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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 1st, What is the fundamental goal you seek to achieve with your current WIP?

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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 1st, What is the fundamental goal you seek to achieve with your current WIP?

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  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub – 15 Jan. How human are your protagonists?

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    #WritersCoffeeClub – 15 Jan. How human are your protagonists? What about your antagonists?Current WIP(s) are set 700,000 years in our future (it's wide-scale space opera). Our species of hominin is long extinct and our planet forgotten, but its existence is inferred from cladistic studies—humanity speciated after it went interstellar.There's a "Translator's Note" at the beginning—see screencap—that tries to clarify things. (Note that it's as much a work of fiction as the rest of the novel.)
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13. Are you actively building your working vocabulary?

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    Postscript wrt. #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13:My current WIP contains some obscure words. Per scrivener, some dictionary words used once (in 116,000) include:efficaciousblithechandlerphenethylaminedisparagementmultimodalferrulepalatinateablutionspostillionflatulenthalitosisinstarichneumonobnubliatedattestationsheterocyclicgumptionburgravestylops(etc.)I like to exercise my readers!
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12th.

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    @SteveClough @cstross I write nothing more creative than documentation for the software I produce, but people misunderstand that, too.The experience of people misunderstanding my docs, or simply failing to read them, was one of the things that turned me away from evangelicalism. (I bet you didn't see that coming.) I wasn't using parables to hint at ineffable spiritual truths in the face of religious persecution: I was just explaining how software worked, how to see its current state, and how to configure and maintain systems. People who were paid to read and understand this material would not or could not do so: their repeated questions made it obvious. Within a very few years, instead of reading TFM, people developed folk stories of commands they could type that usually did something that could be mistaken for success. They veered constantly off-course, and I kept having to drag them back. They consulted each other, rather than the docs, and developed their own mythology about how the software worked. They intuitively felt they knew the software better than I did, because my approach to problem-solving was careful and methodical but they knew a golden shortcut.If concrete, human-level explanations, written out literally, landed so badly, there's no chance that people will have remembered the figurative and unfathomable teachings of Jesus seventy years after his death, written them down accurately and fully, and built from them a useful picture of worlds seen and unseen and the will of God. I'm sorry; it just doesn't ring true.
  • petealexharris@mastodon.scotundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub 1 OctHave you written in an epistolary format

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    Ooh I thought of another aspect of letters within fiction. A letter or any other text message is unlike dialog in that it persists to be re-read later, maybe not by the intended recipient, and can be loaded with hidden meanings that you wouldn't expect someone to pick up on or remember accurately if they heard the same words spoken.I used this twice in The Silk Mind, in a letter to the Badger Survey from Doctor Grey, and rather pointed diplomatic letters between him and Celandine.