#nmprompts — Public Fediverse posts

#ScribesAndMakers – 7th Sept. What 'character' would make a great main character?

‽: Both questioning and excited. Also, not many people use this character, so it retains novelty and interest.

Let's hear it for the interbang.

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#WordWeavers 6/9: What is your MC hilariously bad at?

The current minor ones, the Morlocks, seeing in the light.

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#WordWeavers 6/9: What is your MC hilariously bad at?

The current minor ones, the Morlocks, seeing in the light.

#NMPrompts #NMWW

#WordWeavers 6/9: What is your MC hilariously bad at?

The current minor ones, the Morlocks, seeing in the light.

#NMPrompts #NMWW

#PennedPossibilities 1120: Saturday Word Edition: Share something from your WIP pertaining to the word “entertainment.”

I ended up ordering the roast duckling and peaches in Chartreuse jelly. The first was excellent, while the grassy flavor of the second didn’t agree with me.

Emily used the ivy growing on a trellis next to our seating to sneak sips of my consommé, while I indulged in oysters and a Champagne cocktail.

Bijou the Time Traveling Ghost:

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#PennedPossibilities 1120: Saturday Word Edition: Share something from your WIP pertaining to the word “entertainment.”

I ended up ordering the roast duckling and peaches in Chartreuse jelly. The first was excellent, while the grassy flavor of the second didn’t agree with me.

Emily used the ivy growing on a trellis next to our seating to sneak sips of my consommé, while I indulged in oysters and a Champagne cocktail.

Bijou the Time Traveling Ghost:

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#PennedPossibilities 1120: Saturday Word Edition: Share something from your WIP pertaining to the word “entertainment.”

I ended up ordering the roast duckling and peaches in Chartreuse jelly. The first was excellent, while the grassy flavor of the second didn’t agree with me.

Emily used the ivy growing on a trellis next to our seating to sneak sips of my consommé, while I indulged in oysters and a Champagne cocktail.

Bijou the Time Traveling Ghost:

#NMPP #NMPrompts #TimeTravelingGhost

#WritersCoffeeClub – 6th Sept. If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?

Digitally: I use a Corsair keyboard attached to my laptop. Some of the letters are wearing off.

Paper: Whatever pen is at hand. (A fine tip is better.) A notebook bought at Daiso if I am organized. Otherwise, scrap envelopes from bills.

#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Have you ever listened to an audiobook where the reader had a good voice, but not the 'right' voice?

No.

#ScribesAndMakers 5: Favourite colour of ice cream?

A name, maybe, but color not so much. I love the name "Rocky Road."

Color: Black Sesame, but I'm reaching.

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 6th Sept. If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?

Digitally: I use a Corsair keyboard attached to my laptop. Some of the letters are wearing off.

Paper: Whatever pen is at hand. (A fine tip is better.) A notebook bought at Daiso if I am organized. Otherwise, scrap envelopes from bills.

#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Have you ever listened to an audiobook where the reader had a good voice, but not the 'right' voice?

No.

#ScribesAndMakers 5: Favourite colour of ice cream?

A name, maybe, but color not so much. I love the name "Rocky Road."

Color: Black Sesame, but I'm reaching.

#NMSAM #NMWCC #NMPrompts

#WritersCoffeeClub – 6th Sept. If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?

Digitally: I use a Corsair keyboard attached to my laptop. Some of the letters are wearing off.

Paper: Whatever pen is at hand. (A fine tip is better.) A notebook bought at Daiso if I am organized. Otherwise, scrap envelopes from bills.

#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Have you ever listened to an audiobook where the reader had a good voice, but not the 'right' voice?

No.

#ScribesAndMakers 5: Favourite colour of ice cream?

A name, maybe, but color not so much. I love the name "Rocky Road."

Color: Black Sesame, but I'm reaching.

#NMSAM #NMWCC #NMPrompts

#WritersCoffeeClub – 5th Sept. Do you track your word count? How? Why?

I don't do it for productive reasons, but I do do it for EP, chapter, and volume length.

How, it at the bottom of the LibreOffice window.

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 5th Sept. Do you track your word count? How? Why?

I don't do it for productive reasons, but I do do it for EP, chapter, and volume length.

How, it at the bottom of the LibreOffice window.

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 5th Sept. Do you track your word count? How? Why?

I don't do it for productive reasons, but I do do it for EP, chapter, and volume length.

How, it at the bottom of the LibreOffice window.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/4: If you work digitally, what application do you use? If analog, what do you write on?

For graphics and graphic layout

XnViewMP : For quick access to common manipulations and file conversion.

GIMP: For the heavy lifting.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/4: If you work digitally, what application do you use? If analog, what do you write on?

For graphics and graphic layout

XnViewMP : For quick access to common manipulations and file conversion.

GIMP: For the heavy lifting.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/4: If you work digitally, what application do you use? If analog, what do you write on?

For graphics and graphic layout

XnViewMP : For quick access to common manipulations and file conversion.

GIMP: For the heavy lifting.

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#WordWeavers 9/3: Share a line from your WIP that reveals more than the speaker intended.

“I’m impressed. My fledgling is growing up to be a wise crow like me. I knew joining your murder was a brilliant idea!”

#Airisu has lots of lines like that that reveal her ego and bias.

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#WordWeavers Sep 2
What would your MC notice first upon entering a crowded room?

Awk!!, Motion! Feet! Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!

#Airisu: The #Crow and the Witch.

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#WordWeavers 8/25: If readers could keep one item from your story as a souvenir, what would it be?

Good point by @floofpaldi. Instead of a katana, a better souvenir would be a signed copy of Ume's novel. #KonbiniIdol.

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#WordWeavers 22. Which character would make the worst roommate?

#Airisu by far. Loud, rude, egotistical, demanding

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#PennedPossibilities 1106: SC POV: When was a time where you had to make an impossible choice.

#KonbiniIdol

“Honey stains thy lips. I am not known for generosity. But for my sister’s sake, I will make an exception and trade the woman for the man.” His porcelain hand waved with cold indifference toward Tomo.

I should accept the deal. It was the only rational path to save Shishi. I shut out Kan-chan’s pleading — “Please, Ume” — calling on me to refuse the trade. I braced myself.

Like Judas or Mitsuhide at Honnō-ji, I would betray her.

But which betrayal was worse — turning my back on one love, or the other?

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#WordWeavers 20 If your story had a tagline, what would it be?

One of the taglines for #KonbiniIdol was "A love that transcended death."

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

That would be us

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#WordWeavers 2026.07.29 — What’s your MC’s least favorite mode of transportation?

#Airisu: An ambulance. A car is bad enough without that siren and flashing lights. Ack, ack, ack. An ambulance, get it?

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#WordWeavers 7.25 — What wrong assumption do people make about your MC?

Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost: That she is wacked-out, superstitious, academic. Fact is, she is right.
Emily Pan: That she is a lonely, unhappy spinster. Actually, she is proud of being an independent woman.

#Airisu: She is just a silly bird brain. "Contraywise, I am a brilliant bird brain."
Sumika: She is a bubblehead. She is quite intelligent, only she has learned to hide it as unlady-like.

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 21st Jul. Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?

My Girlfriend Almost Got Me Killed: is explicitly/graphically sexual and fetish-oriented. At the same time plot and character-rich.

The other series are fade-to-black.

#NMWCC #NMPrompts #R18 #NSFW #Yuri

#WordWeavers 7.6 — Which of your MCs would be most likely to win a dance off?

Shish, she was a professional idol, took tons of dance lessons, etc.

Unless #Airisu beat her out, being a cute crow. Who could resist a crow dancing in the middle of a dance floor?

Oh! A dance off! Still Shishi. She would have the stamina to just keep going, and she would feed off the audience's energy. (Crows don't have the stamina for it.)

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#WordWeavers July 1: If your MC wore tee shirts, what would be on their favorite one?

I don't need to speculate about this. We have the answer in living color.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 6/25. Share a passage you've written containing onomatopoeia.

Snip from "#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

I saw a pattern and burst out, “Sumika’s got a girlfriend. A mushy, crushy girlfriend.”

Mistress raised the book as if she were about to bash me with it, and I took off for the shelf again, screaming, “Oggily, puggily, pie. Your blush is as bright as the summer sky.”

And it was. Her cheeks had flushed a brilliant crimson. If I’d still been human, I would have said she was cute. Ah, heck, even as a crow, I thought she was adorable, all flustered.

End Snip

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#WordWeavers 17 If your MC wrote their autobiography, what would the title be, and why?

For Love of a Konbini Idol: is Ume's writing up her adventures as a fictional story.

Why: Privacy, and who would believe her if she wrote as a factual account?

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#wordweavers 5/30 Is it possible for someone to make a living as a writer/ artist.

It's urban fantasy. There are people who do. Ume in #KonbiniIdol even does. (It helps having a protective kami. She does.)

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#WordWeavers 25.05.2026 What one event defines your MC? Part 2

From a meta point of view it is the moment I finish my character sketch and begin writing.

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#WordWeavers 25.05.2026 What one event defines your MC?

Many moments define my characters. But one point stands out as the moment Ume from #KonbiniIdol is forced to decide how much of her integrity she is willing to sacrifice for love.

Actually, I am not going to share it. It is a pivotal moment in the character arc. Let's say there is a moment where she could have gone either way.

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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 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:

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#ScribesAndMakers 23. Have #FairyTales influenced any of your creative work? Part 2

Chapter 72: Yakubyō-gami (疫病神) of KonbiniIdol: is full of delusional fairy tale renders.

“Take the apple, dearie, and make a wish.”

#SleepingBeauty #KonbiniIdol #Yokai. #NMSAM #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 23—What would your MC be willing to die for?

Ume in #KonbiniIdol risks more than death to save Shishi.

It is too early to say what Bijou and Emily would die for. They don't even know what they are fighting yet. As for Airisu and Sumika, I don't know yet. That story is shaping up to be epicsodic without that kind of dramatic stances.

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#WordWeavers 17. How far beyond the local home of your MC does your story extend?

#TimeTravelingGhost has so far extended all back to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
#Airisu, #KonbiniIdol, #MyGirlFriend, and #TheGirlWhoSawGhosts extend into the Shadow Land, Kakuriyo. Which is literally an unmeasurable distance.

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#ScribesAndMakers 16. How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?

I write light novels, which by definition have illustrations. They are my biggest out-of-pocket expense.

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#ScribesAndMakers – 15th Apr. What's a smell that has featured in your work?

There are many smells featured in my work. Picking just one, a trademark of my work is that each LI has a unique scent, and when the narrator notices it, it's a sign that the romance arc is heating up. Shishi's from #KonbiniIdol were sandalwood and violets.

Bijou from #TimeTravelingGhost should soon be noticing Emily's scent. Perhaps gardenia or perhaps not.

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#wordweavers 13 fav scent.

Ume from #KonbiniIdol loves Violets and sandalwood, which is Shishi’s signature scent.

Rice and grilled fish, the smell of good food.

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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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#ScribesAndMakers Apr 9: Our next featured creator is a professor. Does any of your work involve professors and/or universities?

Short answer: Yes

• #TheGirlWhoCouldSeeGhosts: The MCs are university students. The special university for people with high reikon/霊魂 is mentioned for the first time.
• #MyGirlfriend Almost Got Me Killed: Mikito-sensei (光尊) is introduced.
• #KonbiniIdol The special university and Mikito-sensei play an ongoing role. The MCs are not students anymore.
• #Airisu: The Ghost and the Witch: Airisu was a professional student. Otherwise no.
• Bijou the #TimeTravelingGhost: Bijou was a professor of metaphysics. Arkam University is the only location so far the characters visit more than once.

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#ScribesAndMakers – 6 Some people have creative work inspired by their dreams. Have you?

All of the following scenes from #KonbiniIdol were inspired by dreams. As a surreal author, dreams are an important inspiration.

• #Cicada & #pigeon
• Kudan with faceless schoolgirl
• Tarnished #imperial bronze #dragon
• In front of Moth Mountain

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#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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#writerscoffeeclub 03/29 Share a writing milestone.

Tuesday the conclusion of #KonbiniIdol will be published.

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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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