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#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

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#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

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#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

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#PennedPossibilities 1024 — MC POV: Name a time where you cried your eyes out.

Snip from "For Love of a Konbini Idol:"

Shishi: A second highball did nothing, but when I started on a third, something broke in me, and all my misery came rolling up my chest. I had been an idol, and now I was nothing. NOTHING. The lights blurred, and the bartender behind the counter became indistinct.

It was in that haze that I heard a husky woman’s voice say, “You’re crying.” I looked up, expecting a ghost, but it was a woman’s face, framed in bleached blonde hair. I touched her face to be sure. Even as drunk as I was, I could tell it was beautiful. Her heavy makeup couldn’t hide its innate loveliness.

She touched my glass and said, “Another highball?”

End Snip #KonbiniIdol

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#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

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#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1022 — How would your MC like to be remembered after their death? What sort of legacy would they want to leave?

#TimeTravelingGhost: They are dead. Emily hopes her legacy will have been stopping the Nazi from obtaining mind-reading. As a spy, she doesn't hope to be remembered for it.

#KonbiniIdol: Ume hopes to leave some books behind that will entertain people for years to come.

#MyGirlFriend: Kao would like to have done something to decrease discrimination against sexual/gender minorities. Not that she is doing much along that line.

The rest haven't thought about it.

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#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1021 — Have you ever co-written a story before?

I have been given credit for co-writing, but all I really did was edit the story to be more understandable in English.

I have co-written poems. The last one was Saba Dreams: with @extraspecialbitter

Others with @MarkBrigham

Anyone interested in doing #rengay can join us.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #renga #haiku

#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Ther are also scenes of MC's being bullied. Lots of my work is tagged that bullying appears in it. I don't shy away from the subject. It would be pretty unrealistic, given my characters are queers. I also don't wallow in it.

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#PennedPossibilities 1019 — Has your SC ever been bullied? By who, and for what reason?

Ther are also scenes of MC's being bullied. Lots of my work is tagged that bullying appears in it. I don't shy away from the subject. It would be pretty unrealistic, given my characters are queers. I also don't wallow in it.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 996 Share some of your favorite lines from your WIP

They are all my fav. Instead, I will leave it to my readers. Feel free to share.

#PIXIV Konbini Idol:
#AO3 Konbini Idol:

#KonbiniIdol #NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 10⁷11 #PennedPossibilitiesImposterToot: Time for a creative fun prompt. Replace something in your story with something completely silly.

Sumika: I was hoping for a cat familiar. But a Rhino is a bit over the top!

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Airisu

#PennedPossibilities 996 Share some of your favorite lines from your WIP

They are all my fav. Instead, I will leave it to my readers. Feel free to share.

#PIXIV Konbini Idol:
#AO3 Konbini Idol:

#KonbiniIdol #NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 996 Share some of your favorite lines from your WIP

They are all my fav. Instead, I will leave it to my readers. Feel free to share.

#PIXIV Konbini Idol:
#AO3 Konbini Idol:

#KonbiniIdol #NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 996 Share some of your favorite lines from your WIP

They are all my fav. Instead, I will leave it to my readers. Feel free to share.

#PIXIV Konbini Idol:
#AO3 Konbini Idol:

#KonbiniIdol #NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 996 Share some of your favorite lines from your WIP

They are all my fav. Instead, I will leave it to my readers. Feel free to share.

#PIXIV Konbini Idol:
#AO3 Konbini Idol:

#KonbiniIdol #NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 983 MC POV: If you had been able to choose, would you rather have been an only child or part of a very large family?

#KonbiniIdol
Ume: "I wouldn't wish my parents on anyone. Then again, if I'd had an older brother, things might have been easier on me, or then again, maybe it would have just been one more person to make my home life miserable.

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#PennedPossibilities 983 MC POV: If you had been able to choose, would you rather have been an only child or part of a very large family?

#KonbiniIdol
Ume: "I wouldn't wish my parents on anyone. Then again, if I'd had an older brother, things might have been easier on me, or then again, maybe it would have just been one more person to make my home life miserable.

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#PennedPossibilities 983 MC POV: If you had been able to choose, would you rather have been an only child or part of a very large family?

#KonbiniIdol
Ume: "I wouldn't wish my parents on anyone. Then again, if I'd had an older brother, things might have been easier on me, or then again, maybe it would have just been one more person to make my home life miserable.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#Mastoprompt #wss366
#PennedPossibilities 725: Do you have a favourite character in your current WIP?

Ask me no questions
I'll tell you no lies
I love them all
That's how I fly

#Tell #Fly
#NMPP #NMPrompts #NMMP #NMv366 #BadPoetry #PoetryOnTheFly

#PennedPossibilities 1009 — Do any of your characters wear glasses?

Well one time

Snip #TimeTravelingGhost

Emily burst out laughing when she saw the clothes I’d manifested. “Nice duds. Is that what the daring avant-garde wear in your time? Absurd, but it’s charming in its own way.”

I pulled the floppy hat down and the N95 mask up higher, hoping they might hide how red my cheeks were. They probably matched the large cherry-red sunglasses I was sporting. I’d considered wearing a hijab but was unsure about the cultural implications of a nonbeliever wearing one. “I told you I don’t want people to see two Professor Henrietta Dubois’s.”

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#PennedPossibilities 1009 — Do any of your characters wear glasses?

No, I lose track of them. Just not a complication I need to deal with.

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#PennedPossibilities 1005 — What type of clothing does your SC appear in? (Prompt modified)

Snip Bijou the Time-Traveling Ghost:

The Countess wore a 17th-century-style dress of deep crimson satin, but with a décolletage that was totally 1920s. It was further accented by black lace and tiny rubies or, more likely, red glass that could have been mistaken for blood droplets in this light. Her mask was delicate, enameled porcelain, shaped like a weeping face from a sepulcher.

Using her other hand, she linked arms with me. Unlike the fingers that had tugged my sleeve, it was gloveless, displaying long, talon-like scarlet nails. They were hands that had never worked beyond claiming what she thought was hers.

End Snip

#NMPP #NMPrompts #TheTimeTravelingGhost

#PennedPossibilities⁩ 995 How do you balance making (emotional) demands on the reader with taking care of them?

Hopefully, I write with enough depth that it takes care of itself. When I feel like it has been bla, bla, bla too long working on some action, and when I feel like that has been a roller coaster of action scenes, I throw in some dialogue.

No formula besides my gut and an occasional nudge by a beta reader.

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#PennedPossibilities 994 Did any of your characters have a favorite comfort item as a child? If so, at what age did they stop using it? Do they still have it?

Sumika from #Airisu mentions a teddy bear that her mother gave her, which is still on her bed. Unfortunately, she didn't survive the crash of the Hindenburg, so she is never going home.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 993 — ...let’s reflect on our writing journeys...

• Writer mid-career. 3 finished novel series and two in the oven.
• Undiscovered
• prolific fanfic & Flash writer
• Veteran serial writer.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Introduction

#PennedPossibilities 991 Genres

• #Airisu: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mythpunk, Yuri
• #TimeTravelingGhost : Time Travel, Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mythpunk, Yuri

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#PennedPossibilities 989 — Is your character an immigrant or newcomer in the place where they live?

#Airisu: The crow was on a visa in Japan when she got turned into a bird. Sumika spent JH and HS in the US but is a native of Japan.

#TimeTravelingGhost: Bijou and Emily are new to being ghosts and time-travelers. They are without a nation.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 988 — Tell us about your MC’s bravest moment.

So for #Airisu's bravest moment is attacking her mistress to break a kami's enchantment.

Snip

In a moment of insanity, I plunged my beak into Sumika’s neck, screaming...

Dōken-shin leveled his fan at me, snapping it open. But something stayed his wrath...

An unsustainable silence of suspense fell. Unabashed, I stared back at his blazing eyes.

I wondered, though, why I wasn’t feathers scattered on the shrine’s floor.

#End Snip

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#PennedPossibilities 986 — Check-In time! How are you enjoying working on your WIP? Are things going the way you planned, or has the outline somehow changed along the way?

I am enjoying my two new WIP. # TheTimeTravelingGhost is pulp-inspired, so I can be a little wild. #Airisu has a wise-cracking, egotistical crow as a narrator, which is fun.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 985 — How long have you been writing or when did you start?

I have been creating with written words all my literate life. Stories, TRPG, and began seriously writing novels in 2021.

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#PennedPossibilities 978 — MC POV: Write about three realistic goals you would like to achieve in your lifetime.

Sumika from #Airisu
1) Get a girl friend
2) Get a job as a translator
3) Get published

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#PennedPossibilities 974 — Does your MC become jealous? If so, to what degree? How does their jealousy manifest?

None of MCs have had this problem, and secondary characters may show minor signs of it. The exception is Emily in #TimeTravelingGhost. It is not shown as romantic; in fact, the opposite. It's a barrier to the romance arc.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 971 — Where does your SC feel the safest? Is there a particular person or object that helps them feel safe?

In #KonbiniIdol, both Kan-chan and Tomo feel safest in the kitchen, while Shishi wants to be with Ume.

I don't have a sense for that in my WIP yet. Since Emily Pang is a time nomad, it is probably by default when she is with Bijou.

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#PennedPossibilities 970 — MC POV: Have you ever experienced something that couldn’t be logically explained?

All my characters laugh hysterically.

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#PennedPossibilities 672 — What’s the current word count for your WIP?

#KonbiniIdol: 175K
The Mad Frank's Dreams: 3K
#Airisu: 6K
#TimeTravelingGhost: 29K

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#PennedPossibilities 963 — If you use a pen name or certain username on a writing site, what is its significance and how did you arrive at using it?

It was the name of a Crow Shaman I played in Shadow Run. It's a pun on the Poe quote "Nevermore."

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Crows

#PennedPossibilities 962

#PennedPossibilities 962 — If there was ever going to be a film or a series based upon your WIP, what do you imagine the soundtrack would be like? What genre?

• My #Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed: Progressive Trance.
• #KonbiniIdol: Chika (Underground Idol). A mix of GothMetal and MetalCore for the fucked up parts. #DiableVoix would be a good choice. Maybe something like #MelonBatakeAGoGo for the weirder bits. If #MigmaShelter were still around, they could do psychedelic trance for the romantic bits.
• Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost would be eclectic depending on the era.
• No idea about #Aisisu. New Ageish.

#JIdol #Idol #NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 954 — What is your SC’s skill level when it comes to cooking and baking? 1/2

Kan-chan: Good. By the way, people don't generally bake in Japan.
Tomo: Good.
Shishi: Learning

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#PennedPossibilities 938 — MC POV: What is your favorite work of art? What do you love about it?

Ume: When Shishi sings and dances. I feel like a moth drawn to her flame.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#wordweavers 02/20 Tropes in WIP?

I don't write to tropes so it too early to tell with Airisu, except "Comic Sidekick." Ones which are likely here:

• Found family
• Disaster lesbians
• Slow burn
• Fated love
• Blundering witch
• The power of friendship
• Forgotten lore

But things are still stewing.

#NMPrompts #NMPP

#PennedPossibilities 934 — Do you have a book cover for your WIP?

• Left is the cover of the serial I am finishing up.

• Right is a close-to-done cover for "#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch."

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#PennedPossibilities 931 — In your MC’s opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Ume: Being dragged off to the hell realms.

Shish: And you risked that for me?

Ume: There are also worse ways of living.

#KonbiniIdol #NMPP #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 904 — What does your MC have in common with you, the author?

• Trans Fem
• Author of Yuri and light romance.
• Fond of dark goth girls
• Similar spiritual beliefs.
• Can see ghosts
• A romantic.
• Engages in flawed attempt at being moral.

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#PennedPossibilities 893 — What is your MC’s full name? Do other characters know it?

• Ume Fumiko (梅二美子) Protagonist: AKA: Ume (うめ / 梅) *         Ume Fumihiko (梅文彦) Fumiko’s deadname
• Shizu Tomo (静友雄) Ume-san’s current partner. AKA: Tomo (ともお / 友雄)*          Shizu Sumika (静澄香) Tomo’s dead name. AKA Sumi-chan (さとうちゃん)
• Shiomi Shiori (汐見詩織) Ex-idol who Ume meets at the konbini. AKA: Shishi (しし)
•           Fukitsu Suzume (不吉雀) Shiomi-san’s stage name. AKA: Fukitsu (ふきつ / 不吉)
• Miyazaki Kanoko (宮崎鹿乃子) Kaori’s assistant AKA Kan-chan (カんちゃん)

They all know each other names. Only Kan-chan's dead name isn't. It's never come up.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol