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#WordWeavers 19/8: Which character has changed the most since your first draft?

Both Ume and Shishi in #KonbiniIdol changed considerably in the early stages of that novel.

The original Ume was a player, but that got dropped when I decided not to write another R18 novel.

Shishi made it to the page in her full toxic glory in the first draft of the opening chapters. When I reread it, I realized she came off as vile.

So I dialed her back. She was still toxic but most of the profanity disappeared. She still said awful things when stressed and drunk but it wasn't her habitual mode of speach. A reader would give her a chance instead of loathing.

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#ScribesAndMakers 18: Most important thing in a game for you?

F/F love interest

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#ScribesAndMakers – 19th Aug. If paper books stopped being produced, how much would you miss them?

1. Not going to happen. Like records, there is an attachment to them.
2. Personally, I would miss them slightly. I still read physical when I am in a location where sunlight makes ereading difficult. Otherwise, I do all my reading from ebooks.

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#WordWeavers 17. Which scene made you laugh while writing it?

Not something I would do. At best, I am quietly amused.

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#PennedPossibilities 1102: Do you have a strategy for how you approach worldbuilding in your WIP(s)?

When I need to move on to a new area or event, I look over mythies, legends, creepypasta, etc for something interesting.

My plots are not panted, but my worldbuilding is.

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#WordWeavers Aug 16: If one of your characters could ask you a question, what would they ask?

• Arisu: How can I thank you?
• Airisu: Ditto, and where are the chicken nugs?
• Ume: Would you please stop this plague?Me: No, you can blame that part on someone above me.

Pretty much all the rest: Why would you do this?

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#EroticMusings 64: Share a WIP showing your process that can't be seen in the completed work.

Meta Data
End notes
Beta feedback
Concept sketch - this one is lewd.

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#WordWeavers 8/15 What's one writing habit you've developed that genuinely helps?

Maintaining a spreadsheet of projects and release dates

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#WordWeavers 8/14—Which fictional setting of yours would you most like to visit?

If you include my fanfiction: "Is the Order a Rabbit?"

If you only include OG "The Girl Who Saw Ghosts" seems the most benign. It is also pre-COVID.

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#ScribesAndMakers »13 Our next featured creator turned a short story into a novel. Have you ever done that, or the reverse?

I often write a short story using one of the MCs as a character sketch. That eventually gets turned into a novel.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 13

Looking at other people's answer I interpreted this different.

Yes the arts appear. In picture above they are looking at a mural.

Several of my characters are poets, one is a author, and two more are would be author. Shishi is an ex idol, singer, dancer, and song smith. No painters, sculpters, or playwrights. Oh and Airisu is a flying comedian. Ack, ack, ack.

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 13th Aug. Do the arts appear often within the works you write? Which ones?

There is poetry in my stories. Also, my main serial has purchased art.

Below is a concept sketch for what we are working on now.

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#WordWeavers AU 12: If your main character had a comfort food, what would it be?

#Airisu: Chicken nugs!
Sumika: No, they aren't good for you.

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#ScribesAndMakers – 12th Aug. How often do you take mental breaks from your creative work?

On a micro scale, when I need it during the day or when I am too tired to work.

On a macro scale: I take two or three trips in the summer where I am offline. That doesn't stop me from thinking about my work, though.

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#WordWeavers 9: What's the smallest detail you've researched for a story? 2/2

I now have a better answer. Recently, it was the correct spelling of "Holy Moly." Which I had written as "Holy Moley."

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#ScribesAndMakers 11 Do you feel like a different person when you're doing your creative work?

No. I don't write in any kind of altered state.

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#WordWeavers 11: Which shelved project are you itching to get back to?

None; the only project that currently itches is my WIP and something I haven't started. A mini series about Coco from the Witch Hat manga/anime.

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#PennedPossibilities 1094: sorrow?

The closest I come so far in this WIP is despair

Amelia's hand dropped, and she turned toward us. “You came to rescue me?”

“No. Just to visit.” I said. My reply was deliberately cryptic. I wanted to draw her in slowly.

“Then I’ll have to wait for a vessel,” she said.

Emily spoke next. “There won’t be a ship. Nobody comes for you.”

“Then they’ve given up? Forgotten?” Amelia’s voice was thin. Despair edged her last word.

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#ScribesAndMakers »9 Have you ever switched perspective (1st, 2nd, 3rd person, 3rd close, cinematic, etc) mid-chapter/story? Was it successful in your opinion?
»10 How willing are you to take risks with your creative work?

I am willing to take risks, though I am more careful to have completed the work before publishing something in case it doesn’t work. Prompt 9 above is an example.

I have twice written a story that appears to be 3rd person and then at some point is revealed to be 1st person. The first time didn’t work well. People found it jarring. I think the second time when the narrator steps in and reveals them self it worked.

“And you might ask, Mr McRuffian, who this person is?” Sheila continued. “It is Elaine, the Ashen Witch.”

[That’s me, the Wandering Witch!]

See McGruff's Bridge:

We then slowly switch from 3rd person to 1st person as the character comes on the stage.

I also include poetry and odd visual formatting at times. Which risk reader alienation.

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#WordWeavers 9: What's the smallest detail you've researched for a story?

How to spell a word. I don't know which word was the smallest.

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#PennedPossibilities 1093: Name something you love about your MC.

#Airisu: Is a wise-cracking smart-ass. She is fun to write.
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#TimeTravelAuthors 08/7. If your work was an ice cream flavor, what would it be?

Speaking as an author, black sesame ice creep, dark, sweet, and exotic for Westerners.

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#PennedPossibilities 1080 — Do any unseen forces have power within your universe?

My books are dominated by unseen, shadowy forces. Kami, ghosts, spirits, fate, karma, and primal forces all play significant roles.

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#WordWeavers 6: If your villain had to spend a day with your hero, what would happen?

This happens off-screen before Bijou returns to the mortal plain.

The Lapin Cabal cut her in half and dumped the parts in two different cemeteries.

The next time it happens, Bijou is in disguise, and the rabbits ignore her.

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#WordWeavers 8.5 — What object in your story has more significance than readers realise?

Like the characters, you would have to read along in the series to find that out.

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#ScribesAndMakers »5 What book(s) are you currently reading, or have you finished most recently?

• Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden # 10 Which is an excellent series despite an OP protag. Proof that author and writing make the book, not the tropes.
• The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance. by Rymer et al.: An entertaining penny dreadful.
• Myths and Mysteries of Washington by L.E. Bragg - Potboiler stuff.
• Shadows House Manga: I like this manga series.
• Time & Tied: Destruction: by our @QuasiTemporal *

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#ScribesAndMakers »4 What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word troll?

Normally I would think of internet trolls, but just having written a story that had a troll/oni in it that is what I think of:

McGruff's Bridge:
McGruff's Bridge:

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#WordWeavers 4. Which supporting character keeps trying to steal the spotlight?

That would be us

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 4th Aug. Do you consider yourself a writer, an author, an artist, something else? Why?

All of the above, plus poet and photographer. I make no claims about how popular, good, or technically skilled I am.

Why? I do all of the above. Why should I let gatekeepers and judmentalist deny me a description?

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#WritersCoffeeClub AU 3: Are your narrators a diegetic part of the world which they narrate?

Fiction

I think so. My stories are told in the first person by articulate characters.

I rarely use footnotes or parenthetical inserts.

Poetry / Photos / Hiabun

When I combine poetry and photography (hiabun), the poetry would be non-diegetic if I understand the word correctly.

Below is a sample of a non-diegetic mix from 2022

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