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#PennedPossibilities 1075½ World Cup #imposterToot: Does a big intramural competition (between villages, nations, planets) exist in your world? How do your characters feel about fair play, cheating, or whether they're being distracted by bread and circuses. Do they compete?

I'm pretty confident sports like football exist, but it's never surfaced as team sports on the page of any story. Bolt passingly has mentioned the day angel flying equivalent of track and field in high school. However, not intramural in the sense of "sporting," the devil-girl was a prizefighter: Mixed magical martial arts. The fights are a big thing up and down the eastern seacoast, but are run by the syndicates for the sake of betting, with the constabulary paid to look the other way so long as nobody often dies. Results and celebrities are covered in the papers. Though there are rules and protective gear, and fair play, it still feels a like a WWF cage fight. The devil-girl isn't against stretching the rules to the breaking point so long as she doesn't actually break them. The daemon figures they can tighten said stretched rules once they figure out what she did. Fair play, right?

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#PennedPossibilities 1075½ World Cup #imposterToot: Does a big intramural competition (between villages, nations, planets) exist in your world? How do your characters feel about fair play, cheating, or whether they're being distracted by bread and circuses. Do they compete?

I'm pretty confident sports like football exist, but it's never surfaced as team sports on the page of any story. Bolt passingly has mentioned the day angel flying equivalent of track and field in high school. However, not intramural in the sense of "sporting," the devil-girl was a prizefighter: Mixed magical martial arts. The fights are a big thing up and down the eastern seacoast, but are run by the syndicates for the sake of betting, with the constabulary paid to look the other way so long as nobody often dies. Results and celebrities are covered in the papers. Though there are rules and protective gear, and fair play, it still feels a like a WWF cage fight. The devil-girl isn't against stretching the rules to the breaking point so long as she doesn't actually break them. The daemon figures they can tighten said stretched rules once they figure out what she did. Fair play, right?

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#ScribesAndMakers π2026.07.19 — When you read or watch a mystery, how often are you able to solve it before the answer is revealed?

If the definition of mystery is something akin to a crime mystery whodunnit, almost never. I don't have the technical expertise or knowledge nor can I judge the unfamiliar situations. If the definition of mystery is in the mysteries presented in a good plot, then almost aways. I'm an author. I understand the technique. I very do much enjoy when an author sets up a good mysterious plot that I can't solve and I can agree afterwards that I could have. All my stories are structured upon mysteries.

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#ScribesAndMakers π2026.07.19 — When you read or watch a mystery, how often are you able to solve it before the answer is revealed?

If the definition of mystery is something akin to a crime mystery whodunnit, almost never. I don't have the technical expertise or knowledge nor can I judge the unfamiliar situations. If the definition of mystery is in the mysteries presented in a good plot, then almost aways. I'm an author. I understand the technique. I very do much enjoy when an author sets up a good mysterious plot that I can't solve and I can agree afterwards that I could have. All my stories are structured upon mysteries.

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#ScribesAndMakers π2026.07.19 — When you read or watch a mystery, how often are you able to solve it before the answer is revealed?

If the definition of mystery is something akin to a crime mystery whodunnit, almost never. I don't have the technical expertise or knowledge nor can I judge the unfamiliar situations. If the definition of mystery is in the mysteries presented in a good plot, then almost aways. I'm an author. I understand the technique. I very do much enjoy when an author sets up a good mysterious plot that I can't solve and I can agree afterwards that I could have. All my stories are structured upon mysteries.

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#ScribesAndMakers π2026.07.19 — When you read or watch a mystery, how often are you able to solve it before the answer is revealed?

If the definition of mystery is something akin to a crime mystery whodunnit, almost never. I don't have the technical expertise or knowledge nor can I judge the unfamiliar situations. If the definition of mystery is in the mysteries presented in a good plot, then almost aways. I'm an author. I understand the technique. I very do much enjoy when an author sets up a good mysterious plot that I can't solve and I can agree afterwards that I could have. All my stories are structured upon mysteries.

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#ScribesAndMakers π2026.07.19 — When you read or watch a mystery, how often are you able to solve it before the answer is revealed?

If the definition of mystery is something akin to a crime mystery whodunnit, almost never. I don't have the technical expertise or knowledge nor can I judge the unfamiliar situations. If the definition of mystery is in the mysteries presented in a good plot, then almost aways. I'm an author. I understand the technique. I very do much enjoy when an author sets up a good mysterious plot that I can't solve and I can agree afterwards that I could have. All my stories are structured upon mysteries.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.19 — MC POV: What scares you the most about the future of your world?

[Bolt, day angel woman:] I dunno. Just living, working for the mob, is kinda scary enough already, but there was the news…about the government saying the population had declined 30 million to 240 million since the moonshot 200 years ago. Still, 240 million! That's an unfathomable number. Can't get me to worry about that.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.19 — MC POV: What scares you the most about the future of your world?

[Bolt, day angel woman:] I dunno. Just living, working for the mob, is kinda scary enough already, but there was the news…about the government saying the population had declined 30 million to 240 million since the moonshot 200 years ago. Still, 240 million! That's an unfathomable number. Can't get me to worry about that.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.19 — MC POV: What scares you the most about the future of your world?

[Bolt, day angel woman:] I dunno. Just living, working for the mob, is kinda scary enough already, but there was the news…about the government saying the population had declined 30 million to 240 million since the moonshot 200 years ago. Still, 240 million! That's an unfathomable number. Can't get me to worry about that.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.19 — MC POV: What scares you the most about the future of your world?

[Bolt, day angel woman:] I dunno. Just living, working for the mob, is kinda scary enough already, but there was the news…about the government saying the population had declined 30 million to 240 million since the moonshot 200 years ago. Still, 240 million! That's an unfathomable number. Can't get me to worry about that.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.19 — MC POV: What scares you the most about the future of your world?

[Bolt, day angel woman:] I dunno. Just living, working for the mob, is kinda scary enough already, but there was the news…about the government saying the population had declined 30 million to 240 million since the moonshot 200 years ago. Still, 240 million! That's an unfathomable number. Can't get me to worry about that.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.19 — Where is the line between following genre or medium conventions, and creating something trite?

This is where honesty with yourself as a writer and skill in telling stories about people (not places or events) allows you to sense if a story works despite the tropes, or whether you're writing a clown show. Too many or too few genre conventions? No ruler exists. I've intentionally wrote space opera: it wasn't about the wizzing space ships, dozens of alien species, or interstellar free traders in the story—the story was about the orphan taken in by a couple, a human married to an alien, and how they help each other survive, and that's what had heart.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.19 — Where is the line between following genre or medium conventions, and creating something trite?

This is where honesty with yourself as a writer and skill in telling stories about people (not places or events) allows you to sense if a story works despite the tropes, or whether you're writing a clown show. Too many or too few genre conventions? No ruler exists. I've intentionally wrote space opera: it wasn't about the wizzing space ships, dozens of alien species, or interstellar free traders in the story—the story was about the orphan taken in by a couple, a human married to an alien, and how they help each other survive, and that's what had heart.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.19 — Where is the line between following genre or medium conventions, and creating something trite?

This is where honesty with yourself as a writer and skill in telling stories about people (not places or events) allows you to sense if a story works despite the tropes, or whether you're writing a clown show. Too many or too few genre conventions? No ruler exists. I've intentionally wrote space opera: it wasn't about the wizzing space ships, dozens of alien species, or interstellar free traders in the story—the story was about the orphan taken in by a couple, a human married to an alien, and how they help each other survive, and that's what had heart.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.19 — Where is the line between following genre or medium conventions, and creating something trite?

This is where honesty with yourself as a writer and skill in telling stories about people (not places or events) allows you to sense if a story works despite the tropes, or whether you're writing a clown show. Too many or too few genre conventions? No ruler exists. I've intentionally wrote space opera: it wasn't about the wizzing space ships, dozens of alien species, or interstellar free traders in the story—the story was about the orphan taken in by a couple, a human married to an alien, and how they help each other survive, and that's what had heart.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.19 — Where is the line between following genre or medium conventions, and creating something trite?

This is where honesty with yourself as a writer and skill in telling stories about people (not places or events) allows you to sense if a story works despite the tropes, or whether you're writing a clown show. Too many or too few genre conventions? No ruler exists. I've intentionally wrote space opera: it wasn't about the wizzing space ships, dozens of alien species, or interstellar free traders in the story—the story was about the orphan taken in by a couple, a human married to an alien, and how they help each other survive, and that's what had heart.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.18 — What is your MC’s favorite family tradition?

Bolt ran away before becoming 18. She didn't value her family until she didn't have them anymore. I could be crass and say both mother and daughter (Bolt) enjoy their men, but without the context of their society, you don't know how boringly prosaic that statement actually is. There's not much else that really qualifies that most other day angels don't also do.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.18 — What is your MC’s favorite family tradition?

Bolt ran away before becoming 18. She didn't value her family until she didn't have them anymore. I could be crass and say both mother and daughter (Bolt) enjoy their men, but without the context of their society, you don't know how boringly prosaic that statement actually is. There's not much else that really qualifies that most other day angels don't also do.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.18 — What is your MC’s favorite family tradition?

Bolt ran away before becoming 18. She didn't value her family until she didn't have them anymore. I could be crass and say both mother and daughter (Bolt) enjoy their men, but without the context of their society, you don't know how boringly prosaic that statement actually is. There's not much else that really qualifies that most other day angels don't also do.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.18 — What is your MC’s favorite family tradition?

Bolt ran away before becoming 18. She didn't value her family until she didn't have them anymore. I could be crass and say both mother and daughter (Bolt) enjoy their men, but without the context of their society, you don't know how boringly prosaic that statement actually is. There's not much else that really qualifies that most other day angels don't also do.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.18 — What is your MC’s favorite family tradition?

Bolt ran away before becoming 18. She didn't value her family until she didn't have them anymore. I could be crass and say both mother and daughter (Bolt) enjoy their men, but without the context of their society, you don't know how boringly prosaic that statement actually is. There's not much else that really qualifies that most other day angels don't also do.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#PennedPossibilities 1075 — What are the biggest obstacles in your antagonist’s life?

Well, for starters Boss Mead is a mafia don in a female-centric society, and, yes, his gender makes A LOT of difference. His Family is found not blood. His management style is not what you'd think: it's cooperative and decentralized. He wants to be taken seriously by upper society and is a patron of the arts, but he's considered nouveau riche, and many suspect some of his businesses are actually laundries. Worse, he's, ughhh male.

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#PennedPossibilities 1075 — What are the biggest obstacles in your antagonist’s life?

Well, for starters Boss Mead is a mafia don in a female-centric society, and, yes, his gender makes A LOT of difference. His Family is found not blood. His management style is not what you'd think: it's cooperative and decentralized. He wants to be taken seriously by upper society and is a patron of the arts, but he's considered nouveau riche, and many suspect some of his businesses are actually laundries. Worse, he's, ughhh male.

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#PennedPossibilities 1075 — What are the biggest obstacles in your antagonist’s life?

Well, for starters Boss Mead is a mafia don in a female-centric society, and, yes, his gender makes A LOT of difference. His Family is found not blood. His management style is not what you'd think: it's cooperative and decentralized. He wants to be taken seriously by upper society and is a patron of the arts, but he's considered nouveau riche, and many suspect some of his businesses are actually laundries. Worse, he's, ughhh male.

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#PennedPossibilities 1075 — What are the biggest obstacles in your antagonist’s life?

Well, for starters Boss Mead is a mafia don in a female-centric society, and, yes, his gender makes A LOT of difference. His Family is found not blood. His management style is not what you'd think: it's cooperative and decentralized. He wants to be taken seriously by upper society and is a patron of the arts, but he's considered nouveau riche, and many suspect some of his businesses are actually laundries. Worse, he's, ughhh male.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#PennedPossibilities 1075 — What are the biggest obstacles in your antagonist’s life?

Well, for starters Boss Mead is a mafia don in a female-centric society, and, yes, his gender makes A LOT of difference. His Family is found not blood. His management style is not what you'd think: it's cooperative and decentralized. He wants to be taken seriously by upper society and is a patron of the arts, but he's considered nouveau riche, and many suspect some of his businesses are actually laundries. Worse, he's, ughhh male.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.18 — Talk about how a work progressed from its initial inspiration. How different was it in the end?

Hope my experience proves helpful!

A set of single word feminist prompts, one a day for thirty-one days, inspired me to write Mars Needed Women. It's a feminist gender fiction SF novel. I decided to write, edit, and publish a draft chapter each day for the entire month with only a vague idea a story, basically that women raised on Mars would end up fighting for independence with an end-stage corporate fascist state earth that started in 2025 one-hundred years later, with some exploding SpaceX Starship in-jokes. I let each prompt color each chapter. Within a few days, I'd written myself into holes that required me to skip to later prompts and do the remainder out of order, sometimes publishing a day late or multiple chapters in a day. I published the last chapter within ten minutes of midnight the last day.

I learned a number of feminist concepts even I hadn't known by trying to figure out the prompts (in French). A family of women grew out of the story, their lives and loves going in directions I'd not even optimistically hoped for. I even ended up killing off the most empathetic character to motivate a courageous climax (but she did get an epilogue). I could not have foreseen the ending. When a beta reader called my MC crass and aggressive (implying she wasn't feminine), I knew I'd gotten it right.

I did publish them as tootfics of 700-850 words on Mastodon, but have deleted the posts since. I've doubled the word count and added content with an intent to publish.

What I learned? Deadlines work for me. I will write and get it done. Doesn't mean it won't need revision or augmentation, but the focus proved helpful.

I think I should start doing that again, writing short and fast. Completing stories regularly really lifts my morale.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.18 — Talk about how a work progressed from its initial inspiration. How different was it in the end?

Hope my experience proves helpful!

A set of single word feminist prompts, one a day for thirty-one days, inspired me to write Mars Needed Women. It's a feminist gender fiction SF novel. I decided to write, edit, and publish a draft chapter each day for the entire month with only a vague idea a story, basically that women raised on Mars would end up fighting for independence with an end-stage corporate fascist state earth that started in 2025 one-hundred years later, with some exploding SpaceX Starship in-jokes. I let each prompt color each chapter. Within a few days, I'd written myself into holes that required me to skip to later prompts and do the remainder out of order, sometimes publishing a day late or multiple chapters in a day. I published the last chapter within ten minutes of midnight the last day.

I learned a number of feminist concepts even I hadn't known by trying to figure out the prompts (in French). A family of women grew out of the story, their lives and loves going in directions I'd not even optimistically hoped for. I even ended up killing off the most empathetic character to motivate a courageous climax (but she did get an epilogue). I could not have foreseen the ending. When a beta reader called my MC crass and aggressive (implying she wasn't feminine), I knew I'd gotten it right.

I did publish them as tootfics of 700-850 words on Mastodon, but have deleted the posts since. I've doubled the word count and added content with an intent to publish.

What I learned? Deadlines work for me. I will write and get it done. Doesn't mean it won't need revision or augmentation, but the focus proved helpful.

I think I should start doing that again, writing short and fast. Completing stories regularly really lifts my morale.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author #mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.18 — Talk about how a work progressed from its initial inspiration. How different was it in the end?

Hope my experience proves helpful!

A set of single word feminist prompts, one a day for thirty-one days, inspired me to write Mars Needed Women. It's a feminist gender fiction SF novel. I decided to write, edit, and publish a draft chapter each day for the entire month with only a vague idea a story, basically that women raised on Mars would end up fighting for independence with an end-stage corporate fascist state earth that started in 2025 one-hundred years later, with some exploding SpaceX Starship in-jokes. I let each prompt color each chapter. Within a few days, I'd written myself into holes that required me to skip to later prompts and do the remainder out of order, sometimes publishing a day late or multiple chapters in a day. I published the last chapter within ten minutes of midnight the last day.

I learned a number of feminist concepts even I hadn't known by trying to figure out the prompts (in French). A family of women grew out of the story, their lives and loves going in directions I'd not even optimistically hoped for. I even ended up killing off the most empathetic character to motivate a courageous climax (but she did get an epilogue). I could not have foreseen the ending. When a beta reader called my MC crass and aggressive (implying she wasn't feminine), I knew I'd gotten it right.

I did publish them as tootfics of 700-850 words on Mastodon, but have deleted the posts since. I've doubled the word count and added content with an intent to publish.

What I learned? Deadlines work for me. I will write and get it done. Doesn't mean it won't need revision or augmentation, but the focus proved helpful.

I think I should start doing that again, writing short and fast. Completing stories regularly really lifts my morale.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author #mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.18 — Talk about how a work progressed from its initial inspiration. How different was it in the end?

Hope my experience proves helpful!

A set of single word feminist prompts, one a day for thirty-one days, inspired me to write Mars Needed Women. It's a feminist gender fiction SF novel. I decided to write, edit, and publish a draft chapter each day for the entire month with only a vague idea a story, basically that women raised on Mars would end up fighting for independence with an end-stage corporate fascist state earth that started in 2025 one-hundred years later, with some exploding SpaceX Starship in-jokes. I let each prompt color each chapter. Within a few days, I'd written myself into holes that required me to skip to later prompts and do the remainder out of order, sometimes publishing a day late or multiple chapters in a day. I published the last chapter within ten minutes of midnight the last day.

I learned a number of feminist concepts even I hadn't known by trying to figure out the prompts (in French). A family of women grew out of the story, their lives and loves going in directions I'd not even optimistically hoped for. I even ended up killing off the most empathetic character to motivate a courageous climax (but she did get an epilogue). I could not have foreseen the ending. When a beta reader called my MC crass and aggressive (implying she wasn't feminine), I knew I'd gotten it right.

I did publish them as tootfics of 700-850 words on Mastodon, but have deleted the posts since. I've doubled the word count and added content with an intent to publish.

What I learned? Deadlines work for me. I will write and get it done. Doesn't mean it won't need revision or augmentation, but the focus proved helpful.

I think I should start doing that again, writing short and fast. Completing stories regularly really lifts my morale.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author #mystery #thriller #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.18 — Talk about how a work progressed from its initial inspiration. How different was it in the end?

Hope my experience proves helpful!

A set of single word feminist prompts, one a day for thirty-one days, inspired me to write Mars Needed Women. It's a feminist gender fiction SF novel. I decided to write, edit, and publish a draft chapter each day for the entire month with only a vague idea a story, basically that women raised on Mars would end up fighting for independence with an end-stage corporate fascist state earth that started in 2025 one-hundred years later, with some exploding SpaceX Starship in-jokes. I let each prompt color each chapter. Within a few days, I'd written myself into holes that required me to skip to later prompts and do the remainder out of order, sometimes publishing a day late or multiple chapters in a day. I published the last chapter within ten minutes of midnight the last day.

I learned a number of feminist concepts even I hadn't known by trying to figure out the prompts (in French). A family of women grew out of the story, their lives and loves going in directions I'd not even optimistically hoped for. I even ended up killing off the most empathetic character to motivate a courageous climax (but she did get an epilogue). I could not have foreseen the ending. When a beta reader called my MC crass and aggressive (implying she wasn't feminine), I knew I'd gotten it right.

I did publish them as tootfics of 700-850 words on Mastodon, but have deleted the posts since. I've doubled the word count and added content with an intent to publish.

What I learned? Deadlines work for me. I will write and get it done. Doesn't mean it won't need revision or augmentation, but the focus proved helpful.

I think I should start doing that again, writing short and fast. Completing stories regularly really lifts my morale.

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#PennedPossibilities 1074 — What creatures are capable of speech in your world?

In the Reluctance series? Only humans are capable of speech.

But RS, you mentioned day angels and daemons in your reply yesterday (1073) and others…

Human.

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#PennedPossibilities 1074 — What creatures are capable of speech in your world?

In the Reluctance series? Only humans are capable of speech.

But RS, you mentioned day angels and daemons in your reply yesterday (1073) and others…

Human.

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#PennedPossibilities 1074 — What creatures are capable of speech in your world?

In the Reluctance series? Only humans are capable of speech.

But RS, you mentioned day angels and daemons in your reply yesterday (1073) and others…

Human.

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#PennedPossibilities 1074 — What creatures are capable of speech in your world?

In the Reluctance series? Only humans are capable of speech.

But RS, you mentioned day angels and daemons in your reply yesterday (1073) and others…

Human.

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#PennedPossibilities 1074 — What creatures are capable of speech in your world?

In the Reluctance series? Only humans are capable of speech.

But RS, you mentioned day angels and daemons in your reply yesterday (1073) and others…

Human.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.17 — What's a trope you can't get enough of writing?

Regardless of my answer yesterday, I'll admit that I could probably shoot out an endless stream of coming-of-age stories. It's addicting as candy. In fact, Inklings, a romantasy WIP I've put on hold, is a double-trope fantasy. Both the 19 year old protagonist and her love interest work through their own coming of age ordeals. Both are also fish out of water university students. She was raised by wolves and can't understand human social standards (okay, a third trope). He is living in exile on the mainland, having fled from a bloody succession battle on his island home. Oh, right, forgot… fourth trope: she can talk to animals, one of which is a dragon (fifth?). I'm trying to move a way from YA storylines these days. Inklings is definitely R-rated despite the theme, which potentially makes marketing it hard.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.17 — What's a trope you can't get enough of writing?

Regardless of my answer yesterday, I'll admit that I could probably shoot out an endless stream of coming-of-age stories. It's addicting as candy. In fact, Inklings, a romantasy WIP I've put on hold, is a double-trope fantasy. Both the 19 year old protagonist and her love interest work through their own coming of age ordeals. Both are also fish out of water university students. She was raised by wolves and can't understand human social standards (okay, a third trope). He is living in exile on the mainland, having fled from a bloody succession battle on his island home. Oh, right, forgot… fourth trope: she can talk to animals, one of which is a dragon (fifth?). I'm trying to move a way from YA storylines these days. Inklings is definitely R-rated despite the theme, which potentially makes marketing it hard.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.17 — What's a trope you can't get enough of writing?

Regardless of my answer yesterday, I'll admit that I could probably shoot out an endless stream of coming-of-age stories. It's addicting as candy. In fact, Inklings, a romantasy WIP I've put on hold, is a double-trope fantasy. Both the 19 year old protagonist and her love interest work through their own coming of age ordeals. Both are also fish out of water university students. She was raised by wolves and can't understand human social standards (okay, a third trope). He is living in exile on the mainland, having fled from a bloody succession battle on his island home. Oh, right, forgot… fourth trope: she can talk to animals, one of which is a dragon (fifth?). I'm trying to move a way from YA storylines these days. Inklings is definitely R-rated despite the theme, which potentially makes marketing it hard.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.17 — What's a trope you can't get enough of writing?

Regardless of my answer yesterday, I'll admit that I could probably shoot out an endless stream of coming-of-age stories. It's addicting as candy. In fact, Inklings, a romantasy WIP I've put on hold, is a double-trope fantasy. Both the 19 year old protagonist and her love interest work through their own coming of age ordeals. Both are also fish out of water university students. She was raised by wolves and can't understand human social standards (okay, a third trope). He is living in exile on the mainland, having fled from a bloody succession battle on his island home. Oh, right, forgot… fourth trope: she can talk to animals, one of which is a dragon (fifth?). I'm trying to move a way from YA storylines these days. Inklings is definitely R-rated despite the theme, which potentially makes marketing it hard.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.07.17 — What's a trope you can't get enough of writing?

Regardless of my answer yesterday, I'll admit that I could probably shoot out an endless stream of coming-of-age stories. It's addicting as candy. In fact, Inklings, a romantasy WIP I've put on hold, is a double-trope fantasy. Both the 19 year old protagonist and her love interest work through their own coming of age ordeals. Both are also fish out of water university students. She was raised by wolves and can't understand human social standards (okay, a third trope). He is living in exile on the mainland, having fled from a bloody succession battle on his island home. Oh, right, forgot… fourth trope: she can talk to animals, one of which is a dragon (fifth?). I'm trying to move a way from YA storylines these days. Inklings is definitely R-rated despite the theme, which potentially makes marketing it hard.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.17 — What does your SC find beautiful that most people don’t?

This feels like a cheat because the devil-girl is doing a guest stint as a supporting character in the current science fiction WIP. Her answer IS mathematics. The more complex the better. She likes math. Numbers talk to her, equations balancing makes her ecstatic. The beauty that could make even her cry, that most other daemons dismiss, lets her see how the universe is constructed and, well… work miracles.And that, already, is manifestly spoilers.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.17 — What does your SC find beautiful that most people don’t?

This feels like a cheat because the devil-girl is doing a guest stint as a supporting character in the current science fiction WIP. Her answer IS mathematics. The more complex the better. She likes math. Numbers talk to her, equations balancing makes her ecstatic. The beauty that could make even her cry, that most other daemons dismiss, lets her see how the universe is constructed and, well… work miracles.And that, already, is manifestly spoilers.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.17 — What does your SC find beautiful that most people don’t?

This feels like a cheat because the devil-girl is doing a guest stint as a supporting character in the current science fiction WIP. Her answer IS mathematics. The more complex the better. She likes math. Numbers talk to her, equations balancing makes her ecstatic. The beauty that could make even her cry, that most other daemons dismiss, lets her see how the universe is constructed and, well… work miracles.And that, already, is manifestly spoilers.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.17 — What does your SC find beautiful that most people don’t?

This feels like a cheat because the devil-girl is doing a guest stint as a supporting character in the current science fiction WIP. Her answer IS mathematics. The more complex the better. She likes math. Numbers talk to her, equations balancing makes her ecstatic. The beauty that could make even her cry, that most other daemons dismiss, lets her see how the universe is constructed and, well… work miracles.And that, already, is manifestly spoilers.

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.17 — What does your SC find beautiful that most people don’t?

This feels like a cheat because the devil-girl is doing a guest stint as a supporting character in the current science fiction WIP. Her answer IS mathematics. The more complex the better. She likes math. Numbers talk to her, equations balancing makes her ecstatic. The beauty that could make even her cry, that most other daemons dismiss, lets her see how the universe is constructed and, well… work miracles.And that, already, is manifestly spoilers.

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#ScribesAndMakers ##TTMD π2026.07.17 — Talk To Me Day Featured Creator Suzy Shearer @SuzyShearer

With over a dozen books published, undoubtedly you find it simple to turn off the self-censor when writing (and during revision!), but I suspect this wasn't an easy skill to master. Any tips for mastering the monster? My recent work is spicy by necessity of the POV (1st person) and her world; though it's not erotica, the character does relish one aspect of her life. I admit to choking whilst writing more often than I like, then restarting and wondering why I stopped. You could help me greatly by sharing your experience.

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#ScribesAndMakers ##TTMD π2026.07.17 — Talk To Me Day Featured Creator Suzy Shearer @SuzyShearer

With over a dozen books published, undoubtedly you find it simple to turn off the self-censor when writing (and during revision!), but I suspect this wasn't an easy skill to master. Any tips for mastering the monster? My recent work is spicy by necessity of the POV (1st person) and her world; though it's not erotica, the character does relish one aspect of her life. I admit to choking whilst writing more often than I like, then restarting and wondering why I stopped. You could help me greatly by sharing your experience.

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#ScribesAndMakers ##TTMD π2026.07.17 — Talk To Me Day Featured Creator Suzy Shearer @SuzyShearer

With over a dozen books published, undoubtedly you find it simple to turn off the self-censor when writing (and during revision!), but I suspect this wasn't an easy skill to master. Any tips for mastering the monster? My recent work is spicy by necessity of the POV (1st person) and her world; though it's not erotica, the character does relish one aspect of her life. I admit to choking whilst writing more often than I like, then restarting and wondering why I stopped. You could help me greatly by sharing your experience.

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