#WritersCoffeeClub (Sep) 1: Intro: Shameless Self Promotion.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: In your opinion, name a book, movie or TV show where the ending spoils the story.
The ending of _Quantum Leap_ was famous for how it infuriated fans. I was only a very casual fan — hell, more of a casual *watcher*, not even really a fan — and it started off by confusing and annoying me, until the closing text card made my blood boil.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: How does it feel knowing that strangers will read your work?
Kind of wild, actually. Like a big undertaking, and also a really cool one.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: How does it feel knowing that strangers will read your work?
Kind of wild, actually. Like a big undertaking, and also a really cool one.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Do you prefer to write protagonist-driven stories or ensembles? Why?
Definitely ensembles. I like multiple people working together, bouncing off each other, and different people having different styles and viewpoints. I'm not so much a fan of "this one person is the only one who matters, and everyone else is just a side character in their story." That, to me, feels so narrow and almost confining.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Do you prefer to write protagonist-driven stories or ensembles? Why?
Definitely ensembles. I like multiple people working together, bouncing off each other, and different people having different styles and viewpoints. I'm not so much a fan of "this one person is the only one who matters, and everyone else is just a side character in their story." That, to me, feels so narrow and almost confining.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: What are your grammar rules to live by and grammar rules to break?
I want faux "rules" imported from other languages to immediately go back where they came from.
And I'm fine with beginning sentences with conjunctions.
Comma splices, however, drive me nuts; I can't abide when people use them instead of semicolons!
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: What are your grammar rules to live by and grammar rules to break?
I want faux "rules" imported from other languages to immediately go back where they came from.
And I'm fine with beginning sentences with conjunctions.
Comma splices, however, drive me nuts; I can't abide when people use them instead of semicolons!
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: How do you keep track of your work? Do you have a system?
Right now it's all background material, so there's a folder for each character, which at minimum contains a .txt file named for them, and may also contain extra files like family-history, schooling (i.e., HS and college, often formative years and experiences), music-stuff (for musicians; this'd be the history of bands they've been in, etc.), social-scene, and so on. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: How do you keep track of your work? Do you have a system?
Right now it's all background material, so there's a folder for each character, which at minimum contains a .txt file named for them, and may also contain extra files like family-history, schooling (i.e., HS and college, often formative years and experiences), music-stuff (for musicians; this'd be the history of bands they've been in, etc.), social-scene, and so on. 1/2
There are also top-level .txt files like plot, characters (notes on ones who aren't developed enough yet to get their own folders), magic-system, magic-spells-list, divination-system, and the all-important !unresolved-issues file. (The ! makes it sort at the top of the folder, too.)
Soon there will be folders like "Ch. 01", "Ch. 02", and so on, with scene1.txt, scene2.txt, etc. files. 2/2
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There are also top-level .txt files like plot, characters (notes on ones who aren't developed enough yet to get their own folders), magic-system, magic-spells-list, divination-system, and the all-important !unresolved-issues file. (The ! makes it sort at the top of the folder, too.)
Soon there will be folders like "Ch. 01", "Ch. 02", and so on, with scene1.txt, scene2.txt, etc. files. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 31: Do you work from premise to world or world to premise?
I think in this work, the world *is* the premise.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 31: Do you work from premise to world or world to premise?
I think in this work, the world *is* the premise.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: What's your favourite Easter egg in your own work and/or another work of fiction?
I'll go with the bit in the _Expanse_ book series where there's a Martian ship named the _Mark Watney_.
My own work will be chock full of Easter eggs and shout-outs, but I'm not giving them away before publication; that would ruin readers' opportunities to find them on their own!
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: What's your favourite Easter egg in your own work and/or another work of fiction?
I'll go with the bit in the _Expanse_ book series where there's a Martian ship named the _Mark Watney_.
My own work will be chock full of Easter eggs and shout-outs, but I'm not giving them away before publication; that would ruin readers' opportunities to find them on their own!
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 2: Do you keep a journal? Would you?
I used to keep a Livejournal, then moved it to Dreamwidth. Sadly, I've gotten out of the journaling habit; that pretty much happened with the rise of microblogging. My "accounting of life as it happens" energies started going to Twitter, and now Mastodon, instead.
I miss journaling. I keep trying to revive the habit, and failing.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 2: Do you keep a journal? Would you?
I used to keep a Livejournal, then moved it to Dreamwidth. Sadly, I've gotten out of the journaling habit; that pretty much happened with the rise of microblogging. My "accounting of life as it happens" energies started going to Twitter, and now Mastodon, instead.
I miss journaling. I keep trying to revive the habit, and failing.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 3: Do you use semicolons? Correctly?
I do! Indeed, I did in both yesterday's entry and the one before it.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 3: Do you use semicolons? Correctly?
I do! Indeed, I did in both yesterday's entry and the one before it.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 4: Do you feature real-world political and social issues in your work?
Oh, hells yes. They underpin a lot of the conflict in my WIP, in various ways.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 4: Do you feature real-world political and social issues in your work?
Oh, hells yes. They underpin a lot of the conflict in my WIP, in various ways.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 5: What's the best thing about being a writer?
You get to create whatever you want — worlds, people, events, aliens, magic spells, dragons, mysteries, love, *anything* you can think of or imagine. All you have to do is string some words together.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 5: What's the best thing about being a writer?
You get to create whatever you want — worlds, people, events, aliens, magic spells, dragons, mysteries, love, *anything* you can think of or imagine. All you have to do is string some words together.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 6: What have you learned from past projects that you're using in your WIP?
I don't have any past projects; this is my first writing project (not counting some juvenilia that I can hardly even remember).
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 6: What have you learned from past projects that you're using in your WIP?
I don't have any past projects; this is my first writing project (not counting some juvenilia that I can hardly even remember).
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 7: Write a poem in no more than 500 characters which describes you as a writer.
An aspiring writer named Kagan
is obsessed with cities, though Pagan.
He writes night and day,
though he doubts it'll pay,
but the story, his brain it is plaguein'.(alternatively...)
Kagan, an aspiring writer,
hoped his tales could make spirits lighter.
Though it seems urban mages
are what fill up his pages,
his true aim's to make the world brighter. -
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 7: Write a poem in no more than 500 characters which describes you as a writer.
An aspiring writer named Kagan
is obsessed with cities, though Pagan.
He writes night and day,
though he doubts it'll pay,
but the story, his brain it is plaguein'.(alternatively...)
Kagan, an aspiring writer,
hoped his tales could make spirits lighter.
Though it seems urban mages
are what fill up his pages,
his true aim's to make the world brighter.#WritersCoffeeClub Day 8: Do you think of your books as having a particular length?
I'm shooting for roughly 100,000 words for the current book, which will be a first-time novel in the urban fantasy genre. So, basically, "roughly mid- or average-length for my genre and fame level".
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 8: Do you think of your books as having a particular length?
I'm shooting for roughly 100,000 words for the current book, which will be a first-time novel in the urban fantasy genre. So, basically, "roughly mid- or average-length for my genre and fame level".
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 9: Do you use a dedicated proofreader, or is one provided by your publisher?
I'll find that out when I find a publisher.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 9: Do you use a dedicated proofreader, or is one provided by your publisher?
I'll find that out when I find a publisher.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 10: Do you have favourite words you like to use? What are they?
I specifically try to avoid over-using any particular word.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 10: Do you have favourite words you like to use? What are they?
I specifically try to avoid over-using any particular word.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 11: How effective are your newsletters in creating sales?
I have neither newsletters nor sales nor anything *to* sell, as yet.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 11: How effective are your newsletters in creating sales?
I have neither newsletters nor sales nor anything *to* sell, as yet.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 12: Do you reread things you wrote some time ago? How do they stand up today?
How long is "some time"? All my old writings are lost to the mists of time. The oldest thing I've got is the first brief scene I wrote for the WIP, less than 2 years ago.
Okay, I just looked at it again. It stands up okay. I think. I hope. Parts certainly do. Others might need a little polishing.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 12: Do you reread things you wrote some time ago? How do they stand up today?
How long is "some time"? All my old writings are lost to the mists of time. The oldest thing I've got is the first brief scene I wrote for the WIP, less than 2 years ago.
Okay, I just looked at it again. It stands up okay. I think. I hope. Parts certainly do. Others might need a little polishing.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 13: Which "unfilmable" novel do you think has worked best on screen?
Since you said "novel", I can't pick Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life", which Denis Villeneuve brilliantly turned into _Arrival_. I'm going to go with either Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_, or else Peter Jackson's _Lord of the Rings_ (because Tolkien's story *was* one novel, and only released in 3 volumes due to post-WWII paper rationing).
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 13: Which "unfilmable" novel do you think has worked best on screen?
Since you said "novel", I can't pick Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life", which Denis Villeneuve brilliantly turned into _Arrival_. I'm going to go with either Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_, or else Peter Jackson's _Lord of the Rings_ (because Tolkien's story *was* one novel, and only released in 3 volumes due to post-WWII paper rationing).
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: Do you keep a log of incidental characters or forget them once they've featured?
I think if someone's *that* incidental, I will (hopefully) not create anything else about them that doesn't show up on the page, so therefore if I need to refer back to anything about them, I can just go look at what I've already written. It will be the source material.
But if I even mentally create anything else about them... boom, they get their own notes somewhere in my files.
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Io credo che dovremmo prendere tutti i Grandi Bombardatori o aspiranti tali e chiuderli insieme in una gabbia fin che non ne resta soltanto uno.
Poi ammazziamo l'uno...oppure, meglio, lo teniamo nella gabbia per tirargli uova marce ogni tanto.
Le uova marce sarebbero l'unico cibo a disposizione, quindi dovrebbe imparare in fretta a raccattarle prima che esploda.
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Do you remember
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@ju ... e se la Russia bombardasse Israele, e Israele bombardasse la Russia?
Così, è un'idea.
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Anche, ma non è solo Israele.
Dev'essere una moda tra gli stronzi psicopatici: prima di Israele era la Russia a bombardarli.
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Ma quindi come è andata Zona Warpa?
Io ero a Gamics Piemonte, altrimenti avrei probabilmente fatto un salto uno dei due giorni
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Parlando d'altro... qui sto cercando un nuovo veterinario.
Non è una cosa di cui sono molto felice, la mia veterinaria è molto brava e competente e umanamente una bella persona.
Il problema è che ha un socio.
Lo scopo del socio sembra essere vendere cose, non importa quanto grave sia la situazione.
Oggi parlavo con mio nipote che ha due cani e gli stessi veterinari e la sensazione che lei stia abbandonando sempre di più la cosa nelle mani dell'imbonitore è molto forte.
L'imbonitore è chiaramente incompetente, s'è visto con la mia gatta Picia e con il gatto Nerino di mio nipote.
Gli venisse il cagotto all'imbonitore.
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@snow non dovrebbero levare soldi dalla busta... che lottino per i loro contratti...
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@ju > perchè...stanno in Siria, credo?
Credo che il motivo è che stanno a meno di 250 km da Gerusalemme.
