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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 1: Have you written in an epistolary format

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  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

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

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    #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".
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12th.

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    cppguy@infosec.spaceundefined
    @SteveClough @cstross I write nothing more creative than documentation for the software I produce, but people misunderstand that, too.The experience of people misunderstanding my docs, or simply failing to read them, was one of the things that turned me away from evangelicalism. (I bet you didn't see that coming.) I wasn't using parables to hint at ineffable spiritual truths in the face of religious persecution: I was just explaining how software worked, how to see its current state, and how to configure and maintain systems. People who were paid to read and understand this material would not or could not do so: their repeated questions made it obvious. Within a very few years, instead of reading TFM, people developed folk stories of commands they could type that usually did something that could be mistaken for success. They veered constantly off-course, and I kept having to drag them back. They consulted each other, rather than the docs, and developed their own mythology about how the software worked. They intuitively felt they knew the software better than I did, because my approach to problem-solving was careful and methodical but they knew a golden shortcut.If concrete, human-level explanations, written out literally, landed so badly, there's no chance that people will have remembered the figurative and unfathomable teachings of Jesus seventy years after his death, written them down accurately and fully, and built from them a useful picture of worlds seen and unseen and the will of God. I'm sorry; it just doesn't ring true.
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 4: What's a sure sign an author is a master of their craft?'nWhenever you read a new book/story by this author, it still manages to surprise you.'n(Consider Terry Pratchett as an example.

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 4: What's a sure sign an author is a master of their craft?Whenever you read a new book/story by this author, it still manages to surprise you.(Consider Terry Pratchett as an example. He managed to write 40-something Discworld books without becoming repetitive or formulaic. It's easy to write a series that follows a set template: it's much harder to avoid pandering to the reader's preconceptions.)
  • reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.artundefined

    Interesting question from: #WritersCoffeeClub day 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM

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    reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.artundefined
    Interesting question from: #WritersCoffeeClub day 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?My answer: Only if their writing is vacuous. As @kagan writes, the "tells" of AI "writing" are a moving target, but vacuity is still a strong indicator that something is probably written by AI, and if not, that it's almost certainly slop and not worth your time regardless. Just don't write slop, or if you do, don't publish it.