Blog – Freya Lojord

When my boss billed me for a toilet

“Five thousand dollars.” Vanessa, my colleague, slapped the paper onto my desk. Read More ...

Best Spicy Romance F-M books for Adults

Cast Aside Wife

Freya Lojord

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This high-heat dark romantic fantasy is a compelling choice for readers who are drawn to morally complex women, tragic ambition and villain origin stories. Read More ...

Link tree HTML template for your own website

Stop relying on external services like Linktree. When you do, you give up your website’s ability to be discovered by people and search engines. Read More ...

Thesautus for intimate parts when writing smut

Nipple

Teat
Papilla
Areola
the dark ring
Tip
Point
Bud
Rosebud
Apex
Peak
Nub
Bead

Dialogue tags

The most common typos that come up in proof edits involve dialogue punctuation between dialogue tags, action beats and descriptions. I’ve gathered this list as I’ve been doing more and more writing and using the rule to never let an uninterrupted monologue run for too long. Read More ...

Free shiny stars Procreate Brushes

When making a cover for my next book, A Tale of Fate and Fury, I created a custom collection of star brushes that make it easy to add stars to my artwork in just a few strokes. Read More ...

Romantasy Books Where the Heroine Is Locked Away

Best romantasy books with heroines locked away behind walls, prisons, or cages where the female main character is physically confined but finds love, strength, and magic within the walls. These stories combine romance, danger, and high stakes. Read More ...

Stages of day and night light

In my first drafts, I often found the day progressing from twilight to darkness and then suddenly to the first rays of sun, or from dawn to twilight and back again. I’ve seen it all. So here is a natural progression of light, from complete darkness in the morning to night: Read More ...

Everything in a novel is an arc of change

Writing a novel is like drawing a Sierpinski triangle. Read More ...

Learning to write beautiful third-person prose without overusing pronouns

When reading over my own writing, I often find a lot of sentences starting with “she”, a name or “her”. I know I shouldn’t use the name too much, so I replace it with pronouns. The result is less than perfect prose that is repetitive and does not sign. Read More ...