#WordWeavers 06: Has your MC ever done anything contradictory to their values?
At 6, Franz-Karl is still formulating his values, and he's just beginning to acquire enough agency to try to stop grownups from making him do things he doesn't agree with.
Can my answer be a strong 'Maybe'?
@7b682b86 Thanks.
Yes, the house is ongoing: I visited my lot on Saturday. I currently have a foundation with wooden floor-joists on top of it, and there was a pile of material for the subfloor waiting to be added when the joists are ready.
#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 2: How often do you write in a typical week? How do you find the time?
Official wordcount changes daily during NaNoWriMo and July NaNoCamp, and in bursts of a few days or a week or two between times. The rest of the time I'm thinking about worldbuilding details, etc. and even writing some of it down.
The plan was that I would have more time to write after I retired, but then my house burned down in the Marshall Wildfire 12/30/21 and I had some medical complications
#WritersCoffeeClub 17 How do you promote your writing?
Good question. Possibly not yet applicable.
Step 1 Finish a book shaped piece of story
Step 2 Add cover and formatting
Step 3 Publication and promotion
I'm still on step 1...
@7b682b86 I think trying to twist my mind into the space where I could answer that question would actively damage the storytelling, much like the problem I have with writing the end of an outline signaling the end of the story in some definitive way.
#WordWeavers 07: Why did your villain become a villain?
The Margraff-Elector of Ansbach was raised from birth to know that he is one of the Elect and divinely destined for greatness in general and mastery over lesser beings in particular. The list of categories of lesser beings, who are not validly possessed of agency, is extremely long.
Even so, his expectation that he should come to be King-Emperor instead of the any member of the current dynasty was not part of official doctrine...
#WritersCoffeeClub 7: tale of an unfavorite book cover:
50 years ago as a student at Wesleyan I had read every SF book in the Danbury CT public library except 1. House of Zeor by Jacqueline Lichtenberg had the most godawful hideous cover, and even I who would read anything with print, picked it up many times when I visited the library, shuddered, and set it down again.
When I finally got past the cover, it was WONDERFUL, and I wrote Jackie, who got me active in SF cons and (paper zine) fandoms.
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