WordWeavers Day 4:
Does your antagonist(s) have a chance to become a better person?

Who are you asking?

Elyssia would say everyone has a chance of becoming a better person

Joshua would say he has no idea

Me? No chance. Dominic Brewster is rotten through and through, unredeemable (for the purposes of the story 😜 )

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TimeTravelAuthors 29: Alternate title for your story

I’m not a time traveller except in the sense of living from day to day but the topic rang bells

For some reason, the current WiP started under the title Apple Pie Order. It now goes under the generic Six Months in the Life of Elyssia Gadnall

I need something better:

The Christmas Eve Bomb
Whose Baby?
Young, Pregnant and Theological
??

Nah

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WritingWonders 26Aug
If your MC wrote books, what would they write? Why?

Elyssia - popular theology
e.g. 'In Defence of Augustine of Hippo'

Because, why not?

(And, also, to be honest, because Sue Feenan would not like it. It would be a refutation of Dr Feenan's latest tome 'Augustine, the Man Who Destroyed the World' ... aka 'Augustine the Hippo'; see novelx1)

Augustine was not all bad!

He was mostly good

And human

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PennedPossibilities 45
MC POV: Describe the most beautiful sound you have ever heard.

The most beautiful sound?

I think it has to be ... the blackbird singing in the garden early on a summer morning

Or possibly, a willow warbler down by the river, surely the silver sound of summer - (when we had willow warblers, that is. Where are they? What happened to them?)

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WritingWonders Aug 21:
MC POV: A stranger makes a crude comment about your SO or BFF. How do you react?

Give them the thousand-mile stare, hold it for ten, or twenty-five on a good day, and then walk away. Pray for them

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WritingWonders August 20
Does your villain ever cry or show sadness?

Not seen. Not shown. But, away from the text, I think Dominic Brewster grieves for his son Archibald. Archie (aka Toady) hanged himself in August 2010

Long story short: Dominic is human. However, he will want to blame someone ...

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WritingWonders 17th August
MC POV: What’s a deal-breaker in a friendship and/or relationship?

Unwanted attention (from a bloke)

Too much attention to Joshua Williams (from another girl)

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#PennedPossibilities 43
Does your MC have an ex that they would ever consider dating again?

No. No ex. Joshua Williams was always going to be the one. She never, ever, even considered anybody else

Talk about focus 🤩 😍

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#WritingWonders August 16
Give an example of a popular activity or tradition in your world

We don't have any. Oh, wait. Generally speaking, people watch things on telly and talk about it in the shop next day

Locally, in the village, we have the Lynchcombe Dream - midsummer, outdoors, the Shakespeare play. It's a hoot

On Christmas Eve, we have a nativity procession from the pub to the church, donkey and everything

Those are our traditions

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#PennedPossibilities 42
What does your MC want their retirement to be like?

Apropos that last toot -

magical

The prospect of retirement is a long way off for Elyssia Gadnall since she is only nineteen. She has a life to live first. Yeah, a magical retirement appeals to her but, right now, she wants to live a magical life

Then she thinks of her parents and other older people she knows and realises it's probably not that straightforward

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1400 words added to the wip today and another chapter done

(Some of the words weren't original. They were pasted in from a letter written by St Jerome in AD 388/9)

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WritingWonders August 14:
What parts of your world would you recommend to a tourist?

Edinburgh, obviously. And Durham. Northumberland. And some of the picturesque villages in the Cotswolds

But, no. I wouldn't want to make recommendations

Let them discover places for themselves

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#PennedPossibilities 40
MC POV:
Which do you prefer, sunrise or sunset?

Sunset

It's the time of the day when important things start to happen

The countryside comes alive

I'm much more comfortable when human activity begins to cease and things go quiet (apart from Joe Fitchitt and his mates walking home from the pub) and the world can be as the world is meant to be

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PennedPossibilities 35
Does your MC consider themselves an introvert or an extrovert?

If pushed, Elyssia would say she is an introvert

However, if you ask Joshua, he would say she is an extrovert, at least, she is compared to him. But you didn't ask Joshua

Introvert

If, at times, a pretty wild one

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WritingWonders 9th August
Does your MC have children? If not, do they want to?

Ah. Tricky one.
Not everyone knows this but Elyssia is pregnant. Don't tell

In other circumstances, she would want children - however, in these circumstances, this is a moot point

Well, no. Hell, no

In these circumstances, she would not want to be having a child and/but there is no way she would even think of having an abortion

Can't tell. Don't ask

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WritingWonders 8th August
What is your MC's bedtime routine like?

EG:
I don't think there is a routine. I get to the end of the day, fall into bed and go to sleep

Oh, I brush my teeth

Sometimes I'll have a shower

Sometimes I'll have a hot chocolate

Erm. What else?

Of course I get undressed and put my night things on but that's obvious

Isn't it?

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Another 1250 words added so far today *&* four or five pages scavenged from an earlier version

It is 2011, New Year's Day

There has been a bomb blast in Alexandria in Egypt, at a church, killing 20+

This is a painful reminder of recent events

The big freeze continues

Detective Skry Buxton calls at breakfast time and Elyssia goes dashing off on her bike for some reason despite the snow and her (pregnant) condition

Thing are moving

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A thousand words today

That's better. I completed a chapter & with the 600 words I did yesterday, I feel as if I'm getting back up to speed after a few days off the pace

It was raining this afternoon!

(We went to the allotment this morning before the rain came and harvested a whole heap of courgettes and beans, Dwarf and Climbing French beans and Runner beans. I suppose I should be processing beans!)

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#WritingWonders July 30
Does your MC have a good fashion sense?

Er. No. Not that I've noticed. Usually it's jeans and a polo shirt with a fleece or a sweater in winter

Although, now she is four months pregnant, she is going to have to think about what she wears. I guess she will consult her two best mates, Wing and Mary Lou

But perhaps not. They'll only give her mutually contradictory advice

And what do they know?

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#PennedPossibilities 14 — What is your MC's favorite dessert?

Strawberry flavoured jelly

(I had to ask her)

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