@pharsicle Besutiful! My first thought was it looks like it’s wearing a kilt. Then I saw this…😂

@heidilifeldman I’m waiting for the people who cheerlead for 3D printed guns to call for restrictions on 3D printed whistles.

#WordWeavers Feb 7: What's the most rewarding thing about writing?

When someone tells me they liked enjoyed what I wrote.

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#WordWeavers day 7: What's the most rewarding thing about writing?

Getting to create an entire world and people, and even sometimes see them having fun in it.

#WordWeavers: What’s the most rewarding thing about writing?

It brings be pure joy in a form nothing else does.

#WordWeavers: 5. If you found out that someone had to live your MC’s life (like in the “Stranger than Fiction” movie), would you change the story?

Oof, that would be horrible! But, no, I wouldn’t change the story. Not because I’m cruel, but because of how my creative process works. My characters tell me the story, I’m more like a scribe. So, it’d be like writing a tough biography, but I wouldn’t change it.

‪It is rather beautiful here in Oulu 🇫🇮, right now. Absolutely no filters needed at all 🤌
-20°C, wind chill -28°C.

This is one of our main cycling and walking routes (#8) and here we have a 5 km stretch with ZERO at-grade crossings with motor traffic. I repeat, it's physically impossible to meet any motor traffic here. So it is very peaceful, safe and comfortable to ride and walk completely uninterrupted. Just bliss.

#Oulu #MeanwhileInOulu

@jfml @susankayequinn I’ve been looking into doing this too, but I don’t have any extra space to stare a large run of books.

I quite fancy not being sad or angry or frightened or anxious for a bit. We should give that a go. I reckon it would be really good.

@ami_angelwings 😂👍

@mguhlin Thanks! Hope you enjoy it!😊

@Bern @BranwenOShea @ElyseMGrasso We were told not to fix that, so we won't 😆 The bonus questions can transfer to the next month, so you can start thinking about them early, you can swap them for questions you don't like this month, answer them when you're bored or do anything else you can think of with them 😁

@AlinaLeonova @Bern @ElyseMGrasso 😂👍

@terminaltilt @normplum The difference is consent.

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy guaranteed human rights vs corporate rights

@ami_angelwings I read quickly and saw animal protagonist and was quite confused.😂

@ElyseMGrasso @AlinaLeonova This February’s card came out a little “special.”😂

#WordWeavers 3. Share a vivid sensory description from your story. What was writing it like?

my favourite sensory description is from early in the WIP, when Eleanor tries some of Lucifer's cooking for the first time. i was trying to imagine something like the best boeuf bourguignon you've ever tasted.

'[Eleanor] chewed quietly for a moment. At first the feeling was unremarkable. But gradually her little mouth began to come alive with a peculiar excitation she had not felt in years, a feeling she mistook at first for sorcery but which was really just the taste of food with an actual flavour in it. It was delightful; it was electrifying. She felt the sensation slowly building, spreading outward like the seeping of some invigorating potion, until her entire body seemed to brighten with the feeling. She peered down at her plate, the workings of her face and brow conveying some silent inward struggle, as if she were confused by the experience. My God, she thought—was this how food was supposed to taste?'

@ignova 🥹😭

#WordWeavers: 2. Do you enjoy writing "good", "bad" or morally gray characters more? Why?
I prefer writing good and morally grey, because it seems like there’s more internal conflict with those characters, and I enjoy writing characters who have to work through that conflict, one way or the other.