solitude in the 60s. He's also a paranormal detective unraveling the horrors of a research facility in the NE wilderness.

[R.E. Lucchesi @Lucchesi_RE]

Hello, #QueerPrompts Aug 1! I'm Raph, a queer ND fella, and I'm currently querying my #LGBTQ #HistoricalFiction novel THE ALLIES, which is about Anastasie, an autistic super soldier who can control blood and his two lovers.

[R.E. Lucchesi @Lucchesi_RE]

Hello, #QueerPrompts Aug 1! I'm Raph, a queer ND fella, and I'm currently querying my #LGBTQ #HistoricalFiction novel THE ALLIES, which is about Anastasie, an autistic super soldier who can control blood and his two lovers.

[Rory @writinglanterns]

@Lucchesi_RE Yessssss hehehehehe

[Rory @writinglanterns]

*as they are, not use 😭

[Rory @writinglanterns]

i really hate tropes as a marketing tactic for obvious reasons, but also because tropes as they use now originated as a way for fans to talk about their shared enjoyment of a story? Now it feels dumbed down to commercialism instead of community, in a way?

[em 🐈‍⬛🍂 @emwgrace]

on a dialogue, prose, and character development level, so many books that get published these days feel like they were written by a high schooler taking their first creative writing class and they do well because they fulfill all the trope checkboxes

[Rory @writinglanterns]

I don't mean an author sharing a trope or two their book includes to try and appeal to readers, either. I mean the trend of marketing images pointing out like ten tropes at a time and half the time they aren't even used properly

[Rory @writinglanterns]

@atz_draws I know :( I'm a hypocrite. but i stand by my word nobody else is allowed to kill their blorbos.

[Rory @writinglanterns]

And then I kill them to further the plot :)

[Rory @writinglanterns]

@atz_draws ASFSFSDKFD GET CALLED OUT

[Rory @writinglanterns]

WHERE DID MY QUOTE TWEET GO THAT LOOKED SO OMINOUS WITHOUT IT

[Rory @writinglanterns]

It was this... it looked like i was just out of nowhere no context saying "and then i kill them to further the plot"... hmmmm
https://t.co/7KwI0ZZOyM

[Rory @writinglanterns]

And then I kill them to further the plot :)