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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 · 15/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 15 Oct What's the last thing you read to really impress you, prose-wise? I reread 'Neuromancer' recently, and I just adore Gibsons style. The way he just marches on, not explaining because why would anyone explain anything in the world they live in? You either figure it out […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#WordWeavers Oct. 15: What piece of backstory did you invent just for yourself that readers may never learn? My WIP is based, as far as possible, on psychology and science so that's more a selection process than an invention so all I did was read about the brain and the development. I am not […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1156: If your MC had (more) money in their possession, what would they do with it? I am not certain what Prefrontal Cortex would do with money to begin with. What a curious thought.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 15 - How confident are you feeling about your work today? Gods, not confident at all but the thing is typeset and all, so there's no going back now, is it?

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 14. Who do you wish you could share your work with, but can't? A dear friend who passed away a little over a year ago.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#WordWeavers Oct 14: If your MC could ask their future self one question, what would they ask? Prefrontal Cortex watches their reflection in the mirror with unblinking concentration. 'One question only,' they say. 'Just one.' The silence grows in the room until they put down the teacup, and […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1155: Do you enjoy musicals? You mean proper musicals, like The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Les Misérables, with performers who can sing and act as befits a proper musical? I love them.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 14: How do you feel when a show that is non-musical inserts an episode with a musical number? To me, it often feels like they miscalculated the season length and had to do a filler episode. I know, how likely is that? Not really. The problem is, they're most often not good […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

When we buy salmon, I save the trims until I've got enough trims to grind into mince. Make wonderful meatballs. No, that implies beef or pork, at least to me. This is fish. Fishballs. No that sounds terrible. What's it called? Patties?

Fishballs?
Image shows leftover trimmings from salmon and cod, ground to mince and shaped into puck-shaped cakes.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A friend just told me this: what if your writerly weakness is overthinking whether you're overcorrecting? Overthinking? Yes. That's me. 110%.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 13: What writerly weakness do you overcorrect for? I don't know. If I did know, “I would try very hard to avoid overcorrecting and probably undercorrect instead. Maybe it's better I stay ignorant. Let's find out in editing instead.

Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

#WordWeavers 13/10: What is something your MC would risk their life to protect but would struggle to explain why? Protocol. Prefrontal Cortex won't be able to explain why it's so important, but they will go to great lengths to protect it. You'd be amazed at what lengths the brain will go to […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1154: MC POV: Name a time you laughed the hardest. With whom, and why? Prefrontal Cortex looks you up and down. 'That is not protocol. Humour?' 'Yes,' Hippocampus interjects, 'difficult to classify, challenging to predict, and virtually impossible to explain without ruining […]

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Annica 🇸🇪 @nemorosa.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

#ScribesAndMakers – 13th Oct. Schadenfreude? I don't condone bullying or being nasty to people. But when someone get a serving of their own cooking? I'm only human.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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