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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 16, How much work goes into naming your characters?

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  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub 17 Nov. What role does race play in your work?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub 17 Nov. What role does race play in your work?The concept of "race" is a vile 19th century shibboleth invented to support colonialism and to justify so-called "scientific racism". Human races are far less distinct than cultivars of broccoli or breeds of dog: we're all one hominin species.So I generally only use it in my fiction as a handy tag for "the character talking about this shit is misguided and/or has an evil agenda".
  • emmacox@writing.exchangeundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Motivation

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    emmacox@writing.exchangeundefined
    #WritersCoffeeClub MotivationThis question has come at a good time because a lovely writer friend of mine is struggling to get back into writing after a long absence and mental health problems are heightening the issue. I’ve given them suggestions to rekindle their writing practice. But if you have any suggestions, please share them.
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?I write genre fiction and it is *surprisingly hard* to write a novel in which nobody dies; death tends to be trivialized or used to advance the plot and seldom traumatizes the survivors.To which I say, to hell with that!(Current WIP massacres with gleeful abandon, but it's SF set in a future with lossy mind uploading and replay, so they've effectively got mechanised reincarnation. Societal whackiness ensues.)
  • petealexharris@mastodon.scotundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub 1 OctHave you written in an epistolary format

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    Ooh I thought of another aspect of letters within fiction. A letter or any other text message is unlike dialog in that it persists to be re-read later, maybe not by the intended recipient, and can be loaded with hidden meanings that you wouldn't expect someone to pick up on or remember accurately if they heard the same words spoken.I used this twice in The Silk Mind, in a letter to the Badger Survey from Doctor Grey, and rather pointed diplomatic letters between him and Celandine.