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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-02-01 at 23:23

Authors, if you see this, reply with the first line of your work in progress. Mine:

"Grace Langley couldn't sleep without her father's kitchen knife under her pillow, and she didn't know why."

(This is a meme on Blueksy, and I think it's fun as hell.)

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-02-01 at 20:39

And now I turn off all my politics feeds and disappear into a fantasy land of my own creation.

Where a self-righteous madwoman has been abusing children for two generations and feeding them to her deluded never-ending battle against, in essence, those same children oh god I didn't escape politics I just took them with me...

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-02-01 at 19:25

[#]PennedPossibilities 574. When was the last time your antagonist cried?

She cries every day. She gazes out the window in the direction of the Earth, and she laments how many children she's failed to find and train, and how many she'll have to kill as a result. It breaks her heart. But it's necessary. She knows she cannot stop. The mission is sacred.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-02-01 at 19:23

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Feb 1: Shameless self-promotion: What writing project are you working on?

The placeholder title is THE ORDER. A teenage girl is abducted into a paramilitary cult in space, which she then spends half the book escaping. It's very much a critique of the Jedi. :)

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-31 at 18:32

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan 31: How’s your writing progress so far this year? What are you working on?

I am no longer lamenting my lack of progress towards a first draft. I am now making painfully slow progress towards a first draft.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-31 at 18:30

[#]WordWeavers Jan 31: Is there anything that would warm your antagonist’s heart, and if so, what?

A gymnasium full of children performing flawless, synchronized katar drills.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-30 at 15:49

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan 30: Do secondary characters sometimes get promoted to main characters?

Sure. If they're interesting.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-30 at 15:48

[#]WordWeavers Jan 30: What about your antagonist? What mistake would they make twice without realizing it?

She spends all day every day overseeing an operation that physically and mentally (but not sexually!) abuses children, so she's just one long mistake of a human being.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-30 at 15:47

[#]PennedPossibilities 572: How seriously does your SC take themselves?

My funny one desperately wants to be the Big Damn Hero. He takes himself way too seriously.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-29 at 16:44

[#]PennedPossibilities 571: What or who motivates your antagonist to act the way they do? Could a new motivator convince them to change?

She believes she's protecting humanity from an existential threat, so she's completely certain of the righteousness of her mission. It's possible she could discover new information that sways her, but she's in so deep that she'd actually just twist whatever she learned until it confirmed her existing beliefs.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-29 at 15:33

[#]WordWeavers Day 29: What's a mistake your MC would make twice without realising it?

Mouthing off to people with power over her, and she does far far more than once...

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-29 at 15:28

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan 29: How do you format your drafts? Is it the same as the final manuscript?

Palatino, for the round friendly shapes, and then 1.1 spacing and 6 pt after each paragraph. Gotta let it breath or else I get antsy.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-28 at 17:03

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan 28. Would anything stop you from writing, or do you have the bug for life?

Only if I had no time. As long as I have time for it, I'll keep writing.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-28 at 17:02

[#]PennedPossibilities 570. When your MC is in a tough situation, do they use their words or their actions to get them out of it?

Ha. Their words get them into bad situations, and their actions get them out of them.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-28 at 17:01

[#]WordWeavers Jan 28: Did any specific world history inspire parts of your story?

The story is rooted in a critique of STAR WARS, but the setting is inspired by what we could achieve if the people in power wanted to save the environment rather than their own wealth and power. So the world history that inspired it is the present.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-27 at 16:58

[#]EngenderedWriting 85: Is gender equality a viable story topic in today's changed world? If not, why not?

It's been a viable storytelling topic since the Ancient world. It's still a viable storytelling topic because we haven't achieved gender equality (yet).

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-27 at 16:56

[#]WordWeavers Day 27: Is your MC usually hot or freezing?

I've never thought of this before, but now I want to use it! She'd be cold all the damn time. For all her physical toughness, she loves it when the heat is cranked. This has so many possibilities for character beats!

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-27 at 06:01

[#]PennedPossibilities 569 — Do any of your SCs represent something important within the story? Explain what it is, and tell us why they represent that very thing.

Calm.

Ethics.

Neediness.

(Three different characters.)

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-27 at 06:00

[#]PennedPossibilities 568. How should the MC come across to the reader at end?

Mature. Capable. Resilient. Fucking scary in a fight. In need of serious therapy.

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Written by Orion (he/him) on 2025-01-27 at 05:59

[#]PennedPossibilities 567 — SC POV: Tell us about a time you said “no” as a child.

A friend told me I should stop reading so many books and be more social. I said no thank you.

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