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#WritersCoffeeClub day 11: If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
Women in Refrigerators. I'd like to see writers forced to come up with other ways to motivate their (male) characters.
I nearly chose Forced Pregnancy, because I *HATE* that one, but I think WIR is more prevalent, and banishing it would have a greater effect on the next century's stories. (Sexy Lamp was another close runner-up: give us more fully-featured female characters!)
#WritersCoffeeClub day 12: What kinds of love appear in your writing?
Quite a few! I'm tempted say "all of them"...
* Romantic love
* Parental love for children
* Blood-sibling love
* Companionate/BFF/found-family love in a siblingly manner between people who aren't related by blood
* People's love for their City
* The City's love for its people
* Love of abstract ideals, like freedom, equality, or doing the right thingSome plain, carnal lust may also make an appearance; we'll see.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 12: What kinds of love appear in your writing?
Quite a few! I'm tempted say "all of them"...
* Romantic love
* Parental love for children
* Blood-sibling love
* Companionate/BFF/found-family love in a siblingly manner between people who aren't related by blood
* People's love for their City
* The City's love for its people
* Love of abstract ideals, like freedom, equality, or doing the right thingSome plain, carnal lust may also make an appearance; we'll see.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 14: Why do you write in the form you do? Why not in another format? (poem, short story, novel, etc)
"Why don't I write in a shorter format?" thought the aspiring novelist whose draft currently stands at over 85,000 words when it's roughly a fifth of the way done. "Yeah, I'll get right on that. 🙄"
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 14: Why do you write in the form you do? Why not in another format? (poem, short story, novel, etc)
"Why don't I write in a shorter format?" thought the aspiring novelist whose draft currently stands at over 85,000 words when it's roughly a fifth of the way done. "Yeah, I'll get right on that. 🙄"
#WritersCoffeeClub day 15: How do your immediate surroundings influence your work?
I try pretty hard to keep them from doing so; I don't want to do what the Turkey City Lexicon calls "Dischism". (https://www.critters.org/turkeycity.html, roughly 40% of the way down the page — I have no idea why that list isn't alphabetically sorted.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 15: How do your immediate surroundings influence your work?
I try pretty hard to keep them from doing so; I don't want to do what the Turkey City Lexicon calls "Dischism". (https://www.critters.org/turkeycity.html, roughly 40% of the way down the page — I have no idea why that list isn't alphabetically sorted.)
#WritersCoffeeClub day 16: What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?
I think the hardest lesson for me to learn will turn out to be "how not to overwrite", and I sure as hell haven't learned it yet.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 16: What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?
I think the hardest lesson for me to learn will turn out to be "how not to overwrite", and I sure as hell haven't learned it yet.
#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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Li farà chiudere di fatto, renderà impossibile fare diversamente, o sbaglio?
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https://www.lealternative.net/2026/03/13/planes-android/
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The clear and painful truth indeed.
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