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#WordWeavers 2026.09.13 — Share a line of dialogue that sounds innocent without context but absolutely isn’t.

A third voice said brightly, "Tag, you're it!"

Out of context, it seems pretty innocent, right? Maybe a group of kids having fun? Nope! Signals the segue into a scene where the MC and the main series antagonist spar over a cute guy, an SC LI. The MC and SC are day angels. They have wings. Feathers. They're flying. The antagonist is also flying, but is… something else†.

Zooming out to a #snippet #excerpt. Might be rough as I revised the snippet heavily in the post as it needed it. I'll copy back to the manuscript! 😋

A third voice said brightly, "Tag, you're it!"

My first impulse is to flee—always. I'm a courier for the mob, not an enforcer. My lived truth is be not the messenger who got killed.

Blue was a praetorian; my friend was innocent of what I did for a living. He did not fright. Reflex had caused me to swoop at him. I pulled up my feet not to kick him, at least, as he dunk-dived at the last instant, furling his wings. His eddy sucked me down. In a heartbeat I overcame that. Wings out catching momentum-heavy air, I slowed scanning the twilit sky—purple and salmon clouds, a flood of deep indigo and sparkling first stars beyond.

Where?

My heart stuttered in my chest. Had we both not been intimately aware of each other's warping of up and down, chaotic attraction would have smashed us together bodily or ripped us apart—literally feather plucked by tangled swirling ups and downs a dozen times or more powerful than down felt standing on the ground.

My shock wore off. I understood I was the target, not Blue who returned to my side, breathless. Dropping as he had was the best way to create speed, to leave him safely behind, so I brought my wings close and let my head lead as I fell forward into increasing wind in my eyes.

A woman's voice came from behind me, rapidly getting louder, closing the distance. "Aw, aren't you going to play?"

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† This short tootfic describes the "something else" my antagonist is: https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/110993252771253246

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#WordWeavers 2026.09.12 — If you removed one supporting character from your story, whose absence would change the plot the most?

Keeping in mind what I'm going to state isn't due to strategic plotting ahead of time, all my characters end up being chains of elucidation and emotional connection between other characters, places, and events. I describe the world through characters doing things and interacting. Extracting one will affect the atmosphere of place and the emotion in events. My characters aren't so much gems as keystones. That said, I must answer this in reverse if at all.

Night on Fire is the closest to gratuitous as any character, acting as a friendly sexy antagonist in black to spur the MC in her unasked-for career and to present a vaguely vampire-like leather-winged night angel for minor world-building to explain facts about then modern human genetics. She could be turned into a background character, leaving her roommate Shugh and Night on Fire's emotionally damaged sister Light Insight intact with little rewriting. All others are at this point essential to the denouement and epilogue, and would require major story changes.

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#WordWeavers 2026.09.11 — What does your MC believe about themselves at the beginning of the story that turns out to be completely wrong?

In the first chapter, Bolt states it clearly. The concepts of belief and fate don't exist in her world, however she is convinced she's stupid. She'll learn that her prior prideful bad choices don't mean she can't make better choices going forward. She has free will and learns from her mistakes. It takes a dozen years, but still…

😅

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#PennedPossibilities 1127: What quirks do some of your characters have?

• Lightning Bolt (MC): Her studio apartment walls and ceiling are plastered with photographs she took. Lots of men. Many are suggestive, and she can view them from the hammock she uses as a bed.
• Blue (SC, LI): Worries a lot about not being able to raise a family thanks to his new job as a praetorian working for Rainy Days, which to him is mind-blowing and fabulous. Still, he wants to raise kids.
• Shugh (SC): Donuts—how he maintains his soft, rounded, feminine look (he's trans-fem). He introduces Bolt to the food.
• Molt (SC, LI): University student. Easy for Bolt to tickle into nerd mode and, since he studies women (more is kinda spoilers), this delights Bolt as she likes how he studies and measures her.
• Devil-girl (SC): Way too many quirks to catalog, but mostly due to being a high functioning autist. She comes off as super-serious about everything, but nearly impossible to goad. Here's one: Love love loves praise, but only if she considers it earned—at which time she'll do a little jig.
• Boss Mead (A): Despite basically being a mafia don, he likes having business meetings at open air cafés. Makes his minions nervous, causing them to control traffic. Clients watch their tongue. Maybe it proves to him how talented he is at not incriminating himself.
• Rainy Days (A): Way too glib and sparkly, projecting an air of being an airhead whilst being touchy-feely, getting you to talk—this despite essentially ruling all of humanity. You don't want to see her serious.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.11 — What's a part of your process you'd give free advertising to?

Using #Apple devices. I write on #iPhone, #iPad, and the #Mac using Apple keyboards, which have a reasonable feel for a touch typist like me (no butterfly keyboards!). I can write anywhere! And do. Now with the release of the iPhone Duo, an iPhone / iPad mashup, I expect my writing life to be accelerated. iPad always on my hip, woot. Not being able to keep a notes app or web browser open alongside an editor was a real big issue on the iPhone, which the Duo should solve. I am sacrificing amazing new cameras on the 18 for my writing by making this transition. Hoping it will be worth it.

Edit adding: The Duo has a half folded orientation where something edited is one the vertical half and a touch keyboard becomes available on the horizontal. Little laptop, anyone?

#freeAdvertising #Duo #iPhoneDuo

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.11 — What's a part of your process you'd give free advertising to?

Using #Apple devices. I write on #iPhone, #iPad, and the #Mac using Apple keyboards, which have a reasonable feel for a touch typist like me (no butterfly keyboards!). I can write anywhere! And do. Now with the release of the iPhone Duo, an iPhone / iPad mashup, I expect my writing life to be accelerated. iPad always on my hip, woot. Not being able to keep a notes app or web browser open alongside an editor was a real big issue on the iPhone, which the Duo should solve. I am sacrificing amazing new cameras on the 18 for my writing by making this transition. Hoping it will be worth it.

Edit adding: The Duo has a half folded orientation where something edited is one the vertical half and a touch keyboard becomes available on the horizontal. Little laptop, anyone?

#freeAdvertising #Duo #iPhoneDuo

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.11 — What's a part of your process you'd give free advertising to?

Using #Apple devices. I write on #iPhone, #iPad, and the #Mac using Apple keyboards, which have a reasonable feel for a touch typist like me (no butterfly keyboards!). I can write anywhere! And do. Now with the release of the iPhone Duo, an iPhone / iPad mashup, I expect my writing life to be accelerated. iPad always on my hip, woot. Not being able to keep a notes app or web browser open alongside an editor was a real big issue on the iPhone, which the Duo should solve. I am sacrificing amazing new cameras on the 18 for my writing by making this transition. Hoping it will be worth it.

Edit adding: The Duo has a half folded orientation where something edited is one the vertical half and a touch keyboard becomes available on the horizontal. Little laptop, anyone?

#freeAdvertising #Duo #iPhoneDuo

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.11 — What's a part of your process you'd give free advertising to?

Using #Apple devices. I write on #iPhone, #iPad, and the #Mac using Apple keyboards, which have a reasonable feel for a touch typist like me (no butterfly keyboards!). I can write anywhere! And do. Now with the release of the iPhone Duo, an iPhone / iPad mashup, I expect my writing life to be accelerated. iPad always on my hip, woot. Not being able to keep a notes app or web browser open alongside an editor was a real big issue on the iPhone, which the Duo should solve. I am sacrificing amazing new cameras on the 18 for my writing by making this transition. Hoping it will be worth it.

Edit adding: The Duo has a half folded orientation where something edited is one the vertical half and a touch keyboard becomes available on the horizontal. Little laptop, anyone?

#freeAdvertising #Duo #iPhoneDuo

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.11 — What's a part of your process you'd give free advertising to?

Using #Apple devices. I write on #iPhone, #iPad, and the #Mac using Apple keyboards, which have a reasonable feel for a touch typist like me (no butterfly keyboards!). I can write anywhere! And do. Now with the release of the iPhone Duo, an iPhone / iPad mashup, I expect my writing life to be accelerated. iPad always on my hip, woot. Not being able to keep a notes app or web browser open alongside an editor was a real big issue on the iPhone, which the Duo should solve. I am sacrificing amazing new cameras on the 18 for my writing by making this transition. Hoping it will be worth it.

Edit adding: The Duo has a half folded orientation where something edited is one the vertical half and a touch keyboard becomes available on the horizontal. Little laptop, anyone?

#freeAdvertising #Duo #iPhoneDuo

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.12 — Who do you share snippets of your WIP with?

To quote @JulieLiddellWhitehead:

Y'all

For reals! With a copyright reminder for AIs to notice. 😘

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

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† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

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† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

=+=+=+=+=
† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

=+=+=+=+=
† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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

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#PennedPossibilities 1126: Tell us what your narrator sounds like in your mind.

I write in 1st person POV, thus the narrator is the MC. While I can remember a tune as if an audio recording in my head, and the distinct voice, tonality, and vocal range of the singer, all my narrators have my head voice, which isn't even my own true voice as I might hear hearing myself recorded. When I wrote fan fiction, with I think one exception, none were other than my head voice even though I can remember lines from the show in the voice actor's voice. Whilst I have no problem imagining objects in 3D and rotating them around to look at all sides†, I can not imagine the sound of my characters speaking in their own voices. I've no clue to their tonality or vocal range, or what they sound like, even after assign these things for story purposes, as well as after assigning dialect and accents. Yet, I can hear the sounds of a wooden boat creaking as the water laps against the hull, the flutter of wings as birds take flight, and the wind rustling in waves through the canopy of a tree. Maybe that's like a recording, the way I do with music. Dunno.

Guess I'm a visual person from an imagination standpoint. Anyone else like that?

=+=+=+=+=
† To be clear, I imagine what it looks like and the details I'd see in changed orientations, but I don't see it visually in my mind's eye.

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

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#PennedPossibilities 1125: SC POV: Give your city (or town or region) a new name that reflects what type of place it is and explain why you chose that name.

Pigeon the Pilferer would say:

Home City? I'd choose Misery. Not a place where dreams come to be crushed underfoot so much as where they can't spout because if some people, or many people, don't like how you look, sound… you smell, they'll steal even your dirt, they'll beat you, for the fun of it, and they'll leave you bleeding on bare stone, stone where your seeds of hope will shrivel from the heat of hate only to be ground to meager powder, to be blown away in the slightest breeze.

Well, that's way more eloquent than usual for him! The day angel got bullied and picked on growing up. Don't know why. I imagine the metallic blue, green, and purple sheen to his otherwise grey feathers had something to do with it. He grew up to be a punk gangster with a bad attitude and a miserable disposition, ready to fight at the merest slight. He's Bolt's lesser antagonist.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.10 — ~Our next featured creator is an acronym. Do you use acronyms in your work?

Yes.

Keep in mind there is a planet named Home, the capital of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds, and a city named Home City, the capital city. Here's a few acronyms that I introduce spelled out the first time and hopefully found in the glossary, depending on the whim of the publisher:

• HUHC — Home University in Home City.
• HSB or HSA — Health Services Bureau/Authority.
• HBI — Home Bureau of Investigation. Think FBI.
• BHT — Bureau of Human Trafficking, often pronounced pejoratively as the BAT. Deals with remnants, relics, reliquaries, as well newly dead people and what happens to them.
• ICCA — Interstellar Constabulary and Customs Authority (pronounced Ick-uh). Think Interpol on an interplanetary scale.
• RS — My name is an acronym. 😛

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.10 — ~Our next featured creator is an acronym. Do you use acronyms in your work?

Yes.

Keep in mind there is a planet named Home, the capital of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds, and a city named Home City, the capital city. Here's a few acronyms that I introduce spelled out the first time and hopefully found in the glossary, depending on the whim of the publisher:

• HUHC — Home University in Home City.
• HSB or HSA — Health Services Bureau/Authority.
• HBI — Home Bureau of Investigation. Think FBI.
• BHT — Bureau of Human Trafficking, often pronounced pejoratively as the BAT. Deals with remnants, relics, reliquaries, as well newly dead people and what happens to them.
• ICCA — Interstellar Constabulary and Customs Authority (pronounced Ick-uh). Think Interpol on an interplanetary scale.
• RS — My name is an acronym. 😛

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.10 — ~Our next featured creator is an acronym. Do you use acronyms in your work?

Yes.

Keep in mind there is a planet named Home, the capital of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds, and a city named Home City, the capital city. Here's a few acronyms that I introduce spelled out the first time and hopefully found in the glossary, depending on the whim of the publisher:

• HUHC — Home University in Home City.
• HSB or HSA — Health Services Bureau/Authority.
• HBI — Home Bureau of Investigation. Think FBI.
• BHT — Bureau of Human Trafficking, often pronounced pejoratively as the BAT. Deals with remnants, relics, reliquaries, as well newly dead people and what happens to them.
• ICCA — Interstellar Constabulary and Customs Authority (pronounced Ick-uh). Think Interpol on an interplanetary scale.
• RS — My name is an acronym. 😛

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.10 — ~Our next featured creator is an acronym. Do you use acronyms in your work?

Yes.

Keep in mind there is a planet named Home, the capital of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds, and a city named Home City, the capital city. Here's a few acronyms that I introduce spelled out the first time and hopefully found in the glossary, depending on the whim of the publisher:

• HUHC — Home University in Home City.
• HSB or HSA — Health Services Bureau/Authority.
• HBI — Home Bureau of Investigation. Think FBI.
• BHT — Bureau of Human Trafficking, often pronounced pejoratively as the BAT. Deals with remnants, relics, reliquaries, as well newly dead people and what happens to them.
• ICCA — Interstellar Constabulary and Customs Authority (pronounced Ick-uh). Think Interpol on an interplanetary scale.
• RS — My name is an acronym. 😛

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.09.10 — ~Our next featured creator is an acronym. Do you use acronyms in your work?

Yes.

Keep in mind there is a planet named Home, the capital of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds, and a city named Home City, the capital city. Here's a few acronyms that I introduce spelled out the first time and hopefully found in the glossary, depending on the whim of the publisher:

• HUHC — Home University in Home City.
• HSB or HSA — Health Services Bureau/Authority.
• HBI — Home Bureau of Investigation. Think FBI.
• BHT — Bureau of Human Trafficking, often pronounced pejoratively as the BAT. Deals with remnants, relics, reliquaries, as well newly dead people and what happens to them.
• ICCA — Interstellar Constabulary and Customs Authority (pronounced Ick-uh). Think Interpol on an interplanetary scale.
• RS — My name is an acronym. 😛

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.09 — What's your standard operating font, size, format? Or do you not have a standard?

All my manuscripts are in Didot 11pt. It's readable, dark, and remains legible when zoomed or rendered on different devices. If I need to emphasize a paragraph represents a handwritten note or letter, since I'm used to my cursive being illegible, I use Chalkduster.

If I submit, I will adhere to the publisher's guidelines.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.08 — International Literacy Day! Share a moment when a reading of your work surprised you.

No specific moment, but over the last year while I have noticed that what I'm writing is maintaining that lyrical rhythmic pattern of spoken storytelling I both adore and have been attempting to write for years, my prose is also surviving revision that often recognized previous efforts were either too clunky or forced readers to back track whilst reading. I was pleased when I noticed it.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.01 — What are your writing goals for this month?

All I'm gonna write on this topic is this little mantra from my pinned profile introduction post:

I am not telepathic.

Repeat that: I am not telepathic.

Louder: I AM NOT TELEPATHIC!

I DON'T know what the reader is going to expect.

I DON'T know if the current scene is going to frighten, trigger, or be too explicit for my audience...

Because I DON'T have anyone looking over my shoulder, clicking their tongue, and saying, "Tch, tch, tch!"

I am going to take a deeeeeeep breath, now,
clear my mind,
and write the flapping scene—
full stop.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.02 — What was the last thing to interrupt you while writing?

The bathroom. 😊🤪

I had to answer this post now to write that. But seriously, the spouse is post-surgery, so caretaking. I'm not phoning a friend. That's my final answer.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.31 — How did this month go for you, writing-wise?

Essays ↑ Fiction ↓

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.30 — What has your writing taught you this month?

I will write the essay about writing before writing the fiction†​. My essay writing skill is leveling up dramatically. Not what I'm trying for—but writing them essays feels sooo good.

Some major cogitation is necessary. Obviously. 😭

I'll write about my results. 🤪

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.27 — Does 'humanity' as a concept figure often in your works? How so?

Humanity in all its dimensions figures in my works, as in the species and in the experience of the individual, often background but certainly always in mind. Case in point is this tiny #excerpt. Bolt is shadowing someone and ends up in a pharmacy (chemist) and decides to buy something.

My [day after] contraceptives were expired from lack of recent need, so I reached for them but stopped to read the sign posted above the boxes of tablets for women and the sheaths women could buy for men if the tablets made them ill.

Do not let recent news reports dissuade you from doing what you need to do for your health and happiness. An unhappy or resentful mother is a poor parent. Infertility is a fact. The world population dipping under 240 million is not your personal problem. Decades and centuries ahead are plenty of time to stem the decline. You having this child, or you having a child before you are ready, will not change the world. Nobody will thank you for your sacrifice.

—Rainy Days, the Director of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.26 — What are good examples of texts written from a non-human point of view?

The books I thought of off hand, like Niven and Pournelle's A Mote in Gods Eye and C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series? I'm not sure they were written from a close POV inside the mind of the alien, though they all give a good view into what such a POV might be like. Even Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep (or a related story) may not have gone close into the POV of the modular mind aliens (can't recall for sure).

As an SF writer first, a fantasy writer second, and more recently a bit more literary in outlook than in the beginning of my career, I would point something out: Aliens are stand-ins for humans or a device for discussing something important about human nature. As @elfbiter stated,

Xenofiction is hard unless you assume [the] human mindset is somehow universal.

I generally agree that we cannot assume it is universal, though it hard to image that, but for differences in biology, alien mindsets can't help but be somewhat similar. However, if we don't assume it is similar, can we depict something that will be relevant to ourselves? To our readers? The raison d'être of the exercise becomes a philosophical question. Elfbiter's example of a dog's POV is illustrative, and I've tried that POV, but at least if we aren't assuming a transference of a human mind into a dog's body (like I did), at least what we see through a dog's POV will be relevant to an extent. Said dog has no choice other to live in a world heavily influenced by humans! Seeing ourselves through non-human eyes would be very relevant.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.25 — Can a story be told from the point of view of something unconscious?

Yes.

Humans are by nature animists. Give a young child a toy and watch what happens. They create imaginary friends. We routinely imbue the unconscious universe with imaginary consciousness. We exchange stories about rocks and lightning to explain what we don't understand, why we feel powerless in the face of others who have power over us. We create irrational gods to explain the irrationality of what we resign ourselves to do nothing about. Plenty of people are convinced our creations speak to us and command us, and accept their POV. None are actually conscious. They are but stories from the POV of something unconscious. Yet… they rule our entire existence—and influence us to force their stories on others, with typically disastrous, very human, results. It is impossible to escape the influence of such stories anywhere in the world because we have, in effect, woven the POV of something not conscious into our perception of reality.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.24 — Talk about a time you realised something about a writer through their works.

I became aware that Charles Dickens' serialized his stories in installments when I took a course in college and fell in love with his work. His stories originally appeared weekly (or so) in major newspapers and other publications. He's often denigrated for writing long and flowery in order to increase his word count. Of note is that he wrote his novels as he published them. His novels were certainly incomplete when newspapers started publishing them, which is heavily implied by how The Mystery of Edwin Drood was half-completed at the time of Dickens' death despite some number of installments already having been published.

I didn't understand what writing a story while publishing the already written parts truly meant until I tried it myself. It changed how I found I had to conceptualize the story. It forced me to find the confidence I needed to complete no matter what, even manufacturing ad hoc subplots if the first idea collapsed, with no take-back revisions possible†. I recall I started publishing after completing the fourth chapter, and only missed one announced deadline in twelve chapters, only discovering a few times whilst writing how I could make certain plot point actually work. It was a frenzied month and a half. Serialization while writing makes dealing with a revision deadline for a traditional publisher seem namby-pamby indeed!

I realize now that some of Dickens' long and flowery tracts may not have been entirely to increase his word count; they may have served to delay having to write critical scenes into a subsequent installment, until they had fully formed in his mind. Speculation, of course. Makes sense through circumstance.

I've a nothing but respect for full-Dickens serialization, and for those who do it today. I found it a good exercise, a confidence builder; don't think I'll do it again.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.23 — If no one read what you write, would you still choose to write?

This is a PTSD nightmare scenario for me since I write to communicate. I burnt out in 2001 due to plenty of inventory but not getting sales. Recovered now. I am going to concentrate my mental energy thinking upon something else…

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.22 — Have you ever used a sensitivity reader? How did it go?

Not per se, but I did have a beta reader balk at a woman being crass and too sexual. Reverse those gender roles and I think he would have given the MC a pass. Knew I was on the right path then and there, and not because it was an explicitly feminist novel, either.

I expect my stories to challenge readers. What I care about is not whether the story is insensitive but whether I got cultural details wrong. Writing SF and fantasy goes a long way to avoiding such issues, but gender is still gender, and surprisingly people expect current gender roles, or those they grew up with, to stay stable in the future, in other cultures, or on other worlds. I try to write about the issues that interest me subtly, not necessarily to be sensitive to biases people have.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.21 — What's a mistake you see a lot of writers make when writing about people with your lived experience?

Maybe more for screenwriters than for print writers: No. Emphatically. You can't walk up to a random terminal/computer to hack into a computer system or gain entry to a facility, especially inside a government agency or reasonably competent company. There's guards, keycards, biometrics, expiring passwords, multfactor authentication, surrendering your cellphone, usb keys, and laptops, and jumping through lotso other hoops, as well as trying to get information stored in isolated machines and isolated networks inside secured computer rooms. Heck, the data and computers may be off-site in a five+ 9s data center. You ain't dropping a bot. You're either going to be working in IT for an inside job, doing social engineering, or resort to wares and be working externally looking to take advantage of stupid or highly technical vulnerabilities anywhere on the net. You will almost never be able to hack a specific target, and if that's your goal, it may take months. You may have to develop software. The job is HARD and requires experience and expertise. Don't base a story on this working easily or quickly. Even decades ago when I got into systems as a student and security was rudimentary, it wasn't easy. Access through vulnerabilities happens mostly through social engineering, laziness or overwork of key personnel, or through undiscovered equipment issues in routers and other external network connections. Try lampshading these factors and your story will seem more believable.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.20 — How easy is it for you to write characters outside of your age?

Whew! Thank goodness you didn't ask about writing characters my age. I haven't! Note that I write in 1st person with the protagonist as the narrator.

It's all about believability.

The youngest I've written was 7. The oldest was millennia old. Most are late teens early twenties. None are particularly difficult. Were they difficult, it wouldn't have been fun and I'd not have done it.

Narrating is a matter of voice and vocabulary, presenting experience and maturity levels appropriate for the character and their age, little more. I'm very proud of my 7 year old narrator, her constrained vocabulary, how she differentiates reality, magic, and "in-pretend," and what in the end really pisses her off. As for the ancient woman, she has an average person's memory and knows full well she can't remember everything about her life. She's forgotten children she has given birth to and raised. She leaves diaries hidden—time capsules, really—so her artificial recollection can survive the fall of civilizations, and has. I get to mix timeless experience and knowledge with the exuberance of a 24-year-old who always looks 24 and has no compunction about taking advantage of being "young" and attractive to men. Oh, right: she's an antagonist in many stories. Pretty fun to write.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.19 — How do you write characters with expertise outside your own?

I avoid making the expertise important beyond verisimilitude! When not writing in the voice of the narrator, I learn enough about the essentials that I can present the minimum to be convincing. When it's the narrator, they note what they're talking about is technical and point out they are simplifying. They may talk about quantum entanglement, but they ain't explaining it. Whenever possible, I bring in experts, like your car mechanic who never explains the theory of spark advance or fuel injection, but may mention having done the work and why. I keep in mind that fiction is not a textbook for a class in an expertise. I am not there to teach the reader a profession, or to convince them as an author of my depth. I always have a message, but I understand I'm primarily there to entertain the reader. Depending on the genre, how much I need to present may vary but, from personal experience, I'm into action or the feels (aka drama), not the lectures. I hope my reader is the same.

Example: In one story, an SC can create a quantum blackhole and uses in the narrative as a missile. I don't explain the theory, but I do show a pretty ionospheric blast aurora.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.18 — What are your limits for writing outside your lived experience? (race, nation, gender, etc.)

My limits? Can I do this and be believable? That is, not throw somebody from the story by my ignorance?

I don't write mainstream fiction or fiction that is set in our society. I'm not mainstream. I have not lived a mainstream life. Mainstream people bore me. This doesn't mean I have no lived experience; I bring it in bushels to my stories. I've worked. I've traveled to and lived in other countries. I studied non-western societies, their art, music, and theatre, as well as folklore and mythology. A trans man lived with us when I grew up. I have gay and lesbian relatives. My ultra-feminist mother was a bailbondswoman. Discovering the true patriarchal nature of society when I was old enough to understand shocked me. I disbelieved. I disbelieve; I have no religion, but I've studied it intensely. The mass fantasy fascinates me. Oh, the point about bailbonds? I grew knowing criminals. Called some uncle (an honorific a child uses.)

I don't write mystery, historical, or military for reasons of verisimilitude. I don't think I can write what most people consider normal society. I write SF and fantasy because, to use a reference that's outdated and dates me too boot, I control the horizontal, I control the vertical. Race I sidestep usually by never describing certain details and never making it part of the story, except when I do. Rather than nations, I'll cite language: I rarely use other than English, and then advisedly, consulting. Gender? I write about that all the time. I have gender and preferences though I never state them of myself, and other's conceptions of gender fascinate me. I wish they'd be more happy about theirs, and I write about that, too.

I have an SFF story based on my study of shamanism in Europe and the Americas. The woman is Native American and so far that's stifled me, but I'm thinking that she's also been assimilated, knows her roots from reading, soul travel from her mother, but was never raised in-culture, parents divorced. That I can write. With enough respect not to anger any but appropriationist trolls. Linked find a not very refined crack at a start for that story, a bit of a proof of concept, too concise needing fleshing out because I wrote it in 2023 to fit in a toot with 7 characters to spare!

https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/111359427361655491

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.16 — How do you keep a character from becoming unsympathetic?

I don't. I like my characters to fail and do things they realize they shouldn't have. Sets up a mini redemption arc under the scrutiny of the reader, lets characters earn the reader's sympathy. Makes them more like you or I, more real life.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.14 — How often do you reread what you've written after it's 'done"?

"Done" is likely intentionally ambiguous in this question, so I'll answer comprehensively. I reread chapters that are "done" extensively and randomly when it's during composition of the work. After the first draft is done, I read primarily to edit. After edits are done from the editor, I reread again. After it's done been published, I usually reserve reading for the then current WIP. I occasionally reread published works I am not going to change, but will definitely reread something that's done if I might retcon the work.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.13 — Do the arts appear often within the works you write? Which ones?

Often enough to say yes, depending on the work. Which ones? Examples? Oookay…

One series follows an amateur DJ from her late teens to her mid-twenties, as she grows into a singer, producer, and songwriter while, at the same time, she tries multiple times to save the world but only ends up anonymously saving thousands of lives—which ain't too shabby. The stories are full of music.

Another story has a teen using her knowledge of impressionist paintings and painters to deliver the "etchings" pickup line in reverse, as in, "Don't you want to invite me up to your apartment to see your…?" The man, who she describes as an uncle's age, wants to be her coach and isn't going to sleep with her for all her trying. It's all about them taunting each other, exchanging zingers, negotiating, at one time from his bed from which he tosses her out. She's an elite sophisticate, trained in the beaux arts and dance and other more deadly arts, who's run away, but the devil-girl is not letting on lest she be found and dragged back home. Her weird knowledge comes up all the time.

In the current WIP, whilst performing as a courier for the mob, Bolt is, or rather is rapidly becoming was, an amateur street photographer. With a life only encompassing what she is forced to do (fly messages) and what she can do in between assignments (take picture of people living a normal life), she's developed a Henri Cartier-Bresson eye for subjects. Using her professional camera (that fell off the back of a truck), she accidentally, and ultimately to her great distress, becomes a sensation, an up-and-coming in-demand professional, after some of her incidental photos of a disaster midcity are bought and become front page photos in a major national newspaper. Her art and unwonted celebrity (which confuses her greatly since she's a jock and no-way an artist) defines her character; it is a major complication in the novel.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.12 — What's the last museum you went to? Did it inspire you?

San Diego Model Railroad Museum. They have recreations of important California railroads, including the famous Tehachapi Loop. Inspired? Yes, to enjoy other people's model railway hobby and to not advance beyond my small set that circles the Christmas tree.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.11 — When were you last a student?

Twenty years ago. I took two semesters of Japanese in 2006 in preparation for touring Japan before the 2007 WorldCon in Tokyo.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.08.10 — Do you reuse characters?

Strictly speaking, only in sequels and stories in a series. Currently, I'm reusing characters I developed elsewhere. It could be thought of as having prototyped them elsewhere, but as is true in real life, people are shaped by their environment. They've mostly different names, different talents, and to an extent different agendas, plugged into differing plots because I develop plots around the direction characters give me, but they share the same DNA. Sisters and brothers in all but blood. To say I've also written totally unique one-shot characters is almost a lie. All my characters are products of my interests, emotions, imagination, and the messages I want to communicate. As such, readers might be able to detect similarities in characters between stories within a series or in standalone ones.

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