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Do you ever not post photos because, even as a writer, figuring out how to describe them for alt text seems like too much work? Do you ever oversimplify it to save time? "Nice flowers in a field." "A duck."

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#WordWeavers 7/10: Share a line of dialogue that tells us everything we need to know about a character's personality.

'Are you OK?' I ask him. And then, 'Is the dinner OK?' because the other question might be a bit much.

This sums Lucy up pretty well. She's talking to her 17 year old son.

#WordWeavers 10/7: Share a line of dialogue that tells us everything we need to know about a character's personality.

Let's hear what Zerika has to say...

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#WordWeavers 10/6: What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

I have something simple to answer this prompt with. It's the magick in my universe, just in general. It would seem to terrifying, so bizarre and surreal to us.

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October 7th

Share a line of dialogue that tells us everything we need to know about a character's personality.

That's an impossible task. Sorry, pass.

#WordWeavers 2026.10.06 — What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Practically everything? I don't want to give away the discovery aspect, so I'll pick something not mundane that's also SFW:

Men typically raise their sisters' children.

Which means their nieces and nephews. It isn't uncommon that boys will raise younger sisters, or cousins of first and second degree. The tradition causes considerable angst in the WIP.

To be clear, this is a normal gender role. Men grow up expecting this.

Blue—One of Bolt's LIs and the man with whom she's most comfortable—is already supervising his teenage sister who is a scatterbrain nerd with little common sense. He's doing this while being trained as a praetorian (a rare and special job), while occasionally working as what looks to our eyes to be a type of (male) geisha. Bizarrely, to our eyes perhaps, he's increasingly certain that were his sister to become pregnant he'd willingly give up his hard-won jobs to raise her children. In his society's terms and in Bolt's eyes, he is a very masculine guy.

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#WordWeavers 10/6/2026. What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Using pedicars, bicycles, or walking for all personal travel. Electric drives are reserved for delivery trucks and emergency vehicles. Fossil fuels only power ships and trains. The Ush don't fly because they are giants and the physics aren't practical. This world is central to Peepsicle Poser, my first novel.

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#WordWeavers 6. What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Wandering off the beaten path is borderline suicidal in most places.

If you are not the oldest child in your family, your adult life will usually start with a few years of potentially lethal military service. The service is voluntary, but not doing it is so normalized, that it is rarely questioned, while not doing is socially sanctioned as it is necessary to maintain human life.

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#WordWeavers Oct 6:
What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Like a lot of people of her time, Justice doesn't eat breakfast because it's sinful.
Hope, on the other hand, has to eat breakfast as a performance art, witnessed by hundreds, even if she's not in the mood to eat.

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normal in Carrdia, but bizarre here

Whether they like it or dislike it, everyone in Carrdia (and on Ontyre) accepts that magic exists, but few grasp its potential and limitations. Regardless, it’s treated as a part of life.

In the background, that’s something I examine.

There’s considerable ignorance surrounding magic in Carrdia, which fuels fear, as does people witnessing its abuses. Those gifted become “different” or “impure.”

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#WordWeavers 6/10: What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

The way most, but not all, members of the magical community accept magic and the supernatural to be part and parcel of everyday life.

There are the odd few who find it difficult to accept magic as being real even though they are capable of doing magic themselves to a greater or lesser extent.

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#WordWeavers 6/10: What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?
Well, almost everything in the story is mirrored in our own history within the last 200–250 years and much of it remains in some parts of the world… but we would probably look askance at the way the Guild of Dawnsingers, still, recruits by taking girls from their families at age ten or eleven. At least, now, they are allowed to maintain some contact.
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6th Oct 2026. What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

The long-ago death of capitalism and all of its accompanying shit.

#WordWeavers 6. What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Nothing. If we consider it bizarre, so do they.

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#WordWeavers 6. What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Big cultural differences between Fairy's and Giant's worlds are important in my WIP.

Something that might surprise us as much as Fairy is that in the Land of the Giants, women and men are completely segregated. Men live in the countryside, women and children in the castle town. Gay and lesbian relationships are the norm, and sex between men and women for procreation is ritualised.

#WordWeavers October 6th

What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Nothing, really. I mean, the Library is sentient, the books fly and people keep small dragons as house pets. But nothing really bizarre 😂

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October 6th

What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

Unfortunately, nothing really stands out since the story is set only 63 years in the past. For the youngsters among you some things can be unusual, but for me it was kinda the day before yesterday…

#WordWeavers Oct 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Solen Masters: it would have to be Winlia and her grandma "Lady Lilith." Lady Lilith the title for one the leaders of the Demon realm. Winlia is young, and more interested in having fun than trade negotiations. "Lady Lilith" as one of the most powerful Magic users, would at Magic School, assuming it would be standing after Day 1.

#WordWeavers Oct. 6: What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us?

For Ethan, number two shmeat. It's economical, but Ethan being from closer to our time very much addresses that with "burn it sterile."

For the Godskiller crew, stripping out any RPG staples, the particular rural divide. Like WE have a rural divide (which I've talked about), but their rural divide is less 2020/1920 and more 1950/1550.

For Renard... kind of the idea that Hell is a place you could literally walk to. Renard is in the Jerako universe along with Rusted Sword and a few others and Hades is a place that's just kind of sufficiently underground, with Tartarus being the most miserable area of that and Hell being something of the sub-basement. Meanwhile Heaven certainly exists, but getting there has to be done the hard way. XD

For Wheeler, his universe and ours are mostly differentiated by their weirdness happening in broad daylight rather than conveniently off to the side.

#WordWeavers 10/4: What is your MC's most irrational fear? Where did it come from?

(from Dragons) Chal'tanis' largest irrational fear is being seen as 'useless' or abandoned due to being 'unhelpful'. It's irrational because she's a font of knowledge and magically capable - but she can't just quell those fears.

It stems from her family abandoning her to the monastery; the monks finding her 'unfit' for religious training, and "allowing" her to be put through archivist training (near torture).

#WordWeavers 2026.10.05 — If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Rainy Days and Spilling Mead could defo swap bodies. Actually, there's worse but that would be plot advancement by stupidity. This is apples to apples since both are controlling individuals (the antagonists) who understand governing others, and both can work miracles beyond the household ones of which most daemons are capable. There would be zero handicaps regarding learning each other's body.

Literally, not figuratively, the world might freeze over or burn up as a result of this swap, about which I will give no clues. Assuming somehow the pair solve the rapid-death problem, possible even in the context of the series, each person has a completely different philosophy about dealing with life's interruptions.

Though Boss Mead is technically the bad guy mobster, it's impossible to imagine him trying to eliminate Rainy Days to take over the whole enchilada. He's a chill spider in a web sort; he might play with the constabulary and records, while enjoying attending theatre events, throwing a state event, and confusing everybody by not acting like the Director of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds. He knows his one-week lease could end with him losing his security deposit if he's not respectful.

On the other hand, Rainy Days is a bit evil. She might take care of a few personal scores in a way only a syndicate don is capable of—with none the wiser—investigate her underlings in the constabulary and the bureaucracy with Boss Mead's mob minions to find failings or corruption, and possibly improve Boss Mead's network to force him do things she wants to happen but can't do through proper channels.

But wait.

There's one more thing!

Rainy Days gets to be male for a week? Rainy Days will gleefully take advantage of the equipment swap. Yes, she would want her swapped-out body to be on the receiving end.

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#WordWeavers Oct 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

The prompt doesn't specify that they have to be in the same book... if Darroll and Juniper changed places, and Darroll got possession of Juniper's magic harp, I shudder to think of the mayhem he'd cause with it.

(Meantime, back in our world's Midwest, Juniper would probably have kicked Ed Crowe in the balls by the end of the first day.)

#WordWeavers Day 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Tink and Brynne. Brynne is the local restaurant owner and is the airship dock's worst gossip. Tink usually doesn't care for gossip and would much rather get down to work. A swap would be REALLY chaotic.

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#WordWeavers 10/5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Zerika and Grigga. While Grigga *has* been a shield-maiden and warrior in her lifetime, killing monsters (like Zerika does) is another story entirely. On the other hand, Zerika would never survive as an innkeeper, either. She's such an introvert. She isn't very good with strangers. She does her best, though. Ergo, she would struggle so much with the job. And taking care of Grigga's family as well, which is another good point. That woman (an orc) has five children who are all rowdy, lovely, and crazy. Zerika wouldn't be able to handle her pack of children.

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#WordWeavers 10/4: What is your MC's most irrational fear? Where did it come from?

Making friends. It's both rational and irrational at the same time. People have stabbed her in the back far too many times, and it's left her scarred, battered, and bruised.

(Somehow, this never happened with Elric, though. She was never afraid of a possible friendship. She might have been unwilling to accept his kindness, was bashful as well, but she eventually relented.)

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#WordWeavers Oct. 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Steven and Melissa. Fifteen minutes of Steven interacting with Carl and watching how he treats Melissa in their marriage, and Carl would be dead and no one would ever know. And when they switched back and Steven realizes that he is capable of treating Sandi the same way, he very well might off himself.

And then when Melissa found out all of that after, she might do exactly that too.

#WordWeavers Oct 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would cause the most chaos?

The mad scientist and the MC. The mad scientist is only effective when hammered. The MC is only effective when sober. Although, it might be fun to watch a drug-fueled hero work.

Oh, wait. We already had Hunter S. Thompson.

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What if Angel Castillo, the leader of the opposition against Travis Winter, were suddenly occupying his body? As the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar investment capital firm, there are far fewer limits to the actions "he" could take than those "Van" could. OTOH, Travis would have direct access to the people he most wants to obliterate.

Yeah, I'm thinking the Angel/Travis swap would be pretty catastrophic. 4/4

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But that's nothing compared to people with maximally different outlooks on life! What if Meredith Romer, a free-spirited, bohemian woman in her 20s, gets swapped with Van Martinez, a high-ranking police officer? The police department is sufficiently regimented that Meredith probably couldn't cause too much trouble in a week, but she'd sure try. 3/4

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...going to be able to show affection toward Donna's husband, nor her toward Carlos' wife. This will cause _problems_ in their marriages, because of the sudden change.)

Then there are people with wildly incompatible on-the-job skillsets. David likes guys, so he could swap with Margot on that basis. But then what happens when he has to try to run an MRI machine, or she has to try to write or debug some computer code? 2/4

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#WordWeavers Oct 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would cause the most chaos?

There are so many that would cause all kinds of chaos, it's almost impossible to pick a single, maximum one. Frex, some of my characters are monosexual. If one of those swaps lives with someone who has a partner that isn't their favored gender, what happens? (Frex, if Carlos Velázquez and Donna Kuang switch places, Carlos isn't... 1/4

#WordWeavers Oct 5:
If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Hope adapts fast to Justice's life. She's a better horsewoman, & would love a chance at freedom from her usual residence, but she probably wouldn't like the food.
Dread to think what Justice would do in Hope's place. She'd be a liability, berating people, attacking them. Probably be arrested and executed within hours.

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5. If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

With lives, does that mean bodies? Or just the circumstances? Or also attitude?

I think I skip this one, can't answer it.

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#WordWeavers October 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Amanda (a technician / project manager from roughly our time) swapping with Noreen (a Selkie from 20-30 years prior to today) would cause the most chaos. :blobcatgiggle:

#WordWeavers 5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

I'd say Rownt and Rafe Grenestrete (the cookshop owner & Rownt's landlord). Rownt trying to be the medieval equivalent of a short-order cook while Rafe tried to solve a murder? Pure chaos.

#WordWeavers 5/10: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

I think the Mansion staff had better stick to their jobs. The brain is incredibly malleable, and regions can, in some cases, adapt to perform functions they weren't originally assigned. But I fear that if Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex switched places—or Hippocampus and Ventral Striatum—the Mansion would be in ruins before lunch.

#WordWeavers 5/10: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Elli can create chaos wherever she goes, so she'd be one of them. But who'd have the most trouble with her life? Thomas knows how to go with the flow, and Bjarne is too laid-back and gentle for chaos. Rosalinda probably, she's high-strung and does not know much of the world. Yes, let's put a sheltered neurotic witch into the life of a pizza baker who likes to mess with people.

#WordWeavers 5/10: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Probably Angie and Ellie. Ellie’s cooking skills just aren’t up to running a café. And while Angie’s customer service skills would stand her in good stead as a librarian, but as she has no connection to the Library, the books wouldn’t trust her.

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October 5th

If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

A swapping between Kessy and Rosa wouldn't change much, and I won't include swapping genders since both girls are minors. I don't have any intention to get caught up in that kind of trouble. So let's just hear the words of wisdom, and let it be…

#WordWeavers 5/10: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?
Possibly Torvyn and Gafeira: Torvyn would probably do okay as an assistant mountain guide, but Gafeira would flounder as a portrait painter. She’s been heard to say she hasn’t an artistic bone in her body. And that’s before we get to the rest of their lives…
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#WordWeavers 5. If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?

Fairy: itLotG doesn't have an antagonist (or it has an internal one) so there's less scope for a chaotic swap than there might have otherwise been.

Maybe Fairy's father and the Queen of the Giants. (Neither of whom have actually made an appearance, yet.)