@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WordWeavers Oct. 15: What piece of backstory did you invent just for yourself that readers may never learn?
My WIP is based, as far as possible, on psychology and science so that's more a selection process than an invention so all I did was read about the brain and the development. I am not sure if that qualifies as backstory, though?
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WordWeavers Oct 14: If your MC could ask their future self one question, what would they ask?
Prefrontal Cortex watches their reflection in the mirror with unblinking concentration. 'One question only,' they say. 'Just one.'
The silence grows in the room until they put down the teacup, and look away from the strange mirror.
'From where you stand and to the be…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WordWeavers 13/10: What is something your MC would risk their life to protect but would struggle to explain why?
Protocol. Prefrontal Cortex won't be able to explain why it's so important, but they will go to great lengths to protect it.
You'd be amazed at what lengths the brain will go to protect itself and the meatwagon that carries it.
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience':
#thementalmansion
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WordWeavers 10/10: What is one thing your antagonist genuinely admires about your MC?
The question assumes there is an antagonist that can admire anything, when in reality an antagonist can be anything that works against the protagonist's main objective.
If the MC wants to sunbathe, the thunderstorm will be the antagonist.
In the Mansion, the characters themselves are of…