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    #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 18Are you comfortable making a reader uncomfortable? How far will you go?See "Equoid" (a novella about unicorns which, I am told, ruined "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" *forever*).I don't write cozies: I'm pretty sure anyone picking up a Charlie Stross story knows this by now.
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    #writerscoffeeclub 6 Process-wise, what’s improved for you over the years?When I started selling short fic in the mid 1980s everything happened on paper, via snail mail, and photocopying was expensive. By the time I was selling books in the 00s I could talk to my agent by email … but manuscripts and proofs still had to go via international air mail.Some time around 2010 it all flipped and now the main nuisance is publishers want Microsoft and Adobe files (see also: enshittification).
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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.)
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    #writersCoffeeClub 4 Nov 'What's the funniest thing you've ever written?'The dinner party in "The Nightmare Stacks". Alex, a CS nerd (turned vampire) is visiting his very conventional middle-class parents: he takes his new girlfriend Cassie (an elven spy who is helping to pave the way for an invasion) on the back of his borrowed ... conveyance. Then they discover his sister has brought her girlfriend too, and the misconceptions start to spiral ...