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

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    #WritersCoffeeClub 9th Jan 2026. What's your top tip for writing authentic dialogue?I don't even try.Pick up a novel—any novel. (Not "Trainspotting", you freak.) Read the dialog aloud. Alternatively, record an ongoing pub or coffee shop conversation (consensually!) and transcribe it verbatim, including all the random throat clearing and interjections. Turns out that the cadence of written speech is NOTHING LIKE that of actual speech.The job of dialog in fiction is to convey speechiness.
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    #writerscoffeeclub 6 Process-wise, what’s improved for you over the years?When I started selling short fic in the mid 1980s everything happened on paper, via snail mail, and photocopying was expensive. By the time I was selling books in the 00s I could talk to my agent by email … but manuscripts and proofs still had to go via international air mail.Some time around 2010 it all flipped and now the main nuisance is publishers want Microsoft and Adobe files (see also: enshittification).
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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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    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 22: What inspiration have you taken from historical figures or events?Tons! As Ken Macleod observed, "history is the SF author's secret weapon".I'm currently grappling with a space opera where the adversary is based on Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, only I'm having to tone him down a bit to make him more plausible!https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ignaz_Trebitsch_Lincoln