#WordWeavers 9/30: "What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world?"

He believes evil people are bad. Such an unfair generalization!

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#WordWeavers 30/9: What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world?
Mostly, exactly the same ones we struggle with in our world today. Skin colour doesn’t really code for status, but all the problems of sexism and class division are there…
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#WordWeavers Sep 29: Is your character more likely to enjoy a sunrise or sunset, and why?

He's been to too many weddings and hates that song.

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#WordWeavers 29 Sep: Is your character more likely to enjoy a sunrise or sunset, and why?

Which one of them? Because this question could start a fight in The Mansion: Hippocampus stands by the sunrise and Ventral Striatum by the sunset, and Herr Cingulate, Anterior Division, has enough conflict […]

#WordWeavers 29/9: Is your character more likely to enjoy a sunrise or sunset, and why?
Growing up in a land regulated by Dawnsong, sunrises carried a special significance; but for Jerya sunsets were a greater visual spectacle purely…
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#WordWeavers 29 Sep
Is your character more likely to enjoy a sunrise or sunset, and why?

Joreth watches the sunrise on Ascension in disOrder. He hasn't seen one in real life from the surface of a planet before.

#WordWeavers September 28: "Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs."

Benjamin grew up only going to church because his parents thought it made them look good. He has since seen too many incredible things and been to too many funerals to keep faith in an earthbound religion.

#WordWeavers September 28: Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs.

In my second WIP, he doesn't have any until he dies.

What a surprise for him!

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#WordWeavers 28 Sep
Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs

Prefrontal Cortex is about as spiritual as a Rolodex. They believe in protocol, order, and procedure. In their opinion, everything can be solved by thinking things through and consulting the clipboard.

#WordWeavers 28 Sep
Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs

disOrder: Calnor is a Matheist monk. Deistic utilitarian, generally seeking truth (or at least a solvable ethics for humans) in the mathematical structure of reality.

The Silk Mind/The Source of Fire: there's a kind of […]

#WordWeavers 28/9: Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs
Jerya grew up accepting the common belief that Dawnsingers had some influence over the sun. It was only when she became a Novice Dawnsinger herself that she discovered that this…
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#WordWeavers 27/9: What interesting quirks do your characters have?

Notte is 20,000 years old, the progenitor of all vampires. He’s been a god. A devil. A general. A hermit. Everything in between.

And if the fabric he’s wearing isn’t Very Soft at all times he will absolutely end up burning it.

#WordWeavers Sept. 27: What interesting quirks do your characters have?

The CEO of the evil KABAL corporation tends to wheeze a lot. He really should get that checked out.

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#WordWeavers 27/9:What interesting quirks do your characters have?

The Manager likes rules and proper procedure. What makes them shine for me is their tenacity. The Mansion can be crumbling around them, they'll still be standing with their clipboard, trying to follow procedure and keep everyone […]

#WordWeavers 27 Sep
What interesting quirks do your characters have?

I'm not sure what counts as a quirk. I also don't think I know any quirks in the behaviour of people in real life.

I try to develop characters to the point where I know what they'll do or say, and why, at least by the time […]