#PennedPossibilities 666 — Does your MC believe in a higher power? What about evil?
She doesn't believe in "god." She didn't believe in evil before the events of the book, but she's way more likely to use the word by the time the plot really gets into swing.
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Writing scenes. Making progress. It's time to ignore outlines and Just Write. Find the story beats as I go.
This is good. Wind's at my back. I can finish this draft.
Then: second draft. Phew!
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 9: Have you ever realized you’d included an unintended shibboleth in your own work?
I think it would become quite clear quite quickly to a reader who's not a left-winger that my stories are not for them. I mean, I don't use the phrase "anarcho-socialist," but it's anarcho-socialist. :)
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#PennedPossibilities 665 — Tell us what smells remind your MC of their childhood.
Wet soil.
Cooking pots.
Old wood.
Ozone.
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#WordWeavers May 8: Would yesterday's MC agree with the SC’s description of them?
She's outwardly anxious when people characterize her as a leader and inwardly ashamed that she agrees with them.
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I had my first good sleep in over a week. Looking forward to #writing today.
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#WordWeavers May 7: Let your SC describe your MC.
SC: "Grace is great. She always knows what to do. She always has a plan. She's so brave! When you're with her, just follow her lead because she'll always be right."
Grace: "What are you talking about...?"
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#PennedPossibilities 664 — What was the most rewarding moment you experienced during the writing process?
Discovery, when something happens I didn't plan for but fits so well that it'll look like it's on purpose.
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 7: Share a special location you write in for inspiration.
Aeroplanes. They're great. In Canada, the wifi is expensive and glitchy, so I don't bother. I've written whole scenes, that I really like, on m phone on an aeroplane.
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 6: What does your usual workspace look like? Share a picture.
I'm not into sharing a picture. It's a desk with a laptop and a monitor. Same same as everyone else.
There is a painting on the wall, though, of typewriter font on a white background that says, "A word is worth a thousand pictures." My mother and me made it together 20 years ago.
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#PennedPossibilities 663: How do your characters strive to progress, thrive, and better themselves in a positive way?
They're engaged in pure survival, but along the way, they are using the values instilled in them: community, solidarity, non-violence, mutual aid. They're growing into the people they were raised to be, just under absolutely awful circumstances.
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#WordWeavers May 6. Describe the way your MC walks.
She walks with preternatural balance, every step placed just right, hips and core supporting her body. Most people don't notice it consciously. She just seems "strong" even though she's five-foot-nothing (although if you're looking carefully, you can see the actual *muscles*).
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#ScribesAndMakers May 6. Would you like to go to a creative retreat? Would you prefer a mixed retreat or your art only?
Sounds amazing. I'd love to. I think a mixed space that had other writers in it would be ideal.
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Wrote a bit more yesterday (not doing word counts, that's not where I'm at with the draft). Final exams are over, and I can carve out and hour here and there to *inch* ever closer to my big climax, and then slide into a denouement, which I am thinking I'd like to draw out a bit, let it breath.
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 5 Have you ever worked through a bad experience by writing fiction?
I've used exaggerated forms of my experiences in my writings.
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#ScribesAndMakers May 5 -What word(s) always trips you up when writing? Common misspellings or misusage.
Silhouette. I have not once spelled it correctly on my own. I try my best and then get the spellcheker's help. I even speak a little French, but that word is beyond my anglo imagination.
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#WordWeavers May 5 Describe the way your antagonist speaks.
Slowly, carefully, respectfully. She communicates warmth through formality. Her words are measured and deliberate. She makes perfect sense. Except that it's monstrous.
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#PennedPossibilities 662. Imagine This: Would your MC be a sore loser or a sore winner?
She'd be a sore loser. She'd be confounded by the fact of having lost, and it would come out in other ways.
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#WritersCoffeeClub May 5 Have you ever worked through a bad experience by writing fiction?
You mean like my childhood?
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