#PennedPossibilities 1029: Name something your MC has always wanted to learn.
Cantonese. Like half her friends speak it at meals, and she *really* wants to be included.
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#ScribesAndMakers Jun 1: Choose an adjective to describe how you're feeling about your creativity this month.
Blugh.
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#WordWeavers June 1: Let your MC introduce themselves.
"I'm Grace, and I want to go home.
"I'm *going* to go home."
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#WritersCoffeeClub Jun 2: What sense is easiest for you to describe?
I was going to say sight, because I do think visually, but the most intuitive thing I describe is sound: voices. If I know how a character is supposed to sound then I know exactly what they'll do in any situation. It's what grounds them, for me.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Jun 1: In what ways do your real-world surroundings appear in your work?
Whenever possible, I set my stories in Vancouver, because why should New York, LA, and London get all the attention?
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 31: What went right for you this month?
Lowers eyes. Walks away. Again.
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#WordWeavers 31 Does your MC have any recurring nightmares?
Every night since she was very little, nightmares of killing everyone she cares about. Around puberty, she started seeing the nightmares as intrusive thoughts during the day. Those are effectively the inciting incident of the story.
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#PennedPossibilities 1028. MC POV: Do you feel like you belong somewhere? What does belonging mean to you?
"I used to belong in Sen̓áḵw. Then the Order took me.
"And I got out.
"But now. I don't know."
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#WordWeavers May 30: Is it possible for someone in your world to make a living as a writer or artist?
Everyone's provided with a home and whatever they need to live with dignity, but it is assumed everyone will participate in keeping their community running, literally or figuratively, so I figure each archology has a poet laureate or three.
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 30: What do you do when you're "stuck"?
The solution is to just open the file, look at some paragraphs, and let myself be pulled in.
The hard part is *doing* that.
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Orion (he/him)