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#PennedPossibilities 1133: Did your MC attend school? What sort of education did they have?

Dropped out at the start of her senior year in high school. She was a jock's jock and only got a plus-plus in physical education. She barely passed all the required classes to stay on the Flight and Track team that she captained. (The members were all male.) She did well on physiology and anatomy sections of her science course, and oddly, fairly well at comprehending physics (she's a stunt flier) though her arithmetic was bad enough it didn't help her much. She was good at figure drawing. She really studied the boys, if you get my meaning.

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#PennedPossibilities 1133: Did your MC attend school? What sort of education did they have?

Dropped out at the start of her senior year in high school. She was a jock's jock and only got a plus-plus in physical education. She barely passed all the required classes to stay on the Flight and Track team that she captained. (The members were all male.) She did well on physiology and anatomy sections of her science course, and oddly, fairly well at comprehending physics (she's a stunt flier) though her arithmetic was bad enough it didn't help her much. She was good at figure drawing. She really studied the boys, if you get my meaning.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#PennedPossibilities 1133: Did your MC attend school? What sort of education did they have?

Dropped out at the start of her senior year in high school. She was a jock's jock and only got a plus-plus in physical education. She barely passed all the required classes to stay on the Flight and Track team that she captained. (The members were all male.) She did well on physiology and anatomy sections of her science course, and oddly, fairly well at comprehending physics (she's a stunt flier) though her arithmetic was bad enough it didn't help her much. She was good at figure drawing. She really studied the boys, if you get my meaning.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#PennedPossibilities 1133: Did your MC attend school? What sort of education did they have?

Dropped out at the start of her senior year in high school. She was a jock's jock and only got a plus-plus in physical education. She barely passed all the required classes to stay on the Flight and Track team that she captained. (The members were all male.) She did well on physiology and anatomy sections of her science course, and oddly, fairly well at comprehending physics (she's a stunt flier) though her arithmetic was bad enough it didn't help her much. She was good at figure drawing. She really studied the boys, if you get my meaning.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#PennedPossibilities 1133: Did your MC attend school? What sort of education did they have?

Dropped out at the start of her senior year in high school. She was a jock's jock and only got a plus-plus in physical education. She barely passed all the required classes to stay on the Flight and Track team that she captained. (The members were all male.) She did well on physiology and anatomy sections of her science course, and oddly, fairly well at comprehending physics (she's a stunt flier) though her arithmetic was bad enough it didn't help her much. She was good at figure drawing. She really studied the boys, if you get my meaning.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

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#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#PennedPossibilities 1132. If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?

My younger self would not believe me, so I'll let her figure it out for herself. She's pretty smart.

I think the main big things I've gathered over the years are you have to believe in your own stories and champion/celebrate them - trust your own judgement above other people's but *be* critical and hold yourself to a high standard. And don't *expect* anyone to read your books, because most people won't and that's OK. Oh, and don't bother querying agents. Soul destroying.

#PennedPossibilities 1131: Which landmark in your world stands as a permanent reminder of a major event? Describe it.

There is something. It's beyond global in scale and is all encompassing. It's inscrutable but few people pay much attention to it because it's too familiar and is too hard to fathom in its entirety. It stands as a reminder to the one who remembers stories of The Fall and the few who study the artifact that a civilization greater than theirs… vanished† .

I can't describe it because that would be spoilers.

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† The One Who Remembers made sure all traces of said civilization vanished, except for this "something." Of that she proved unable.

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#PennedPossibilities 1131: Which landmark in your world stands as a permanent reminder of a major event? Describe it.

All eight pyramids in the Holy Empire are reminders of the terrible war that happened centuries ago. They were built to protect the people of the Holy Empire, holding up the magical Veil.

They look like an Aztec pyramid, with stairs on one side and half-orb on top. They are often stained with blood.

Moon Rises, Winds & Pillars 8
(out now!)

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#PennedPossibilities 1131: Which landmark in your world stands as a permanent reminder of a major event? Describe it.

Gulf of Mexico (Not that other name.) Remains of the extinction event that appear on my front cover.

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#PennedPossibilities 1131: Which landmark in your world stands as a permanent reminder of a major event? Describe it.

Elric’s Divination Tower stands as a reminder of the last war that took place and what it cost (and what it cost Elric as well).

I'll leave a snippet down below.

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#PennedPossibilities 1124. MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?

#ArkanCotton: "Have I ever *not* heard anyone asking stupid questions?"

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