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  1. #WordWeavers 2026.09.28 — Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs.

    Not only does she have none, she is incapable of developing any. The concepts don't exist in her language. And. Had I not mentioned it in response to this question, you'd probably not have noticed except for some circumlocutions in the narration. Can't use the words derivative belief or faith or luck, for example. Sort of spoilery, so please endeavor to forget I mentioned it.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  2. #WordWeavers 2026.09.28 — Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs.

    Not only does she have none, she is incapable of developing any. The concepts don't exist in her language. And. Had I not mentioned it in response to this question, you'd probably not have noticed except for some circumlocutions in the narration. Can't use the words derivative belief or faith or luck, for example. Sort of spoilery, so please endeavor to forget I mentioned it.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  3. #WordWeavers 2026.09.28 — Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs.

    Not only does she have none, she is incapable of developing any. The concepts don't exist in her language. And. Had I not mentioned it in response to this question, you'd probably not have noticed except for some circumlocutions in the narration. Can't use the words derivative belief or faith or luck, for example. Sort of spoilery, so please endeavor to forget I mentioned it.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  4. #WordWeavers 2026.09.28 — Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs.

    Not only does she have none, she is incapable of developing any. The concepts don't exist in her language. And. Had I not mentioned it in response to this question, you'd probably not have noticed except for some circumlocutions in the narration. Can't use the words derivative belief or faith or luck, for example. Sort of spoilery, so please endeavor to forget I mentioned it.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  5. #WordWeavers 2026.09.28 — Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs.

    Not only does she have none, she is incapable of developing any. The concepts don't exist in her language. And. Had I not mentioned it in response to this question, you'd probably not have noticed except for some circumlocutions in the narration. Can't use the words derivative belief or faith or luck, for example. Sort of spoilery, so please endeavor to forget I mentioned it.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  6. #WordWeavers 2026.09.27 — What interesting quirks do your characters have?

    I rarely give characters character-tags, shorthand textual phrases that make them immediately recognizable. The result is often cartoonish or gets in the way of running jokes. Such things ought be more meaningful to the story.

    One quirk that evolved in the story, if you could call it that, is that one character has really bad body odor, notable in a hot sweaty milieu where everyone smells to some extent. It's not throwaway color; it comes into play and ends up with a gay romance twist.

    I am going to add a quirk after having written a novel’s worth of words. Bolt, a day angel, has wings with a span 2½ times her height, yet in review, when in situations where she's not flying, it's almost like her wings disappear, and she's simply a human like you and I. I need to remind readers she is angelic, contrasting her physicality with those who lack wings. I'm going to make them flutter when she's excited or trying to emphasize something—like hand gestures when conversing, except unlike hands they're huge. They block the view behind her, cast irregular shadows, strike walls, bang ceilings, shed molts and dander, and rustle and hum (the feathers, anyway). It'll function to increase the sense of verisimilitude.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  7. #WordWeavers 2026.09.27 — What interesting quirks do your characters have?

    I rarely give characters character-tags, shorthand textual phrases that make them immediately recognizable. The result is often cartoonish or gets in the way of running jokes. Such things ought be more meaningful to the story.

    One quirk that evolved in the story, if you could call it that, is that one character has really bad body odor, notable in a hot sweaty milieu where everyone smells to some extent. It's not throwaway color; it comes into play and ends up with a gay romance twist.

    I am going to add a quirk after having written a novel’s worth of words. Bolt, a day angel, has wings with a span 2½ times her height, yet in review, when in situations where she's not flying, it's almost like her wings disappear, and she's simply a human like you and I. I need to remind readers she is angelic, contrasting her physicality with those who lack wings. I'm going to make them flutter when she's excited or trying to emphasize something—like hand gestures when conversing, except unlike hands they're huge. They block the view behind her, cast irregular shadows, strike walls, bang ceilings, shed molts and dander, and rustle and hum (the feathers, anyway). It'll function to increase the sense of verisimilitude.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  8. #WordWeavers 2026.09.27 — What interesting quirks do your characters have?

    I rarely give characters character-tags, shorthand textual phrases that make them immediately recognizable. The result is often cartoonish or gets in the way of running jokes. Such things ought be more meaningful to the story.

    One quirk that evolved in the story, if you could call it that, is that one character has really bad body odor, notable in a hot sweaty milieu where everyone smells to some extent. It's not throwaway color; it comes into play and ends up with a gay romance twist.

    I am going to add a quirk after having written a novel’s worth of words. Bolt, a day angel, has wings with a span 2½ times her height, yet in review, when in situations where she's not flying, it's almost like her wings disappear, and she's simply a human like you and I. I need to remind readers she is angelic, contrasting her physicality with those who lack wings. I'm going to make them flutter when she's excited or trying to emphasize something—like hand gestures when conversing, except unlike hands they're huge. They block the view behind her, cast irregular shadows, strike walls, bang ceilings, shed molts and dander, and rustle and hum (the feathers, anyway). It'll function to increase the sense of verisimilitude.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  9. #WordWeavers 2026.09.27 — What interesting quirks do your characters have?

    I rarely give characters character-tags, shorthand textual phrases that make them immediately recognizable. The result is often cartoonish or gets in the way of running jokes. Such things ought be more meaningful to the story.

    One quirk that evolved in the story, if you could call it that, is that one character has really bad body odor, notable in a hot sweaty milieu where everyone smells to some extent. It's not throwaway color; it comes into play and ends up with a gay romance twist.

    I am going to add a quirk after having written a novel’s worth of words. Bolt, a day angel, has wings with a span 2½ times her height, yet in review, when in situations where she's not flying, it's almost like her wings disappear, and she's simply a human like you and I. I need to remind readers she is angelic, contrasting her physicality with those who lack wings. I'm going to make them flutter when she's excited or trying to emphasize something—like hand gestures when conversing, except unlike hands they're huge. They block the view behind her, cast irregular shadows, strike walls, bang ceilings, shed molts and dander, and rustle and hum (the feathers, anyway). It'll function to increase the sense of verisimilitude.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  10. #WordWeavers 2026.09.27 — What interesting quirks do your characters have?

    I rarely give characters character-tags, shorthand textual phrases that make them immediately recognizable. The result is often cartoonish or gets in the way of running jokes. Such things ought be more meaningful to the story.

    One quirk that evolved in the story, if you could call it that, is that one character has really bad body odor, notable in a hot sweaty milieu where everyone smells to some extent. It's not throwaway color; it comes into play and ends up with a gay romance twist.

    I am going to add a quirk after having written a novel’s worth of words. Bolt, a day angel, has wings with a span 2½ times her height, yet in review, when in situations where she's not flying, it's almost like her wings disappear, and she's simply a human like you and I. I need to remind readers she is angelic, contrasting her physicality with those who lack wings. I'm going to make them flutter when she's excited or trying to emphasize something—like hand gestures when conversing, except unlike hands they're huge. They block the view behind her, cast irregular shadows, strike walls, bang ceilings, shed molts and dander, and rustle and hum (the feathers, anyway). It'll function to increase the sense of verisimilitude.

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  11. #PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?

    Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?

    One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.

    Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.

    The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  12. #PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?

    Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?

    One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.

    Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.

    The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  13. #PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?

    Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?

    One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.

    Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.

    The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  14. #PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?

    Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?

    One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.

    Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.

    The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  15. #PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?

    Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?

    One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.

    Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.

    The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…

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

    #BoostingIsSharing

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

  16. What's a humerus mystery series?: bone-ified puns, box sets, fall in New Mexico, soil science, and furbabies in my latest newsletter:
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  21. Five stars:

    Murder at the Toy Soldier by Maddie Day with Rachel Dulude (Narrator) (2026) is the eighth book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Mac and Tim are busy now as the adoptive parents of Ella and Luca. There's a murder at the toy shop where Mac had purchased a birthday gift for Ella.

    pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comm

    #bookstodon #audiobook #mystery
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  22. Five stars:

    Murder at the Toy Soldier by Maddie Day with Rachel Dulude (Narrator) (2026) is the eighth book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Mac and Tim are busy now as the adoptive parents of Ella and Luca. There's a murder at the toy shop where Mac had purchased a birthday gift for Ella.

    pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comm

    #bookstodon #audiobook #mystery
    @bookstodon

  23. Five stars:

    Murder at the Toy Soldier by Maddie Day with Rachel Dulude (Narrator) (2026) is the eighth book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Mac and Tim are busy now as the adoptive parents of Ella and Luca. There's a murder at the toy shop where Mac had purchased a birthday gift for Ella.

    pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comm

    #bookstodon #audiobook #mystery
    @bookstodon

  24. Five stars:

    Murder at the Toy Soldier by Maddie Day with Rachel Dulude (Narrator) (2026) is the eighth book in the Cozy Capers Book Group mystery series. Mac and Tim are busy now as the adoptive parents of Ella and Luca. There's a murder at the toy shop where Mac had purchased a birthday gift for Ella.

    pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comm

    #bookstodon #audiobook #mystery
    @bookstodon

  25. Dusty files - strange clues - one fresh conspiracy. Conspiraco is for readers who know the truth is out there but it's hiding under your desk. inkican.com/emergency-reality- #SciFi #Conspiracy #Mystery

  26. Dusty files - strange clues - one fresh conspiracy. Conspiraco is for readers who know the truth is out there but it's hiding under your desk. inkican.com/emergency-reality- #SciFi #Conspiracy #Mystery

  27. Dusty files - strange clues - one fresh conspiracy. Conspiraco is for readers who know the truth is out there but it's hiding under your desk. inkican.com/emergency-reality- #SciFi #Conspiracy #Mystery

  28. Dusty files - strange clues - one fresh conspiracy. Conspiraco is for readers who know the truth is out there but it's hiding under your desk. inkican.com/emergency-reality- #SciFi #Conspiracy #Mystery

  29. Dusty files - strange clues - one fresh conspiracy. Conspiraco is for readers who know the truth is out there but it's hiding under your desk. inkican.com/emergency-reality- #SciFi #Conspiracy #Mystery

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