Music can help us to channel the emotions of a scene we're writing, it can also be nice just have accompaniment while we work.

If you don't use playlists, no worries. Talk about any music you use!
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In a nod to unoriginal D&D campaigns, Prophecy 71 has Plothük, a guy who sits in a shadowy corner of a tavern and asks the MCs if they want a job. It turns out he's peddling an MLM, not offering mercenary work.

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I don't think I have any little games in my writing. I have Easter eggs for those in the Know (aka people who have played ttrpgs with me) and I try to give my characters thematic names, but that's about as whimsical as I get. 😅

I love this sort of stuff and use it heavily, as The Duel is a comedy with metafictional elements. There's a 4th wall break on the first page of 1660.

1660 avoids direct 2nd person address but I do have it in the 1661 1st draft currently, after I went "fuck it, why not".
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My favorite little game to play with readers are the little bits of foreshadowing, especially when it comes to name meanings. I also like dropping little scent notes about the characters because it's not often used to describe people.

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My favorite ever that made me throw the book across the room and cackle my ass off was the scene introducing “Tunbridge Wheels” in Mortal Engines, because it was a rapid-fire string of one absurdity after another🤣🤣🤣

But in my own work, I always enjoyed Talia’s mental whiplash😅

The lead character of #ElementalGuardians Book 3 is an young stuntwoman getting her first leading role in a TV series. She's this universe's equivalent of The Pink Ranger. Her name is Kim and her agent is Jen. Both are nods to iconic Pink Rangers.

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#WhimsicalWriters considering Lemony Snicket was foundational for me, yes, I love this sort of thing. Everything I write has little easter eggs and references, mostly to keep myself amused. The most recent was Chin-Mae in Omega Squad, a helpful, pathological liar whose name means "truthful"

From other writers, I adore snarky footnotes & asides.

For my own writing, I love adding funny foreshadowing in chapter titles that make ppl groan when they reread. No Dream Like Forever has some good ones, but they're spoilers.

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Chapter titles.

Some of my favorites:

-What Have You Done?
-Guilty Until Proven Innocent
-Fallout
-Change in Perspective
-Slithering in the Depths
-The Fools Come Rushing In
-Experiment's End

Sometimes, it's a play on words, a double entendre, or exactly what is written.

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#WhimsicalWriters For a long time, I'd wanted to write a story where the characters were named after foods. And though I think most English-speaking readers would assume such a story would be cute/cozy, I was actually inspired to do it thanks to DBZ where the Sayans have vegetable names, lol.

This mostly comes through my narrator/character bleed moments, and Cry Wolf had a particularly blatant one I enjoyed. It's absolutely both sides of Rieka's mind fighting.
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I was gonna try to share this on Sustember, but it kinda fits here XD I have tons of foreshadowing--usually more subtle--but one of the most noticeable things I do is redact a lot of information that'll get revealed later. It's a fun way of using a database theme for the book~

#WhimsicalWriters I have to invent a lot of heroes/villains and deities names for my WIP, and my approach to this is: “how can I make a pun so awful that the knee-jerk reaction of any sane reader when they see That would be to cross the screen and throttle me?” And then I do it. I’m a professional.

I use pun or referential names. A good example of a pun is Madarch from The Lake Hopper, whose name means "mushroom". As for references there's Myrddin, Pere(dur), Teyrnon, Cei and Bedwyn.

Even Ata's "bear-girl" title is a reference.
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Some of my fav foreshadowing that makes you 🤦 while replaying is from the game Ghost Trick, but it's too spoilery to describe.

So I'll go with the punny names from the Ace Attorney series. Winston Payne. Frank Sahwit (crime witness). Dick Gumshoe (detective).

And so on.

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Well, let's see. In TY4LM we have narrator Dylan Jones. His father is DAVID Jones. The strange new family is the REQUIEMS🦈. (Hm odd how did that shark emoji get there couldn't possibly be related.) Marin and Nerissa's father is TORA🐅yuki REQUIEM🦈. (It keeps happening! 😉)