#WordWeavers 6/1: "Let your MC introduce themselves."
Snip "Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
My name is Sumika, and I’m a witch. However, I’m nothing like a yamauba, a mountain hag. I’m more like Sabrina: an ordinary store clerk who met a couple of foreign women interested in New Age magic.
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Characters seldom introduce themselves.
#WordWeavers: Does your MC have any recurring nightmares?
Ume in particular, has nightmares from PTSD. They are mentioned, but we never see one.
#wordweavers 5/30 Is it possible for someone to make a living as a writer/ artist.
It's urban fantasy. There are people who do. Ume in #KonbiniIdol even does. (It helps having a protective kami. She does.)
#Wordweavers 29.05.26
What would your antagonist do if they were given a bouquet of flowers?
Eat them?
#WordWeavers 2026-05-28: What is your MCs' relationships to nature?
Airisu is a crow and would consider humans, thinking themselves separate from nature, as silly pigeon talk.
Bijou is a ghost or at least a supernatural creature. She would consider it an excellent philosophical question whether supernatural creatures are natural. "It's all semantics," she would conclude.
She also prefers the civilized life. It's cafes, not cookouts, for her.
#WordWeavers 27 What does victory mean for your antagonist?
Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost: We don't even know what the antags are doing. This is a novel series of discovery.
Neither the characters nor the readers know these things to begin with. The entire first volume is about readers learning the answers alongside the characters.
WordWeavers 26/5: What is your antagonist’s earliest memory?
Fear and hunger. Emotions, not thoughts, date back to primordial eons.
#WordWeavers 25.05.2026 What one event defines your MC? Part 2
From a meta point of view it is the moment I finish my character sketch and begin writing.
#WordWeavers 25.05.2026 What one event defines your MC?
Many moments define my characters. But one point stands out as the moment Ume from #KonbiniIdol is forced to decide how much of her integrity she is willing to sacrifice for love.
Actually, I am not going to share it. It is a pivotal moment in the character arc. Let's say there is a moment where she could have gone either way.
#WordWeavers 23/5: If your antagonist came with a warning label, what would it be?
It would be 23 pages of fine print legalese. You know the type.
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