[#]PennedPossibilities 551 MC POV: If you could have one talent or ability that you don’t naturally have, what would it be?
"I want to, you know. I want to be the guy. The guy everyone says, yeah, he knows what to do! I want to be that guy. The guy. You know?"
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[#]PennedPossibilities 552 How strong is your SC's sense of ambition? What is something that they strive for in life?
They're kids living in a highly functional anarcho-socialist infrastructure. Their ambitions are "live a life, have friends, make art."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 553: MC POV: Talk about something made by hand.
"The doors on our floor were painted by everyone on the floor. Everyone did their own. They're all about the people who live there. I love those doors."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 554 How do you stay motivated to write?
It's hard sometimes. I get tired. But then there are these people I created, and they're crawling around in my head, and they NEED CLOSURE. That's my motivation.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 555. Are there any themes for stories that you’re excited to explore in the future?
I'll find them when I get there. I don't pick themes beforehand.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 556: If it ever came down to it, who would your MC be willing to die for?
Her family and her friends. But she's been preoccupied with saving herself. Sacrificing for others isn't the point of the narrative she's embedded in. She's the one who needs saving.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 557. How do you balance multiple projects at once?
Poorly. Next question!
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[#]PennedPossibilities 558: For the writers who only have one WIP: Have you ever started or considered starting a second project?
Why you have to be like that?
Of course I have story ideas all the damn time, and I frequently "consider" abandoning my current project to chase after them, but that way lies a hard drive of half-finished novels and short-story cycles.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 559 MC POV: What is a sure-fire way to distract you from the task at hand?
"Hm? What? What is it? I can try? Come on! What are you doing? I wanna try!
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[#]PennedPossibilities 560: Your MC has exactly two hours to do something with a small amount of currency in their world. How are they spending the time and money?
Money's not an issue--it only tracks resources, people will give you stuff for free if you ask and just note down the value in terms of environmental impact--so she'd probably go to an elevated plaza full of food machines and watch the city fly by.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 561. Give us your thoughts on the genre of your WIP. Do you love it, is there not enough stories written within it, are you an avid reader of the genre, etc.?
The genre of my WIP leans into hard SF (with one effectively magical element). I think hard SF is a lot of fun if you use real(ish) sci/tech as part of the story but less so IMO if you make your story about the sci/tech. just my preference.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 562. Do you have a writing routine?
I wish. I grab time where I can. I used to write at night, but that's just draining these days.
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[#]PennedPossibilities 563 — Silly question: Who would your SC want to take goofy photographs with? If cameras exist in your universe, of course.
There was this guy they knew, Teo, just a golden-retriever of a man. Not excessively thoughtful, but friendly as hell. He took pictures of EVERYTHING and posted them to his wall. Everybody wanted to be in them.
And then I violently murdered him to help the story progress. Sorry, Teo!
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[#]PennedPossibilities 564: What are your SC’s views on marriage?
"Love is love, and marriage is just a thing people do. My mama and dad and dad's boyfriend told me."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 565: What would your MC’s go-to song at a party be? Would they be dancing?
Huh. That's really interesting. It's 150 years in the future, so they'd have whole new musical styles, but also, they'd have access to the WHOLE media library of the world--once you're socialists, you really stop caring about giving corporations money for music by artists who've been dead a century--so I don't know! She might love the hell out of "Dancing Queen."
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[#]PennedPossibilities 566: What hobbies do you have outside of writing?
Right now, Linux. I never thought an OS could be a "hobby," but here I am, listening to Linux podcasts and following the developments in the FOSS world. I like it because it reminds me of computers from the 90s/2000s, and it's largely apolitical but still rooted in ethics that I like, and that sense that technology ought to be for everyone is an underlying "thing" in my current project.
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[#]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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[#]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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[#]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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[#]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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[#]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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[#]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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[#]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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