#WritersCoffeeClub (Sep) 1: Intro: Shameless Self Promotion.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 13: Does alienation feature in your work? Give an example.
I don't know about "feature", but it's at least somewhat present. At the beginning of the book, Jessie is feeling very alienated from her friends and family. David is also feeling alienated, not from people, but from the world, and he hasn't really noticed it. But it's there, and underlies some of his arc.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: How do you use cyclic structures in your work?
I haven't used any of those yet, and I don't think I'll be able to fit any into the WIP.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: How do you use cyclic structures in your work?
I haven't used any of those yet, and I don't think I'll be able to fit any into the WIP.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 15: “The past is a foreign country.” What facets of your work do you hope remain intelligible to future readers?
All of them, really. Come on, I don't want my work to become UNintelligible, right?
But the most critical things are the fight against oligarchs and the value of diversity.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 15: “The past is a foreign country.” What facets of your work do you hope remain intelligible to future readers?
All of them, really. Come on, I don't want my work to become UNintelligible, right?
But the most critical things are the fight against oligarchs and the value of diversity.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 16: International Day of Light/Peace. Tell us about your favorite use of symbolic imagery.
I don't know about "favorite", but I've gotta say, butterflies just _keep_ popping up in my WIP.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 16: International Day of Light/Peace. Tell us about your favorite use of symbolic imagery.
I don't know about "favorite", but I've gotta say, butterflies just _keep_ popping up in my WIP.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: How do you ‘write what you know’?
I'm setting my story in (and making a character of) the City where I lived for over 25 years, about which a friend once observed, "You know this city like a Dashiell Hammett character."
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: How do you ‘write what you know’?
I'm setting my story in (and making a character of) the City where I lived for over 25 years, about which a friend once observed, "You know this city like a Dashiell Hammett character."
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: What do you do to actively avoid writer’s block?
I keep in mind that word count is not the only thing that counts as writing. Fleshing out character backgrounds, figuring out how a particular spell works, or how I'm going to resolve a particular problem, or how two characters met, or whatever... it all counts. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: What do you do to actively avoid writer’s block?
I keep in mind that word count is not the only thing that counts as writing. Fleshing out character backgrounds, figuring out how a particular spell works, or how I'm going to resolve a particular problem, or how two characters met, or whatever... it all counts. 1/2
It's all part of creating this world and story. So if I just can't manage to bang out some words in the narrative today, I can always pick up one or another of the various background things that need doing. 2/2
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It's all part of creating this world and story. So if I just can't manage to bang out some words in the narrative today, I can always pick up one or another of the various background things that need doing. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Is there a creative habit-building method you swear by?
Honestly, the big thing for me has been putting a 7-day exponential moving average on my hand-rolled progress-graphing tool. Just having line graphs with daily points would mean that taking a day off just looks like a brief downward spike. But the EMA means there's a *seven-day gap* in the line, and it just looks awful, and then it takes 6 or 7 weeks to scroll off the left side... ugh! 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Is there a creative habit-building method you swear by?
Honestly, the big thing for me has been putting a 7-day exponential moving average on my hand-rolled progress-graphing tool. Just having line graphs with daily points would mean that taking a day off just looks like a brief downward spike. But the EMA means there's a *seven-day gap* in the line, and it just looks awful, and then it takes 6 or 7 weeks to scroll off the left side... ugh! 1/2
That wasn't why I did it; it was just the obvious data-visualization move for dealing with the otherwise-far-too-jaggedy line of raw daily data. But it had this wonderful secondary effect. Seriously, nothing has made me grit my teeth and force myself to do "at least 10 or 15 minutes, just as a bare minimum" when I'm feeling crappy, tired, stupid, or whatever, more than that one small decision. 2/2
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That wasn't why I did it; it was just the obvious data-visualization move for dealing with the otherwise-far-too-jaggedy line of raw daily data. But it had this wonderful secondary effect. Seriously, nothing has made me grit my teeth and force myself to do "at least 10 or 15 minutes, just as a bare minimum" when I'm feeling crappy, tired, stupid, or whatever, more than that one small decision. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Pick two other writers’ works that would pair well with yours.
Fritz Leiber's _Our Lady of Darkness_ and Emma Bull's _The War for the Oaks_.
(Special bonus: Margot Chu wishes I'd picked John M. Ford's _The Last Hot Time_ instead of the Emma Bull.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Pick two other writers’ works that would pair well with yours.
Fritz Leiber's _Our Lady of Darkness_ and Emma Bull's _The War for the Oaks_.
(Special bonus: Margot Chu wishes I'd picked John M. Ford's _The Last Hot Time_ instead of the Emma Bull.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: Are there facets of your work best understood in the context of when you wrote it?
Oh, very much yes. The whole plot strand about the villain trying to influence the upcoming San Francisco election, to get a mayor, half the Board of Supervisors, and a bunch of ballot propositions that he wants, with the future of the City hinging on it? It's extremely 2024.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: Are there facets of your work best understood in the context of when you wrote it?
Oh, very much yes. The whole plot strand about the villain trying to influence the upcoming San Francisco election, to get a mayor, half the Board of Supervisors, and a bunch of ballot propositions that he wants, with the future of the City hinging on it? It's extremely 2024.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader?
Details. Especially ones that help them anchor themselves in the place, as if they could pick up and use objects there, or walk around in it.
(And yes, I *do* have some locations I've never visited: my characters' homes! Also one fictional bar-and-grill/restaurant/café that I'm inventing.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader?
Details. Especially ones that help them anchor themselves in the place, as if they could pick up and use objects there, or walk around in it.
(And yes, I *do* have some locations I've never visited: my characters' homes! Also one fictional bar-and-grill/restaurant/café that I'm inventing.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you prefer to write urban or rural settings? Why?
Urban, urban, absolutely urban all the way. Because they're what I know and love and live in (by very deliberate choice).
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you prefer to write urban or rural settings? Why?
Urban, urban, absolutely urban all the way. Because they're what I know and love and live in (by very deliberate choice).
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: What in your writing ‘dates’ you?
Well, the whole WIP is set in 2024. I'll be putting in some details that make it clear that's when it is, so readers won't even need to do any detective work or any arithmetic based on internal references to ages or times.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: What in your writing ‘dates’ you?
Well, the whole WIP is set in 2024. I'll be putting in some details that make it clear that's when it is, so readers won't even need to do any detective work or any arithmetic based on internal references to ages or times.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 25: Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
All the musicians whose works are in my writing mix. High on the list of ones whose stuff really gets me going are: Paul Leonard-Morgan (specifically, a couple of his tracks for the _Limitless_ soundtrack), Agnes Obel, London Grammar, Lamb, Zero 7, and Carter Burwell's theme from _Blood Simple_.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 25: Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
All the musicians whose works are in my writing mix. High on the list of ones whose stuff really gets me going are: Paul Leonard-Morgan (specifically, a couple of his tracks for the _Limitless_ soundtrack), Agnes Obel, London Grammar, Lamb, Zero 7, and Carter Burwell's theme from _Blood Simple_.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: In your work, how much of an active character is your setting?
So much so that it has lines of dialogue and conversations with the human characters.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: In your work, how much of an active character is your setting?
So much so that it has lines of dialogue and conversations with the human characters.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I'm not sure I understand what counts as "load-bearing" and what doesn't, but I'm inclined to say: working. That gives me the money to keep myself fed, housed, and clothed, so that instead of having to worry about the basic necessities of life, I can instead devote my mental energy to writing.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I'm not sure I understand what counts as "load-bearing" and what doesn't, but I'm inclined to say: working. That gives me the money to keep myself fed, housed, and clothed, so that instead of having to worry about the basic necessities of life, I can instead devote my mental energy to writing.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Have you ever done a writing mentorship? What was your takeaway?
I haven't, not on either side of the mentor-mentee relationship.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Have you ever done a writing mentorship? What was your takeaway?
I haven't, not on either side of the mentor-mentee relationship.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: Tell us about an epiphany that changed your writing.
I haven't had one of those yet. A few ideas that helped with the world-building on this particular WIP, but nothing (yet) that's made a major change in _my writing_.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: Tell us about an epiphany that changed your writing.
I haven't had one of those yet. A few ideas that helped with the world-building on this particular WIP, but nothing (yet) that's made a major change in _my writing_.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: Who do you write for?
Anyone who will like the kind of thing I'm writing. Sorry if that sounds tautological, but...🤷🏻 it's true.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: Who do you write for?
Anyone who will like the kind of thing I'm writing. Sorry if that sounds tautological, but...🤷🏻 it's true.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 31: What fact of your life would give a reader a new appreciation for your work?
I've been having trouble with this question. "The fact that I lived in San Francisco for over 25 years?" I mused. "No, people would know that from the author bio. What sort of _extra_ thing would matter?"
And then I realized: nothing. Nothing extra _should_ make that kind of a difference. The book should stand on its own. 1/2
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I don't know the source, but I saw this graphic.
And once again, I wish a nice Canadian family would want to adopt me.
(PS: Thanks in advance to anyone who knows the source of the graphic and can provide a link.)
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Food for thought! https://www.byteseu.com/1643291/ #Portugal
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