Catch up (Ketchup Cold Spicy Tomato Sauce KCSTC🤔)
01.-03.09.2025

and I cheat directly on the first one
1. Introduce your writing to a stranger using just 5 words.

StarRyde The DNF* of writing.

2. Look at 3 random responses from yesterday and see if there’s a story you’d like to read. Share it.

And skip the second one because time restraints.

3. Do your protagonists deserve a happily-ever-after? Why/why not? Will they get one?

We will see.
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*Duke Nukem Forever also called Does never finish and as it did it just ... Didn't ...
older gamers may know.

#WordWeavers 03.09.2025 #StarRyde #Writing #SciFi #WIP

04.09.2025
Compare your MC at the beginning and the end of the story. What changed? What’s the same?

Kira is 16. A trainee at the Alliance Academy with some typical and absolutely not so typical problems of a 16 year old, daughter of a Minister in galactic politics.

Kira at the End is probably 40 (currently 35). Captain of a crew and high ranking member of a military half shady special force, permanently linked with the Ships AI and a Veteran of Galactic War and interplanetary Law Enforcement in a relationship with her FC.

Arkham is the youngest Flight Commander (FC) and best pilot the Alliance has produced, not interested in Romance or anything else than piloting.
At the end she is in a relationship with the Captain and best friend with the AI that is linked to the Captain.

A.S.H.L.E.I. ist the Ghoz'Tarc's AI programmed to serve the crew and protect them.
Ash at the end is a sentient person with a female self identificationand more.

#WordWeavers 04.09.2025 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

05.09.2025
Have you made 11th hour additions to your cast? Who was it, and what led to that decision?

Meet Maden Rino, i made them right now for the answer.
She is mother of 12 beautiful children
4 boys 5 girls and 3 non binary ones they are each a year apart and the oldest is 18. She is only biological mother of 3 of them the others are adopted. She runs the the cities best convenience store 25/8.
She lives with her non binary partner in an apartment in Echolon Heights.
In Muldosa on Karentra 5.

I game master RPGs of course I have made up characters on the spot, or on the 11 hour (a phrasing I never heard before) as at quarter to 12, 5 to 12 and even 20 past 12.
Throw me 3 things, I throw you a character.

For Star Ryde I am not even close to twelve maybe 1 am if we talk a 12/12 clock and twelve is PM.

#WordWeavers 05.09.2025 #writing #TTRPG #GameMaster #DungeonMaster

06.09.2025
Describe the most unusual/intriguing marketing opportunity you've encountered.

Can't say I have because I haven't released anything but what do you folks think of printing novels or books on toilet paper?
If we can make toilet paper look like money notes it surely should be possible to print text on it.
Hand them over to bars, restaurants of shopping centers. Everyone needs to wipe so possible target market 95% I would guess.
I mean ...
Wait I'm on to something...
Instead of of printing money or stories onto toilet paper let us print politicians and billionaires onto that.
Together with a description what they have done.
But I fear the US can't be properly marketed do to that flimsy stuff they call toilet paper and their inferior pipe size that can't handle European butt and groin wipers (search for story's about horrible European encounters with American Toilets if interested).

Great start into the Saturday... Toiletpapercism...

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07.09.2025
What is your MC's earliest memory?

1/2
Kira has fond memories of Thunderstorms, as she was born a thunderstorm knocked out the power grid of the colony she was born in. The night was worthy of some horror scenes but Kira after screaming for quite some time seemed to enjoy the rain hitting the windows being carried around by her parents and the birth helper in the light of candles.
The sound of rain and wind relax her to this day even if she doesn't know why she likes Thunderstorms so much same with the light of candles.

Arkham earliest memories are her mother screaming at her father that he is to lazy with her, not challenging her enough and that Arkham would have been way better already if her mother only was allowed to raise her in her own way without his interference.
She still remembers her hands grabbing onto the fabric of his pants as she hid behind him. His hand on her head.

Ashlei remembers ➡️
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2/2
⬅️ her first successful start.
Unlike LLM that aren't real artificial intelligences A.S.H.L.E.I. has a fully fletched Hardware system behind her that was especially designed to run her program.
Her first remembered activation was led by the R&D team, the first Voice she ever heard was the voice of "her Mother" the lead scientist & visionary that was the driving force behind the project. For a biological entity it would have been a horrible moment, since she woke up completely self aware & with all the knowledge programmed into her. The first words that where spoken to her where: "Ashlei are you their?" Ash instantly recognized the gentle voice & "felt" welcomed. To not freak out the researchers she copied the speech pattern of the speaking woman & modified her voice with an digital undertone. I didn't worked that well, she could tell from the raised heart rates in the room.
She tried to correct it but was taken offline.

#WordWeavers 07.09.2025 #StarRyde #Ashlei #Writing #SciFi #WIP

08.09.2025
MC POV: What can't you accept?

Kira: "War and everything around it, people not working together. No matter the species, or variant of your species, we all want to live happily and mostly stress free. For this it's important that we work together and accept each other. Terra almost died do to our species ancestors Idiocracy. I know the Union isn't perfect no democracy ever is because it's flawed by design but it also has to to provide enough freedom for individuals and learning not only from the history but actual development, it's the only form that grants everyone of us at least the most basic equal sentient rights.
Personally I don't know why we deal with an oppression based System like the Betosians but they are our allies after all and core members of the Union. I still hope that we can find a solution for a better treatment of male Betosians, maybe we can rise their birthrate to a sustainable level that would ➡️

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⬅️ 2/2 Allow them to not be treated like a prized possession. But I don't live in a society where males are outnumbered 1 to 999...
About the BIG war ... I still hope that there is a peaceful solution for the Eltaryn situation. It must be some sort of misunderstanding, there must be a reason why they attack all of us.

Arkham: "Don't get me started, I have a peaceful live carrying around stuff I can change like getting the crew from a to b and I don't like talking politics or society... A lot of people today are still emotional, social or empathetic wise trash and I leave it there."

Ashlei: "I am not programmed to have such strong emotions or opinions. But I am programmed with a moral code that aims at preventing damage from biological entities and the opinions of the Captain have influenced me since our merge. For that I am thankful and see it like the Captain. We need to stop suffering favorable by education."

#WordWeavers 08.09.2025 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

09.09.2025
Do you have a favorite among your cast of characters?

This switches from time to time depending on which character I spent the time on most recently.
In case of my SciFi WIP it's the Ice queen for the moment because I spent the weekend developing her motivations etc, now I have at least a spin off short story if not a whole chapter or book in mind..., in DND it's Shera short She a Raven animal companion so far but way more under the surface together with Za'el my recent character.
In Fallout it's Candy who I adore despite being a cannibal and a psycho raider she cares lovely for her adopted daughter and actually helps people by producing medicine.
And than there is Anna who was first only an attempt of RoboCop×Terminator meets Fallout who sort of became my avatar in more than one way.
I miss my older DND characters Ja'zia a drow bard or Tembra my werebear barbarian.
Not to mention all my other characters.😅

#WordWeavers 09.09.2025 #writing #Story #RPG

And because it is after 2 am here my brains starts doing weird stuff.

Imagine a press company run by rodents and other tiny cute creatures, mice who set the letters, peacocks who argue about the colors, like a Willy Wonka chocolate fabrication but for books, texts of all sort. Chinchillas hopping onto the press. Squirrels and Rats helping binding the books.
Paper production and the company being run by a group of beavers.

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