#WordWeavers 2026.04.06 —Can you create a character/place/storyhook/device on the spot, if you need to? If so, share an example.

Yes?

Gratis: If you write it, I'd like to read it.

Over many months, people began to realize the girl wasn't the person she had been before the coma. She wasn't. For her, it was always the sense of being in a different body, wearing a shell, sometimes with bouts of emotional claustrophobia. While she had previous memories of the middle school girl she now was, she had previous memories all through university that overlapped: research, internships, mentorships, graduations, men. She felt vaguely swindled that she hadn't turned in her finished Ph.d. thesis the day before… before—before whatever happened. The girl's friends liked the new brainy her, who deftly handled all the juvenile jocks and bullies, but the girl's older sister was convinced she'd developed multiple personalities. Sis hadn't dropped down to possessed, yet, but that goth look and crystals presaged bad things. Her supposed technological flashes, in 1952 from 2025, were rapidly getting her noticed. The science faire had been a bad idea. Some of her math hadn't existed until she pasted the calc sheets to the poster. That she'd done it with a slide rule was what amazed her. People used the word "prodigy" for the girl. Now, with talks of scholarships in a male dominated engineering field that didn't want her, she wasn't sure she was up to changing history—or if the voice growing in her ear was the girl before the coma.

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#ScribesAndMakers ∆ 2026.04.06 — Some people have creative work inspired by their dreams. Have you ever had dreams inspired by your creative work?

Can't say inspired, per se. When I am working intensely or before bedtime, my dreams tend to be very vivid, but never can I say the actual words affected the dream. More like throwing gasoline on a fire.

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I just submitted to Clarkesworld. As Neil gives no personal feedback, I have no idea if any of my must-be-around-six-dozen previous submissions came close or not. He did give me a card that instructs one to be kind to the bearer as they have been rejected by Clarkesworld. And he has always been pleasant to converse with each time I've met him at a conference. Let's game this: try to guess how long it will take before I receive the rejection email.

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#ScribesAndMakers ∆ 2026.04.05 — Could you do a scrapbook accompanying your current creative process?1

RS is being intentionally absurdist here, but I have a scrapbook! The illustration is a folder for scraps of story that I rewrote.

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