#pennedpossibilites 963. If you use a pen name or certain username on a writing site, what is its significance and how did you arrive at using it?

My pen name is an anagram of my full given name less four letters. My given name is quite common. I experimented a bit with first initial middle initial surname before trying out anagrams.

My username is one I've used on many platforms over the years. It's from the novel Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett. The narrator of the story is trying to pass time as he's waiting to die and invents a character called Saposcat, or Sapo for short. Full disclosure, I never finished reading the book, but I have to assume Malone Dies. I keep meaning to go back and try reading it again.

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.03.06 —Is there a local writing community near you? Do you participate in it?

You can't get closer than Mastodon  (🐘) on my very own computer!!! Too shy to look elsewhere…

I participate in:

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As well as:

#WritingCommunity
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#pennedpossibilites 842. Which POV(s) do you prefer to write?

Second person tragic, or fifth person semi-omniscient. Occasionally first person absent.

the whole premise of Erika is imagining someone with perfect social awareness, and how that erodes her sense of self. and then when she does exert her self-ness, well, shit goes down, to say the least.

since she's a foil to Sebastian, you might imagine that he has an opposite awareness - a good sense of self but poor sense of others - but in practice it doesn't really work out like that. I think Sebastian has actually a parallel arc, and in some ways his own development comes from building an understanding of Erika.

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Whilst I try to only rarely cross-announce on the various writer challenge game hashtags I frequent, I'm doing so because March 30th, today, I am answering questions asked of me on Talk To Me Day hosted by Scribes and Makers. To ask, please include a question and these three items:

#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @sfwrtr

Follow the two hashtags to participate in the answers and fun.

Here's the announcement: https://indieauthors.social/@saposcat/114240655183968909

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#PennedPossibilites 623. In theory, what would be your SC’s weapon of choice?

(Catching up)

Atosho used both guns and stilettos in the war. She's practical enough to prefer guns; close-quarter fights between women are generally over quickly. Whoever makes the first mistake gets stabbed, and zapped. At that point, they're out of the fight - usually because they're dead.

#PennedPossibilites 623
In theory, what would be your SC’s weapon of choice?

There aren't so many weapons on Ardonna. Mages are born weapons so don't need anything external. Same with most other forms of life. If you do find any, it would be among humans, particularly in the Dragon Age. The queen of Sharren likes her sword, which marks her as a threat to some people when she visits Quenelle.

#PennedPossibilites 623. In theory, what would be your SC’s weapon of choice?

Atosho used both guns and stilettos in the war. She's practical enough to prefer guns; close-quarter fights between women are generally over quickly. Whoever makes the first mistake gets stabbed, and zapped. At that point, they're out of the fight - usually because they're dead.

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#PennedPossibilites 147. MC or SC POV: Where did you grow up?

The small town of Emerald Bay. It gets some tourism in the summer and was founded by pirates who went legit when the King decided to point them at his enemies and rewarded them with land.