Responses to prompts
(and writing progress reports)
WritingWonders / WordWeavers; PennedPossibilities; TimeTravelAuthors;
WordWeavers September 4, 2023:
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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WritingWonders August 30, 2023
Have you ever planned to kill a character and not done it?
The other way round
I planned not to let a character die but she did 
Daniella Forrester in my first novel
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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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