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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 16, How much work goes into naming your characters?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub – 24 Dec What's ‘load-bearing’ in your life which helps you write?My health. I have been living with a chronic potentially lethal medical condition for 20 years now, with medication side-effects that include brain fog. Modern medicine keeps me alive. As an ex-pharmacist I know how to work the system and am doing okay. But I'm getting older and I'm acutely aware that any illness—another case of COVID19, for example—could render me unable to write again for a year, or ever.
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    @cstross This reminds me when I was looking for the reading order of the Laundry Files, and stumbled upon some disgruntled Christian's review where he warns others that 'The Fuller Memorandum' contains stuff that he considers very offensive to his beliefs. And then I started listening to 'The Apocalypse Codex' and kept giggling whenever I imagined the poor sod's face when he started this one...
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    #WritersCoffeeClub day 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?I think they should only worry about it to the extent that they'd previously have worried about proving that their work wasn't plagiarized. Like, if seriously challenged (usually by one's publisher, not by some rando), it's good to be able to produce prior drafts or other artifacts of creation.But that's about all. 1/6
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    It's a losing battle, and it's one that isn't worth fighting in the first place, because the only people you're trying to convince are ones who *can't even recognize decent writing when they see it*. They're people who can say, with a straight face, that *lists of three* are signs of AI‽ As if they haven't heard every Tom, Dick, and Harry talk about "baseball, motherhood and apple pie" or "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" before? 5/6#WritersCoffeeClub