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#WordWeavers Mar 2: Is your MC a picky eater? What are their preferences?

Nah. The arcology where she grew up was constantly rotating through what all the parents and aunties and uncles like to cook, so she's eaten absolutely everything from everywhere. She probably leans towards Thai and Chinese dishes, but she's omnivorous. (Real Chinese food. Not restaurant stuff made for white people.)

#WordWeavers Mar 3. MC POV: You get to spend a fun night out with anyone. Who do you choose and where do you go?

"We used to, back home, we used to have races to see who could get to, like, the top floor of the industrial section or the north-east bus pad the fastest. You had to start at one spot and run in opposite directions down the halls. It was so much fun.

"I miss home so much."

#WordWeavers March 4: How much does money matter for your antagonist?

it's a means to an end. It get her the resources and facilities that she needs in order to support her mission.

#WordWeavers Mar 5: What social classes do your MC and antagonist belong to?

My protagonist is part of an anarcho-syndicalist collective, but they live in luxury, so I'll let you can parse that on your own. My antagonist is the de facto leader of a paramilitary cult, so I'm not sure where to place her either.

#WordWeavers Mar 6 Are any of your characters trying to change the world?

yes, in the sense that there's a whole "rebel" faction that wants to take down the horrific murder-cult that abducted them, but real *change* doesn't happen until right at the end.

#WordWeavers March 7 - Which one of your characters is in the safest situation?

River, my hippie girl. She's a pacifist, so she peaced out (ha! literally) of the whole situation. "Love you guys, but I'm going home..."

#WordWeavers Mar 8: Which one of your characters is in the least safe situation?

Brant. He's doing the EVA part of the assault. Poor schmuck oh no I have to kill him.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.

#WordWeavers Mar 9: Could you survive a day in your MC's shoes?

One day? Maybe. But not much more. She gets into fight with people who have super powers.

#Wordweavers Mar 10: What is the most useful skill your SC has?

He's really funny. He doesn't mean to be, so he's not always happy about being the funny one, but he's a ray of light in an otherwise bleak situation.

#WordWeavers Mar 11: What’s your most useful skill that could help you in your story’s world?

Social organizing. They're anarcho-syndicalists.

#WordWeavers Mar 12: Do your MCs love the spotlight or try to pass unnoticed?

One of them *yearns* to be noticed, to have the love of a crowd. One of them loves being regarded as the best at what she does. One of them is indifferent to that kind of attention. One of them doesn't want it, would like to be left alone with a book.

#WordWeavers Mar 14: Antagonist POV: Do you want to be perceived as “good?”

"I do not want to be perceived at all. Our mission is not to be known. If we succeed, no one will know we were here."

#WordWeavers Mar 15: If your SC found a wallet full of money, what would they do with it?

"Hey, look at this!"

"What is that?"

"It's *money*. This is what it used to look like."

"Weird. It's like paper?"

"I guess. Who's face is that?"

"I don't know. She looks mean, though."

(NB: Canadian money has the Queen's face on it.)

#WordWeavers Mar 16: If someone reads your book in the far future, would they identify themes relevant to our time?

It's about mental health, police violence, and the environmental crisis. So. Yeah.

#WordWeavers Mar 17: How organized are your characters?

I've divided them into dominant personality traits in a way that makes them bounce of each other: the shy one, the brash one, the moral one, the leader-type. That's how they're organized in the story.

(I know that's not what the question is asking.)

#WordWeavers Mar 18: Is there a connection between how you write (plotter vs pantser) and how your MCs deal with their goals?

Sure, it's that I know what kind of people they are and how they'll solve problems, but I don't set up their actual solutions until I'm in the moment of writing a scene. My climaxes are typically almost entirely improvised. My writing buddy pointed out that this is most definitely a result of a lifetime of playing D&D. :)

#WordWeavers Mar 19: What role does writing have in your life? Is it for fun, therapeutic, work, or something else?

Writing is a huge part of my job--research professor and writing instructor--but my creative writing is mostly "therapeutic" in the sense that I'm just a happier person when I'm engaged in the specific kind of problem-solving that's necessary for writing.

#WordWeavers Mar 20: If you could never sell books, but could still share them with readers, would you continue writing? Why?

I'm very lucky to be full-time employed (for now!), so I *do* write for no money right now, and I'd be delighted if people just read them.

#WordWeavers Mar 21: A tornado is on the horizon. Do your MCs find a basement or storm chase?

Three of them have to convince the fourth to bunker down.

#WordWeavers Mar 22. How impulsive is your MC? Does this affect the plot?

She's mouthy--but like a mouthy ninja who strikes only when people be the most emotionally demolished by it--and ashe doesn't learn to control it for the first *many* chapters, and it sours people in authority on her but endears her friends to her. So yeah, pretty plot-relevant.

#WordWeavers Mar 23 - If their story goal was no longer an issue, what would your antagonist do?

Their story is they want to go home, and they are prevented from going home, so they'd go home.

#WordWeavers Mar 24: Share the worldbuilding fact you’re most proud of.

Honestly, it's barely in the book, but I can't stop thinking about a megalopolis made of #AnarchoSyndicalist archologies! It's my happy place.

#WordWeavers Mar 25: Is the way your MC presents themselves their true self, or are they hiding a lot?

She is who she is. She wasn't raised to pretend to be anything else. Being abducted into a cult forced her to learn.

#WordWeavers Mar 26: Is there live theater in your world? Do your characters engage with it?

Presumably, yes, but it hasn't come up.

#WordWeavers Mar 27: What small precious memento does a character keep on their person? What makes it precious?

She didn't manage to keep a hold of all her stuff. She was abducted in the middle of the night, grabbed what she could, and then slowly lost it all.

#WordWeavers Mar 29: What superpower would best suit your MCs, in the context of their story?

They already have super powers.

Of course, those powers also drive them towards psychopathy.

It's the force. They have the force.

#WordWeavers Mar 30: What do your characters get nostalgic about? What triggers that?

They get pretty emotional about the homes they were stolen from.

#WordWeavers Mar 31: SC POV: What's your idea of a romantic evening?

"Um. Read?"