#WordWeavers day 25: If traumatic events happen, do your characters process it on page for longer than a chapter?
When traumatic events happen in real life, people rarely if ever get over them quickly. Sometimes they never finish processing it; it becomes something that haunts them for the rest of their lives. 1/3
That doesn't mean you need to make the rest of the story be about healing or recovering from the trauma, of course. You can have as much or as little of that as you like be shown on the page. 2/3
I doubt I'd ever have an entire chapter be about trauma recovery, all in one chunk. But I think I'd be even less likely to gloss over any serious trauma in such a short time, overall. In fact, I can easily see it cropping up literal years later (in story time), perhaps in a completely separate book if I were doing a series. 3/3
#WordWeavers day 26: What is your current project teaching you, craft-wise or personally?
How serious and large an undertaking writing an entire novel is. Holy shit.
I mean, I wasn't exactly taking it lightly; I didn't think it was going to be some teeny little thing I'd just dash off in a month or two. But damn, I really didn't expect it to be *this* big a project (especially considering how small a fraction of the way through it I am).
#WordWeavers day 27: Is it difficult for you if your partner or closest friends don’t enjoy books?
I truly can't say, because I'm pretty sure I've never had a partner who didn't like books, and if I've had a friend who didn't, it was so long ago that I can't remember (or they were so subtle about it that I never noticed, but I kind of doubt that).
#WordWeavers day 29: Have you ever written a pet into one of your stories?
Some of my characters do have pets, but I'm taking "written a pet into..." to mean "used a real-world pet as the template for one in a story". On that basis, no. My characters' pets are original, not based on any I've had or known in my life.
#WordWeavers day 30: If there were a party, would your MCs be the center of it or hiding in the corner?
It entirely depends on: the particular character; the party, including who else was there; and their mood.
Is that what the question meant? Then I answered wrong 😆
