WordWeavers Jan 21.
If in the middle of the book your MC discovered a foundling, what would they do with it?

If this is Elyssia we're talking about, she would take them in, make them part of the family, tackle whatever official stuff needed to be done and, in the end, probably fight to adopt them

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#ScribesAndMakers 2 Whatever?

The problem is, the expense. He doesn’t have the resources to be driving up to Edinburgh every weekend, or to be paying train fares. He needs a job. He determines that is what he’ll do. First thing in the morning, he will go round town and find himself a job, whatever: stacking shelves, anything.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 20
What rôle does death play in your work?

In the natural course of things, death is usually there or thereabouts

Now I look more closely, it seems death is always there or thereabouts

#novelx1: 1. traffic 'accident'
/ 2. suicide

#novelx2: 1. father [MC1]
/ 2. army service in Belfast
/ 3. both parents [MC2]

#novelx3: 1. wife

#novelx4: 1. suicide [ref x1 above]
/ 2. terrorist bomb

#novelx5: 1. Covid19

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#WordWeavers Aug 16: Who is your most flamboyant character, and is it more visual, behavioural, or something else?

That would have to be Elyssia ... and it is all in the behaviour

Interesting that I don't have any visually flamboyant characters 🤔

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WordWeavers 23
Your MC is lost in a busy city…

Nice question

Novelx1: Broderick Arnot, lean against a wall looking lost until someone offered to help

Novelx2: Theresa, take refuge in a cafe and ask the barista
Tom would never consider himself lost

Novelx3: Andrew Bridge, hail a cab

Novelx4: Elyssia, ask the first person to walk by: “Where the hell am I?”

Novelx5: Jim, phone Gill (his wife) & ask where he’s supposed to be

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WordWeavers 4th June

Describe the mood of the opening paragraph of your story using 3 adjectives

intimate emotional troubled

'“What am I going to say?” she says, as they transfer from the A1(M) onto the M1. He glances across and sees the look of sheer terror on her face. It is difficult. He understands. She has confessed it all to him on the Green outside the cathedral under the starry, starry sky'

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Here's an excerpt from #novelx4

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#WordWeavers Mar 28
What gives your characters a sense of self-worth or meaning in their life?

#novelx1
Broderick: working with a team; finding signs of (past) life in the soil

#novelx2
Theresa: sailing; helping people

#novelx3
Andrew: fighting climate change (even if it is a hopeless cause)

#novelx4
Elyssia: believing in a better world; the love of the man she loves

#novelx5
Jim: surviving day to day; keeping the Tidal Teashop open

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#WritersCoffeeClub - Dec 2. From all your work, who's your favourite character?

Oh, alright! I admit it
It's that annoying-girl-turned-vicar Elyssia Gadnall / Williams

She was the most annoying character in #novelx1 when she kept butting in where she was not wanted but she grew up to become a ... well ... a vicar

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