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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 26 Who or what serves as your "rubber duck"?

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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 26 Who or what serves as your "rubber duck"?

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  • youseeatortoise@wandering.shopundefined

    #writersCoffeeClub 11/20: How did you find your writerly voice?

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    youseeatortoise@wandering.shopundefined
    #writersCoffeeClub 11/20: How did you find your writerly voice?Scavenged from under a rock in a swamp and purchased from the entity that lurks there for the cost of three teeth (not mine) and five years of my life.
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12th.

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    @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 10/7: Have you ever gone away somewhere special expressly to write?'nMy office!

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    #writersCoffeeClub 10/7: Have you ever gone away somewhere special expressly to write?My office! With the door shut.(I actually *can't* write when I'm away from home; it feels like I'm wasting the opportunity to enrich myself through travel.)
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Have you ever included real-world disproven science in a work?'nFor sure!'nI write SF/F and try to make the ideas crunchy.

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Have you ever included real-world disproven science in a work?For sure!I write SF/F and try to make the ideas crunchy. So I probably have written stuff that relied on subsequently-disproven science, *or* used the disproven stuff anyway because I like to play what-if games with the implications of ideas: "yes, but WHAT IF phlogiston theory was true? What would be the implications for stochiometry? Or steam engines and heavier-than-air flight?"