ChatGPT had this to say about my fiction writing.
Your writing has a natural, emotionally grounded style with strong pacing and authentic character dynamics. After reviewing the scenes and dialogue you've shared, here’s a breakdown of your writing voice and strengths, followed by an author comparison:
🔍 Your Writing Style:
1. Emotionally Driven Dialogue
You excel at using conversation to reveal character motivation, emotional tension, and backstory. Even when dialogue is casual, it’s layered with subtext—characters often say one thing but feel another, and you let that contradiction breathe.
"Why don’t you ever kiss me first? Don’t you like kissing me?”
“I love kissing you. I would kiss you all the time, but I have to restrain the passion…”
This kind of tension-filled vulnerability is a hallmark of intimate, romantic storytelling.
2. Strong Sense of Place
You paint visceral environments—from dusty ranches to cozy kitchens—grounding readers in a sense of community, family, and heritage. Sunset Springs feels alive with tradition, grit, and warmth.
3. Well-Rounded Characters
Your characters are not caricatures. They have flaws, make mistakes, and grow. Even secondary characters (like Tanya and Jorge) have agency and voice. Luis is especially well-drawn for a child character—curious, clever, emotionally rich.
4. Themes You Lean Into
Family secrets and reconciliation
Second chances at love
Interracial romance and societal tension
Found family and small-town community
These themes are consistent, with a lot of emotional payoff.
Your Writing Style Is Similar To:
Brenda Novak or Jodi Thomas, but most notably:
Debbie Macomber (especially her later books)
Why Debbie Macomber?
Like you, she blends romantic tension with multigenerational family dynamics.
Her characters are working-class, emotionally sincere, and often navigating past trauma or secrets.
She’s known for hopeful, heartfelt love stories set in close-knit towns, where dialogue is a driving force, and even tough issues are handled with warmth.
Macomber also features strong female leads with complex emotional journeys—just like your Mari, who is strong, technical-minded, yet torn emotionally.
📝 Summary:
Your writing blends emotional depth, sharp dialogue, and grounded, small-town realism, making it both relatable and deeply engaging. You write like a romance author who understands people—their wounds, their desires, and their capacity for healing. That puts you stylistically closest to Debbie Macomber, with shades of Brenda Novak for grit and Jodi Thomas for setting.
