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#WritersCoffeeClub October 19: How do you keep track of dates and events in a WIP?
I write everything down. Always have. Not in a spreadsheet nor anything of that sort, but in text documents. And before we had those, it was on paper. I update a timeline with day, date, and events with each chapter a write--essentially, an outline after the fact. I see this as just another facet of world building.
#WritersCoffeeClub 18th of October: Do you tend to incorporate supernatural elements in your work?
Some would see them as supernatural. Gods, demons, etc make their appearances in my fantasy work. BUT I have science to explain each and every one of them. So they are 'natural' in my created world. I definitely do not throw in unexplained (or unexplainable) supernatural elements in any of my fiction. Only the solid and material exist.
#ScribesAndMakers 16/10 How do you involve native plants in your gardening?
The birds help me by 'planting' local trees here and there in the yard, such as wild black cherries. Sometimes I transplant them, sometimes I've just let them grow where they sprouted. I also gather local plants from places where they'd be mowed anyway, cedars and hollies and the like. Doing my best to get native red mulberries growing. Same with wildflowers like tickseed.
#WordWeavers Oct 13. Who among your characters is the biggest risk-taker?
That would be fighter pilot Sacajawea 'Sacky' Baldwin. Jack will no longer let her near his air-cycles since she tried to do a loop on one of them. But she is also willing to risk her career by 'going rogue' to aid in the hunt for traitors in the upper ranks.
#WordWeavers Day 7: How does the world your characters inhabit deal with garbage?
Out the air-lock with it! Just make sure you're far enough from the station no one notices.
Crack
That crack in all things
that lets in the light
must be what keeps me
from sleeping at night.
Who the heck dropped it
and caused it to break?
If I could just patch it
I might not lie awake!
I toss and I turn
for it’s far too bright:
That crack in all things
that lets in the light.
Stephen Brooke ©2025
fun with cliches #lightverse #poetry
#writersCoffeeClub 10/05: Have you ever included real-world disproven science in a work?
Not if the story is set in this world. If an alternate reality, anything goes--and my main fantasy sequence posits an infinite number of those. Not only will that disproven science work somewhere, there must be a world (or infinite ones, for that matter) where it works. Four elements? Of course!