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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.

#NMPrompts #NMWW

#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.

#NMPrompts #NMWW

#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.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#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."

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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."

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1095: Are any of your characters named after colors, food, or objects?

Ume == Plum
Airisu == Iris
Kuma == Bear
Nurse Uguisu == Nurse Nightengale

Scarlet Lady
Swallow Woman
Suzumetaka, Suzumega

There may be others, but it was a coincidence.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#EroticMusings 63: Do you create cultures, ethnicities, or even sentient species for your work? How do you go about it?

I have created youkai and at least one micro-culture. Generally, though, things are lifted from myth, legend, and creepypasta. What I create is modeled on those well.

There is no zeno-erotica. All sexual encounters are between consenting adult Japanese natives.

#NMEM #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

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

#Airisu: Is a wise-cracking smart-ass. She is fun to write.
#NMPP #NMPrompts

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

#Airisu: Is a wise-cracking smart-ass. She is fun to write.
#NMPP #NMPrompts

#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.

#nmtta #NMPrompts

#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.

#nmtta #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMPP #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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 *

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #Reading #AmReading

#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 *

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #Reading #AmReading

#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:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #Troll

#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:

#NMSAM #NMPrompts #Troll

#PennedPossibilities 1090 — What mystery has gone unsolved for as long as almost anyone can remember?

• The meaning of life.
• Is there a God(s)?
• Why are some people mean?
• The location of Atlantis.

Shall I go on?

#UrbanFantasy #NMPP #NMPrompts

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

That would be us

#NMWW #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

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

That would be us

#NMWW #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol

#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?

#NMWCC #NMPrompts

#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

#NMWCC #NMPrompts #NMPoetry #NMPhoto

#EroticMusings 62. Do power imbalances exist within the romantic or sexual relationships between your characters? Is this a challenge for you? Does it present unique opportunities?

1. All human relationships have some degree of power imbalance.
2. D&S is an important theme in my erotic lit. This dynamic gets settled in different ways but is acknowledged and thoughtfully resolved.

#nmem #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 01 Which of your characters would make the best tour guide, & where would they take us?

Bijou. And where in time would you like to go? Wolrd's Fair of 1900? See Louis Armstrong live? Watch Blondie at CBGB? How about the first showing of Hamlet or "The Scottish Play?" What's your desire?

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 01 Which of your characters would make the best tour guide, & where would they take us?

Bijou. And where in time would you like to go? Wolrd's Fair of 1900? See Louis Armstrong live? Watch Blondie at CBGB? How about the first showing of Hamlet or "The Scottish Play?" What's your desire?

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 2nd Aug. How wholesome do you consider your creative work? What does wholesome mean to you?

Unpopular opinion follows:

I don't use the word except as a rating. Wholesome, PG, M, R18, R18G (As used for writing, it is a misleading term.)

PG with cuteness and nothing to offend the most puritanical reader. That includes a lot of bigots and snowflakes.

I write a few things that fit into that category.

I think it is a misnomer since many wholesome or good things that one shouldn't need to hide make a piece of writing "unwholesome."

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers – 2nd Aug. How wholesome do you consider your creative work? What does wholesome mean to you?

Unpopular opinion follows:

I don't use the word except as a rating. Wholesome, PG, M, R18, R18G (As used for writing, it is a misleading term.)

PG with cuteness and nothing to offend the most puritanical reader. That includes a lot of bigots and snowflakes.

I write a few things that fit into that category.

I think it is a misnomer since many wholesome or good things that one shouldn't need to hide make a piece of writing "unwholesome."

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#WritersCoffeeClub August 1: What are your goals for the month, writing-wise?

Same as every month keep up with my main serial. Being forced to do one finger typing may make that hard.

#nmwcc #NMPrompts

#WritersCoffeeClub August 1: What are your goals for the month, writing-wise?

Same as every month keep up with my main serial. Being forced to do one finger typing may make that hard.

#nmwcc #NMPrompts

#PennedPossibilities 1087 — Friday Edition: Write or share something from your WIP pertaining to: “struggle.”

#NMPP #NMPrompts #TimeTravelingGhost

#PennedPossibilities 1085 — What is special about your world or universe?

A baroque mixture of creepy and romance; myth, legend, and folklore; and a sprinkling of poetry and metaphorical talk.

#NMPP #NMPrompts #Mythpunk

#WordWeavers 30. Do the people close to you find your writing surprising?

No. Occasionally, they are surprised I do so much of it.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#WordWeavers 30. Do the people close to you find your writing surprising?

No. Occasionally, they are surprised I do so much of it.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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?

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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?

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 7/29. From soft to hard, where do your tastes fall on the Science Fiction scale?

So soft that it really should be fantasy. But not "I'm ashamed to write fantasy so I made it SciFi."

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 7/29. From soft to hard, where do your tastes fall on the Science Fiction scale?

So soft that it really should be fantasy. But not "I'm ashamed to write fantasy so I made it SciFi."

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#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.

#NMWW #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 7/28. How difficult is it for you to write characters whose taste in art/books/music/television etc are vastly different from your own?

Writing Urban Fantasy, I don't generally have to have major characters indulge in things I know nothing about. They may have more knowledge than I do, but I know enough to do the necessary research.

Why would I set myself up for failure and embarrassment?

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 7/28. How difficult is it for you to write characters whose taste in art/books/music/television etc are vastly different from your own?

Writing Urban Fantasy, I don't generally have to have major characters indulge in things I know nothing about. They may have more knowledge than I do, but I know enough to do the necessary research.

Why would I set myself up for failure and embarrassment?

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#TimeTravelAuthors 07/27. Does your story's time travel ever surprise you?

Surprised? Mildly, when I figure out a ramification of something I have set up, but only mildly. I am less a world builder than a character builder. My characters are more likely to surprise me, though after I had an unpleasant experience with them in my first novel attempt, I keep them under control.

Time-travel mechanics do sometimes wander off in a way I hadn’t anticipated. For example, complications with manifestation caught me off guard, i.e., why are some objects manifestable and others not? (And how can I fix an apparent rule violation?) For example, why can Bijou manifest safari clothes but not an elephant gun or bug spray? Eventually, there will be a side story explaining this apparent breach of my time-particle rules. (But first, the characters must discover and explain the rules. so the side story isn’t a spoiler.)

#NMTTA #NMPrompts #TimeTravel

#ScribesAndMakers 27. Do you feel your creative work leans more towards reflecting life as it is or as you would like it to be?

As it is.

And def. not the way I want it to be. Both in terms of what I reflect and what I add.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

#ScribesAndMakers 27. Do you feel your creative work leans more towards reflecting life as it is or as you would like it to be?

As it is.

And def. not the way I want it to be. Both in terms of what I reflect and what I add.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

If you were to metaphorically assign your non-culinary creative work a flavor, what would it be? #ScribesAndMakers

Hayashi rice: A vibrant cultural mix. .A wonderful mix of tasty things.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts

If you were to metaphorically assign your non-culinary creative work a flavor, what would it be? #ScribesAndMakers

Hayashi rice: A vibrant cultural mix. .A wonderful mix of tasty things.

#NMSAM #NMPrompts