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#WordWeavers 3/10: Share a line from your WIP that foreshadows something important without giving it away.
This is the first appearance of a character who will become more significant, much deeper into the book.
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#WordWeavers 3/10: Share a line from your WIP that foreshadows something important without giving it away.
This is the first appearance of a character who will become more significant, much deeper into the book.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon -
#WordWeavers 3/10: Share a line from your WIP that foreshadows something important without giving it away.
This is the first appearance of a character who will become more significant, much deeper into the book.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon -
#WordWeavers 3/10: Share a line from your WIP that foreshadows something important without giving it away.
This is the first appearance of a character who will become more significant, much deeper into the book.
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I was inspired to create a list of spooky questions for the rest of the month. If you feel like joining in, tag your answers with #Spooktober so others can read them. I apologize for making the image so small! Full of admiration for how the people running the writing hashtags do it... I'll put the questions in the alt text. (Color gradient by MagicPattern on Unsplash)
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I was inspired to create a list of spooky questions for the rest of the month. If you feel like joining in, tag your answers with #Spooktober so others can read them. I apologize for making the image so small! Full of admiration for how the people running the writing hashtags do it... I'll put the questions in the alt text. (Color gradient by MagicPattern on Unsplash)
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I was inspired to create a list of spooky questions for the rest of the month. If you feel like joining in, tag your answers with #Spooktober so others can read them. I apologize for making the image so small! Full of admiration for how the people running the writing hashtags do it... I'll put the questions in the alt text. (Color gradient by MagicPattern on Unsplash)
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I was inspired to create a list of spooky questions for the rest of the month. If you feel like joining in, tag your answers with #Spooktober so others can read them. I apologize for making the image so small! Full of admiration for how the people running the writing hashtags do it... I'll put the questions in the alt text. (Color gradient by MagicPattern on Unsplash)
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Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #VendrediLecture
9: #wordweavers
8: #FootpathFriday
7: #WindowFriday
6: #FensterFreitag
5: #CartoonSoapOperas
4: #JukeboxFridayNight
3: #awiderworld
2: #BandcampFriday
1: #totp -
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #VendrediLecture
9: #wordweavers
8: #FootpathFriday
7: #WindowFriday
6: #FensterFreitag
5: #CartoonSoapOperas
4: #JukeboxFridayNight
3: #awiderworld
2: #BandcampFriday
1: #totp -
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #VendrediLecture
9: #wordweavers
8: #FootpathFriday
7: #WindowFriday
6: #FensterFreitag
5: #CartoonSoapOperas
4: #JukeboxFridayNight
3: #awiderworld
2: #BandcampFriday
1: #totp -
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #VendrediLecture
9: #wordweavers
8: #FootpathFriday
7: #WindowFriday
6: #FensterFreitag
5: #CartoonSoapOperas
4: #JukeboxFridayNight
3: #awiderworld
2: #BandcampFriday
1: #totp -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.02 — Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves?
Various SCs know aspects of my MC, Bolt, better than Bolt is willing to accept. Blue is best able to predict and manage Bolt's emotional and physical needs, though it's often a triage situation since they don't live together. He can calm her like none other. She's active and likes exercise both in and out of bed, which he can readily provide.
Night on Fire and her sister Light Insight both know Bolt and her photography better than Bolt does herself. Bolt considers photography a throwaway hobby. She's used it only to capture what interests her in a way that most pleases her, for her own (sometimes arguably pornographic) consumption. The two women see how Bolt works intuitively, understand how she sees the world from the body of work pasted to the walls and ceiling of her apartment, and therefore know what they can ask of her that's both reasonable and possible. They know full well that Bolt will give them skeptical, puzzled looks and try to say no, but also know Bolt is a soft touch—and that Bolt's art can make them a lot of coin.
Rainy Days (the main series antagonist) learns everything she can about anyone she's interested in. Bolt made her interested.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.02 — Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves?
Various SCs know aspects of my MC, Bolt, better than Bolt is willing to accept. Blue is best able to predict and manage Bolt's emotional and physical needs, though it's often a triage situation since they don't live together. He can calm her like none other. She's active and likes exercise both in and out of bed, which he can readily provide.
Night on Fire and her sister Light Insight both know Bolt and her photography better than Bolt does herself. Bolt considers photography a throwaway hobby. She's used it only to capture what interests her in a way that most pleases her, for her own (sometimes arguably pornographic) consumption. The two women see how Bolt works intuitively, understand how she sees the world from the body of work pasted to the walls and ceiling of her apartment, and therefore know what they can ask of her that's both reasonable and possible. They know full well that Bolt will give them skeptical, puzzled looks and try to say no, but also know Bolt is a soft touch—and that Bolt's art can make them a lot of coin.
Rainy Days (the main series antagonist) learns everything she can about anyone she's interested in. Bolt made her interested.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.02 — Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves?
Various SCs know aspects of my MC, Bolt, better than Bolt is willing to accept. Blue is best able to predict and manage Bolt's emotional and physical needs, though it's often a triage situation since they don't live together. He can calm her like none other. She's active and likes exercise both in and out of bed, which he can readily provide.
Night on Fire and her sister Light Insight both know Bolt and her photography better than Bolt does herself. Bolt considers photography a throwaway hobby. She's used it only to capture what interests her in a way that most pleases her, for her own (sometimes arguably pornographic) consumption. The two women see how Bolt works intuitively, understand how she sees the world from the body of work pasted to the walls and ceiling of her apartment, and therefore know what they can ask of her that's both reasonable and possible. They know full well that Bolt will give them skeptical, puzzled looks and try to say no, but also know Bolt is a soft touch—and that Bolt's art can make them a lot of coin.
Rainy Days (the main series antagonist) learns everything she can about anyone she's interested in. Bolt made her interested.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.02 — Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves?
Various SCs know aspects of my MC, Bolt, better than Bolt is willing to accept. Blue is best able to predict and manage Bolt's emotional and physical needs, though it's often a triage situation since they don't live together. He can calm her like none other. She's active and likes exercise both in and out of bed, which he can readily provide.
Night on Fire and her sister Light Insight both know Bolt and her photography better than Bolt does herself. Bolt considers photography a throwaway hobby. She's used it only to capture what interests her in a way that most pleases her, for her own (sometimes arguably pornographic) consumption. The two women see how Bolt works intuitively, understand how she sees the world from the body of work pasted to the walls and ceiling of her apartment, and therefore know what they can ask of her that's both reasonable and possible. They know full well that Bolt will give them skeptical, puzzled looks and try to say no, but also know Bolt is a soft touch—and that Bolt's art can make them a lot of coin.
Rainy Days (the main series antagonist) learns everything she can about anyone she's interested in. Bolt made her interested.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — What is a promise your MC made that they regret?
Bolt knows that in her position (essentially a wholly-owned courier/delivery subsidiary of the mob), she can't promise even one of her feathers. Yet, when a neighbor got used to spy on her, then immediately gave away what he had been forced to do, she grew to like the guy. (Molt becomes a cute LI). I'm not entirely sure if she regrets promising that she could protect him, because she would have fought regardless of the promise and proved definitively she can't protect anyone. However, putting herself in his place and seeing said promise as broken hurts nonetheless.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — What is a promise your MC made that they regret?
Bolt knows that in her position (essentially a wholly-owned courier/delivery subsidiary of the mob), she can't promise even one of her feathers. Yet, when a neighbor got used to spy on her, then immediately gave away what he had been forced to do, she grew to like the guy. (Molt becomes a cute LI). I'm not entirely sure if she regrets promising that she could protect him, because she would have fought regardless of the promise and proved definitively she can't protect anyone. However, putting herself in his place and seeing said promise as broken hurts nonetheless.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — What is a promise your MC made that they regret?
Bolt knows that in her position (essentially a wholly-owned courier/delivery subsidiary of the mob), she can't promise even one of her feathers. Yet, when a neighbor got used to spy on her, then immediately gave away what he had been forced to do, she grew to like the guy. (Molt becomes a cute LI). I'm not entirely sure if she regrets promising that she could protect him, because she would have fought regardless of the promise and proved definitively she can't protect anyone. However, putting herself in his place and seeing said promise as broken hurts nonetheless.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — What is a promise your MC made that they regret?
Bolt knows that in her position (essentially a wholly-owned courier/delivery subsidiary of the mob), she can't promise even one of her feathers. Yet, when a neighbor got used to spy on her, then immediately gave away what he had been forced to do, she grew to like the guy. (Molt becomes a cute LI). I'm not entirely sure if she regrets promising that she could protect him, because she would have fought regardless of the promise and proved definitively she can't protect anyone. However, putting herself in his place and seeing said promise as broken hurts nonetheless.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — Introduce your character like they are writing a Reddit AITA post about themselves.
[Maybe jumping the gun here since only three prompts show on the Google Docs feed; hopefully not AITA. Sorry if so. —RS]
r/AITAH: A place to ask if you were, in fact, the asshole in a particular situation. Posts must ask for judgment in a conflict between two or more people, or a reasonable expectation of a conflict…
[Teri is posting. It's short for Night Terror. She's an autistic self-named woman daemon, a former prizefighter, and a newly hired enforcer: Bolt and Pigeon are her day angel coworkers.]
Am I AITA for not submitting to the hierarchy in my new job and caring that my senior is unprofessional and actively harmful?
Bolt's face looked puffy; a black eye, bruises on her jaw, bandages along her hip, her giving her coworker the stink eye. I asked him, had he beat her up? Yes, he admitted but said Bolt had started it whining about some friend, that she had "flown into a lamppost," and he felt he had been within rights to extort Bolt's friend—because his co-worker's friend was a nerd dweeb who left himself open to it. When I objected, he insisted he was my senior in the organization, that it wasn't my problem, and that I should do as ordered, which I quickly realized would get us noticed by our target. Pigeon the Pilferer is totally unprofessional. Told him so, that he would get us hurt. It was all a bit much when he started yelling. I ignored him. When he tried to hit me, I dodged, but when he couldn't put a hand on me (and no, I refused to stand still), he eventually stated I'd learned my lesson and walked away. I left myself open for a sucker punch multiple times as we cased the job site; after I'd set a trip trap for anyone exiting the target restaurant, he took it. I ducked. My upper cut to his chin knocked the man out.
Yes, I baited him. I could have followed instructions, even though they would have exposed him and Bolt to danger I'd have to clean up, likely hurting our past-due borrower whom we wanted to pay up. I dislike inefficiencies. I dislike unprofessionalism. I really dislike letting people for whom I'm arguably responsible be hurt, or letting them hurt one another.
AITAH?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — Introduce your character like they are writing a Reddit AITA post about themselves.
[Maybe jumping the gun here since only three prompts show on the Google Docs feed; hopefully not AITA. Sorry if so. —RS]
r/AITAH: A place to ask if you were, in fact, the asshole in a particular situation. Posts must ask for judgment in a conflict between two or more people, or a reasonable expectation of a conflict…
[Teri is posting. It's short for Night Terror. She's an autistic self-named woman daemon, a former prizefighter, and a newly hired enforcer: Bolt and Pigeon are her day angel coworkers.]
Am I AITA for not submitting to the hierarchy in my new job and caring that my senior is unprofessional and actively harmful?
Bolt's face looked puffy; a black eye, bruises on her jaw, bandages along her hip, her giving her coworker the stink eye. I asked him, had he beat her up? Yes, he admitted but said Bolt had started it whining about some friend, that she had "flown into a lamppost," and he felt he had been within rights to extort Bolt's friend—because his co-worker's friend was a nerd dweeb who left himself open to it. When I objected, he insisted he was my senior in the organization, that it wasn't my problem, and that I should do as ordered, which I quickly realized would get us noticed by our target. Pigeon the Pilferer is totally unprofessional. Told him so, that he would get us hurt. It was all a bit much when he started yelling. I ignored him. When he tried to hit me, I dodged, but when he couldn't put a hand on me (and no, I refused to stand still), he eventually stated I'd learned my lesson and walked away. I left myself open for a sucker punch multiple times as we cased the job site; after I'd set a trip trap for anyone exiting the target restaurant, he took it. I ducked. My upper cut to his chin knocked the man out.
Yes, I baited him. I could have followed instructions, even though they would have exposed him and Bolt to danger I'd have to clean up, likely hurting our past-due borrower whom we wanted to pay up. I dislike inefficiencies. I dislike unprofessionalism. I really dislike letting people for whom I'm arguably responsible be hurt, or letting them hurt one another.
AITAH?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — Introduce your character like they are writing a Reddit AITA post about themselves.
[Maybe jumping the gun here since only three prompts show on the Google Docs feed; hopefully not AITA. Sorry if so. —RS]
r/AITAH: A place to ask if you were, in fact, the asshole in a particular situation. Posts must ask for judgment in a conflict between two or more people, or a reasonable expectation of a conflict…
[Teri is posting. It's short for Night Terror. She's an autistic self-named woman daemon, a former prizefighter, and a newly hired enforcer: Bolt and Pigeon are her day angel coworkers.]
Am I AITA for not submitting to the hierarchy in my new job and caring that my senior is unprofessional and actively harmful?
Bolt's face looked puffy; a black eye, bruises on her jaw, bandages along her hip, her giving her coworker the stink eye. I asked him, had he beat her up? Yes, he admitted but said Bolt had started it whining about some friend, that she had "flown into a lamppost," and he felt he had been within rights to extort Bolt's friend—because his co-worker's friend was a nerd dweeb who left himself open to it. When I objected, he insisted he was my senior in the organization, that it wasn't my problem, and that I should do as ordered, which I quickly realized would get us noticed by our target. Pigeon the Pilferer is totally unprofessional. Told him so, that he would get us hurt. It was all a bit much when he started yelling. I ignored him. When he tried to hit me, I dodged, but when he couldn't put a hand on me (and no, I refused to stand still), he eventually stated I'd learned my lesson and walked away. I left myself open for a sucker punch multiple times as we cased the job site; after I'd set a trip trap for anyone exiting the target restaurant, he took it. I ducked. My upper cut to his chin knocked the man out.
Yes, I baited him. I could have followed instructions, even though they would have exposed him and Bolt to danger I'd have to clean up, likely hurting our past-due borrower whom we wanted to pay up. I dislike inefficiencies. I dislike unprofessionalism. I really dislike letting people for whom I'm arguably responsible be hurt, or letting them hurt one another.
AITAH?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.10.01 — Introduce your character like they are writing a Reddit AITA post about themselves.
[Maybe jumping the gun here since only three prompts show on the Google Docs feed; hopefully not AITA. Sorry if so. —RS]
r/AITAH: A place to ask if you were, in fact, the asshole in a particular situation. Posts must ask for judgment in a conflict between two or more people, or a reasonable expectation of a conflict…
[Teri is posting. It's short for Night Terror. She's an autistic self-named woman daemon, a former prizefighter, and a newly hired enforcer: Bolt and Pigeon are her day angel coworkers.]
Am I AITA for not submitting to the hierarchy in my new job and caring that my senior is unprofessional and actively harmful?
Bolt's face looked puffy; a black eye, bruises on her jaw, bandages along her hip, her giving her coworker the stink eye. I asked him, had he beat her up? Yes, he admitted but said Bolt had started it whining about some friend, that she had "flown into a lamppost," and he felt he had been within rights to extort Bolt's friend—because his co-worker's friend was a nerd dweeb who left himself open to it. When I objected, he insisted he was my senior in the organization, that it wasn't my problem, and that I should do as ordered, which I quickly realized would get us noticed by our target. Pigeon the Pilferer is totally unprofessional. Told him so, that he would get us hurt. It was all a bit much when he started yelling. I ignored him. When he tried to hit me, I dodged, but when he couldn't put a hand on me (and no, I refused to stand still), he eventually stated I'd learned my lesson and walked away. I left myself open for a sucker punch multiple times as we cased the job site; after I'd set a trip trap for anyone exiting the target restaurant, he took it. I ducked. My upper cut to his chin knocked the man out.
Yes, I baited him. I could have followed instructions, even though they would have exposed him and Bolt to danger I'd have to clean up, likely hurting our past-due borrower whom we wanted to pay up. I dislike inefficiencies. I dislike unprofessionalism. I really dislike letting people for whom I'm arguably responsible be hurt, or letting them hurt one another.
AITAH?
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.30 — What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world?
Everybody sentient in the Reluctance Series, regardless of chromatype, is human. Oddly enough—considering that they are all human—like majority populations in our world, in their world there are power disparities based on appearance and ethnicities and, failing that, arbitrarily high bars to pass over. Bolt, my day angel woman MC, lives in Home City in a daemon majority region, having immigrated. She deals with degrees of segregation and discrimination; she's even told the dander from her feathers make people (i.e. non-angelic) sneeze. But, being human, she reflexively discriminates in kind (amusingly in the men she starts to find attractive). I do focus on gender issues, however.
The subtext of the Reluctance Series is all about stereotypes and prejudices we don't notice because of our culture, traditions, and gender roles. I do my best to make such things subliminal in favor of good stories.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.30 — What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world?
Everybody sentient in the Reluctance Series, regardless of chromatype, is human. Oddly enough—considering that they are all human—like majority populations in our world, in their world there are power disparities based on appearance and ethnicities and, failing that, arbitrarily high bars to pass over. Bolt, my day angel woman MC, lives in Home City in a daemon majority region, having immigrated. She deals with degrees of segregation and discrimination; she's even told the dander from her feathers make people (i.e. non-angelic) sneeze. But, being human, she reflexively discriminates in kind (amusingly in the men she starts to find attractive). I do focus on gender issues, however.
The subtext of the Reluctance Series is all about stereotypes and prejudices we don't notice because of our culture, traditions, and gender roles. I do my best to make such things subliminal in favor of good stories.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.30 — What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world?
Everybody sentient in the Reluctance Series, regardless of chromatype, is human. Oddly enough—considering that they are all human—like majority populations in our world, in their world there are power disparities based on appearance and ethnicities and, failing that, arbitrarily high bars to pass over. Bolt, my day angel woman MC, lives in Home City in a daemon majority region, having immigrated. She deals with degrees of segregation and discrimination; she's even told the dander from her feathers make people (i.e. non-angelic) sneeze. But, being human, she reflexively discriminates in kind (amusingly in the men she starts to find attractive). I do focus on gender issues, however.
The subtext of the Reluctance Series is all about stereotypes and prejudices we don't notice because of our culture, traditions, and gender roles. I do my best to make such things subliminal in favor of good stories.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory -
#WordWeavers 2026.09.30 — What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world?
Everybody sentient in the Reluctance Series, regardless of chromatype, is human. Oddly enough—considering that they are all human—like majority populations in our world, in their world there are power disparities based on appearance and ethnicities and, failing that, arbitrarily high bars to pass over. Bolt, my day angel woman MC, lives in Home City in a daemon majority region, having immigrated. She deals with degrees of segregation and discrimination; she's even told the dander from her feathers make people (i.e. non-angelic) sneeze. But, being human, she reflexively discriminates in kind (amusingly in the men she starts to find attractive). I do focus on gender issues, however.
The subtext of the Reluctance Series is all about stereotypes and prejudices we don't notice because of our culture, traditions, and gender roles. I do my best to make such things subliminal in favor of good stories.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory