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#WritersCoffeeClub 18/10: Do you tend to incorporate supernatural elements in your work?
Magic I guess is supernatural. But as many have said, it's part of the architecture in a fantasy world.
No ghosts, ghouls, or sparkly vampires in my work.
My MC doesn't have a romantic interest, and it's [β¦]
#PennedPossibilities 817
Does your universe have any autumnal traditions?
School begins on Mabon. They have bonfire gatherings and Apple cinnamon themed everything (pumpkin spice isn't as popular as Apple cinnamon)
In the north they have the biggest bonfire and a sacred celebration from Mabon [β¦]
#WordWeavers Oct 18: Does your MC know where they came from? (Family history, ancestry, etc.)?
Ah. That's the entire plot of book 3. Books 1&2, she thinks she knows. Then my MC's worldview is turned upside down by a discovery in her mother's diary. π€«
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#PennedPossibilities 816 β What is your SCβs relationship with what society considers the supernatural?
It's all supernatural hun. π» πͺ π²
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#Wordweavers Day 17 - Who steps up and helps when your MC needs a hand with something?
Tarragon has a couple best friends- Zyanya and Aspen. Of the two, Zyanya sticks by her side. She has another friend, Tuuli who will also step in to help.
Ultimately, Tarragon's coven of elder mentors [β¦]
#WritersCoffeeClub Oct. 15: How strictly do your characters follow their traditions?
They love their traditions. The exception is my coven of SCs- three women who came together in #Γatura after fleeing their home countries and never looking back. They've since adopted the traditions of their [β¦]
#WordWeavers Oct 15: If you wanted to achieve your MCβs goal, how would you approach it?
Hit up a bookstore and join a local coven.
#Γatura βπ»
#PennedPossibilities 814 β Your MC or SC meets a vampire. What do they do?
Oh fiddlesticks, we're mixing genres now. They meet a vampire, they'll feel slightly confused, and then move on with their day. Not their business, and besides, they've never heard of such thing as vampires before. No [β¦]
#WordWeavers 2025-10-14: 14. Who among your characters is the most cautious?
Several of my characters have to be cautious for good reasons. Tuuli is probably the most naturally cautious character by temperament. She's one of my MC's classmates and usually the one telling Tarragon her ideas are [β¦]
#PennedPossibilities 813 β Tell us about your MCβs nighttime routine as well.
Here is where Tarragon's routine diverges from the typical magic boarding school student trope.
Night time is when Tarragon can practice what she learns from Geeta in secret.
Her peers can conjure magic inherently [β¦]
#PennedPossibilities 812 β Tell us about your MCβs morning routine.
You've read these kinds of booksβPreteen coming-of-age in a magic boarding school... (my spin on the trope is that what you'd expect isn't always what happens.)
Anyway the answer to the question: Tarragon does what you'd [β¦]
#WordWeavers 10.13 β Who among your characters is the biggest risk-taker?
I'd say my MC, Tarragon.
But her morally questionable mentor Geeta can be just as impulsively reckless as she is at times.
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#PennedPossibilities 811. What does your MC think of when autumn comes to mind?
Mabon. The first day of school. Tarragon thinks about how another year is beginning and she still can't do magic like the rest of her classmates.
#Γatura
#WritersCoffeeClub 12. Do you prefer to use real-world settings or to invent new ones?
#Γatura is the imaginary world I created throughout my childhood. There are literally decades into refining and building every detail brick by brick. It's a paracosm.
As many have said- it takes a lot of [β¦]
#WordWeavers Oct 11: Tell us about a strained but important relationship one of your characters has.
Tarragon's relationship with Xitalli does not start off well. Tarragon was told Xitalli was dangerous, then she learns the people who told her that were actually the dangerous antagonists. She [β¦]
#WritersCoffeeClub 11 Oct Have you ever written an unlikable protagonist?
I thought there was an unspoken rule that a protagonist had to be likable, but perhaps not.
A reader needs to connect with a protagonist somehow, or the will to continue reading fades.
I have started a few stories that [β¦]
#PennedPossibilities 810. Is there any mythology around the afterlife in your world?
There wasn't.
Until just now when I thought about it.
I guess they believe in a spirit realm, or that the spirit returns to the universal collective of nature after the body dies.
Bear with me, this raw concept [β¦]
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What signals to your SC that itβs autumn?
Besides the calendar? Mabon and Samhain are important celebrations for Γaturans. School begins on Mabon and farmers begin harvesting their crops. Samhain signals the end of the harvest season and the beginning of a new year [β¦]
#WordWeavers 10.7 β How does the world your characters inhabit deal with garbage?
Good question. Hmm. Their lifestyle doesn't create much trash. They don't have plastics, they try to mend and reuse things, compost, and when something is complete rubbish, it's probably safe to burn in the [β¦]
#WritersCoffeeClub 5th of October: Have you ever included real-world disproven science in a work?
Alchemy, I guess? Actual magic.
In order for Tarragon to pass her magical exams, she uses science tricks and I stretched limitations to make it work out for her.
For instance, to make a feather [β¦]
#PennedPossibilities 803 Is there anything unusual in your MC's home?
Tarragon found a few unrecognizable coins from a place she's never heard of before and she doesn't know it yet, but her mother has a few of those mysterious coins tucked away in her trunk too.
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#WordWeavers 04 Choose a holiday that people in your world celebrate. What gift would you give to your MC?
I didn't get too creative, they celebrate the 8 pagan sabbats. Tarragon would love a new cloak for Yule. Hers has gotten tattered from so many secret trips into the forest to visit Geeta [β¦]
#WordWeavers Oct 3 - If your antagonist had to live a week of your MCβs life, how would it affect them?
Oofβa role switch would put my antagonists precisely where they want, most desperately, to be.
And where would my protagonist be? In the antagonist's place? On vacation? Or right there [β¦]
#PennedPossibilities 801 SC POV: What requires your patience today?
Geeta: mending the frocks and quilts. I had wanted to be outside foraging, but the weather has been rather uncooperative. Nevertheless, all this rain should encourage the mushrooms to grow.
#Γatura
#WordWeavers 02 What do your characters argue about?
Mostly their country's politics. Which kind of magic is better. And which sports team is number one.
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#WordWeavers Sep 28: Is your MC more likely to fight, flee, or talk their way out of trouble?
Probably talk. I'd say Tarragon definitely has a fawn response to danger. Survive first. Anger later. Then regret.
#Catura
#WordWeavers Sep 27: Has your MC had any amusing injuries?
The head cool has only reminded Tarragon half a million times that the kitchen stairwell is nota her personal shortcut to the stables. But Tarragon doesn't listen. Once, she missed a step and sprained an ankle trying to get out of there [β¦]
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If you could give a piece of advice to any of your characters, what would it be?
To my MC, Tarragon: Stop waiting. Your story begins when you start being.
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#PennedPossibilities 781: Antagonist POV: If you had a βdo-overβ button, what one event in your life would you like to have a second chance at?
Izanme and Izanya are more interested in generational reclamation. They would require a Time Machine for their "do-over".
And I don't do the time [β¦]