#WritingWonders August 8: "What is your MC's bedtime routine like?"

Saki was trained (or tortured, depending on one's perspective) to sleep anywhere, anytime, because War taxes what it's already taken. She'll sneak a bath first, if at all possible. The only possession she lets affect her piece of mind is her pair of bandanas gifted to her by an old friend, but those are always in her hair.

Now that she has a real bedroom, with a roommate and growing cohort who care that she sleeps well, not just that she's ready for orders, she'll start to adjust! Until then, you may find her with arms crossed and eyes covered under the stars, in the corner of the gym, or slumped in the back of a train car. Just don't interpret her unconsciousness as unreadiness - she'll spring into action faster than you could constrain her!

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#WritingWonders August 1 Extremely Late Catchup: "Intro Day. If you could hang out with one of your side characters for a day, who would you choose? Why?"

(1/2) Hi! I'm Ariadne, a far-future #ScienceFiction author slowly publishing my first webnovel, The Maiden-Heretic of Laclathan. It's set in my own Known Universes, a long-term worldbuilding project I've had as a side project since 1999 when 2023 was still The Future. This universe and all its IP are an open culture project under a Creative Commons license. The idea is that, someday, other authors or artists will have a curated, obsessively-detailed world to add their own voices to without fear of stepping on a megacorporation's toes. The first two chapters of Maiden-Heretic are out already! https://canonicity.org/works/TMHOL

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#WritingWonders July 19: “Does your MC support the status quo in their world?”

Saki’s between worlds right now, quite literally. Her former planet of Laclathan was a paranoid hermit-world desperately hiding its imminent demise. She never critically analyzed it, which I suppose we can forgive her for since she became government property at age 5 and the whole thing imploded when she was 15, but in the back of her mind she always fantisized about escape, about a freedom she couldn’t quite imagine.

Now, she has the chance: as a refugee in a voluntary, anarchic society, no one will make life choices for her. Her new status quo is flux. Her new comrades-in-giant-robot-arms have a literal religious devotion to the flowing Chaos they hold as the root of all creation. It’s scary, having lived her whole life under stringent control. Before she can judge, she must re-learn how to live… and meet herself for the first time.

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#WritingWonders July 19: “Does your MC support the status quo in their world?”

Saki’s between worlds right now, quite literally. Her former planet of Laclathan was a paranoid hermit-world desperately hiding its imminent demise. She never critically analyzed it, which I suppose we can forgive her for since she became government property at age 5 and the whole thing was imploded when she was 15, but in the back of her mind she always fantisized about escape, about a freedom she couldn’t quite imagine.

Now, she has the chance: as a refugee in a voluntary, anarchic society, no one will make life choices for her. Her new status quo is flux. Her new comrades-in-giant-robot-arms have a literal religious devotion to the flowing Chaos they hold as the root of all creation. It’s scary, having lived her whole life under stringent control. Before she can judge, she must re-learn how to live… and meet herself for the first time.

#C8y #MaidenHeretic #ScienceFiction #AmWriting