Arthur Clyboune Writes
@arthurclybourne.bsky.social
An amateur novelist and screenwriter with dreams of one day being a professional. He/Him.
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Lila's first case was saving her sister from being tried for stealing a trophy. That was when she realized she could be a detective instead of just reading about them.
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How did your character get started on their current line of work/quest? What started them down that path?
Was it a specific choice they made? Serendipity? Was their hand forced by someone? Was it a mistake?
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How did your character get started on their current line of work/quest? What started them down that path?
Was it a specific choice they made? Serendipity? Was their hand forced by someone? Was it a mistake?
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December 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Lila's first case was saving her sister from being tried for stealing a trophy. That was when she realized she could be a detective instead of just reading about them.
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Lila: "There's always someone who needs a case solved."
Denala: *shrug* "Magic means I have as much money as I ever need."
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Denala: *shrug* "Magic means I have as much money as I ever need."
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What's your character's go to move when they are short on funds?
Extra shifts at work? Ask a friend or relative? Plan a heist?
Or are they wealthy and it's never a problem? Or in a post-money society?
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What's your character's go to move when they are short on funds?
Extra shifts at work? Ask a friend or relative? Plan a heist?
Or are they wealthy and it's never a problem? Or in a post-money society?
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December 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Lila: "There's always someone who needs a case solved."
Denala: *shrug* "Magic means I have as much money as I ever need."
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Denala: *shrug* "Magic means I have as much money as I ever need."
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Let's do an appearance one today!
What would you say is the first thing someone would notice about your character when meeting them? Is there something about them that stands out?
How do they feel about that?
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Let's do an appearance one today!
What would you say is the first thing someone would notice about your character when meeting them? Is there something about them that stands out?
How do they feel about that?
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December 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
My Havoc Wreaker button and "Wreak Some Havoc" sticker arrived from @atypicalartists.co today.
December 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
My Havoc Wreaker button and "Wreak Some Havoc" sticker arrived from @atypicalartists.co today.
Lila starts going to college starting in Book 2, studying criminal investigation.
Denala has an apprenticeship with the world's greatest wizard.
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Denala has an apprenticeship with the world's greatest wizard.
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Does your character have an education?
Is there formal education where they are? Or were they trained in specific skills in other ways?
What was their education like? Did they enjoy it?
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Does your character have an education?
Is there formal education where they are? Or were they trained in specific skills in other ways?
What was their education like? Did they enjoy it?
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December 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Lila starts going to college starting in Book 2, studying criminal investigation.
Denala has an apprenticeship with the world's greatest wizard.
#AwesomeCharacters
Denala has an apprenticeship with the world's greatest wizard.
#AwesomeCharacters
Lila would either spend it with her family or her roommate's family. She'd probably make time for both.
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I've got holidays soon, which got me thinking: who would your characters choose to spend their holidays with?
Friends, family, a lover, a combination of these?
Would they want a large gathering or small?
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I've got holidays soon, which got me thinking: who would your characters choose to spend their holidays with?
Friends, family, a lover, a combination of these?
Would they want a large gathering or small?
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December 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Lila would either spend it with her family or her roommate's family. She'd probably make time for both.
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Most of my characters are lawful good, though they sometimes struggle with whether "lawful" or good" is more important.
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Here's a basic one we haven't done yet! Where do you think readers would say your character falls on the classic D&D style alignment chart?
Does that change over the story?
If they don't fit, why is that?
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Here's a basic one we haven't done yet! Where do you think readers would say your character falls on the classic D&D style alignment chart?
Does that change over the story?
If they don't fit, why is that?
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December 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Most of my characters are lawful good, though they sometimes struggle with whether "lawful" or good" is more important.
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Lila: 🕵♀️
Denala: 🔇🪄
Clariss: 😈😭⛪️
Denala: 🔇🪄
Clariss: 😈😭⛪️
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It's Saturday night so let's do a fun one!
With 5 emojis or less (each), how would you summarize your character?
Focus on their personality, their arc, or anything else that is core to them as a character!
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It's Saturday night so let's do a fun one!
With 5 emojis or less (each), how would you summarize your character?
Focus on their personality, their arc, or anything else that is core to them as a character!
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December 14, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Lila: 🕵♀️
Denala: 🔇🪄
Clariss: 😈😭⛪️
Denala: 🔇🪄
Clariss: 😈😭⛪️
Denala actually can't speak at all. And due to the way magic works, conditions that you're born with can't be healed, so she and her mother invented a form of sign language, which she also taught her best friend.
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Does your character speak English? Or another real language?
Do they speak a fictional language transcribed as another for the sake of the reader?
Are language barriers ever a problem in the story?
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Does your character speak English? Or another real language?
Do they speak a fictional language transcribed as another for the sake of the reader?
Are language barriers ever a problem in the story?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Denala actually can't speak at all. And due to the way magic works, conditions that you're born with can't be healed, so she and her mother invented a form of sign language, which she also taught her best friend.
#AwesomeCharacters
#AwesomeCharacters
Inheritance functions much the same as it does now, in a legal sense. One may will one's wealth and property as one sees film. However, in my setting, there are no tax exemptions for the rich, and there are likely to be severe social consequences for families who hoard wealth while others suffer.
#DecemberWorldbuilders, tell me about inheritance in your world. How does it work? When a person passes away, who gets their stuff? Do bastard children have a claim? Do they even have a concept of bastard children? For those of you writing monarchies, who inherits the throne?
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Inheritance functions much the same as it does now, in a legal sense. One may will one's wealth and property as one sees film. However, in my setting, there are no tax exemptions for the rich, and there are likely to be severe social consequences for families who hoard wealth while others suffer.
Lila did cheerleading for a while in high school, mostly as a favor to her sister. She still practices when she has time, since it's good physical conditioning for her detective work.
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Does your character do any physical activities for fun?
Maybe running, dance, gymnastics, or other sports?
How skilled are they?
Or is that sort of thing not something they can/wish to do?
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Does your character do any physical activities for fun?
Maybe running, dance, gymnastics, or other sports?
How skilled are they?
Or is that sort of thing not something they can/wish to do?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Lila did cheerleading for a while in high school, mostly as a favor to her sister. She still practices when she has time, since it's good physical conditioning for her detective work.
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If there's not already a superhero montage set to "We Were Here" by Lights, then there should be.
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
If there's not already a superhero montage set to "We Were Here" by Lights, then there should be.
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Would you alter something about your character to make a moment happen?
If a part of your plot doesn't fit your character, do you change the character or the plot?
Or find a different way to work around it?
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Would you alter something about your character to make a moment happen?
If a part of your plot doesn't fit your character, do you change the character or the plot?
Or find a different way to work around it?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
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There's an independent criminal investigator that Lila encounters named Allison Dale. She also has a secret identity as The Magpie, a noble thief who steals for the greater good.
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Does your character go by anything other than their name?
Do they have a nickname, a pseudonym, or a title people use for them? Or earn one over the course of the story?
Do they like it, or prefer their name?
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Does your character go by anything other than their name?
Do they have a nickname, a pseudonym, or a title people use for them? Or earn one over the course of the story?
Do they like it, or prefer their name?
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December 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
There's an independent criminal investigator that Lila encounters named Allison Dale. She also has a secret identity as The Magpie, a noble thief who steals for the greater good.
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Obviously.
Of course.
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Obviously.
Clariss is a priestess in order of Kelestra, a very real goddess that she regularly communes with. Kelestra is benevolent, but also firm in her spiritual advice. She chides Clariss for hiding her past from Denala, since part of her oath is to make amends to those she's wronged.
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Is your character religious or spiritual?
Is there a god/gods in their world? Is their existence a matter of faith, or are physically present? Does your character believe?
Do they pray or perform rituals?
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Is your character religious or spiritual?
Is there a god/gods in their world? Is their existence a matter of faith, or are physically present? Does your character believe?
Do they pray or perform rituals?
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December 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Clariss is a priestess in order of Kelestra, a very real goddess that she regularly communes with. Kelestra is benevolent, but also firm in her spiritual advice. She chides Clariss for hiding her past from Denala, since part of her oath is to make amends to those she's wronged.
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Lila doesn't always know what's good for her. I imagine that if she was on a case, she'd try her best to work through any illness. Much like the current incarnation of Nancy Drew, I suppose (even though that trait was displayed in my second-least favorite book in the series).
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A bit under the weather tonight, apologies if I am slow to respond!
On a related note: how does your character deal with illness?
Are they stoic? Whiney? Immune to it altogether? Just drink a healing potion?
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A bit under the weather tonight, apologies if I am slow to respond!
On a related note: how does your character deal with illness?
Are they stoic? Whiney? Immune to it altogether? Just drink a healing potion?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Lila doesn't always know what's good for her. I imagine that if she was on a case, she'd try her best to work through any illness. Much like the current incarnation of Nancy Drew, I suppose (even though that trait was displayed in my second-least favorite book in the series).
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My main characters are teens or new adults, so they haven't really that far ahead. Though Lila does realize that she wants to be a detective after solving her first case. She goes to college to study criminal investigation.
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How much does your character think about the future?
Do they have plans for retirement and a pension set up? A distant dream but no real plans? Do they live each day as it comes and never think about it?
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How much does your character think about the future?
Do they have plans for retirement and a pension set up? A distant dream but no real plans? Do they live each day as it comes and never think about it?
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December 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
My main characters are teens or new adults, so they haven't really that far ahead. Though Lila does realize that she wants to be a detective after solving her first case. She goes to college to study criminal investigation.
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Congrats to the awesome @laurenshippen.com for getting Phantom Pulse funded. Looking forward to the show!
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December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Congrats to the awesome @laurenshippen.com for getting Phantom Pulse funded. Looking forward to the show!
🥳 🎉 🎊
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I made an honest effort at solving @laurenshippen.com's Phantom Pulse puzzle even though the demo was already available. Sadly, all I learned is that I'm not adept at spotting letters in waveforms.
December 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I made an honest effort at solving @laurenshippen.com's Phantom Pulse puzzle even though the demo was already available. Sadly, all I learned is that I'm not adept at spotting letters in waveforms.
Amber lives with her Mom at the beginning, then with Juliana at the end.
Lila lives with her parents for the first few books, but she moves into a dorm when she goes to college.
Denala has to rely on inns and campsites, since she no longer has a hometown.
#AwesomeCharacters
Lila lives with her parents for the first few books, but she moves into a dorm when she goes to college.
Denala has to rely on inns and campsites, since she no longer has a hometown.
#AwesomeCharacters
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
What is your character's living situation like?
Do they have roommates? Pets? Live with family? Alone in a mansion? On the road? On a ship? Other?
Are they happy where they are, or striving for something else?
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What is your character's living situation like?
Do they have roommates? Pets? Live with family? Alone in a mansion? On the road? On a ship? Other?
Are they happy where they are, or striving for something else?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Amber lives with her Mom at the beginning, then with Juliana at the end.
Lila lives with her parents for the first few books, but she moves into a dorm when she goes to college.
Denala has to rely on inns and campsites, since she no longer has a hometown.
#AwesomeCharacters
Lila lives with her parents for the first few books, but she moves into a dorm when she goes to college.
Denala has to rely on inns and campsites, since she no longer has a hometown.
#AwesomeCharacters