#WordWeavers 7/16 SC POV: What do you do to calm down when you're angry?
Chestef:
When I get angry I yell and stomp the ground and Baba makes me go pull weeds. Ey says that if I have to be angry and I can 'put that current to good use'.
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#WordWeavers Day 16: SC POV: What do you do to calm down when you’re angry?
Mary Ann Dixon--cry and slam doors. Listen to Elvis Presley records.
#wordweavers SC pov: what do you do to calm down when you're angry?
Shadi: *leaves the room*
#WordWeavers July 15. How emotionally intelligent is your MC?
Franz-Karl is a child who has been - essentially - a political prisoner for his entire life. And when he looks at someone who is fibbing or is a habitual fibber, he sees moving marks on their faces.
I am not sure how his ways of dealing with people correlate with the buzz words defined by a trendy 20th century self-help book.
#WordWeavers 15: How emotionally intelligent is your MC?
note that being 'emotionally intelligent' is not the same as being good. Lucifer knows her own vices and is at peace with them; she recognizes emotions and does not throw tantrums when something upsets her. this doesn't stop her from making selfish or manipulative choices, however.
Eleanor demonstrates EI by recognizing her emotions, and allowing herself to feel them. but she does have trouble showing anger. there is heavy social pressure to be grateful, even for a family that mistreats her. she will learn to express this anger eventually.
#WordWeavers Jul 15: How emotionally intelligent is your MC?
Carlton Dixon--about what you'd expect of a man. He's been through a lot and that's clouded his vision of others and their motives.
Merrilyn Beck--recognizes her emotional responses are messed up but doesn't realize why
Cassie--is a teenager. Very self-centered but not in a mean way.
#WordWeavers 15. How emotionally intelligent is your MC?
Lefeng has moderate emotional intelligence. Ey is not very self-reflective, but enough long walks will teach anyone something about how their emotions work, if they are willing to pay attention. Ey can usually recognize how others are feeling, but can't always understand why they feel that way or know how best to respond.
#WordWeavers 15. How emotionally intelligent is your MC?
High in some ways, lower in others. He knows how to follow his dreams and how to be friendly with almost anyone, but finding a compatible life partner took a stroke of Protagonist luck.
#WordWeavers 15Jul—How emotionally intelligent is your MC?
More than he lets on; he's had to be. He doesn't come off as particularly empathetic but he gets how people work.
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#ScribesAndMakers 14 July. Also related to the #WordWeavers 12 Jul prompt about self-promo comfort because I'm unreasonably proud of myself for posting ir. I was offline all wknd & always have to fight the sense I haven't Contributed Enough to justify promo.
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#WordWeavers 7/14: What’s your favorite format to release your work (ebook, paperback, audiobook, etc.)? Why?
Everything gets released in ebook, novellas and longer also get paperback version.
Rai and I tried doing audio versions as a podcast for a while, which was awesome, but couldn't afford the hosting fees long term.
I'd love to do a proper audiobook eventually...
#WordWeavers 7/14: What’s your favorite format to release your work (ebook, paperback, audiobook, etc.)? Why?
I don't really have preferences. I know ebooks are here to stay so I know I'll always want mine published in that format. But I really want a physical book to hold in my hand, and paperbacks usually run cheaper, os I suppose that another format I'll always want.
#WordWeavers July 14: What’s your favorite format to release your work (ebook, paperback, audiobook, etc.)? Why?
My books are only available as ebooks. The reason -- when I published the first three, I couldn't afford ISBNs and ebooks didn't need them. I didn't know there were other ways...
And then, since I was doing fine sales-wise with ebooks, I was (and am) too lazy to bother with print.
#WordWeavers July 14: What’s your favorite format to release your work (ebook, paperback, audiobook, etc.)? Why?
I have been told my books read best in print form and I agree, even though I primarily read ebooks.
#WordWeavers 14. What’s your favorite format to release your work (ebook, paperback, audiobook, etc.)? Why?
I love physical books: I made a point of doing a nice design for the interiors of the paperback editions of my books. (I took a course on the history of books and printing in college and have returned to the topic over the decades.)
But what I myself read (and have read almost exclusively for a number of years now) is ebooks. So the ebook releases come first.
Audio puts me to sleep.
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#WordWeavers 7.10 — You have to leave Earth, and you can only immigrate to one of the settings you’ve written. Where do you go?
That I've written? That's a toughie because most of them are doomed or have something wrong with them. LOL.
Like, the New Revival Era or The Second Renaissance from "Navigator" would be good, especially the latter with the Travelers around. I'm pretty sure I can convince them to let me use their "New-U" station or whatever.
#WordWeavers 7/13
Do you regularly write reviews of others' work or promote them?
I promote as in link/forward/share to new book releases/events/awards for people I know. Not so much for strangers.
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#WordWeavers 13 Continued.
I post a bit more frequently about what I read on a French Discord server about books, which also helps me to practice my French. But it's a constant challenge, something I keep having to make myself do. It doesn't come naturally at all to me to talk about what I read, at least not on social media and with complete strangers.
#WordWeavers 13 Do you regularly write reviews of others' work or promote them?
I'm terrible at writing reviews, and I keep meaning to post about the books I read and then never do. Sometimes I forget, or can't think of what to say, and then days go by and suddenly it no longer seems relevant anymore.
Maybe it's because I don't have anyone to talk *to* about what I read, and just throwing my thoughts out there into the void doesn't feel the same.
I'm just terrible at being social in general.