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#WritersCoffeeClub January 22: Share a recent advancement in your craft of which you are proud.

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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 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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    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.
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    It's a losing battle, and it's one that isn't worth fighting in the first place, because the only people you're trying to convince are ones who *can't even recognize decent writing when they see it*. They're people who can say, with a straight face, that *lists of three* are signs of AI‽ As if they haven't heard every Tom, Dick, and Harry talk about "baseball, motherhood and apple pie" or "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" before? 5/6#WritersCoffeeClub