#WordWeavers Oct 22
Share a sentence from your WIP that you're especially proud of
I can never decide, but came across this one while editing this morning:
Far to the west, a series of loud explosions broke the silence and my heart.
#ScribesAndMakers Oct 21
How cerebral do you consider your creative work?
Deep topics are touched on, as I enjoy them, but I try to make the books entertaining first & foremost. I suppose they'd fall somewhere in the middle of the curve.
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#WordWeavers Oct 18
Line from WIP where a character is lying. Do they get away with it?
Not forever.
“‘What about your friend?’” I asked. “‘The shadow mage following?’”
“I’d no idea he was there. You can’t see them.”
He’d stopped sweating. Eliam Finnegan seemed an accomplished liar. Quite comfortable, once he’d decided on a track. He couldn’t lie to me, exactly, but he could choose his words.
“‘Did you know him?’”
Eliam considered his response. “It’s possible. I had many business contacts.”
#WordWeavers Oct 17
What is the worst possible first impression someone could get of your MC? Would it be accurate?
That she is evil, scary, & out to dominate them.
Maggie isn't evil. She can be scary but usually doesn't want to be. She only tries to dominate those who pose a danger to her people, to get the truth out of them.
#ScribesAndMakers Oct 16
Do you feel you do your best creative work completely solitary, working collaboratively with one or more people, or working near but not with other people?
I'm a solitary writer, but I do collaborate with an editor later. That works best for me.
#WordWeavers Oct 15
What piece of backstory did you invent just for yourself that readers may never learn?
Can't recall doing this for character backstories.
I do have thoughts on ethnicities within populations which I tend not to delve into as they don't carry the same importance as in our world. Also linguistics, which I had to limit to only a couple of sentences. A lot of world details aren't critical to the stories being told.
#ScribesAndMakers Oct 15
How confident are you feeling about your work today?
Today is more editing, which I'm pretty confident about.
#WordWeavers Oct 14
If your MC could ask their future self one question, what would they ask?
"Did he ever come back?"
#ScribesAndMakers Oct 14
How do you feel when a show that is non-musical inserts an episode with a musical number?
I think it's good fun. Nobody expects high art from that, I wouldn't think. A couple of my favorite shows--Buffy & the Magicians--did this & I enjoyed it.
"Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!" (Sorry, I'll leave now)
Escape to the improbable world of Ardonna 🌳 🌲
A new chapter of Season of the Bluebonnets BOOK I is now live: https://crcollins.org/2026/10/14/year-1-month-6-day-3-afternoon/
Read from start: https://crcollins.org/2026/08/26/welcome-to-the-world-of-ardonna/
More info: https://crcollins.org/season-of-the-bluebonnets/
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#Spooktober Oct 13
What are some songs for a spooky playlist?
Ghostbusters
Werewolves of London
Monster Mash
#ScribesAndMakers Oct 13
Schadenfreude?
Well, I'm seeing Russia lost a good percentage of its bot farms this week 😆
So, from perusing my feed this morning, the topic of #today seems to be people returning to "X"? I'll never get this. Never liked that platform back when it was Twitter, never had much of a following, or interesting interactions. Many folks were just nasty. I left prior to Musk & deleted my acct after he took over.
Mastodon has been my best social media experience. I have way more interesting conversations & online friends here than I got anywhere else. Am I odd in this respect?
#WordWeavers Oct 12
Which relationship in your story changed the most from what you originally planned?
I never have firm, set-in-stone plans, but my favorite story about this happening concerns my favorite romantic couple: Beau & Zag Dovlin.
They were originally 2 of the MC's best friends who didn't get along very well, then, one day, I was just typing a paragraph & a line popped out suggesting something more between them--completely unexpected. I liked it & ran with it.
#ScribesAndMakers Oct 12
Do you ever talk to people in song lyrics?
Not that I can recall. 🤔
If we're talking about characters in my books, they don't either, though they've been known to sing. They're all songs written by my characters (so by me) & therefore not subject to any copyright concerns.
#ScribesAndMakers Oct 11
Is there a word whose meaning is benign that still grates on you for some reason?
Lately, it's "super." As in "super intelligence." 🤮
#WordWeavers Oct 11
Passage where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
The fog was far more dangerous. It made it near impossible to navigate. Jez and Pentiere attempted to lead, but the wind brought back silence. The pair threw blasts, while water adepts leached out moisture. In some places, this worked: the veils proved thinner. We glimpsed the sun or moons and got some idea of how fucked we were.
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