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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 13: Name the oldest work to have inspired you

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    #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 4 Nov 'What's the funniest thing you've ever written?'

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

    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?I write genre fiction and it is *surprisingly hard* to write a novel in which nobody dies; death tends to be trivialized or used to advance the plot and seldom traumatizes the survivors.To which I say, to hell with that!(Current WIP massacres with gleeful abandon, but it's SF set in a future with lossy mind uploading and replay, so they've effectively got mechanised reincarnation. Societal whackiness ensues.)
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Sep 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?Yes

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Sep 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?Yes.I am published by Tor and Orbit currently (and have been published by other major Big Five imprints in the past).EVERY SINGLE ONE of my book contracts contains a warranty clause to the effect that it is entirely my own original work, except for cited and referenced quotations (agreed by the publisher).Use of an LLM would put me in breach of contract and liable for damages.