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#WritersCoffeeClub September 24: "How do you handle asides?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub 9th Jan 2026. What's your top tip for writing authentic dialogue?I don't even try.Pick up a novel—any novel. (Not "Trainspotting", you freak.) Read the dialog aloud. Alternatively, record an ongoing pub or coffee shop conversation (consensually!) and transcribe it verbatim, including all the random throat clearing and interjections. Turns out that the cadence of written speech is NOTHING LIKE that of actual speech.The job of dialog in fiction is to convey speechiness.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 26 Who or what serves as your "rubber duck"?Friends. I get all my best flashes of insight when telling friends about my current work in progress over a coffee or a beer.(I suspect the act of explaining forces me to linearize my chain of reasoning, which exposes weak links: and the audience asks questions or cues me by indicating what they're paying attention to, which uncovers other stuff.)NB: I have the ASD thing of missing conversational pass-the-parcel cues.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub 11th Dec 2025. - How do you keep track of plots and subplots?Mostly by writing in @scrivenerapp these days (since 2008) which makes it ridiculously easy to edit individual scenes in a subplot as a continuous scrolling text—and to resequence scenes and edit the deep structure of a book.Seriously, Scrivener is as revolutionary a tool for writing books as the first word processors were for writing any kind of unstructured document.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 16, How much work goes into naming your characters?I'm generally shit at naming characters, although they can serve as useful world-building reference points.Current WIP is set in a crapsack Ruritanian space empire. The noble houses are all named after various species of parasite. (My MCs family is named for the Hippo arse leech, Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi, which drinks blood from the soft lining of the hippo's rectum and can only mate and spawn there.)