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#WritersCoffeeClub January 22: Share a recent advancement in your craft of which you are proud.

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    #WritersCoffeeClub 11th Dec 2025. - How do you keep track of plots and subplots?Mostly by writing in @scrivenerapp these days (since 2008) which makes it ridiculously easy to edit individual scenes in a subplot as a continuous scrolling text—and to resequence scenes and edit the deep structure of a book.Seriously, Scrivener is as revolutionary a tool for writing books as the first word processors were for writing any kind of unstructured document.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub 25 NovWhat are some tips you can share to avoid 'clunky' phrasing?Everybody's suggesting reading your work aloud, but I disagree: prose fiction should not focus on replicating speech, but on conveying meaning. It's a separate art form from the spoken word and should be treated as such. Splitting long sentences so that they're readable aloud is a shibboleth of modern editorial fashion that focuses on accessibility and market share, meeting the needs of "young adult" readers.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 16, How much work goes into naming your characters?I'm generally shit at naming characters, although they can serve as useful world-building reference points.Current WIP is set in a crapsack Ruritanian space empire. The noble houses are all named after various species of parasite. (My MCs family is named for the Hippo arse leech, Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi, which drinks blood from the soft lining of the hippo's rectum and can only mate and spawn there.)
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    #WritersCoffeeClubFootnote: the space opera duology I'm currently writing is set so far in the future that humanity has speciated, and there's been a LOT of time for deliberate genetic modification.One consequence is that non-UV catalyzed Vitamin D synthesis is normal: everyone is dark, for UV protection. (Also, many hominins have a vacuum-exposure reflex that opens the ductus arteriosis and bypasses the lungs, maintaining blood oxygen levels for a few minutes—time to get to safety.)