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Addendum: I just noticed _ is in that list. I write my drafts in Markdown, so I do use _ for italics. But again, that's draft-only. 5/5
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 10: Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
Margot and her family have a pet cat, Pixie. She's a grey tabby, about 5yo.
Carmen Lockhart has a 13yo cat named Random, and a 12yo dog named Shaggy. I still need to figure out their breeds, but I think Shaggy is part English sheepdog and part "some other stuff", leading to his appearance and name.
Hew Morrison has a cat and a dog, both of whom are 12yo; I haven't determined their names or breeds yet.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 10: Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
Margot and her family have a pet cat, Pixie. She's a grey tabby, about 5yo.
Carmen Lockhart has a 13yo cat named Random, and a 12yo dog named Shaggy. I still need to figure out their breeds, but I think Shaggy is part English sheepdog and part "some other stuff", leading to his appearance and name.
Hew Morrison has a cat and a dog, both of whom are 12yo; I haven't determined their names or breeds yet.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 11: Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, "What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure"?
I'm not touching that one without knowing more about the context. I can think of ways in which it *could* make sense, but I'm not going out on that limb.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 11: Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, "What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure"?
I'm not touching that one without knowing more about the context. I can think of ways in which it *could* make sense, but I'm not going out on that limb.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 12: How many times do you usually edit?
To be determined.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 12: How many times do you usually edit?
To be determined.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 13: Is there a message that runs through all of your work?
We can make the world a better place. And we should.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 13: Is there a message that runs through all of your work?
We can make the world a better place. And we should.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: What's the most challenging thing about writing characters of a different sex/gender from your own?
I don't honestly find it all that challenging. I just write them like people, but people who have had different experiences than me.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: What's the most challenging thing about writing characters of a different sex/gender from your own?
I don't honestly find it all that challenging. I just write them like people, but people who have had different experiences than me.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 15: What do you owe the real people you base your characters on?
I'm not sure just what this means. I certainly don't have any character who's just based on one single real-world person; I grab bits and pieces and mix them all around. And I also create a lot on my own. (And some of the bits and pieces I grab are from myself!)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 15: What do you owe the real people you base your characters on?
I'm not sure just what this means. I certainly don't have any character who's just based on one single real-world person; I grab bits and pieces and mix them all around. And I also create a lot on my own. (And some of the bits and pieces I grab are from myself!)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 16: When did you reach the point when you thought: wow, I'm a writer? Are you still waiting?
I still label myself as "an aspiring writer"; I'll take the qualifying adjective off the front sometime between finishing a first draft and getting something out there on the shelves.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 16: When did you reach the point when you thought: wow, I'm a writer? Are you still waiting?
I still label myself as "an aspiring writer"; I'll take the qualifying adjective off the front sometime between finishing a first draft and getting something out there on the shelves.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: Have you ever written anything where the POV shifts partway through to a new MC? Would you?
My WIP is intended to shift among POVs, generally at chapter breaks.
(Though not always; it's looking very much like the end of chapter 2, which will mostly have been told in close 3rd from Kevin Wingard's POV, will shift to Margot Chu's for the last few pages when she and Angel Castillo tell Kevin good-night and get on a streetcar going elsewhere.) 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: Have you ever written anything where the POV shifts partway through to a new MC? Would you?
My WIP is intended to shift among POVs, generally at chapter breaks.
(Though not always; it's looking very much like the end of chapter 2, which will mostly have been told in close 3rd from Kevin Wingard's POV, will shift to Margot Chu's for the last few pages when she and Angel Castillo tell Kevin good-night and get on a streetcar going elsewhere.) 1/2
It should be pretty smooth, though, because the action supports it.
Later on, the book may get more into switching at scene breaks instead of chapters. I'm not sure yet.
Anyway, if the question means, "would I start off a story in one character's POV and then switch to a second character midway through?", only if it seemed best for the story. But I think my stories tend to be multi-POV, not single. 2/2
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It should be pretty smooth, though, because the action supports it.
Later on, the book may get more into switching at scene breaks instead of chapters. I'm not sure yet.
Anyway, if the question means, "would I start off a story in one character's POV and then switch to a second character midway through?", only if it seemed best for the story. But I think my stories tend to be multi-POV, not single. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: What have you written most different from your usual work?
I only have written one thing so far, so:
1) I guess that defines what "my 'usual' work" is; but
2) A thing can't differ from itself, so... 🤷🏻
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: What have you written most different from your usual work?
I only have written one thing so far, so:
1) I guess that defines what "my 'usual' work" is; but
2) A thing can't differ from itself, so... 🤷🏻
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Have still images ever inspired your writing?
I can't think of any that have (so far), no.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Have still images ever inspired your writing?
I can't think of any that have (so far), no.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Are novel genres helpful or constraining? A bit of both?
They're definitely helpful as a marketing aid/technique — and (unusually for me) I don't even mean "marketing" in any derogatory sense at all. As a reader, I like having some sense of what a book will give me before I spend my money and start investing my even-more-precious time on it. So they're definitely helpful in that way. 1/3
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Are novel genres helpful or constraining? A bit of both?
They're definitely helpful as a marketing aid/technique — and (unusually for me) I don't even mean "marketing" in any derogatory sense at all. As a reader, I like having some sense of what a book will give me before I spend my money and start investing my even-more-precious time on it. So they're definitely helpful in that way. 1/3
They can even be helpful for the writer, guiding them in places where they're unsure. Can.
But when a story doesn't fit neatly into an existing genre, that's when a writer needs to say, "Okay, too bad for genres. I'm writing a cross-genre story, or a story-that-doesn't-any-genre, *and that's okay.*" When a genre becomes constraining, that's the time to jettison it and have no qualms about doing so.
Or maybe I'd say, "If genre is constraining you, then you're using it wrong." 2/3
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They can even be helpful for the writer, guiding them in places where they're unsure. Can.
But when a story doesn't fit neatly into an existing genre, that's when a writer needs to say, "Okay, too bad for genres. I'm writing a cross-genre story, or a story-that-doesn't-any-genre, *and that's okay.*" When a genre becomes constraining, that's the time to jettison it and have no qualms about doing so.
Or maybe I'd say, "If genre is constraining you, then you're using it wrong." 2/3
Addendum: Also, Charlie Stross's advice that "a book's genre is a diagnosis, it should never be a prescription" is 💯🎯; succinct and well-put.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/113514854998079522
3/3
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Addendum: Also, Charlie Stross's advice that "a book's genre is a diagnosis, it should never be a prescription" is 💯🎯; succinct and well-put.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/113514854998079522
3/3
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: Do you have a day job? What is it? Do you wish you could write full-time?
I do, I'm a front-end web developer.
If my writing ever started making me more money than coding does, I'd drop the coding and become a full-time writer, sure. But I have no expectation of that happening.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: Do you have a day job? What is it? Do you wish you could write full-time?
I do, I'm a front-end web developer.
If my writing ever started making me more money than coding does, I'd drop the coding and become a full-time writer, sure. But I have no expectation of that happening.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: How did you develop the idea for your first book?
I'm still developing it, TBH. At first, it was a lot of world-building: figuring out how City shaman society has developed over the years, what groups and cliques there are, what spells there are, how training is done, etc. 1/3
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: How did you develop the idea for your first book?
I'm still developing it, TBH. At first, it was a lot of world-building: figuring out how City shaman society has developed over the years, what groups and cliques there are, what spells there are, how training is done, etc. 1/3
Next came the vignettes I've been working on for ~7 months. Those get me into the minds of various characters, and have helped me fill in various aspects of recent history. Many of them have led me to ask myself questions that looped back into the world-building, so it's been kind of iterative. 2/3
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Next came the vignettes I've been working on for ~7 months. Those get me into the minds of various characters, and have helped me fill in various aspects of recent history. Many of them have led me to ask myself questions that looped back into the world-building, so it's been kind of iterative. 2/3
Along the way, I've also been making notes about things that I want to happen in the plot. Most of those have been in the first 5 chapters, though there are definitely some later ones. More recently, those vague plot notes have been coming together into an outline for the first 5 chapters. 3/3
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Along the way, I've also been making notes about things that I want to happen in the plot. Most of those have been in the first 5 chapters, though there are definitely some later ones. More recently, those vague plot notes have been coming together into an outline for the first 5 chapters. 3/3
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you write under a pseudonym? Would you?
No. I suppose I might, if there were some good reason to do so, but I don't currently have one.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you write under a pseudonym? Would you?
No. I suppose I might, if there were some good reason to do so, but I don't currently have one.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: What's the most challenging part of the writing process for you?
I haven't yet been through the whole writing process. So far, the most challenging part has been maintaining my motivation over such a long time, and especially after the election.
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Ne sono consapevole, anche perché purtroppo ci lavoro (accolgo volentieri suggerimenti su come cambiare lavoro in direzioni più etiche).
Tendo però a concentrarmi, stoicamente, su quello che certamente posso fare (nel mio piccolo, come spesso argomentato in questo thread) e il costo è stato unicamente dovermi cancellare da due app di dating (e anche solo il fatto che un'app di dating usi un tracker mi fa schifo) e da una per la palestra.
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It is soooo satisfying to continue ditching/purging enshittified Microsoft, Adobe, etc. products for high quality open-source software without missing a beat. Things like LibreOffice, Gimp, OmniTools, etc.
And to be clear, I’m a LaTeX person. I’ve never seriously used that weird thing called Word.
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Intanto sono a caricar la Tesla al supercharger …. Ma diamine sono fuori autostrada in luoghi improbabili (parking di un centro commerciale chiuso , vista l’ora) : mettete un semplice distributore di bottiglie d’acqua ! 🤷🏻♂️ però 44ct al kWh invece di 85/90 in autostrada agli autogrill ….e funzionano meglio !
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Sirmione. Paesaggisticamente bellissima, peccato sia sempre più iper turistica. Gitarella di fine estate con cenetta a due. Sembrava di esser al mare a luglio tra il clima e i tanti turisti!
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@mannivu sei in grado di giocare a calcetto, non è da tutti! 😉
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@quinta @robross @phab @apex poi di recente ci sono stati problemi anche con Banca Etica che forse così etica non si rivela
https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/le-sanzioni-ad-albanese-non-puo-aprire-nemmeno-un-conto-corrente
https://altreconomia.it/le-sanzioni-contro-francesca-albanese-e-loccasione-persa-dalle-banche-italiane/
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