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Christina Anne Hawthorne | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ce78dee8 Odd as it may seem—or not—my upbringing was virtually devoid of pep talks. They just didn't happen. In a way, Tharlise was born of that childhood longing, the imagined talks that never happened. I really hadn't thought about it until you mentioned it. Did I just blow my own mind? Possible. 😆
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0c85b4b5 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @7b682b86 I suppose making you think is part of the point of these prompts, though maybe not quite blowing up our own minds 😉
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Christina Anne Hawthorne | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ce78dee8 It's such a mess when that happens! 🤯 🤣
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C. R. Collins | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @7b682b86 @ce78dee8 

Yeah, I couldn't think of a proper answer for this one. I have a few characters in SoJ:Red Wolf that give encouragement here and there, but no one is exceptionally "pep-talky." I didn't get those as a kid either, so my characters usually support each other, at least.
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Christina Anne Hawthorne | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @a3976b27 @ce78dee8 Typically in my stories I write found families & the encourager role is shared. In other books, it's my MC who needs encouragement and finds it where she can. This is the one book where a character is basically a family founder.