#WritersCoffeeClub 11/21.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 11/21. What are some preconceptions about writers you'd like to see challenged?
Almost every depiction of a writer in TV or film is grotesquely wrong, starting with: they're all rich! Your average working novelist in the UK earns less than £5000 a year. We don't live in castles, own helicopters, and dictate languidly to our amanuensis while swigging champagne by the infinity pool, we mostly have side hustles as Amazon delivery drivers or (if we're lucky) software devs.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 11/21. What are some preconceptions about writers you'd like to see challenged?
Almost every depiction of a writer in TV or film is grotesquely wrong, starting with: they're all rich! Your average working novelist in the UK earns less than £5000 a year. We don't live in castles, own helicopters, and dictate languidly to our amanuensis while swigging champagne by the infinity pool, we mostly have side hustles as Amazon delivery drivers or (if we're lucky) software devs.
#WritersCoffeeClub 21/11:
A second misconception: everyone seems to think that if they can write a toot or a school essay they can write a book: "it's just more writing".
We use the same term for lining up words in a sentence that we use for crafting a complicated structure of many thousands to tens of thousands of sentences. And it's a category error.
It's like thinking that knowing how to print "hello world!" in BASIC means you're ready to write the flight control software for an Airbus.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 21/11:
A second misconception: everyone seems to think that if they can write a toot or a school essay they can write a book: "it's just more writing".
We use the same term for lining up words in a sentence that we use for crafting a complicated structure of many thousands to tens of thousands of sentences. And it's a category error.
It's like thinking that knowing how to print "hello world!" in BASIC means you're ready to write the flight control software for an Airbus.
@cstross I mean, that's quite obvious: knowing how to do hello world in basic really doesn't qualify you to be a software engineer at Airbus.
Boeing on the other hand ...
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