#PennedPossibilities 989 — Is your MC an immigrant or newcomer in the place where they live? If so, where did they emigrate from and where do they currently live?

Medb is an immigrant. 2nd chapter you find out she came tumbling into this universe mid fight with a mage known as Martin of Maledictions.

She's a fish out of water, but she's a piranha that can walk on its pectoral fins.

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#WordWeavers 2026-04-09 One of your characters is seeing something unbelievable. What is it and why are they seeing it?

Klein experiences one of the echoes that is attached to Medb.

He relives Sævvr's memories from his last day alive, and things turn /wait, what the fuck is going on/ at the point where Sævvr dies and Klein starts to 'fall out sync' as it were.

Why he see this? Well, to crudely simplify things, blood born lycanthropy mixes with spiritual essence lycanthropy

Kind of like popping 5 caffeine pills a min after eating an edible, and a ghost turns up

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#PennedPossibilities 973 — How do you select the names of your characters? For you, is there a method?

Names have meanings.

Sometimes the name is an anagram for a detail about the characters.

Sometimes they're thinly veiled nods to some work I enjoyed, such as Van Ander who runs the bar *The First Sip"

Sometimes the name is derived from the real world that has meaning related to the character.
"Klein" is German for small or little. Klein is named such because he starts with a small or limited experience.
His brother "Laric" is a derivative of "Alric/Alrich" meaning ruler or leader. Where Laric went, his younger brother Klein would follow.

Sometimes a name follows in-universe rules such as with Wyth Fork where the names from the main continent use diphthongs and double consonants in specific patterns.

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#WordWeavers 2026-03-31 Share or tell us about a fun scene you recently wrote.
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Klein's auto-ratchet made a soft brrtrtrtruum! for each bolt he loosened as he purposely worked slowly going all the way around the lid.

He tried once or twice to whistle a tune to distract himself but to no avail. His mind kept interrupting to rehash the conversation with his older brother. His mind kept trying to work out to what extent Laric was upset. His mind kept pondering how long it would take for Laric to come around.

His mind was making a lot of unhelpful, unproductive noise.

Klein grabbed the edges of the lid with both hands and slowly thumped his head against the container a good four or five times before drawing a breath and letting loose a heavy exasperated sigh.
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#writerscoffeeclub 2026-03-28. Do you ever sacrifice blunt clarity for prose that flows well?

That's a good question I'm not sure of.
I write with poetic paints but it's fairly clear. I think anyway.
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Medb sat on the carved boulders that adorned the top of Balin Tor. Gíana leaned on her shoulder as the two watched the smoke from the second and third Kerbesh military outposts still rising up in the distance, like black Jörmundur spawns rearing up, silhouetted in red sunset far behind the Cryyl Mountains.

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#WordWeavers 2026-03-23: What are you careful about when writing?

I tend to be careful with continuity, both characters and events. #SanguineDreams sprouts off of an existing story so it's important to me to not break cannon events, and to not write established characters in a way that contradicts established behaviours.

I bet John sighs in relief a bit when I move into sections that are 100% my creation so he gets a break from the texts at random times of 'Hey I need info o
about <thing that wasn't intended to be high depth/importance outside the story>. Oh and I fleshed out (aka built insanely dense lore) details of <thing that was self contained to the story>'
😆

Actually I retract the joke. John gets gassed up when I seize upon subtle bits and implications of his writing, and then shake them around like a dog with new favourite chew toy. Him & the other writers on the series are super supportive of the arcane and 'woo-woo' direction I'm navigating the ship.

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#scribesandmakers March 23. Do you consider yourself a frood who knows where their towel is?

Wolf laughs at the reference. HHGttG! In one WIP where the MCs are off on adventures to a new star, yes, they are definitely cool & know where their towel is and they use it well. The ships are very efficient in slipping between stars. As for the other WIP characters, they got some frood about them, but sometimes they can't predict what's coming, and as for how well the towel works, the Dream hild many surprises.

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#WordWeavers 2026-03-19. Share something that makes your SC different from your MC.

Large difference, Klein is from a farming colony within the Dream. He was just another generic person that chose to become a Jinrō (a low end type of werewolf for simplicity) of Clan Tsagaansoyoo (a crime syndicate & werewolf clan) He's rather savy about things within the Dream since he's native to it and the various technologies. Vs Medb who comes from a universe/planet where humans barely had matchlock rifles .

Klein also can read/write several of the common languages in the Dream. Medb is functionally illiterate within the Dream since none of the languages she speaks exist in the Dream. She speaks Tradesman Tongue which is close enough to common english for her to get by, but it uses a different alphabet of 37-42 characters

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#PennedPossibilities 960 — Describe the longest romantic relationship your MC has ever had. (If they’ve had one.)

Medb has had a low intensity romantic relationship with Lyshí (second in line for the Silver-Ash throne) that spans 8/900 years, and over lapped with Medb + Líth's relationship.

Sort of a Country & City casual relationship id this were a tween romance book

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