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#WordWeavers 2411.06 — Do your characters do any spiritual practices? CW: Some spoilers

Joan of Arcadia is my favorite prematurely canceled TV series. I highly recommend it. I have a fascination of and horror for religion and spiritual practices. As a humanist, my relationship with spiritualism is fraught with concepts of the patriarchy and the role models such practices enforce.

I've had a shaman as a POV in one novel series and a California mom who finds herself mistaken for a deity in a fantasy world in a trilogy. (Both, sadly, unpublished.) Often I try to avoid religion in my stories, but even in the novel set in post-apocalyptic Japan, I have the main character performing a Shinto remnant rite for her dead mother.

As I rehabilitated my writing over the last decade, I wrote in a universe that sidesteps the issue by implying the main antagonist might be a god. Its characters wield god-like powers without it becoming a metaphor or parable of a religion. Not like human nature, but it was what it was. I did not take the bait and imply spiritualism when characters learned magic.

Okay, the following reads a bit like an interview from a new release publicity blurb, but so be it:

Whilst I've worked to completely minimize it, the people populating my current reluctance series have no conception of the supernatural. Reasons are background and spoilers. That said, it is populated with day angels, saints, dragons, and daemons (all 100% human), with the latter able to perform "miracles." The use of that M-word—and abomination and revelation—is by design... that of the main antagonist. It all collides with a lost colony of millions of original humans discovered on the moon in Reluctant Moon, likely the first major work I'll complete for the series. For the people of Dust, the supernatural exists—and a day angel's wings have special spiritual meaning.

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