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

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 16, How much work goes into naming your characters?I'm generally shit at naming characters, although they can serve as useful world-building reference points.Current WIP is set in a crapsack Ruritanian space empire. The noble houses are all named after various species of parasite. (My MCs family is named for the Hippo arse leech, Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi, which drinks blood from the soft lining of the hippo's rectum and can only mate and spawn there.)
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    #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 ...
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    #WritersCoffeeClubFootnote: the space opera duology I'm currently writing is set so far in the future that humanity has speciated, and there's been a LOT of time for deliberate genetic modification.One consequence is that non-UV catalyzed Vitamin D synthesis is normal: everyone is dark, for UV protection. (Also, many hominins have a vacuum-exposure reflex that opens the ductus arteriosis and bypasses the lungs, maintaining blood oxygen levels for a few minutes—time to get to safety.)
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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