Fractured Heart: The Tale of the Pop Star and the Pauper

"Fractured Heart: the Tale of the Pop Star and the Pauper" is a #boysLove / #gay #romance #webnovel about a shy, sulky, economically underprivileged underground EDM artist that ends up falling in love with a funny, flirty, overly-friendly world-famous pop star who seems like he has it all, until they discover that even two people from such wildly different social classes can still bond over their 'fractured hearts'!

You can read four advance chapters for $5/month, as well as the first eight chapters for FREE, on patreon:

"SFW" version: patreon.com/fracturedheart

"as intended" adult-only version: patreon.com/fracturedHeartAO

You can also find more info on the main website: www.fracturedheart.net

I wish I had the time, money and babysitting to go to some kind of EDM music festival so I can do research into what they're like to write into my gay romance webnovel "Fractured Heart: the Tale of the Pop Star and the Pauper" which is about an EDM DJ and as famous pop star who fall in love 😩

For instance, in this passage of dialog between the reluctant vampire and the reformed vampire hunter in my gay romance story that I'm currently writing, which version of these is better?

My inclination is to keep all of one character's dialog within one paragraph even if that makes the paragraph longer, because it seems less confusing. But then I try to contextualize what that paragraph looks like on, say, an ereader, where it might end up taking up an entire page. 🤔

Alt text: the same passage, but with an extra paragraph break in the second paragraph in the latter example

Though the Hunter’s face was out of his view, Theo heard a faint sound that might have been a repressed sob. Tentatively, Lysander put his own arms around Theo’s torso, not holding back as he returned the squeeze. “I hope so,” he rasped, not sounding convinced. “I…I don’t want to be a murderer. I don’t want to kill anything that doesn’t deserve it.”

So I'm writing a scene soon in my gay romance webnovel "Fractured Heart" that's about a shy traumatized tsundere EDM DJ who falls in love with a rich and famous pop star where the DJ goes to visit his (more famous) friend while they're performing in a Tomorrowland - like EDM festival, and I wondered if anyone on here might possibly have experience with a big music festival, ideally a performing DJ themselves or someone involved in setup, etc, who I could ply with research questions about how that all works?

I do extensive web searching trying to research stuff for my book myself, but it's really hard to find behind-the-scenes stuff. Like, how early does the DJ show up for something as big as an EDM festival, and what sort of tech setup is there ahead of time? How much prep goes into your set? Is there a greenroom? Are you allowed to go visit other sets throughout the festival or do organizers tell you not to in case you start a mob?

Currently at the part in my reluctant vampire/misguided vampire hunter gay romance novel (an AU departure I'm temporarily indulging in from my grumpy EDM DJ/flirty famous pop star webnovel Fractured Heart) where I get to decide if vampires can ejaculate and, if so, what comes out. I already went with the "vampires cry blood tears" part (it's inherent in Theo's character that in all worlds, he's prone to crying ^-^;;) so logically blood would come out, but counterpoint, ew.

And yes, I know the physics of a dead creature with no pulse even getting an erection don't make sense either, but I'm not interested in writing sexless vampire fics, I'll leave that to the OG Anne Rice, lol.

Lol more tumblr bot spam trying to get me to click a URL to hand over all my data for hacking/phishing/whatever.

REMINDER: NEVER, EVER, EVER CLICK ON A URL SENT TO YOU BY AN UNKNOWN SOURCE, AND BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL ABOUT CLICKING LINKS FROM UNVERIFIED SOURCES YOU FIND ELSEWHERE.

Complaining at my beta reader/brainstorming friend about how frustrating it is to always deal with the "gay slash pronoun problem" when working on my stories that center around two male characters but constantly naming or using descriptors to refer to each instead of just he/him feels so dang cumbersome and awkward...

Currently going a little crazy trying to make appropriately sized banners for Patreon, Bluesky, Royal Road, Archive of our Own, Wattpad, ScribbleHub, etc so I can start posting my gay romance webnovel "Fractured Heart: the Tale of the Pop Star and the Pauper" there, only the dimensions are different for each, and some of the ones listed are totally wrong...like numerous forum posts for Wattpad claim it's 1920x600 but it's actually ratio'd like a 8.5x11" paper that inexplicably zooms in on the middle, and I've only found one other reddit post that acknowledges this inconsistency?? Why are the listed dimensions totally wrong?!

This version is already starting off interesting. In this one Lysander is part of the Hunters Society, bounty hunters who are commissioned to eliminate Viles (like Witchers) and Theo is an eccentric scientist's apprentice who gets Remade against his will. Lysander is sent in to kill Theo's sire without knowing Theo exists and Lys is utterly thrown for a loop when Theo (who the sire has been keeping prisoner as a 'pet' and trying to convince to eat humans, but Theo has been refusing, starving himself instead) rouses himself enough to help Lys get free...

The Hunters Society has been indoctrinating everyone to think that all Viles are irredeemable monsters incapable of mercy or kindness, but here Theo is, setting him free at great personal risk. Slowly Lys realizes the Society has been lying to people since the beginning and he decides he's going to find a way to expose the truth, meanwhile Theo is at risk of being killed either by his vengeful sire or The Exalted (the vampire royalties) for being Remade without permission. So they both end up on the run together.