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Welcome to the November #WordWeavers questions!
Written by @AlyseSteves & I, you’ll find the month’s questions pinned to our profiles on the 1st. All are welcome to join in.
Participate with a WIP or an already published book.
As always, play the days you want, skip the others. Please use CW as necessary. Looking forward to seeing your answers & meeting new friends.
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November 2026 #WordWeavers 1. What is the most ridiculous argument two of your characters have ever had, and who won? 2.Share a line from your WIP that takes on an entirely different meaning once readers know the full story. 3. What is something your MC considers a personal victory that nobody else would understand? 4.lf your antagonist hosted a dinner party, who would be invited, and what would be on the menu? 5. What is a superstition, myth, or urban legend unique to your story's world? Is there any truth to it? 6.Which character is most likely to accidentally start a revolution, and how would they manage it? 7.Share a description of a character from your WIP that doesn't mention their physical appearance. 8.What is the most inconvenient time your MC has ever experienced an inconvenient emotion? 9.If your characters could leave anonymous reviews of one another, who would receive the worst rating, and why? 10. What is something your society considers valuable that your MC finds worthless? 11.Share a line from your WIP where silence communicates more than dialogue could. 12. Which character would be most offended by how you've portrayed them, and what would they demand you change? 13.What is an everyday inconvenience in your fictional world that you've spent an unreasonable amount of time figuring out? Created by @AlyseSteves@mastodon.social & @BranwenOShea@writing.exchange

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Good day!

We’ve returned to the sunny part of our repeating cycle, having just left the cloudy portion, which will return.

The days are mild with sun, cool with clouds, the nights comfortable regardless. It’s the perfect time of year here, actually.

Be everwell.

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From atop a ridge of honey colored grass, the view looks over heavy clouds filling a canyon at a silhouetted mountain, small puffs of clouds drifting past it. The sky is cloudy and backlit, giving it a volatile appearance.

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Good day!

This is my favorite time of year to focus on the forest floor, rather than in the trees.

That’s where stuff is happening, including color changes.

Not that I’m an expert. More like the opposite. Oh, but curiosity…

Be everwell.

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A mushroom that’s ivory in color and thick grows amidst pine cones and pine needles. It’s extremely bulbous and was bigger than my splayed hand.

A rotting tree stump in a small clearing has become a castle for colorful moss and lichen that are adding their shades of green to wood that’s almost black with weathering and age. Pine forest rises behind.

Deadwood that is disappearing into the forest floor is thick with moss.

Various moss and lichen have made their home on and between two parallel ridges of rock on the forest floor.

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Good day!

At last, autumn has arrived, but not just any autumn.

Be safe out there.

I wish it was different. I wish none of this was happening. I wish a lot of things.

Wishing doesn’t accomplish anything. It never has. Autumn is here and it’s almost time to vote.

Be everwell.

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A view through a pine forest where the undergrowth is a muted yellow to contrast with the green trees and brown bark. The sky is gray.

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I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story tends to be about reclaiming their "rightful" (i.e. privileged) place in society.

Meanwhile, the _vast_ majority of German folk tales I have read feature peasant protagonists. Nobles _might_ appear, but they are the villains as often as they are a force for "good".

Reframing fairy tales to focus on protagonists of privileged birth and relegating low-born characters to sidekicks and background characters was a _choice_. It's so pervasive nowadays that most modern-day storytellers don't even realize that they are making this choice, since they have accepted this as "normal". But it is a choice nonetheless.

And if we are telling stories of our own, we need to ask ourselves what choices we are making when developing our protagonists.

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Good day!

There’s nothing like seeing the end of the world at your feet and hope in the distance simultaneously.

Except, reaching hope requires new standards.

Leave the lying and the greed behind? Leave the tolerance for both? Yeah, I’ll step through that portal.

Be everwell.

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A wide trail on a grassy ridge seemingly comes to an abrupt end where it meets the clouds, but there’s a small gap that allows seeing a distant summit and blue sky.

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How do you describe textures? Objects, sure. Colours, no problem. But what about those accumulations of fine details that add real feeling to a location?

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Lobster traps. Old and worn, with rusted wire holding them together, patched with lime-green plastic cord.

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Good day!

Autumn colors in the forest atop Pengelly Ridge, this image taken about one minute before I emerged from the trees and discovered clouds pouring down the canyon.

This was also immediately following the steepest part of the hike.

Big effort, big reward. 😃

Be everwell.

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A trail passes straight through the forest where the undergrowth is shades of red, orange, and yellow. The pines largely block the gray sky above and ahead.

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Good day!

I call this, The Lower Saddle.

Behind me is the trail to Mt. Sentinel and Pengelly Ridge.

On the left, beside the broken sign, is the trail down to Hellgate Canyon.

Back left is the trail up to University Peak. Back right descends to Pattee Canyon.

Be everwell.

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A small clearing of dirt and pine cones is surrounded by pines, and joined by several trails. The sky is cloudy.

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#Today 27 #SilentSunday

Yeah, it was like that…

Be everwell.

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From atop a grassy perch of honey-colored grass, a pine tree to the right, the view looks over the clouds at a distant mountain range where there is blue sky, yet from atop the perch, there are clouds overhead.

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Good day!

I guess that in the life equation, when output exceeds input, you have a night like I did last night, where you climb into bed and don’t move until the next morning.

I slept like the dead sleep after a long day spent chasing the living. 😱🙀

Be everwell.

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A peaceful, picturesque image of a distant mountain beneath a partly cloudy sky that was taken across a vast field of honey colored grass, and over the top of scattered pine trees.

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Good day!

There’s pine tree texture, but then there’s this pine tree seemingly becoming a dinosaur foot at its base.

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Kind of fitting as we approach October and spooky season, this year coming with extra spooky.

Be everwell.

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A trail through through pine forest passes along the upper edge of a gulch on the right, the pine tree in the foreground on the left dominating the view. The trail is laden with pine needles, the undergrowth mostly in the background. The sky is partly cloudy.

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I am looking for beta readers for "Old Goatfoot", my upcoming collection of Devil-tales from German folklore. Beta readers are test readers for books who provide feedback from a fan perspective and help the author identify and fix problems before the book is released.

I will consider you qualified if you (a) have read one of my previous books, or (b) have read and enjoyed multiple folk tale collections by other people.

Since I am writing for an international audience, I am _particularly_ interested in beta readers from outside Europe and the Anglophone countries outside Europe (i.e. USA, Australia, New Zealand), since they might bring unique cultural perspectives to the table. This is not necessary to be a beta reader, but I consider it a bonus.

Beta readers are expected to read and provide feedback on the book manuscript (which currently has a word count of 109,000, although about 20% of that is the bibliography and indices) within four weeks. Beta readers who provide useful feedback will get a free copy of the paperback version of the finished book.

If you are interested, please send me a Direct Message with a short explanation for why you think you are a good fit.

Please boost for greater reach! #folklore #amwriting

An illustration of the Devil sitting on a cherry tree and looking grumpy about it. He has unscrewed one of his horns and is pulling a piece of parchment from it. A grinning smith is on the ground and holding his hand out.

Title page and first page of the Table of Contents for the manuscript.

Page 2 and 3 of the Table of Contents for the manuscript.

Page 4 and 5 of the Table of Contents for the manuscript.

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Welcome to the October #WordWeavers questions!
Written by @AlyseSteves & I, you’ll find the month’s questions pinned to our profiles on the 1st. All are welcome to join in.
Participate with a WIP or an already published book.
As always, play the days you want, skip the others. Please use CW as necessary. Looking forward to seeing your answers & meeting new friends.
#amwriting #writing #authors

1.What is a promise your MC made that they regret? 2. Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves? 3.Share a line from your WIP that foreshadows something important without giving it away. 4. What is your MC's most irrational fear? Where did it come from? 5.If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos? 6.What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us? 7. Share a line of dialogue that tells us everything we need to know about a character's personality. 8. Which character is most likely to make a terrible decision for a very good reason? 9. Your MC finds a letter addressed to them that was never meant to be delivered. Who wrote it, and what does it say? 10. What is one thing your antagonist genuinely admires about your MC? 11. Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters. 12. Which relationship in your story changed the most from what you originally planned? 13. What is something your MC would risk their life to protect but would struggle to explain why? 14.If your MC could ask their future self one question, what would they ask? 15. What piece of backstory did you invent just for yourself that readers may never learn? Created by @AlyseSteves@mastodon.social & @BranwenOShea@writing.exchange

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Welcome to the October #WordWeavers questions! Written by @BranwenOShea & I, you'll find the month's questions pinned to our profiles on the 1st. All are welcome to join in.

Participate with a WIP or an already published book. As always, play the days you want, skip the others. Please use CW as necessary.

Looking forward to seeing your answers & meeting new friends.

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