#WordWeavers Day 9: Is there a decision any of your MCs have to make where all the choices are bad?
One might come up as I'm writing and get further into the plot, but at the moment I don't have any specific plans for something like that.
#WordWeavers Day 9: Is there a decision any of your MCs have to make where all the choices are bad?
One might come up as I'm writing and get further into the plot, but at the moment I don't have any specific plans for something like that.
#WordWeavers Day 11: Did you realise what writing was going to be like when you started?
I guess so? I can't say I've been particularly surprised. Sure, the background material has taken longer, and more effort, than I expected, but that's more of a quantitative difference, nothing qualitative.
#WordWeavers Day 14: What’s the most satisfying relationship (not necessarily romantic) you’ve ever written?
I can't do a "have written", because I haven't written them yet. But two that I think are *going to be* super satisfying are:
* Jessie and David's very sibling-y relationship;
* the warm, cozy, sort of "surrogate parents" relationship Margot's parents have with Ángel, and Ángel's matching relationship with them.
#WordWeavers Day 13: What convictions or values guide your characters’ decisions?
This didn't specify MCs, so people's values are really all over the map. Guiding principles include:
* Life is to be enjoyed! Let's party!
* I want a better life for my children.
* We who have special powers should use them to improve life for everyone.
And that last one manifests in various ways, depending on how much the person feels like asking everyone else what would improve their life...
#WordWeavers Day 15: Do you write about dysfunctional relationships?
Not particularly. A few of my characters do have some relationships that are dysfunctional (Ángel's relationship with their parents and most of their siblings comes immediately to mind, and I'm not sure Adrian Hardesty is capable of having a healthy relationship of any real closeness), but those aren't really foci of my WIP.
#WordWeavers Day 16: Do you have any writing rituals?
Not really. Pretty much just "sit down and fucking write". I do have a music playlist that I usually, but not always, play. I often, but not always, have some whiskey-based beverage. But those are mere tendencies, not universals and definitely not rituals. I really like ritual, and I see it as involving multiple steps in order (among other things). This doesn't qualify.
#WordWeavers Day 17: Is there a story you’d like to write but aren’t sure you can?
Not necessarily so much "a story" yet, in the sense of "a sequence of events that happen in order", but... I have an idea for a world, a setting, and a sort of magical departure-from-what-we-know that would enable a story. But even once I build the world and the characters, writing that one will require some serious feats of word-crafting that will be a challenge I'm not sure I can meet.
#WordWeavers Day 19: If your SC were a parent, would they be a good one? Why/why not?
Hew Morrison is a parent. He has 50% custody of his son, Jaquan. Even Jaquan's mother has to admit, Hew's a good father.
Lex Bainbridge is pretty sure he wouldn't be a very good father, and that's part of why he's made sure not to have kids. He still enjoys living life on his own terms too much.
#WordWeavers Day 18: If your MC and antagonist organized a party together, what would it look like?
Between 5 MCs and 5 villains, I have 25 possible combinations to answer this question with, and somehow the only combo that makes any sense is: David and Derrick could collaborate on some kind of gay drag rave. They could actually make it pretty damn good, too.
Every other combo seems to range from weaksauce to disaster.
#WordWeavers Day 20: What things that other people enjoy would be tedious for your MC?
Working as a business intelligence analyst is fine for many people, but it didn't work well for Jessie Nakamura.
(Just for fun, to invert it: poring through academic texts, chasing reference after reference, would be boring AF to most people, but Carlos Velázquez *loves it*. Ditto for shelving books according to the Dewey Decimal System.)
#WordWeavers Day 21: If your antagonist won a huge sum of money in a lottery, what would they do?
Adrian Hardesty and Travis Winter are both rich already; they'd just fold the money into their existing financial structures.
Van Martinez would probably make major donations to the POA, buy a big house and maybe a fancy car — but she wouldn't retire; she loves being a cop.
Donna Kuang would put it into political campaigns — get a few things on the ballot, and promote them heavily.
#WordWeavers Day 22: Have you ever scrapped a written character?
Not sure what the "written" means here, but even if I include people who I've only written background material for, the answer's still no. The closest I've come are:
* One character who's changed so much as to become a completely different person (from a 60-ish woman to a late-30s man) while still occupying the same general place in the story;
* Another who might appear in another book, but hasn't (yet) been 100% scrapped.
#WordWeavers Day 23: If your book were a movie, what would it be rated and why?
Great question! I expect there'll be some "these folks are about to have sex, but we'll cut away and give them privacy for that" scenes that would take it to PG-13. There may well be some drug use.
And there are lots of queer people being unapologetically queer. Does that still nudge the rating higher, or has the MPAA pulled its head out of its ass?
Anyway, I'm not sure if it'd hit R, but I wouldn't be surprised.
#WordWeavers Day 24: Out of all your writing, what was the hardest scene for you to write? Why?
So far, I've only written one scene, so that must be the hardest one. It's the same one as I mentioned on day 2: https://wandering.shop/@kagan/111687141711229513
#WordWeavers Day 25: What’s the least likely ship between characters in your WIP?
I'd say Derrick Devereaux and Hazel Kovalenko. He's a drag queen; she's a married lesbian. (Also, she's pretty "normie", while he's flamboyant in the way you kind of need to be as a drag queen.)
Swapping David Hartmann in for Derrick would keep the incompatible orientations, but David's more subdued and actually will be a friend to Hazel and they'll spend some time together, so it's not quite so "hell no".
#WordWeavers Day 26: Would you ever co-write a book? Why or why not?
I have nothing against the idea. If I and some other writer had an idea that would make a good collaboration, I'd give it a shot.
#WordWeavers Day 27: Is your MC part of a religion?
Jessie thinks of herself as an atheist, but doesn't hesitate to use Shinto _kami_ as a model for magic and understanding the City.
Carlos is an observant Catholic.
Ángel hates organized religion, but finds some of its symbolism powerful anyway.
David is Jewish, though not very observant.
Margot isn't religious, but lights incense at shrines when appropriate.
#WordWeavers Day 28: On a scale of 1-10, how hot are your antagonists? Why?
Adrian Hardesty: a cutie! 9️⃣
Donna Kuang: 4️⃣; she gets by on competence
Derrick Devereaux: 5️⃣ normally, 8️⃣ when in drag 👄
Travis Winter: very well put-together; 8️⃣
Van Martinez: 6️⃣ or 7️⃣ (unless you have a cop fetish and she's in uniform...👮🏻♀️)
#WordWeavers Day 4: Antagonist POV: Is it easy for you to apologize? Can you apologize to someone right now?
Donna Kuang: It's easy enough for me to do, but making a *public* apology can often be a sign of weakness in my career, so it's something I try to avoid.
Adrian Hardesty: I just don't do things I think I'm going to have to apologize for. Then, if someone has a problem with my actions anyway? That's on them.
#WordWeavers Day 29: Did you write stories when you were a kid?
I wrote some back in middle school and high school. None of them have survived, which I'm a little wistful about. I know they were awful, but I'd like to at least have the option of looking at them again.
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