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Annica 🇸🇪

@nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy

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SWE: Journalist och författare som försöker förstå sin samtid och sin omgivning. Inte särskilt bråkig. Ganska glömsk. ENG: Journalist and author trying to understand […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.nu/@nemorosa, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 11 Oct: What's a turn of phrase you've 'inherited' from someone else? My brain is like a tombola. Stuff goes in, gets tossed around, and something falls out that may look familiar. I rarely know where it came from, I just fall in love with something and adopt it. After […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters. This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience': #thementalmansion

‘Oh! Oh, this one. This one’s a beauty. Hold on, don’t breathe too loudly, it’s delicate.’
They lift a dream that glows colder than the others. The moment it rises from the chest, the air around you cools, and the shadows shimmer as though dusted with frost.
The cloud unfurls, slow and reverent.
You’re standing in a winter night so still it feels enchanted. Moonlight glistens on untouched snow, each crystal catching the light like a tiny star. The trees are coated in frost, their branches glittering as though dipped in silver. Your path home stretches ahead, glowing faintly, a pale ribbon through a galaxy of frozen sparks.
The snow muffles every sound. The cold steals every scent. And in that silence, the world feels impossibly vast and impossibly gentle.
You remember the way your breath hung in the air like a ghost. The night wrapped around you, making you slow your steps, just to stay in it a little longer.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1152: "MC POV: A time you ran out of options was…" 'I don't run out of options,' Prefrontal Cortex shifts uneasily in the armchair, 'but not all options are good. Sometimes, all you have are bad options and poor solutions, but you are rarely out of options completely.' They […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 11. Is there a word whose meaning is benign that still grates on you for some reason? That depends entirely on context, I have my pet peeves when it comes to my own writing (not so much when it comes to others'). I avoid 'suddenly' after a prolonged period of overusing the […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 10. Do you have a guiding principle as a writer? What is it? (Or why not?) I don't think I've consciously formulated a guiding principle, but looking at how I write, perhaps it's this: trust the reader. I don't want to explain everything, tell people what to feel, or insist […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#WordWeavers 10/10: What is one thing your antagonist genuinely admires about your MC? The question assumes there is an antagonist that can admire anything, when in reality an antagonist can be anything that works against the protagonist's main objective. If the MC wants to sunbathe, the […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 151: What is your MC’s relationship to what modern society considers the paranormal or supernatural? Prefrontal Cortex is mostly concerned with if it can be categorised, entered into a spreadsheet, or labelled. There are others in the Mansion who would want to voice their […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 9. How does your own sense of mortality influence what you write? I am writing the human condition, strictly from my POV. Life is finite, this ride is going to end one day? Absolutely a part of the story. Death, as grim as it is, has a presence. I am, after all, not immortal […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#WordWeavers 10/9 Your MC finds a letter addressed to them that was never meant to be delivered. Who wrote it and what does it say? To Prefrontal Cortex: "I'm sorry for putting you through hell. I didn't mean to." /The Observer

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1150: What’s your favorite under-appreciated novel? That depends on who's doing the appreciating, doesn't it? I could name Neuromancer, Dune, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Jingo, but I'd be chased out of the room for calling them under-appreciated. Under the North […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 10/9: How full is your glass? That depends on which glass we're talking about. The one I'm having now, precious glasses, or future glasses. I'm trying very hard to not lock my mindset down in a single set of rules. I can think of few things that are more damaging to the […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Ok, this was more fun than I realised. I used to draw a lot earlier in life. Then life happened. I lost touch with the craft. And now life has happened again. Strange how things just ... happen. #drawing

A blank page. A carefully drawn rectangle. A ruler, a pencil, an eraser, a craft knife.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#writersCoffeeClub 8. Tell us about someone who supports you on the sidelines. My husband. What he means to me, to my process, and my peace of mind cannot be explained. He is my refuge when the process has been mean to me, and the one I turn to when I want to celebrate. When my mind is tangled […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#WordWeavers 8. Which character is most likely to make a terrible decision for a very good reason? I love this question! Prefrontal Cortex is the undisputed champion of good reasons. Incidentally, they're also the heavyweight champion in terrible decisions. To be fair; decisions is their […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1149¾: Bonus Question: If your character is ill, who would care for them? Would they provide good care? The Mansion would look after Prefrontal Cortex with tremendous enthusiasm, considerable affection, and almost no medical competence whatsoever. A real doctor would be […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 8: Our next featured creator is a poet, potter, author, and crafter. Do you engage in multiple creative activities or stick to one? I play wherever creativity let me; music, paintings, drawings, poetry, and prose. I don't do it because I think I am good at it, but because […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A small sleeping rodent. First a fish, now a sleeping rodent. The news never stops.

A drawing of a small sleeping rodent.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 7: Does your editing process tend towards addition or reduction? That depends entirely on when you ask. The first few rounds are mostly about adding the things I skipped behind [ADD THIS LATER]. But once that's done, it's trimming, trimming, trimming.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#WordWeavers Oct 7: Share a line of dialogue that tells us everything we need to know about a character's personality. This is from quite early in my upcoming book 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience': #writersofmastodon #author

“The ghosts are nothing but figments of your imagination, I tell you,’ Prefrontal
Cortex declares confidently and raises their voice a modicum so that they are heard all over
the Mansion. ‘They are fantasies, they can’t hurt any of you.”

A memo rattles through a pneumatic tube clinging to the walls of the office and
materialises on Amygdala’s desk with a burp, signed The Gut Staff.

Bollocks. /TGS

Prefrontal Cortex picks the note up. Frowns, eyes momentarily lost to the ceiling
cornices, contemplating the collapse of civilised memo etiquette. ‘Unfiltered notices?
Really Gut? Didn't we discuss this?"

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1149 Your MC/MCs come across some spooky scary skeletons... What's next? H: I was told we had the ghosts well in hand? Pfc: This isn't ghosts. H: They sit on the same shelves in the Library. Pfc: That doesn't— H: We save time classifying things this way. Pfc: You don't […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 7 Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose. Expensive outfits nice and loose, it doesn't matter what you choose, underneath the brilliant hues, a goose is still a goose.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 6: What might an inattentive reader miss in your work? Plenty. That's on purpose. Otherwise, why would you read it more than once?

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#WordWeavers Oct 6. What is considered completely normal in your story's world that would seem bizarre to us? Runts. Small, annoying Runts. Some are ratlike animals, others look like an unfortunate hybrid between a raccoon and a porcupine with a t-shirt and sneakers. They are sticky, steal […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1149: Think of a choice your MC made. How did it lead to where and who they are now? They are alive, for starters. That's pretty amazing, all things considered.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 6: On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story? There is no straight answer to that, in my opinion. That can vary wildly, depending on what the story needs, what kind of story it is and what its purpose is.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 5 October. What haunts the narrative of your current work? My concept (a satirical look at the brain as a haunted mansion) is full of ghosts. The question is how the staff can keep doing their jobs, even as the Mansion is haunted and the lights flicker. What does it take to […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#WordWeavers 5/10: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos? I think the Mansion staff had better stick to their jobs. The brain is incredibly malleable, and regions can, in some cases, adapt to perform functions they weren't originally assigned […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1148: Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write? I write humour and fantasy, and I try my hand at science fiction and horror. And I overwhelmingly prefer those exact genres when I read.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 10/5. Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it has taken you to complete a project? Years. I can't be more exact because the oldest project of mine began in the early 1990s and ended a few years ago, and at the time I didn't really react. I was numb. Stunned that I'd […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 3: How do you feel about spoilers? Some things are meant to be revealed at the moment you read them; otherwise, it's a ticking clock (entirely different—and useful—technique). Preferably, I want the reader to look back after a reveal and see a wholly different pattern […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#WordWeavers 2. Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves? That is a hard question because the MC doesn't know themselves as good as they think they do, and almost everyone in The Mansion know them very well. I'm almost inclined to say 'Who doesn't know them better than […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1146 Does romance ever feature in your work? Not in my WIP, how'd that even work? We're inside a brain in my WIP. In other stories, I do write about romance. It's usually a part of the human condition, to be infatuated, enamoured, becharmed, or smitten by someone. But it […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 3. Is there a common thread throughout your creative work (apart from the fact that you created it)? I don't know, really. Maybe not. Or, if there is, I can't see it right now. I paint (mostly cats). I play music (mostly piano). I write stories (satire, fantasy, science […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 1: What are you hoping to achieve this month? Can I dream big? Yes? Typesetting is done, I find no spelling mistakes or errors, the cover fits, and I don't have a nervous breakdown when I see the final result.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#WordWeavers 9/30: What stereotypes do your MCs deal with in their world? This one made me realise that my MC doesn't really deal with stereotypes in the conventional sense. The Mansion is populated by personified brain functions, so everyone has very strong expectations about everyone else's […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1144 Is there a story behind your MC’s name? Prefrontal cortex basically means: “the outer layer at the front of the frontal region.” Frontal comes from Latin frons/frontis, meaning the forehead/front. Pre- means before. Cortex is Latin for bark/rind—the outer covering […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 1 Draw a fish and share it. (It doesn't have to be brilliant.) Never drawn a fish before!

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 29 Sep: Talk about something with your work this month you're really proud of. There will be a book. The very thought scares me, and I am proud, but also terrified. I've taken steps now that I can't take back. I'm proud that I did that.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

#WordWeavers 29 Sep: Is your character more likely to enjoy a sunrise or sunset, and why? Which one of them? Because this question could start a fight in The Mansion: Hippocampus stands by the sunrise and Ventral Striatum by the sunset, and Herr Cingulate, Anterior Division, has enough conflict […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1142: Does your MC care about vanity and their image? Nope, they're all about procedure and regulation, and image and vanity aren't measurable metrics on their clipboard. My side character Ventral Striatum, the Goddess of Desire, on the other hand, cares a great deal. She […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 29 Sep: What fruit do you like best for a still life? I've only tried apples, so I don't know whether I would prefer peaches, grapes, or bananas.

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Quo usque tandem-cykel📎 @jdskog.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

"Oh, we're halfway dead, oh, livin on the prairie Take my hand, we're naked and scared. Oh, livin on the prairie."

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

#ScribesAndMakers Day 28: How satisfied are you with the creative work you've done this month? I've finally made time for painting again, tiny miniatures and cats in acrylic. To someone with skill, it probably looks terrible but it's mine, and I'm proud. I've failed utterly at the piano, but I […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

#writersCoffeeClub 9/28: Could you work without the internet? What would change? Do you mean like I did before the Internet? I'd be a regular at the library again. And yes, younglings, I realise I just made myself sound ancient.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

#WordWeavers 28 Sep Tell us about your MC’s religious or spiritual beliefs Prefrontal Cortex is about as spiritual as a Rolodex. They believe in protocol, order, and procedure. In their opinion, everything can be solved by thinking things through and consulting the clipboard.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1141: Does your antagonist personally know your MC? Have they ever met? This question assumes that the antagonist is, in fact, a person. The question has merit, though; I've anthropomorphised several other things in the mind, just not the main antagonist. For good reasons […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

This is what I am doing when I don't write. They're so tiny! I've got a few larger, like an owlbear, but most are tiny. This is one thing I can't do if over-caffeinated.

Six images of very small miniatures.

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

What is your cure for getting out of a creative slump? That's usually my brain's way of asking for a pause. I look around me: what's going on in my life? Stress? Worries? Grief? Anger? Unresolved problems soaking up the energy? Show the ol' noggin some compassion and let it have the break it's […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 27/9: How much time passes between sitting down to write and actually writing? I am one of those unholy ones who writes in my head, not entire chapters but dialogue and short paragraphs. I try them out, see if it fits. Which means that I can sit down and start writing before […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#WordWeavers 27/9:What interesting quirks do your characters have? The Manager likes rules and proper procedure. What makes them shine for me is their tenacity. The Mansion can be crumbling around them, they'll still be standing with their clipboard, trying to follow procedure and keep everyone […]

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