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#WordWeavers April 30: Does your MC have any pets? If so, what are they?
The Duplicator considers animal ownership to be cruel and coercive, the same sort of power-seeking behavior he saw all too often in the Government.
Instead, he believes you should befriend wild animals, like his son did with the Bunny. Allow the animal to come and go as it wishes, and never force it to do…

I compiled this month's #WordWeavers responses into a single blog post. Thanks for another fun month!
This month, I focused on the Duplicator, a goofy conspiracy theorist who hates the same government he used to work for. Also he can create copies of himself somehow. C…

#WordWeavers April 29: Who's feeling shame in your story? Is it justified?
I usually avoid passing judgement on my characters, but perhaps I'll make an exception this time.
No, I don't think the Duplicator's shame is justified. He entered politics with good intentions and did his best with the tools he had, even if he made mistakes along the way. He's holding his past self to …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13725 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Descriptive Complexity of Groups without Abelian Normal Subgroups
In this paper, we explore the descriptive complexity theory of finite groups by examining the power of the second Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé bijective pebble game in Hella's (Ann. Pure Appl. Log., 1989) heirarchy. This is a Spoiler-Duplicator game in which Spoiler can place up to two pebbles each round. While it trivially solves graph isomorphism, it may be nontrivial for finite groups, and other ternary relational structures. We first provide a novel generalization of Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) coloring…

#WordWeavers April 27: Who's blaming who in your story?
The Duplicator and his wife blame everyone in the story to varying degrees, other than their son. And yes, that includes themselves.
Interestingly, they receive relatively little blame in return. People see them as annoying but too misguided to do any real harm.

#WordWeavers April 21: If your MC's main skill evaporated, would they survive the story?
Yes.
But that's not the most interesting answer, so let's tweak the question.
Child: Hey Dad, I've been thinking. You know how we're gonna trick the Angel to get home?
Duplicator: Sure. What's up?
Child: I just, what if you didn't have your duplicates? Wouldn'…

#WordWeavers April 21: If your MC's main skill evaporated, would they survive the story?
Yes.
But that's not the most interesting answer, so let's tweak the question.
Child: Hey Dad, I've been thinking. You know how we're gonna trick the Angel to get home?
Duplicator: Sure. What's up?
Child: I just, what if you didn't have your duplicates? Wouldn'…

#WordWeavers April 20: Do you plan out your themes or allow them to develop as you write?
I don't usually think about themes. Perhaps if I did, it would be easier to write endings.
Thinking about it now, I would say the Duplicator's story features themes of distrust, subterfuge, and institutional power. I did knowingly add those things to the story, but only because they follo…

#WordWeavers April 7: What conflicts (internal and/or external, subtle or grand) are important in your story?
Can I count mysteries as a type of conflict? My story features a lot of them. Even in-universe, they're important. The Duplicator is racing to uncover what he believes to be a massive conspiracy, and if he's right, there are forces working to make sure no one figures it out.…