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#PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?
Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?
One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.
Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.
The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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#PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?
Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?
One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.
Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.
The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?
Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?
One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.
Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.
The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?
Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?
One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.
Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.
The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met?
Yes and yes. Innit more fun that way!?
One's an annoying punk gangster coworker who enjoys tormenting her, whom she can smell a block away.
Another's the mob boss who has her blackmailed. She tried to insinuate herself into his life and slept with him. That was the past. He rarely personally gives her orders, but when he does, he knows and plays on her weaknesses.
The scariest meets all those who might assist her in achieving her goals. In this case she knew Bolt through following the mob boss's career, but when she learned that Bolt trained her newest praetorian recruit to pass her rigorous flying test, she arranged to meet Bolt in person. Turns out Bolt is easily baited into a competition…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Last night, when I performed a tiny, silly poem at my first ever open mic night.
🦸♀️#Performing #AmPerforming
#Writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersofMastodon -
#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Because of reasons of revealing spoilers, I'll speak for Bolt. She has a dim view of herself. Other than her athletic past, she never feels heroic. However, she does find herself in a tableau that she feels could escalate into deadly force†, which her side could not win.
She would cite that moment.
She defuses the situation. She uses sex.
Which is problematic in so many ways I'm sure any of us could list, but super useful for a gender fiction author like me. Discussions of dignity, and use of the right tool for the job, follow.
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†She's not as dumb as she thinks she is: #WordWeavers Sept 26/26 https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/117340884948889941[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Because of reasons of revealing spoilers, I'll speak for Bolt. She has a dim view of herself. Other than her athletic past, she never feels heroic. However, she does find herself in a tableau that she feels could escalate into deadly force†, which her side could not win.
She would cite that moment.
She defuses the situation. She uses sex.
Which is problematic in so many ways I'm sure any of us could list, but super useful for a gender fiction author like me. Discussions of dignity, and use of the right tool for the job, follow.
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†She's not as dumb as she thinks she is: #WordWeavers Sept 26/26 https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/117340884948889941[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Because of reasons of revealing spoilers, I'll speak for Bolt. She has a dim view of herself. Other than her athletic past, she never feels heroic. However, she does find herself in a tableau that she feels could escalate into deadly force†, which her side could not win.
She would cite that moment.
She defuses the situation. She uses sex.
Which is problematic in so many ways I'm sure any of us could list, but super useful for a gender fiction author like me. Discussions of dignity, and use of the right tool for the job, follow.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
†She's not as dumb as she thinks she is: #WordWeavers Sept 26/26 https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/117340884948889941[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Because of reasons of revealing spoilers, I'll speak for Bolt. She has a dim view of herself. Other than her athletic past, she never feels heroic. However, she does find herself in a tableau that she feels could escalate into deadly force†, which her side could not win.
She would cite that moment.
She defuses the situation. She uses sex.
Which is problematic in so many ways I'm sure any of us could list, but super useful for a gender fiction author like me. Discussions of dignity, and use of the right tool for the job, follow.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
†She's not as dumb as she thinks she is: #WordWeavers Sept 26/26 https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/117340884948889941[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Because of reasons of revealing spoilers, I'll speak for Bolt. She has a dim view of herself. Other than her athletic past, she never feels heroic. However, she does find herself in a tableau that she feels could escalate into deadly force†, which her side could not win.
She would cite that moment.
She defuses the situation. She uses sex.
Which is problematic in so many ways I'm sure any of us could list, but super useful for a gender fiction author like me. Discussions of dignity, and use of the right tool for the job, follow.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
†She's not as dumb as she thinks she is: #WordWeavers Sept 26/26 https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/117340884948889941[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Zerika: The first time Elric turned to me, looking for my… input. When he looked to me for advice. We were fighting against a band of brigands. It was because he appreciates and trusts me, that trust is honestly what keeps me going some days. I do what I do to *help* people, usually despite who and what they might think I am, and Elric’s trust (as a gift of sorts) felt like a reminder of that very thing for me. It made me feel like I *could* be a hero. That was the day I realized I had fallen for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #TheScarletMirror #FatedByFire #CozyFantasy #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #Romance
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#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Zerika: The first time Elric turned to me, looking for my… input. When he looked to me for advice. We were fighting against a band of brigands. It was because he appreciates and trusts me, that trust is honestly what keeps me going some days. I do what I do to *help* people, usually despite who and what they might think I am, and Elric’s trust (as a gift of sorts) felt like a reminder of that very thing for me. It made me feel like I *could* be a hero. That was the day I realized I had fallen for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #TheScarletMirror #FatedByFire #CozyFantasy #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #Romance
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#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Zerika: The first time Elric turned to me, looking for my… input. When he looked to me for advice. We were fighting against a band of brigands. It was because he appreciates and trusts me, that trust is honestly what keeps me going some days. I do what I do to *help* people, usually despite who and what they might think I am, and Elric’s trust (as a gift of sorts) felt like a reminder of that very thing for me. It made me feel like I *could* be a hero. That was the day I realized I had fallen for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #TheScarletMirror #FatedByFire #CozyFantasy #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #Romance
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#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Zerika: The first time Elric turned to me, looking for my… input. When he looked to me for advice. We were fighting against a band of brigands. It was because he appreciates and trusts me, that trust is honestly what keeps me going some days. I do what I do to *help* people, usually despite who and what they might think I am, and Elric’s trust (as a gift of sorts) felt like a reminder of that very thing for me. It made me feel like I *could* be a hero. That was the day I realized I had fallen for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #TheScarletMirror #FatedByFire #CozyFantasy #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #Romance
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#PennedPossibilities 1140: MC POV: When was a time you felt like a hero?
Zerika: The first time Elric turned to me, looking for my… input. When he looked to me for advice. We were fighting against a band of brigands. It was because he appreciates and trusts me, that trust is honestly what keeps me going some days. I do what I do to *help* people, usually despite who and what they might think I am, and Elric’s trust (as a gift of sorts) felt like a reminder of that very thing for me. It made me feel like I *could* be a hero. That was the day I realized I had fallen for him.
#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #TheScarletMirror #FatedByFire #CozyFantasy #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #Romance
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#PennedPossibilities 1139:
A ritual before you sit down to write?Leave house, go to cafe, order pot of tea, take laptop, headphones, notebooks, pen, glasses cleaner out of bag, catch up on messages, Mastodon, news headlines, email, social media, shopping, drink tea, open story, run out of time, go home.
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#PennedPossibilities 1139:
A ritual before you sit down to write?Leave house, go to cafe, order pot of tea, take laptop, headphones, notebooks, pen, glasses cleaner out of bag, catch up on messages, Mastodon, news headlines, email, social media, shopping, drink tea, open story, run out of time, go home.
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#PennedPossibilities 1139:
A ritual before you sit down to write?Leave house, go to cafe, order pot of tea, take laptop, headphones, notebooks, pen, glasses cleaner out of bag, catch up on messages, Mastodon, news headlines, email, social media, shopping, drink tea, open story, run out of time, go home.
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#PennedPossibilities 1139:
A ritual before you sit down to write?Leave house, go to cafe, order pot of tea, take laptop, headphones, notebooks, pen, glasses cleaner out of bag, catch up on messages, Mastodon, news headlines, email, social media, shopping, drink tea, open story, run out of time, go home.
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#PennedPossibilities 1139:
A ritual before you sit down to write?Leave house, go to cafe, order pot of tea, take laptop, headphones, notebooks, pen, glasses cleaner out of bag, catch up on messages, Mastodon, news headlines, email, social media, shopping, drink tea, open story, run out of time, go home.