#WordWeavers Day 19: Do you ever use mundane daily tasks to show character or world-build?
I'm planning on it, once I start writing actual text.
#WordWeavers Day 19: Do you ever use mundane daily tasks to show character or world-build?
I'm planning on it, once I start writing actual text.
#WordWeavers Day 18: If your MCs were superheroes, based on their strengths, what would their SH names be?
Jessie: Dark Rider or Speed Demon
Carlos: maybe the Watcher?
Margot: the Scarlet Storm, the Crimson Whirlwind, something like that
Ángel: might actually go for "the Angel"!
David: I can't think of anything for him yet.
#WordWeavers Day 17: Do you get book cover ideas while you write, and have you ever used those?
Definitely not. A previous question asked about what I might want on the cover, or what I thought should be there, and I was pretty much lost. Much like marketing, I think of that as "someone else's job — partly because they'd be so much better at it than I would; I have hardly any idea how to even start".
#WordWeavers Day 16: Do you make up words for your books?
Not for the current WIP, if I can possibly avoid it. It's set in modern-day San Francisco; I feel like made-up words would work against my goal of having it feel like "it really *is* our world, you just haven't noticed the magicians".
I do have ideas for future stories set in other worlds and times, where new and different words would support the world-building instead of undercutting it. But I haven't started any work on those yet.
#WordWeavers Day 15: Do you favor certain senses when writing? If so, are they your dominant sense?
Looking through the few short snippets I've written so far, I see definite uses of sight, sound, and feeling. No smell or taste, but those don't really come up in those scenes. So, I suspect I've got a decent handle on describing things with all senses as appropriate, which I find a pleasant surprise.
#WordWeavers Day 13: When you’re drafting, do you consider comps and marketing?
Nope. Marketing is someone else's job, and they're doubtless far better at it than I am. (I'm not even sure what "comps" is short for or means in this context, so definitely "no" on that part!)
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