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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.23 — Do you plan your themes or do they arise from your writing and then get tweaked in edits?</blockquote>My themes are pretty much the same from story to story: feminist with a dose of gender politics. Regardless, they do arise from my writing because I don't know the plot until I write it, and I definitely tweak the theme during revision. Thus, my answer is Yes.[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.22 — Would your story work in a vastly different setting?</blockquote>Hehehe.I tell stories about characters with rather universal issues. The story is a plot line and transmogrified characters from an earlier work in a vastly different setting. Shhhh![Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystery</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#romance</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sff</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSstory</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSReluctanceStory</a>

S. Lott<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#western</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a>4/23. Do you plan your themes or do they arise from your writing and then get tweaked in edits?It feels like an organic process. Theme and characters grow together. I do a fair amount of adjusting and pruning to get a character arc I want to read aloud.

Nowhere Girl<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 23 Apr Do you plan your themes or do they arise from your writing and then get tweaked in edits? I have a rough sense of them at the start and try to Bob Ross "happy trees" my way through exploring them as I go. Usually, I end up on a stronger, more focused message as I work through it.

M. Pax<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Apr 23: Do you plan your themes or do they arise from your writing and then get tweaked in edits?They usually come from the character arcs, which are planned ahead of time. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a>

S. Lott<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#western</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a>4/22. Would your story work in a vastly different setting?I think it would because I fell horror should transcend place. I’ve got some screenplay drafts of urban horror. It has several overlapping themes with the westerns. I think I may rework the screenplay MC to fit better with my western MCs. More curiosity. More secrets. I found the time I lived in the desert inspiring.

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.21 — Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?</blockquote>Wait? Isn't that the stuff you're supposed to leave out?[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a>

Charlie Stross<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?I got bored writing Bob Howard in the Laundry Files: 25 years and 14 novels (of which he shows up in at least 8) is plenty!

S. Lott<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#western</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a>4/21. Is there anything that bores you about any of your characters?I write the books I want to read aloud. I have to avoid characters that don’t interest me. If I can’t bring them to life easily while reading, they need work. (I have a tarot deck. A few cards gives me a colorful, unique backstory.)

Aurora<a href="https://fandom.ink/@Fragglemuppet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Fragglemuppet</a> I think the biggest community or club is currently found at <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScribesAndMakers</a>, the latter has a very present and curious admin team. <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PennedPossibilities</a> also seems to be thriving. While <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> seems to be a bit disbanding to me at the moment with a rarely seen or interacting new admin (which some people aren't happy about, which is why I feel it's disbanding).

RS, Author, Novelist, ProsaistThis post is to announce to all those who knew about my web-novel Mars Needed Women, who may have boosted or linked to it, that I have deleted the posts from Mastodon. I am heavily into revising it for publication.To prevent 404ing, I've left only the jacket blurb post of March 1st. As best I can remember, that's the only link I gave out. I hope so. I'm tagging hashtags to which I posted links to the novel this one time to prevent confusion. You are welcome to PM me.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/pennedpossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pennedpossibilities</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/engenderedWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#engenderedWriting</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writerscoffeeclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writerscoffeeclub</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/wordweavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordweavers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/scribesandmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scribesandmakers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writever</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writephant</a> TL;DRThe story was published daily in March 2024 as part of a <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writever</a> challenge, and I completed all 31 chapters one a day using all 31 Women's Rights prompts, managing to complete the last chapter and post it only 20 minutes into April 1st. The story was definitely beta, with a plot hole and janky science and a few character boo-boos, but I like the result. I have since greatly revised the story and added plenty of material. Writing content daily to fit it into a toot-length that worked out to 750-800 words max forced compromises. I plan to publish the novel in book form. As such, I have deleted the original free-to-read version. When I've sold or published the novel, I'll be sure to inform all my followers.If you were part way through the story, PM me.For you that read it, and for those who favorited chapters, Thank you.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sf</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingCommunity</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 2504.20 — If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?</blockquote>I spent a lifetime scrimping, saving, investing, and being frugal to get to this point. Retirement. Now they offer me a million dollars? Sheesh. Gonna have to make me a better offer to stop me from doing what I like to do. [Sticks out tongue, makes raspberry.][Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoostingIsSharing</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writingcommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSdiscussion</a>

Tiggy<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 20 — If someone gave you a million dollars to never write again, would you take it?Difficult one. I am very concious that my death will be a financial burden on my friends as I have almost no savings. I have to take out loans to repair essential house stuff. And I would be able to pay for help every day instead of rationing it. But ... I cant stop writing even if I never published.

Anna Saultron20.04.2025 If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?For that amount of money I am gratefully cross out the word "again" from my list of used words and create a new one in its place.Example for a replacement word "argain."<a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 20.04.2025 <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>

S. Lott<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#western</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a>4/20. If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?Heh. I’d have to know how they’d audit my (lack of) compliance. I could not stop writing.

Dr. Rachel Reddick<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> Apr 20: If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?Considering the main reason I'd want that kind of money would be to quit The Day Job so that I could write more... no.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amwriting</a>

adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> 4/20. If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?Would I be tempted? Yes.Would I do it? No.There's an argument that says I could switch to 3D rendering but I cannot help but tell stories so I'd want to be writing comics. That doesn't work either.In regard to this image, the speech bubble is literally part of the 3D scene, it wasn't added afterwards.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/3dRender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3dRender</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/noAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#noAI</a>

Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> If someone gave you a million dollars (or equivalent) to never write again, would you take it?Make it ten million. One million is nothing these days.

S. Lott<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#western</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a>4/19. Have you ever learned something about yourself from your characters?Yes. I’ve learned I don’t live the kind of high-drama, all-or-nothing life that makes for compelling story-telling. I’m barely an anecdote when compared with my characters.

Alina LeonovaDear <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordWeavers</a> players, you know the drill — if you want your questions in the May edition, please share them below 😊 <a href="https://writing.exchange/@BranwenOShea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BranwenOShea</a> and I will choose some to include and might edit them for brevity/clarity.

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