Orion (he/him)Feb 2

#WordWeavers Feb 1: Who is your most despicable character and how do you feel about them?

My antagonist. She's a combination cop / cult leader. She's everything I hate, I think (except she's a woman and a Quebecer, which I don't hate at all).

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Show threadOrion (he/him)Feb 2

#WordWeavers Feb 2: Do you enjoy writing "good", "bad" or morally grey characters more? Why?

I get a thrill out of making it obvious that terrible people are terrible. I also get a thrill out of making people who are in the right look like they're in the right.

I loathe, "This person is obviously an asshole... but it's for a secret really good reason!" No. It's not. #RickAndMorty

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Show threadOrion (he/him)Feb 5

#WordWeavers 5 Feb: If you found out that someone had to live your MC’s life ... would you change the story?

My god. Yes. JFC. The "inciting incident" is a fourteen-year-old girl getting abducted from her home. If I had the power to prevent that, I would. Then, I'd write a new story about how someone invented a time machine in order to prevent the cult she was going to dragged into from every forming in the first place.

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Show threadOrion (he/him)Feb 9

#WordWeavers Feb 9: "Have you ever talked to a reader of your story? How did it go?"

My mother-in-law had a lot of feedback. She was supportive. My wife and friends didn't have any feedback. I think they're a bit too close to me to not see me in the text. I have a writing group that's great. It's like having a writer's room. :)

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Show threadMargaret MoonshadowFeb 9
@orionkidder My mother-in-law was supportive, bless her, even set up a reading for me. Granted, it was with her friends in her condo community, but I loved that. And they were in turn encouraging. I chose my piece well, for maximum likeability. lols. Not everyone is in love with my writing, including and sometimes especially family, but it seems par for the course.
Show threadOrion (he/him)Feb 9
@MargaretSefton Like I said, it's really hard for people who know us not to just see *us* in the text. But like, it's fiction, okay, and I'm consciously choosing what to put in, so maybe don't psychoanalyze me, thanks...?
Show threadMargaret Moonshadow
@orionkidder I get it. My family just doesn't read my material, at least as far as I'm aware. So I can see how the situation you describe could be difficult. As a psychiatrist once put it to me when I grieved over feeling I need to write, but worrying how others in my life would read it or feel about it: "Tell them it's just fiction." But yeah, people will read in. Others who write understand, though, so it is great to have that support.
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Show threadOrion (he/him)Feb 9
@MargaretSefton Exactly. Other writers get that my "child assassins in space" book is about high school and institutions failing our children but that I'm consciously crafting it. I think people who don't write also don't see that craft. They assume it's intuitive, that I've opened a window in my forehead into my soul. And like, guys, why do you think I'm still writing it after four years if I'm just dumping my feelings? They don't think about that. It's innocent, IMO. They sincerely don't know.