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#WordWeavers SE 17: By the end of your story, how many injuries has your MC had? There is still so much more to be written that I have no idea. Does poisoning count as an injury? That would be one for Simón, in addition to some accidental bruises. I won't say more about those because I'd like to keep the post SFW. Sara will injure herself on purpose once, and some bramble scratches are likely. Charlotte had an accident that should have been lethal before the beginning. Something might injure her in a part I'm not sure of yet.

#WordWeavers SE 19: What are three personality strengths your antagonist has? Greatest first: passion, kindness, resilience There might not have been a problem if kindness were greatest of the three.

#WordWeavers July 10: Do you prefer writing characters more like you or vastly different? They both have their charms, although the fact that there's a limit to just how close to me I'll let a character get, coupled with the fact that I don't see any _maximum_ for distance/difference (I have the usual hard SF fan's love for "really *alien* aliens") probably means I should answer that I prefer the different ones a bit more.

#WordWeavers July 11: Would your protagonist rather be loved or feared? Why? All 5 of my MCs would prefer being loved. Their explanations would have some variations and contrasts, but common features would be that they see that fear is a very unstable motivator, whereas love is more reliable, and they don't like who they'd have to become in order to rouse that much fear.

#WordWeavers July 12: What one word sums up how your SC feels in the part of your WIP you're currently working on? Trans. (I'm working on a scene at the SF Trans March at the start of Pride Weekend. She's there with two of her T4T sweeties, and has run into another city-wizard friend who's also trans.)

#WordWeavers July 13: To your MC's LI, what is the most admirable thing about the MC? Margot's husband Al thinks Margot is just the greatest, partly because she's so confident, partly because she's so capable at kung fu, but also partly because, "Holy shit, my wife can do honest-to-God *magic*! How cool is that?"

#WordWeavers July 14: What is the most unusual or interesting word in your WIP's first sentence? Is "Westminster Quarters" a single word? If not, then probably just "Westminster".

#WordWeavers July 15: Does your antagonist have a line they won't cross? If so, why? Derrick Devereaux wouldn't kill. He might let himself get pushed to the point where he was supposed to, but when it finally came to do the deed? He wouldn't be able to. Donna Kuang would tell you right up-front that she won't kill. That doesn't mean she wouldn't let it be done in her name, or stand by and watch. She just wouldn't be the hands that do it.

#WordWeavers July 16: If your MC were a superhero, what would their symbol be? Angel's would probably be a somewhat iconified version of the tattoo on their upper left arm: a pair of white wings wrapping protectively around a heart.

#WordWeavers July 18: What is your MC's favorite family tradition? I'm probably stretching the definition of "family tradition" here, but Margot Chu always loved when her mother would cook _zhīmahú_, a dessert soup made from black sesame seeds. When she goes back to visit from time to time, her mother still cooks it, just to show Margot she loves her.

#WordWeavers July 19: MC POV: What scares you the most about the future of your world? Not bothering to pick a single MC from among my 5; all them would agree that the idea of tech bros in general, and Travis Winter in particular, taking over San Francisco and making it a place that *he* considers "safe" (sanitized, homogenized and white-bread) is horrifying.

#WordWeavers July 20: If your antagonist could improve one thing about themself, what would it be? My antagonists are generally not interested in improving themselves, but rather the world around them. This is part of what makes them antagonists — okay, that and the fact that they don't feel like asking the rest of the world, or the people in it, if they agree that the proposed changes would actually be improvements.

#WordWeavers July 21: Do past reviews influence your current writing? They can't; I have no past reviews, and nothing published (yet) to receive them.

#WordWeavers July 22: If your MC could steal one thing without consequences, what would it be? Right now, my MCs are actively making plans to steal a thing, but I don't want to say more about that right now. Let me just say that if I do one of those "cover with tropes and arrows" promos for my WIP, one of the tropes would be "magical heist action", and the heroes are planning their second heist.

#WordWeavers July 23: What's something no one would guess about your most dangerous character? She wishes she could have a pet dog.

#WordWeavers July 24: Antagonist POV: What has the power to instantly irritate you? Donna Kuang says: People who opine about politics without having any idea of what they're talking about.

#WordWeavers July 25: What wrong assumption do people make about your MC? People *used* to make the assumption that Angel Castillo was a woman, but that's pretty much stopped since they started wearing their "They/Them" lapel pin.

#WordWeavers July 26: Do any of your MCs have nicknames? How did they get them? Margot Chu is often called "Red Margot" due to her habit of always wearing at least one vividly red item of clothing.

#WordWeavers July 27: Have your MCs held onto any objects from their childhoods? Almost undoubtedly, but I haven't figured out any specifics.

#WordWeavers July 28: If you couldn't write, how would you tell your stories? Heck if I know. If I wanted to tell them with video, I'd have to *write* a screenplay, right? I don't have the artistic skill to draw a comic. Interpretive dance is way too abstract to get across the kinds of stuff I'm writing. There may be stories that can be told without writing, but *my* stories aren't among them.