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#PennedPossibilities 1149: Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

How slow could a line of dominoes fall? Minutes? ...Several hundred years?

Medb made an agreement with the Morrigan.

In exchange for visions of + the scents and where to find the ones that murdered her daughters, in return Medb was given a portion of the Morrigan's power and charged with hunting and killing the last of the Bane Bringers when the Morrigan locates one of them.

Medb ran into one of the Bane Bringers back when she was much younger around 200yrs old, so the deal was a 'win-win' as it were since she would have vengeance and she would be empowered to hunt & kill a tangible threat to not just her people but the world as a whole that she had first hand experience with.

She kills Bane Bring Alsander during the sacking of Kerbesh, when she goes after her daughters' killers and in retaliation for the burning of sacred grass lands. Because of the Morrigan's gift, Alsander isn't able to steal Sævver's spirit when he kills him with the Krenaut, and Medb gets an echo of Sævver's spirit attached to her.

Jump ahead another several hundred years and Medb leads the assault on the tower of a very powerful Bane Bringer known as Martin of Maledictions. The goal was to kill him and thus halt his corpse army. Martin destroys the universe, Medb kills Martin after they plumit into The Dream.

Clack...

Clack...

Clack...

So the dominoes fell to where she now finds herself. Orphaned cosmically fighting for Klein and Morgan... who are in turn orphans within their own stories.

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#PennedPossibilities 1149:
Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

Oof.
Hope's decision not to take her studies seriously leads to her not being taken seriously, even when she is capable of great deeds..
Justice's decision has a hand in her arrogance and vastly underestimating the danger at hand.

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#PennedPossibilities 1149: Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

Timothy made the decision to support Heather when the leadership of his pack changed.

It has now led him into massive conflict with the former second-in-command. It may lead to pain in the near future.

But since this is one of my books, there will be happiness in the end.

A Wolf's Love, Wolves of the South 10

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#PennedPossibilities 1149

Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

Well, without revealing too much I can say that Kessy made the choice to kill, and now she's coping with that for the rest of the story.

#PennedPossibilities 1149: Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

I've talked about Bolt's series of stupid decisions that led to her being involuntarily employed by the mob. A dozen years later, the story starts with her photographing something incredibly newsworthy. A "cub" reporter at the scene, with a broken camera, asks her if she'll sell her photographs. Even though he uses the day angel equivalent of calling her the n-word to get her attention when she ignores him in the crowd, she chooses to sell.

The entire novel is predicated on that yes. If we consider "now" the last chapters, the "how did it lead to where and who they are" is her dealing with the fallout of becoming a famous photographer, helping (and protecting) new friends she meets, juggling multiple identities, and knowing "interesting" people on both sides of the law who are interested in those on the "opposite" side, and having no choice but to become involved when she knows better.

For Bolt, it's a real mess…

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#PennedPossibilities 1149: Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

It was the choice to seek out the man she had been dreaming of and to learn why it was happening. Zerika is learning how to become a better person now, not just a skilled "huntress" (AKA a monster killer for hire). Every single day she’s changing and softening a little more, but all in a good way. She’s growing into a woman with friends, with a found family, a home, and finding her very own happiness. Oh, and she’s found her soulmate.

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#PennedPossibilities 1148 Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?

No. I read mostly lightweight fantasy or fantasy comedy. So lightweight it's really as if the author has only taken it on a train past a fantasy factory.

The Big Novel... is historical fantasy? Fantastical history? Fabulism? Magical Realism?
I don't know how to classify it. Which will be a problem. For later.

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#PennedPossibilities 1148: Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?

I write in a genre adjacent to what I prefer to read. This wasn't always so.

I used to read and write fantasy adventures, used to enjoy the thrill of a new book.

These day, I don't deal well with thrill and tension anymore. So I read mostly romantasy, where a happy ending is guaranteed.

It seems that my writing is also slowly moving in that direction, at least with my Wolves.

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#PennedPossibilities 1148: Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?

I spent easily fifteen minutes threading the needle on this one in order to say no, but it's ridiculous. Looking at what I've read since 2015 I have to admit it's fantasy, and what I've written is also fantasy, though I write it as if I were writing science fiction. Limits. Rules. No mysticism. I dislike Tolkien-style fantasy, so it is never that. And that’s what I've been enjoying reading. If the main character(s) are female, all the better.

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#PennedPossibilities 1148: Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?

It actually is. I devour fantasy tales with the same ferocity and love as when I write them. And it’s also my favorite genre of games to play, or a film and series genre to watch. I’m easy. But I will add that I really do love all genres, especially when you add a bit of romance. I’m not picky.

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#PennedPossibilities 1147: How does your SC feel about those around them?

The devil-girl rarely gives away her thoughts, often cynical and snide, but she has them about every one around her in Home City, for example, about Forge (as in Red Hot…). She's the school bully. When the devil-girl, fighting off a PTSD episode that this young woman triggered, accidentally demonstrates she is much more capable than all her new upper school classmates, it becomes as if she has gained a puppy. Forge cajoles and wheedles, nagging her to distraction, campaigning for some private tutoring. No, not that kind! What the devil-girl thinks after finally having agreed to teach—only to have her instructions ignored—could melt lead. But Forge will never know as the devil-girl rarely gives away her thoughts; murder might result and that's never good.

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