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QuokkaMocha
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Fiction writer, amateur artist. Writes mainly supernatural and crime fiction, some fantasy. Nominated for the 2010 Debut Dagger Award and Edgar Awards for Best Short Story (for a piece in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine). Currently working in TV subtitling / close captioning as a day job, and because I like doing something that helps people. Scottish, lived in CZ and London for a while, but back now in the Old Country. Diet #IrnBru drinker.

#PennedPossibilities 34 - a phrase to hear right now?

Alice - "Everything was real. Everything IS real."

Nat - "It was all a big mistake, you actually have no brothers! Let alone ones who are about to cause a riot in a 25,000 strong crowd!"

#PennedPossibilities Introvert or Extrovert?

Alice - Introvert, though as the eldest daughter and therefore mistress of her house, she does have to socialise to keep up appearances. She does not enjoy it and prefers being alone, or if she must have company, be it the company of younger people.

Nat - introverted unless he is with people of similar sympathies, then he can he outgoing, but generally no, he would prefer to keep in the background, in the quiet.

nostr:npub1k24sy39zjs7pccfcafcfghn0tcl96wht85tf7ygv3tv2cqa7kezqum26zw I have this to do on Thursday. I think most of the stuff from my grandparents and great grandparents is in the wardrobe in the spare room. But already, I've found so much stuff. right now I'm just boxing to look through it later as the house needs sold pronto, but I find that stuff so odd, because there's a connection but I never knew most of these people, or didn't know them long. Hope all goes well, and you don't get any trouble! 😲

#WritingWonders Art of your side characters

This is the only one I have, and it’s a very scrappy thing I did at about 4am one night. This is Mr Joshua Chapel, though he insists it’s pronounced “chapelle”. Owner of Chapel & Sons Hatmakers, Milliners and Feltmakers of the West Bow, Edinburgh. One of the “& Sons” is one of my MCs. #writing #art #digitalart #writingcommunity

#PennedPossibilities 31 - is the world better or worse than when the MCs were young?

Both. (It's 1886 now). Many houses now have gas lighting and indoor plumbing, the railways have reshaped the economy, changed which goods are available where, things from all over the country and Empire. After protests and a sporadic start, the Industrial Revolution is now fully underway, but with that comes pollution, there is still war and strict societal rules.

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