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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.10.06 — <On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story?

A question like this requires a qualitative answer but, forced to answer quantitatively, I would guess approximately 31.4157% +/- 10√2​, which works out to some, enough, not too much, or the opposite of what the experts say.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.06 — What might an inattentive reader miss in your work?

Amongst the narratives that mention computers, elevators, interstellar travel, lorries, newspapers, photography, rush hour traffic, skyscrapers, and theatres, the inattentive reader might miss that there is no electricity or, by extension, electronics.

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Check out The Siren and the Drag Queen by Siobhan Muir in the October Featured Reads!

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#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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What is it with Americans and they way they think they can commandeer iconic characters from English literature and assign them a National Day under the American dating system?

According to the Yanks today is National Mad Hatter Day, which is completely incorrect, it should be the 10th of June to reflect the English price tag on his hat showing 10/6 or ten shillings and sixpence.

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#PennedPossibilities 1149:
Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

Oof.
Hope's decision not to take her studies seriously leads to her not being taken seriously, even when she is capable of great deeds..
Justice's decision has a hand in her arrogance and vastly underestimating the danger at hand.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 6:
What might an inattentive reader miss in your work?

Don't think I can answer this one, as the work's not finished yet. Possibly details about architecture or fashion?

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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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#ScribesAndMakers Oct 6:
On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict is necessary for a compelling story?

Somewhere between 1 and 70.
A mad lad's adventure war story needs a lot more conflict than a children's book about a binge-eating caterpillar.

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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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My Word of the Day today is SCIAMACHY. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments!

Sciamachy, From Late Latin sciamachia, derived from Hellenistic Ancient Greek, σκιαμαχία, skiamakhía, from σκιά, skiá, shadow, + μάχη, mákhē, battle.

Meaning shadow-boxing; fighting that is futile or make-believe.

The photo shows the inside of an ancient-looking, dark stone chamber with bright sunlight streaming across an uneven cobblestone floor strewn with fallen leaves.
The beam illuminates a rustic drystone pillar and the angled jamb of a low doorway, casting dramatic shadows against the textured masonry walls.

I’m not sure how relevant the word Sciamachy is to the content of the picture but it’s nice to come across a word I’m not familiar with.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 6 Oct
What might an inattentive reader miss in your work?

Seemingly irrelevant details are peppered throughout the narrative including scraps of dialogue famous from other works, lines from songs as well as references to both song and book titles and mentions of less well-known stories from folklore and mythology.

Not to mention all manner of supernatural creatures and arcane magical rites.

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Wilson Tucker, American author and critic died on this day in 2006.
Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker became well known as a writer of mystery, action adventure, and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker.

He was a prominent member of science fiction fandom, who wrote extensively for fanzines under the name Bob Tucker. He became a prominent analyst and critic of the field, as well as coining he term "space opera."

Although he sold more than 20 novels, Tucker principally made his living as a movie projectionist and theatre electrician.

His most famous novel is probably The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970), runner-up for the Locus Award for Best Novel and a finalist for the Hugo and the Nebula Award. In 1976 it won a retrospective John W. Campbell Memorial Award for 1972 novels.

Other notable works include The Lincoln Hunters (1958), where time-travellers from the future seek to record Abraham Lincoln's "lost speech" of May 19, 1856. It contains a vivid description of Lincoln and his time, seen through the eyes of a future American who feels that Lincoln and his time compare favourably with the traveller’s own.

Tucker's habit of using the names of friends for minor characters in his fiction led to the literary term "tuckerization" or "tuckerism(s)."
For example he named a character after Lee Hoffman in his novel The Long Loud Silence, after Robert Bloch in The Lincoln Hunters.

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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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#WritersCoffeeClub 6/10: What might an inattentive reader miss in your work?
Well, I suppose a truly inattentive reader could potentially miss just about anything…
I imagine a lot of people would miss the small acts of homage to Ursula K Le Guin (guys, there’s an actual Archipelago…). I wonder how many, even among the fortunate ones who’ve read Malafrena, will catch the direct quote in the current WIP?
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#PennedPossibilities 1149: Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

I've talked about Bolt's series of stupid decisions that led to her being involuntarily employed by the mob. A dozen years later, the story starts with her photographing something incredibly newsworthy. A "cub" reporter at the scene, with a broken camera, asks her if she'll sell her photographs. Even though he uses the day angel equivalent of calling her the n-word to get her attention when she ignores him in the crowd, she chooses to sell.

The entire novel is predicated on that yes. If we consider "now" the last chapters, the "how did it lead to where and who they are" is her dealing with the fallout of becoming a famous photographer, helping (and protecting) new friends she meets, juggling multiple identities, and knowing "interesting" people on both sides of the law who are interested in those on the "opposite" side, and having no choice but to become involved when she knows better.

For Bolt, it's a real mess…

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I'm Elektra Hammond. Find me at untilmidnight.com

See me talk about SF/F, RHPS, comics, TV, and Supernatural at Con-Tinual (the Con that Never Ends) on FB & Youtube.

I'll be decompressing and reading this month's banned book: To Kill a Mockingbird.

Until next week, I'm here on Mastodon, and occasionally on Bluesky & Instagram, too.

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#PennedPossibilities 1149: Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now?

It was the choice to seek out the man she had been dreaming of and to learn why it was happening. Zerika is learning how to become a better person now, not just a skilled "huntress" (AKA a monster killer for hire). Every single day she’s changing and softening a little more, but all in a good way. She’s growing into a woman with friends, with a found family, a home, and finding her very own happiness. Oh, and she’s found her soulmate.

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Today is my share date for this CRIME STORIES promo at Book Funnel. I love these genre-specific promos. You can browse cool book covers, peek behind each one, and see if your next read is right there in front of you. My Appalachian fiction GOOSE CREEK HOLLER is featured, so if you stop by the link, take a peek inside GOOSE CREEK HOLLER by clicking on my cover.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.05 — What haunts the narrative of your current work?

The first line of the story is the main character becoming conscious while in motion and continuing as if nothing happened. I hope it is haunting, and her acceptance of it eerie, even if neither her blackouts nor the story have anything supernatural about them.

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#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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#PhantastikPrompts 10/5: What is the best thing that has ever happened to you as an author?

Being told that I'm a "comfort author" by friends and readers of mine. That I'm someone they come to read when the require some peace and quiet, need to emotionally recharge after a long day, and want something good to enjoy reading. There is no better feeling than being told that.

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#PhantastikPrompts 10/4: Do you have female authors as role models? Tell us about them.

Many, actually. But one of them is here on Mastodon. She's @Firlefanz, and she's also a very good friend of mine and one of my favorite authors. Please go follow her and check out her stories. :11111:

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Interesting take. I want to agree, but mainly because, you know, I love what I do.

source: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html

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#ScribesAndMakers 10/5: Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it's taken you to complete a project?

A decade or longer. But I'm a dedicated bish, so nothing can stop me.

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#ScribesAndMakers 10/4: Do you include details in your work that are important to you even though no one else will likely notice?

I always do, and yet my readers and friends somehow still notice them. Probably because they know me so well, and they know my writing style by heart.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/5: What haunts the narrative of your current work?

The antagonist that no one knows about yet. (I've spoken about her before, in depth, in other posts.)

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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/4: How isolated are your characters in your current WIP?

They aren't yet, but they will be. 😅

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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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#WritersCoffeeClub 5 October. What haunts the narrative of your current work?

Joseph, an ex-patriot Zulu sangoma and member of the demi-monde living in London, is trying to stop his people from being haunted by a Tokoloshe, a South African water spirit.

Despite his best efforts he is unable to banish the creature and has to call on his friends within the magical community for help.

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My Word of the Day today is CONTRE-JOUR. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments!

Contre-jour, borrowed from French contre-jour, contre, against (in physical contact with), against (not in favor of), against (having as an opponent), as against (as opposed to, compared to, in contrast with), + jour, day; daylight, light; opening, aperture.

Meaning: backlighting (photography), a similar effect achieved in painting (art).

The photo shows late-afternoon sunlight illuminating an intricate network of moss-cloaked tree branches in garden setting. The backlit moss glows with rich olive and chartreuse tones, forming coral-like contours against shadowed bark. Delicate maple foliage and leafy shrubs frame the tangled boughs, while small berries dot the darker foreground, creating an enchanting woodland atmosphere.

Personally, at this time of the year, I’m raging against the light which seems to be perpetually in my eyes because the sun is so low in the sky…

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#writersCoffeeClub Oct 5:
What haunts the narrative of your current work?

Endless political conflict leading to endless war. Misogyny. Sexism. Suffocating relationships with mothers. Difficulty locating the right pair of shoes for the occasion. Religious zealotry.
Y'know. The usual.

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#PennedPossibilities 1148 Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?

No. I read mostly lightweight fantasy or fantasy comedy. So lightweight it's really as if the author has only taken it on a train past a fantasy factory.

The Big Novel... is historical fantasy? Fantastical history? Fabulism? Magical Realism?
I don't know how to classify it. Which will be a problem. For later.

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#ScribesAndMakers Oct 5:
Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it has taken you to complete a project?

It once took me nearly 8 years to finish writing a short story.
But it takes as long as it takes, y'know? Unless you're on a contract deadline. Then it takes exactly as much time as they've given you, and not a penny more.

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#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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#ScribesAndMakers 10/5. Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it has taken you to complete a project?

My first long-form work, a non-fiction book entitled Aquatical•Latin, a guide to the etymology of the scientific names of reef fishes took me 3 years to write.

A certain amount of that was taken up with teaching myself Latin and Greek, plus all the hassle associated with self-publishing for the first time.

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Bond has been a major influence on the spy genre since the release of Dr. No with 22 secret agent films released in 1966 alone attempting to capitalise on the franchise's popularity and success.
The first parody was the 1964 film Carry On Spying.
One of the films that reacted against the portrayal of Bond was the Harry Palmer series, whose first film, The Ipcress File, starring Michael Caine, was released in 1965.
The eponymous hero is a rough-edged, petty crook turned spy and has been described as both an "anti-Bond” and "the thinking man's Bond".

The four Matt Helm films starring Dean Martin, the Flint series starring James Coburn whilst The Man from U.N.C.L.E. also moved onto the cinema screen, with eight films: all were testaments to Bond's prominence in popular culture.

Recently, the Austin Powers series by Mike Myers, and other parodies such as the Johnny English trilogy of films, have also used elements from the Bond films.

Following the release of Dr. No the line "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture and has been voted as the "best-loved one-liner in cinema" by British cinema goers.

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#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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#PennedPossibilities 1148: Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?

I spent easily fifteen minutes threading the needle on this one in order to say no, but it's ridiculous. Looking at what I've read since 2015 I have to admit it's fantasy, and what I've written is also fantasy, though I write it as if I were writing science fiction. Limits. Rules. No mysticism. I dislike Tolkien-style fantasy, so it is never that. And that’s what I've been enjoying reading. If the main character(s) are female, all the better.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.10.04 — <Do you include details in your work that are important to you even though no one else will likely notice?

Often. I try not to leave anything important enough that it could be misconstrued as a clue (since I structure all my stories like mysteries) and thus a red herring, but I do leave Easter eggs as I admitted last week in an answer to a prompt. (Oooo, you could go look it up!) If it adds color and makes a scene more real, it can stay, and more often than not it's backstory. I've been caught and had it pointed out, then tickled mercilessly until I wrote a story or a side-story based on it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.10.03 — <Is there a common thread throughout your creative work (apart from the fact that you created it)?

Alien worlds. Societies far different than ours, where the unimaginable is sometimes real, like women not being forced to live lives they don't want, able to do what they've grown capable of… anything, sometimes things men can't do well even though they think they can.

#feminist

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