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2026-10-17

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.16 — How do you feel about people reading your works without buying a personal copy?

This question asks how I would feel.

Assuming we are talking about a for-sale book here. With the exceptions of a brick and mortar library loaning out copies they have purchased, or friends and family reading a purchased or resold-as-used copy, I would feel violated. It is theft.

It is different if I post free-to-read on services, like Mastodon, which I do for small works, but I retain the copyright and note that in posts. Were something or somebody to package and sell such work in whatever form—or train an LLM with my content—it is theft. I don't intend to profit materially from free-to-read, but someone else doing it? I would hate that.

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2026-10-17

#WordWeavers 2026.10.16 — What is one choice your MC made for the right reasons that ended up having terrible consequences?

In Reluctant Moon, Streak, the MMC, acts to be supportive of a stressed-out woman who in his eyes has reached the limits of her endurance. His actions lead directly to a war in which Thorn Rose, the FMC and his LI, becomes involved in its opening salvos. There is a loss of innocence all around.

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2026-10-16

#PennedPossibilities 1157: Tell us a random, interesting fact about your WIP.

Human feathers on day angels differ from avian feathers in that they display multiple metallic features in addition to otherwise typical keratin quills and barbs. High-grav corundum encrustations (sharps), which appear only on the leading edge of primary wing feathers and primary calf rudder feathers, are extremely rare and are linked to multiple recessive genes. Bolt doesn't have sharps.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist @[email protected]

2026-10-15

#PennedPossibilities 1156: If your MC had (more) money in their possession, what would they do with it?

Bolt deals with the problem, and it is a problem, in the story. The mob controls her in many ways, one of which is making her surrender excess cash beyond what they pay her. (Coercion by enforced penury.) When her photography is "discovered" and her photographs sell, she refuses to accept the coin she earns—f the mob boss, basically—which confuses those who want to promote her further. She can't explain the circumstances of her "day job," but her new friends and colleagues invent interesting workarounds to see her paid without currency.

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2026-10-15

CW: WordWeavers 2026.10.15 — What piece of backstory did you invent just for yourself that readers may never learn? CW: Sex education mentioned

I pretty much invent all my backstory (and forestory) for myself as a massively parallel daydream recorded in writing for posterity with hopes others will enjoy, but some backstory the readers may never learn for space constraints—most of my backstory appears as 1st person POV reminiscences or flashbacks—or simply because it is unpublishable in our easily politicized era of banning books and trolls trawling to be offended in order to trigger mayhem or to maliciously quash progressive thought. I am writing about a woman-centric society (which is triggery-enough by itself) where mothers have traditions to ensure their children grow into healthy adults and where sex education is mandatory in school. Therefore, characters' relatable personal experiences must remain on the cutting room floor, if for no better reason than I'm not qualified to provide medical or psychological advice that might be implied—does anybody take life advice from fiction books, really?—and I don't wish to trip my readers up. That and the subject is a touchy trigger-filled minefield to wade into. [Yep, mixed metaphors.] Instead, I elude to pertinent backstory in passing as necessary for the plot or to substantiate certain social standards.

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