#PennedPossibilities 969. Do your stories have happy endings?

I dunno. Define "happy"? They resolve.

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#PennedPossibilities 968: Current word count for WIP?

71,740 words.

It feels like it ought to be so much longer...

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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar. 28: Do you ever sacrifice blunt clarity for prose that flows well?

Oh yes. Sometimes, it's less jarring to just say, "It was ten years later," than to try to gesture emphatically to the fact that the characters had aged.

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#WritersCoffeeClub - 27 Mar. If you had to pick one, would you say writing is a more exciting or cathartic process for you?

Cathartic, but that's only if I had to pick. My gut instinct is to say "both."

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#WordWeavers Mar. 28: When was the last time your MC got excited? Why?

Depends on your definition, but if you mean in a good way, that would be when she stole someone's lunch and it had coffee in a thermos.

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#WordWeavers⁩ Mar. 27—Which character would be the most fun to be around?

Sim. By a mile. He's the funny one.

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#ScribesAndMakers Mar. 28: Does your day job (past or present) influence your creativity?

My day job is "English teacher," so yeah. It's a pretty big influence. ;)

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#ScribesAndMakers March 27: What's a book that made you see the world differently? How?

Lee Maracle's RAVENSONG. It was the first literary fiction I'd read by an Indigenous author who's local to where I live--Maracle is Sto:lo--and it impressed on me just how crushing Canadian colonialism is on the people who are actually from the place where I live.

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#ScribesAndMakers March 26: Do you dance or move along to music when you listen?

Depends on the music, but generally yes.

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