Scarlet Mitchell
Writer in multiple genres (pen name of Kristine Page), eclectic pagan polytheist, Bowie fan, Aikidoka, cooking and baking, recently took up guitar, she/her
- Aikido is a real love of mine. Been at it for 12 years and it’s such a boon to my mental health and general quality of life.
- BlueSky and Sunday chores.🤣
- Ive touched on my mental health issues, and even got pretty personal with the fantasy… but apparently not personal enough, because the main plot of my current WIP digs even deeper in that same soil. The main plot involves my MC facing her fears, which are metaphors for my own.
- #QueerPrompts My current WIP, the MC is in a sapphic marriage and they have a child. Steady is “Mama” and her wife, Colleen is “Mommy”… Both are wonderful mothers, but Colleen homeschools Ruby. She is a very hard-working Mom, and Steady does all she can to make things easier for her.
- One thing I didn’t expect when I started my current project was the romantic sub-plot, or the personalities of my side-characters. I wasn’t anticipating my deuteragonist to get a crush on another side character. He is starting to come into his own, personality-wise.
- Which character surprised you the most as you wrote them, and why? In my previous WIP, Misha was supposed to be a con man, but I ended up seeing him as more regretful over his cons #WritingCommunity
- #WIPPIT Fears are a big theme in many of my works. In my latest, Steady is most afraid of being left alone. This has a huge effect on her in the climax, when she has to face a number of her fears all at once, all by herself.
- #MayThrills For as damages as Charlie is, she is extremely comfortable in her skin… physically. She is very body-centered, even a little feral. While she may occasionally feel slightly self-conscious of her severed arm, she is otherwise extremely confident of her body, its appearance and abilities.
- #FantasyIndies In TugboatWIP, children are told of monsters of the deep… deep-space that is. The dark between galaxies holds horrors that parents hint at, but rarely describe, letting children come up with their own monsters.
- Thinking about my grandma on Mother’s day. Every day I get older, the more I see her face in the mirror. Its humbling. She was a quiet, gentle woman who read like she expected to be the last repository of books in the world. (Extremely nearsighted and with one glass eye.)
- Most of my worlds are on the modern calendar. My sci-fi does still go by archeic, standardized Earth-based measurements of time in the space stations, but planets will have their own calendars, which require conversion charts for shipping and communication.
- Authors and Gamemasters, today's world building question! What type of calendar is used in your world? Lunar, solar, something entirely unique? #booksky #writing #ttrpg #writer #authors #gamemasters #worldbuilding #storydevelopment
