#WritersCoffeeClub JUN-08 How vast are your settings?

Usually, locations emerge organically as they are needed, so I guess, you could accurately call this 'limited'.

One exception is the worldbuilding of #SoulBearer. Of course, for the first part, #SoulBearerLegacy, not every place on the map was planned beforehand, but as Balia travels the land, I had to think in different dimensions for this one.

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#WritersCoffeeClub JUN-06 How do you write about places you’ve never been?

Yes and no. For High Fantasy ( #SoulBearerLegacy) and Science Fiction ( #Unmodeled), sure.

For contemporary literature, I either write about places, I know (Hamburg, Germany ( #ExGayHusband) and Anchorage, Alaska ( #SubconsciousMind))

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#WritersCoffeeClub JAN-30 Do secondary characters sometimes get promoted to main characters?

Well, the other way round, actually:
At the end of the first part of the #SoulBearer trilogy, #SoulBearerLegacy, our protagonist, Balia, dies, so she can't be the protagonist of the second part. But she'll rejoin its cast, now taking the role of the sidekick, which had been filled by Alexander before, who's now gone.

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#WritersCoffeeClub DEC-10 Do you set out to write a series of a certain number of books?

I once tried that with the #SoulBearer trilogy, starting with #SoulBearerLegacy and having a new protagonist for each novel, but the community I posted in lost interest in reading stories in general, so I stopped posting the last chapters of the first as well as not posting the first chapters of the second part of the series, I had already started writing

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#PhantastikPrompts DEC-13 Was ist die glücklichste Erinnerung deiner Figur?

Ich wüsste keine konkrete Erinnerung, aber die Erinnerung involviert sehr wahrscheinlich Balias besten Freund Jett.

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#WritersCoffeeClub NOV-17 Have you ever written anything where the POV shifts partly through to a new MC?

#SoulBearerLegacy, the first part of a trilogy introduces us to the concept of soul bearers, people who take souls of dead people who they then can talk to and might get guidance from. When they in turn die, said soul leaves them and their own soul can be taken by a soul bearer.

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#WordWeavers Oct-31 Do the wishes / lives of any people who’ve died influence your MC’s choices?

The whole concept of #SoulBearerLegacy is built around that: When Balia finds Alexander, he is dying. He takes his soul and he is with her from then on, giving her advice and being annoying at times.

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#WordWeavers AUG-7 Tell us about an influential group from your story. How do they affect the plot?

The proponents of the Sanctum Morales are a group of religious fanatics who burn gays among other people on a stake.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 11 Do you consider any of your work to be unfilmable?

Not per se. It's all a matter of budget.

I would shoot the #SoulBearer trilogy in #TheVolume/ #Stagecraft™️ due to it being fantasy and therefore requiring quite some VFX shots. Later scenes of #FindingMe take place in the future. #MichaelAndLucas probably never gets completed.

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#PennedPossibilities 404 — Have you ever mixed a foreign language into your writing? Which one?

I had characters in the #SoulBearer trilogy fantasy world speak different fantasy languages at times, though, too few words that I would consider them #conLang|s

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