Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

#WritingWonders July 6: MC POV: Name one thing that is guaranteed to make you angry? Why?

"Angry? The cases that fall into, in our legal code, 'destructionism'.

"Why? Because I don't understand it.

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#WritingWonders July 8: What's your least favorite stage of writing a story? Why?

Not that it comes up a lot in the nanofic work that is my bread and butter, but filling in the intermediate details.

My muse is great at filling in the overall arc of the story and a whole bunch of great vignettes set here and there throughout it. Filling in all the gaps between them, though - that's where the "dragging ideas out of my brain with rusty razor wire" bit comes in.

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#WritingWonders July 5: Has your MC ever been involved in a physical altercation? If so, why?

Well, yes. It comes with the job, and so she's been specially trained in Constabulary martial arts, designed to hold and restrain without doing harm.

Most of the time, it's been to prevent people from hurting themselves, which pleases her. Otherwise - well, it's always a failure to have to use force as a poor substitute for authority.

But sometimes, despite everything, they run.

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For those curious, incidentally, the Code in question is Saravoné’s Code, seen here: https://eldraeverse.com/2012/04/03/saravones-code/ . It's not law itself, strictly speaking, but it remains an ethical core relied on by those who make laws and judgments.

(The earliest laws *there* originated with lawspeakers and wandering deemsters who followed Her.)

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