#PennedPossibilities 950 — Can your MC swim?
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#PennedPossibilities 952 — How do you use social media as an author?
For me, it's easy. I promote my stories, no matter how big or how small, right here on Mastodon. I talk about my writing process, characters, ideas, and plots here. I've made friends here as well, and I'm grateful for all of you. As writers, we support the work and check stuff out, boosting, reading for free, or buying from each other. I don't need any other social media sites these days. I've been on here for years now. This is it for me. Mastodon is my forever home.
#PennedPossibilities 953 — What author(s) did you dislike at first but grew to enjoy reading?
I feel so badly about this, but there's only one I can think of off the top of my head. It's Sarah J. Maas. It took some time for her work to grow on me. She has an amazing style, but there are occasional things that she'll say in books (sentences or phrases) that just strike me as rather odd. That being said, of course, she's a bestselling author for a very good reason. Her stories are terrific, compelling, and fantastically woven, her characters are refreshing, and her worlds are creative, dangerous yet beautiful, and heartbreakingly tragic. I really do enjoy everything of hers these days.
With that in mind, us authors sometimes tend to read books and an oddly worded sentence will strike us. We might think to ourselves, "Gee, I could have written that sentence better," or, "I would've worded that like this, instead." Needless to say, I've had a few moments like that. But don't get me wrong, I *do* love her books.
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#PennedPossibilities 953 — What author(s) did you dislike at first but grew to enjoy reading?
I feel so badly about this, but there's only one I can think of off the top of my head. It's Sarah J. Maas. It took some time for her work to grow on me. She has an amazing style, but there are occasional things that she'll say in books (sentences or phrases) that just strike me as rather odd. That being said, of course, she's a bestselling author for a very good reason. Her stories are terrific, compelling, and fantastically woven, her characters are refreshing, and her worlds are creative, dangerous yet beautiful, and heartbreakingly tragic. I really do enjoy everything of hers these days.
With that in mind, us authors sometimes tend to read books and an oddly worded sentence will strike us. We might think to ourselves, "Gee, I could have written that sentence better," or, "I would've worded that like this, instead." Needless to say, I've had a few moments like that. But don't get me wrong, I *do* love her books.
#PennedPossibilities 954 — What is your SC’s skill level when it comes to cooking and baking?
Hati is fabulous at both, and Sam appreciates it. She actually *enjoys* cooking and baking.
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#PennedPossibilities 954 — What is your SC’s skill level when it comes to cooking and baking?
Hati is fabulous at both, and Sam appreciates it. She actually *enjoys* cooking and baking.
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#PennedPossibilities 955 — Is your MC keeping any secrets? Can you reveal them to us?
Two of them, actually, but I can’t elaborate on those secrets just yet, so I’ll just list them.
• Alistair’s age... (Shhh.)
• His love for Fenella.He has very good reasons for keeping both hidden.
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#PennedPossibilities 955 — Is your MC keeping any secrets? Can you reveal them to us?
Two of them, actually, but I can’t elaborate on those secrets just yet, so I’ll just list them.
• Alistair’s age... (Shhh.)
• His love for Fenella.He has very good reasons for keeping both hidden.
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#PennedPossibilities 956 — With whom is your SC’s most important relationship?
It’s Hati’s husband, of course. His name is Samuel. She and Sam have been together for years now, and they would be lost without each other. They’re both werewolves.
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#PennedPossibilities 956 — With whom is your SC’s most important relationship?
It’s Hati’s husband, of course. His name is Samuel. She and Sam have been together for years now, and they would be lost without each other. They’re both werewolves.
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#PennedPossibilities 957 — Does your MC have or wear a signature color?
Alistair does, but it’s never done on purpose. He tends to wear deep blues, darker shades, and occasional purples and plums.
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#PennedPossibilities 957 — Does your MC have or wear a signature color?
Alistair does, but it’s never done on purpose. He tends to wear deep blues, darker shades, and occasional purples and plums.
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Typical vampire … doesn’t wear a lot of red, though!
Doesn't want to be mistaken for a messy eater?
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Typical vampire … doesn’t wear a lot of red, though!
Doesn't want to be mistaken for a messy eater?
@sfwrtr The way I just belly-laughed at that... Oh, that was a good one!
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@sfwrtr The way I just belly-laughed at that... Oh, that was a good one!
@floofpaldi Feel free to use it as a retort if someone is picking out clothing for him!
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@floofpaldi Feel free to use it as a retort if someone is picking out clothing for him!
@sfwrtr I might have to do that now! Just for you.
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#PennedPossibilities 957 — Does your MC have or wear a signature color?
Alistair does, but it’s never done on purpose. He tends to wear deep blues, darker shades, and occasional purples and plums.
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#PennedPossibilities 958 — What’s your favorite under-appreciated novel?
It's a little something from 2000. This book taught me so much about *my* life, friendship, life in general, stereotypes and racism, Spanish Harlem, and what it means to be a morally gray character who does bad things for very good reasons.
Please, buy this book and read it, I beg of you. It will be on your list of favorites afterward. You will, cry, enjoy it, hate parts of it, and it will leave you with emotions and thoughts long after it's finished. I read this one as an older teenager and it changed me. Ernesto Quiñonez is such an amazing author. Libraries aren't even allowed to carry this book in schools anymore. (For the obvious reasons. I'm sick to my stomach.)
Quick blurb: The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty--and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Bodega turns to Chino, a smart, promising young man, for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder.
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#PennedPossibilities 958 — What’s your favorite under-appreciated novel?
It's a little something from 2000. This book taught me so much about *my* life, friendship, life in general, stereotypes and racism, Spanish Harlem, and what it means to be a morally gray character who does bad things for very good reasons.
Please, buy this book and read it, I beg of you. It will be on your list of favorites afterward. You will, cry, enjoy it, hate parts of it, and it will leave you with emotions and thoughts long after it's finished. I read this one as an older teenager and it changed me. Ernesto Quiñonez is such an amazing author. Libraries aren't even allowed to carry this book in schools anymore. (For the obvious reasons. I'm sick to my stomach.)
Quick blurb: The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty--and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Bodega turns to Chino, a smart, promising young man, for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder.
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#PennedPossibilities 959 — MC POV: Complete this thought: “I wish I had paid more attention when…”
Alistair: I wish I had paid more attention when Caden told me about the coven (more like a cult) that he was in a decade ago. I wish I listened closer. Now I’m having to pore through my old journals for any important pieces of information I might have jotted down about them. Not only is it tiresome but most of it is entirely unhelpful for us.
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#PennedPossibilities 959 — MC POV: Complete this thought: “I wish I had paid more attention when…”
Alistair: I wish I had paid more attention when Caden told me about the coven (more like a cult) that he was in a decade ago. I wish I listened closer. Now I’m having to pore through my old journals for any important pieces of information I might have jotted down about them. Not only is it tiresome but most of it is entirely unhelpful for us.
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#PennedPossibilities 960 — Describe the longest romantic relationship your MC has ever had. (If they’ve had one.)
Alistair’s one and only love was Miss Fenella Ralston (AKA Lady Fenella McKay). They were quite a pair. Random fact, unlike other vampires, they actually enjoyed making love. While she’s had other partners in her long life, he hasn’t. He wasn’t ever interested in a mate until her. He was in love with her for decades before he finally worked up the nerve to tell her, and although they eventually ended things between them, he still loves her. (And guess what? She still loves him as well.)
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#PennedPossibilities 960 — Describe the longest romantic relationship your MC has ever had. (If they’ve had one.)
Alistair’s one and only love was Miss Fenella Ralston (AKA Lady Fenella McKay). They were quite a pair. Random fact, unlike other vampires, they actually enjoyed making love. While she’s had other partners in her long life, he hasn’t. He wasn’t ever interested in a mate until her. He was in love with her for decades before he finally worked up the nerve to tell her, and although they eventually ended things between them, he still loves her. (And guess what? She still loves him as well.)
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#PennedPossibilities 961 — SC POV: Have you ever spoken up when you saw that something going on was wrong? Were you scared? What was the end result?
Hati: I did. Alistair was in trouble. So was Fenella. I yelled out, and then I shifted into my wolf form and ran to their aid. And yes, I was utterly terrified. The end result was certainly… Well, no, that would require far too much explaining. But I will say this: everything was okay.
(I can't explain too much... Spoilers!)
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#PennedPossibilities 961 — SC POV: Have you ever spoken up when you saw that something going on was wrong? Were you scared? What was the end result?
Hati: I did. Alistair was in trouble. So was Fenella. I yelled out, and then I shifted into my wolf form and ran to their aid. And yes, I was utterly terrified. The end result was certainly… Well, no, that would require far too much explaining. But I will say this: everything was okay.
(I can't explain too much... Spoilers!)
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#PennedPossibilities 962 — If there was ever going to be a film or a series based upon your WIP, what do you imagine the soundtrack would be like? What genre?
Give me a spooky OST, something ornate, complex, and rich with emotional depth. It would be soft and mournful during the sadder moments, then uplifting, inspiring, moving, and emotional at times, and serious, scary, and terrifyingly brash and loud at others. It needs to be rich and dynamic, allowing for expressive contrasts and emotional depth. All classical, of course. In my mind, it would be reminiscent of Hammer Horror as well, which was what started this entire novel (which turned into a series) for me.
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#PennedPossibilities 962 — If there was ever going to be a film or a series based upon your WIP, what do you imagine the soundtrack would be like? What genre?
Give me a spooky OST, something ornate, complex, and rich with emotional depth. It would be soft and mournful during the sadder moments, then uplifting, inspiring, moving, and emotional at times, and serious, scary, and terrifyingly brash and loud at others. It needs to be rich and dynamic, allowing for expressive contrasts and emotional depth. All classical, of course. In my mind, it would be reminiscent of Hammer Horror as well, which was what started this entire novel (which turned into a series) for me.
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#PennedPossibilities 963 — If you use a pen name or certain username on a writing site, what is its significance and how did you arrive at using it?
Credit: @NaraMoore
My username, pen name, or the nom-de-plume I use online is agoodtuckering. “A good Tuckering” has to do with Malcolm Tucker and is in reference to his furious rants. He’s a character that I love writing and have actually written stories for for a long time now. I’m a big Peter Capaldi fan. The username stuck, and I use it for my Tumblr and Archive of Our Own accounts. That’s what everyone knows me by these days, that and floofpaldi as well over on Discord, Fluxer, and here on Mastodon. Again, like I said, Capaldi fan here. It just fit for the communities I was and am in. It means floofy-haired (or fluffy-haired) Capaldi. I thought it was cute, to be fair.
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#PennedPossibilities 963 — If you use a pen name or certain username on a writing site, what is its significance and how did you arrive at using it?
Credit: @NaraMoore
My username, pen name, or the nom-de-plume I use online is agoodtuckering. “A good Tuckering” has to do with Malcolm Tucker and is in reference to his furious rants. He’s a character that I love writing and have actually written stories for for a long time now. I’m a big Peter Capaldi fan. The username stuck, and I use it for my Tumblr and Archive of Our Own accounts. That’s what everyone knows me by these days, that and floofpaldi as well over on Discord, Fluxer, and here on Mastodon. Again, like I said, Capaldi fan here. It just fit for the communities I was and am in. It means floofy-haired (or fluffy-haired) Capaldi. I thought it was cute, to be fair.
#WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #PeterCapaldi #TheThickOfIt #ArchiveOfOurOwn #AO3 #Tumblr
#PennedPossibilities 964 — MC POV: What area of your life do you tend to enjoy in excess instead of moderation?
Fenella: Murdering useless, evil men.
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#PennedPossibilities 964 — MC POV: What area of your life do you tend to enjoy in excess instead of moderation?
Fenella: Murdering useless, evil men.
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@floofpaldi Fenella reminds me so much of Scarlet from May I Ask for One Final Thing
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@floofpaldi Fenella reminds me so much of Scarlet from May I Ask for One Final Thing
@MisWiredKE Random fact about me, I love anime and manga. I'm a big fan. I had to look that one up and see who Scarlet was. I can definitely understand why you'd say that. That's too funny.
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#PennedPossibilities 964 — MC POV: What area of your life do you tend to enjoy in excess instead of moderation?
Fenella: Murdering useless, evil men.
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#PennedPossibilities 965 — What is your MC’s reaction when someone close to them is sick or injured? How do they behave?
Alistair’s usually a mess, to be fair. He’ll do his best to take care of whoever is injured, to do whatever needs to be done to either save them from a certain rough situation or to keep them safe. There’s a scene that relates to this very prompt and it happens to come rather soon. It’s in an upcoming chapter.
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@MisWiredKE Random fact about me, I love anime and manga. I'm a big fan. I had to look that one up and see who Scarlet was. I can definitely understand why you'd say that. That's too funny.
@floofpaldi ooh, same here.
And yeah, the anime is new. Only found the manga because I was looking for longer manga to read
