Scarlet Mitchell

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Throwback Thursday #writingq!

Location scout!

If you were to go anywhere in the world and spend some time exploring an area to help you write one of your stories...

Where would you go?

What would you hope to find out there?

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt

(I realize I jumped ahead here to tomorrow a bit because, truth is, I have no real idea how agriculture works cuz Ive only ever seen farms in pictures😅😅😅🤦‍♀️)

#FantasyIndies day 5 risks

#FantasyIndiesMarch

CurseWIP- Charlie is a risk-taker. Her first risk is climbing on a roof just to check the view😅

Fantasy- Shit, I must be obsessed with getting my FMC on a roof. Helena's first risk is climbing a building.

Talia's first risk is attacking her mugger.

... the odd poultice for aching muscles and to prevent infected scrapes.

There is a lively "alternative medicine" scene that is cobbled together from legitimate herbalism, pseudoscience, and snake-oil, as a means of escaping what is seen in some places as predatory medical practices (oh the irony.)

... will have access to those same pharmaceuticals, but it might be cheaper and easier to use home remedies for some things.

Most folks know their way around basic teas for minor pain, sinus issues, etc, and at least a few folks in the neighborhood are going to be adept with making...

#MarchWorldbuilders

It really depends on where you live and what you can afford.
On ships/stations, you generally have a stock of pharmaceuticals. These can occasionally be plant-derived, but they're bottles of pills and tubes of creams etc.
On planets, if you have any horticulture, you...

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As for mealworms?Vermiculture is a common minor industry on freespinning stations and even larger ships.

The diet of a miner in Valhalla's Kitchen will look distinctly different from the diet of a sedentary worlder on a breadbasket planet.

... you have a whole swarm of space-dwelling miners who spend half their life in zero-g on ships hunting down and extracting minerals and metals from asteroids and debris. These folks rarely see the surface of a planet, usually living the other half of their time on stations.

... among sedentary worlders, but are generally welcomed and appreciated.

I mentioned the debtors prison being a source of labor for the extensive recycling industry.

Also mentioned the mining communities, which is a whole subculture of its own. While you get miners on worlds with major seams...

... You can pay 10 guys to do the same labor as maintaining a machine for half the price in some places, so🤷‍♀️ why bother with too many fiddly machines.

You get a lot of migrant workers that travel from world to world for their interlocking harvest seasons.
These people can face a bit of prejudice...

... a primary business in the Commonwealth.

Gotta feed all of humanity. Where exactly would the only civilization in the universe import food from?😅

So you've got a lot of folks on the ground doing the labor. Yes, its advanced and theres lots of machines and tractors, but here's something,

...negotiations with the duck-farming conglomerate to exchange feed for fertilizer, while running their operations in a way that will safeguard the fertility and habitability of that world more carefully.
Usually.
Sometimes.
(Especially when civic orgs start having opinions.)

But agriculture is...

... take a birds eye view of a world or station set-up, they can plan how to most efficiently run an operation long term.
(Im not saying it's always to the benefit of the avg citizen😅).
But you'll get situations where the agro-corp on a bread-basket planet can engage in mutually beneficial...

#Marchistics

Agricultural tech and practices haven't changed much since Earth, but efforts are taken to preserve the environments where it takes place.
There is this arguable "benefit" 😬 of having the hand of empire regulating commercial practices.

When monopolies and joint ventures can...

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kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

#WIPSnips

Had a lot to choose from because death among hellions and angels is often referred to as destruction…

But here is part of the lecture Helena receives about the creation of Hell…

#Mudlarks

Ok, while I dont love the details Ive come up with, there might ne enough there to make the story and themes make sense.

Will cogitate for the next few days till I get another chance to write...

Bayle- Doing things. Fixing things. Solving problems. He loves being the guy you ask anything and he can make it work for you. He loves being the one who took care of every detail you see.

Talia- History/anthropology/bones is all too peopley for this question so… maybe… school, learning, uncovering new information.

Helena- Self-expression. She prioritizes her own vision over skill.

Nora- Trees. Especially her apple trees. Aside from her community, they are her home.

Jack- The Gods (ok, thats too people-like)… maybe how he feels in prayer or maybe his worldview. He cherishes how he sees the world and its magic.

Charlie- Adrenaline. Physicality. Doing something physically well. There’s something a little desperate about the joy she gets from movement.

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Charred pot residues reveal prehistoric Europeans' surprisingly complex cuisines Thousands of years ago, European communities used a variety of plant and animal products to create elaborate meals, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Lara González ...

Charred pot residues reveal prehistoric Europeans' surprisingly complex cuisines ⛏️🥘 phys.org/news/2026-03...

Yes! The fantasy first draft was fairly different. I consider the next draft to be a total rewrite; a new first draft.
MC Henrietta had very little distinct personality, and the story ended halfway through.

Helena got a name change, a different personality, and I think of her as a whole new MC.

#AwesomeCharacters

I can't recall doing this. Ive fully replaced characters that had a role in the story with new ones (even the MC one time!)
Ive switched characters and names around.
I've added characters and split roles.
I can't recall cutting a whole role from a story.

#MarchWorldbuilders

I want to talk about Blue Tufted Bitter Reed (coloquially known as Wildgrass).
But to do that, we need a history lesson. Ill try to keep it short.😅

Before the cataclysm that made Earth uninhabitable, at the very early stages of colonization in space, Proxima B...

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#indiepublishing #indieauthors

Im figuring its like, the odd little bugger in the engine room they can't quite find, or that little SoB that starts up the song of his people but only after you've switched off the lights and laid down on your bunk.

😌😌😠

Hey, in space, you dont have much room for single-use gadgets. 😹
Even your pets gotta have jobs!🥰

YouTube video by Alt Vault The Cranberries - Dreams | Live at Woodstock (1994)

Dolores O'Riordan was taken from us entirely too soon. The Cranberries put some great music out there in that time.

🎶 The Cranberries - Dreams | Live at Woodstock 🎶
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