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#WritersCoffeeClub September 24: "How do you handle asides?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub MotivationThis question has come at a good time because a lovely writer friend of mine is struggling to get back into writing after a long absence and mental health problems are heightening the issue. I’ve given them suggestions to rekindle their writing practice. But if you have any suggestions, please share them.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 28 - Have you ever edited another's work? Was it harder than editing your own? Not in an editorial role, only when working as a collaborator on a multi-author text. In which case it feels like rewriting/redrafting.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?I write genre fiction and it is *surprisingly hard* to write a novel in which nobody dies; death tends to be trivialized or used to advance the plot and seldom traumatizes the survivors.To which I say, to hell with that!(Current WIP massacres with gleeful abandon, but it's SF set in a future with lossy mind uploading and replay, so they've effectively got mechanised reincarnation. Societal whackiness ensues.)
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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.