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

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 25. What comes first: setting, character, plot?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 25. What comes first: setting, character, plot? What comes next?What comes first is a Gigantic Idea (hey, I write SF) with far-reaching implications that alter the shape of the world (the setting) the (eventual) characters move through. As we are products of our environment, there's a feedback loop as I figure out how the GI will change people. (Bear in mind that in SF, the setting *is* a principal character.) Then, and only then, do I begin looking for a plot.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub – 15 Jan. How human are your protagonists?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub – 15 Jan. How human are your protagonists? What about your antagonists?Current WIP(s) are set 700,000 years in our future (it's wide-scale space opera). Our species of hominin is long extinct and our planet forgotten, but its existence is inferred from cladistic studies—humanity speciated after it went interstellar.There's a "Translator's Note" at the beginning—see screencap—that tries to clarify things. (Note that it's as much a work of fiction as the rest of the novel.)
  • patcharcana@furry.engineerundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub for November 21:

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    #WritersCoffeeClub for November 21:What are some preconceptions about writers you'd like to see challenged?There's a riptide in the public that we're largely obsolete, and that even if we weren't, we're complaining about not getting paid enough to "waste time".I'd like those to go away.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 13: Name the oldest work to have inspired you

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 13: Name the oldest work to have inspired youAs a kid I read the Odyssey in translation, and binged on for-kids-retellings of Ancient Egyptian mythology—mostly the later dynastic versions (some of the translations were old and hazy on the actual chronology), but with roots going back to c. 3000BCE.Nothing much got written down before then because writing either hadn't been invented or wasn't widely used for purposes other than temple accounting, AIUI.