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#WritersCoffeeClub 15: Should writers be honest re:their politics online or keep quiet/avoid controversy?
"Should" is a strong word. I'm not sure what other writers "should" do, or even what would be prudent for them.
I'm not exactly quiet about my politics; my social media profiles brazenly proclaim me as progressive/feminist/etc. I don't expect that'll lose me any sales; the book itself'll be loaded with characters across the LGBTQ+ *and* ethnic spectra, so conservatives'll DNF it by page 5.
#WritersCoffeeClub 16: How do you feel about flashbacks? Do you use them?
I have no strong feelings about them one way or another. I expect I'll use a few, as I want to show some scenes in my villains' histories that show how they went from being more-or-less good to not-so-good-anymore and then to out-and-out villainous.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 16: How do you feel about flashbacks? Do you use them?
I have no strong feelings about them one way or another. I expect I'll use a few, as I want to show some scenes in my villains' histories that show how they went from being more-or-less good to not-so-good-anymore and then to out-and-out villainous.
#WritersCoffeeClub 17: What is the biggest inspiration for your writing?
I wish I could point to something. But it's really all over the place. I'm inspired by the city, by cities in general, by the life in them, by the *lives* in them — so many people going about their lives, and the ways they interact…
Also by thoughts of what good and evil are, and how people become one or the other.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 17: What is the biggest inspiration for your writing?
I wish I could point to something. But it's really all over the place. I'm inspired by the city, by cities in general, by the life in them, by the *lives* in them — so many people going about their lives, and the ways they interact…
Also by thoughts of what good and evil are, and how people become one or the other.
#WritersCoffeeClub 18: How do you combat writer's block?
I haven't really been prone to it yet. I think partly because I'm in the world- and character-building stage, and that means that if I get stuck on some particular thing, I can always just shift my focus to something else for a bit. Not even just between characters/world, but subsets of each: MCs/villains/side characters, or groups and organizations/the magic system/divination, and so on. There's always *something* I can pick up!
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#WritersCoffeeClub 18: How do you combat writer's block?
I haven't really been prone to it yet. I think partly because I'm in the world- and character-building stage, and that means that if I get stuck on some particular thing, I can always just shift my focus to something else for a bit. Not even just between characters/world, but subsets of each: MCs/villains/side characters, or groups and organizations/the magic system/divination, and so on. There's always *something* I can pick up!
#WritersCoffeeClub 19: As a writer, do you always apply the three-act structure? Why/why not?
I can't think of ANY structure that is so universally relevant that I'd try to apply it to *everything* I do. Different stories have different needs. Just like the Hero's Journey/"monomyth", trying to shoehorn everything into one framework may work smoothly on some stories, but others will be horribly mangled.
That said, the three-act structure does apply reasonably well to my current WIP.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 19: As a writer, do you always apply the three-act structure? Why/why not?
I can't think of ANY structure that is so universally relevant that I'd try to apply it to *everything* I do. Different stories have different needs. Just like the Hero's Journey/"monomyth", trying to shoehorn everything into one framework may work smoothly on some stories, but others will be horribly mangled.
That said, the three-act structure does apply reasonably well to my current WIP.
#WritersCoffeeClub 20: If you read over a quarter of a book and decide you don't like it, do you bail or complete it?
I'm not one to force myself to slog through an unpleasant or tedious experience. Heck, I recently checked out Tom Stoppard's _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead_ and was looking forward to it, thinking it sounded like the kind of thing I'd probably like... then DNF'ed it maybe a quarter of the way through when I realized I was dreading picking it up again.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 20: If you read over a quarter of a book and decide you don't like it, do you bail or complete it?
I'm not one to force myself to slog through an unpleasant or tedious experience. Heck, I recently checked out Tom Stoppard's _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead_ and was looking forward to it, thinking it sounded like the kind of thing I'd probably like... then DNF'ed it maybe a quarter of the way through when I realized I was dreading picking it up again.
#WritersCoffeeClub 21: How do you write an internal monologue and/or telepathy in your work?
Internal monologue: italics.
Telepathy: I don't think there'll be any telepathy in my WIP (although hmmm, maybe a telepathy spell might open some interesting doors…), but the City speaks in something similar. So far, I've been italicizing that and also setting it off with ::doubled colons::, but I think that looks awkward and I'll probably change it. Maybe «angle quotes»?
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#WritersCoffeeClub 21: How do you write an internal monologue and/or telepathy in your work?
Internal monologue: italics.
Telepathy: I don't think there'll be any telepathy in my WIP (although hmmm, maybe a telepathy spell might open some interesting doors…), but the City speaks in something similar. So far, I've been italicizing that and also setting it off with ::doubled colons::, but I think that looks awkward and I'll probably change it. Maybe «angle quotes»?
#WritersCoffeeClub 22: Stephen King portrays writers in his stories. Which actor should play you in the story of your life?
I think Val Kilmer has the kind of sensitivity and ability to play people who are little different from everyone around them that I'd want, if not for the throat cancer.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 22: Stephen King portrays writers in his stories. Which actor should play you in the story of your life?
I think Val Kilmer has the kind of sensitivity and ability to play people who are little different from everyone around them that I'd want, if not for the throat cancer.
#WritersCoffeeClub 23: Is it okay to use short-form conversational text, i.e. contractions, in a novel?
Absolutely. I mean, in dialogue? *Obviously.* People don't talk in formal speech! People use contractions! (Except folks like Data from ST:TNG. I have nobody like that in my work.)
But even in narration, it's fine! Words like "didn't", "couldn't", "can't" and "won't" are absolutely not a problem; trying to avoid them might even sound stilted.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 23: Is it okay to use short-form conversational text, i.e. contractions, in a novel?
Absolutely. I mean, in dialogue? *Obviously.* People don't talk in formal speech! People use contractions! (Except folks like Data from ST:TNG. I have nobody like that in my work.)
But even in narration, it's fine! Words like "didn't", "couldn't", "can't" and "won't" are absolutely not a problem; trying to avoid them might even sound stilted.
#WritersCoffeeClub 24: Are you a book hoarder, or do you sell them/give them away once read?
Most of my books or reading these days are either library books or digital, and copyright holders have done all kinds of shenanigans to make digital books difficult or impossible to pass along.😒
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#WritersCoffeeClub 24: Are you a book hoarder, or do you sell them/give them away once read?
Most of my books or reading these days are either library books or digital, and copyright holders have done all kinds of shenanigans to make digital books difficult or impossible to pass along.😒
#WritersCoffeeClub 25: Oxford comma, no Oxford comma, or I don't live in Oxford?
I'm one of those heretics who really doesn't care much. Just make sure your comma usage diminishes, rather than increases, confusion. That's the important thing for me. The reader's ease of comprehension.
That said, the Oxford comma is *usually* clearer. And I've adopted it to avoid the wrath of its partisans and crusaders. (The anti camp seems much quieter.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub 25: Oxford comma, no Oxford comma, or I don't live in Oxford?
I'm one of those heretics who really doesn't care much. Just make sure your comma usage diminishes, rather than increases, confusion. That's the important thing for me. The reader's ease of comprehension.
That said, the Oxford comma is *usually* clearer. And I've adopted it to avoid the wrath of its partisans and crusaders. (The anti camp seems much quieter.)
#WritersCoffeeClub 26: How many drafts do you go through before the final manuscript?
I'll find that out after I finish the first draft!
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#WritersCoffeeClub 26: How many drafts do you go through before the final manuscript?
I'll find that out after I finish the first draft!
#WritersCoffeeClub 27: Hollywood has optioned your work for a movie. Do you disown it if they change things?
This is a tough one. "Change things" *how much?* Some things *need* to change when going from a written medium to a visual one. But speaking of core, crucial things…
I'd try to hold out for contract clauses that would allow me to scuttle a project that was going to mess with important stuff (or keep them from doing so in the first place!), if possible. 1/3
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#WritersCoffeeClub 27: Hollywood has optioned your work for a movie. Do you disown it if they change things?
This is a tough one. "Change things" *how much?* Some things *need* to change when going from a written medium to a visual one. But speaking of core, crucial things…
I'd try to hold out for contract clauses that would allow me to scuttle a project that was going to mess with important stuff (or keep them from doing so in the first place!), if possible. 1/3
But I realize it probably wouldn't be possible. Especially for me, as a first-time writer! So…
If "disown it" just means that I say publicly, all over social media and in any interviews I can get, "I disown the movie that's coming out next week. It's a travesty; don't go see it"? (Sort of like Anne Rice did with the 1993 _Interview With the Vampire_… until she suddenly changed her mind for reasons unknown?) Yeah, I'd do that. Absolutely. Why not? 2/3
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But I realize it probably wouldn't be possible. Especially for me, as a first-time writer! So…
If "disown it" just means that I say publicly, all over social media and in any interviews I can get, "I disown the movie that's coming out next week. It's a travesty; don't go see it"? (Sort of like Anne Rice did with the 1993 _Interview With the Vampire_… until she suddenly changed her mind for reasons unknown?) Yeah, I'd do that. Absolutely. Why not? 2/3
Okay, I can actually see why not, if you're hoping for royalties. And no shade or disrespect to any writers who need their movie royalties to be as big as possible because they need to pay the bills! You do what you gotta do under capitalism.
But for myself, I already have a career. I can afford to say that I want my works to stay true to a particular vision, where the legacy is more important than the pay. I have that option, and I'd take it. But I can understand the other side. 3/3
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Okay, I can actually see why not, if you're hoping for royalties. And no shade or disrespect to any writers who need their movie royalties to be as big as possible because they need to pay the bills! You do what you gotta do under capitalism.
But for myself, I already have a career. I can afford to say that I want my works to stay true to a particular vision, where the legacy is more important than the pay. I have that option, and I'd take it. But I can understand the other side. 3/3
#WritersCoffeeClub 28: Table of contents or no table of contents? Discuss.
I don't much care either way, but I am thinking very hard about whether to have themed chapter names/titles. Or chapter names at all; it seems like very few books do, but I really love the idea of having them have a theme or connecting thread.
Of course, if you have chapter titles *and* a ToC, you need to make sure none of those titles deliver spoilers! But that should be easy enough.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 28: Table of contents or no table of contents? Discuss.
I don't much care either way, but I am thinking very hard about whether to have themed chapter names/titles. Or chapter names at all; it seems like very few books do, but I really love the idea of having them have a theme or connecting thread.
Of course, if you have chapter titles *and* a ToC, you need to make sure none of those titles deliver spoilers! But that should be easy enough.
#WritersCoffeeClub 29: Have you ever left an autographed copy of your work in a hotel or guest house?
I don't have that option yet, still being unpublished.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 29: Have you ever left an autographed copy of your work in a hotel or guest house?
I don't have that option yet, still being unpublished.
#WritersCoffeeClub 30: Did the education system inspire you or put you off writing?
Neither, really. It taught me some about writing essays, but not really about writing fiction. OTOH, it did introduce me to lots of works of literature. Ehhh, really 🤷🏻 six of one, a half-dozen of the other. Or "not a major influence in either direction".
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#WritersCoffeeClub 30: Did the education system inspire you or put you off writing?
Neither, really. It taught me some about writing essays, but not really about writing fiction. OTOH, it did introduce me to lots of works of literature. Ehhh, really 🤷🏻 six of one, a half-dozen of the other. Or "not a major influence in either direction".
#WritersCoffeeClub 31: Does your work include any horror elements? What's the most frightening thing you've written?
I have plans for one of the villains to do some things that are pretty creepy, but I'm trying to be very careful of the usual "ways creepy guys violate other people" tropes. Also, I'm writing #UrbanFantasy, not horror, so I do want to avoid suddenly hitting readers with a level of scariness that they hadn't planned on signing up for.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 31: Does your work include any horror elements? What's the most frightening thing you've written?
I have plans for one of the villains to do some things that are pretty creepy, but I'm trying to be very careful of the usual "ways creepy guys violate other people" tropes. Also, I'm writing #UrbanFantasy, not horror, so I do want to avoid suddenly hitting readers with a level of scariness that they hadn't planned on signing up for.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: What's the best writing advice you've heard or read?
Write for the people who will enjoy your work, not for the asshole on the internet (whose voice you've probably internalized by now!) who picks everything apart mercilessly. Don't write defensively; write for joy.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: What's the best writing advice you've heard or read?
Write for the people who will enjoy your work, not for the asshole on the internet (whose voice you've probably internalized by now!) who picks everything apart mercilessly. Don't write defensively; write for joy.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 2: Do you keep a notebook or digital device by your bed if you have an idea during the night?
Not specifically in that way, but... I have made it so I can take notes and edit any and all of my writing files on my phone. And I do keep my phone by my bed when I'm sleeping, albeit mostly because it's also my alarm clock.
So, the two things combine to make this a "yes", even though I didn't intend those actions quite that way.
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Sotto una luce fredda e lontana un brivido di calore
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Fottute divise davanti ai miei occhi mi parlano
Non vogliono sapere dei miei sentimenti
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Troppo corta una vita per dimostrarvi quanto vi odio!
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:: E dopo i NoVax arrivano i NoPericolo 😂
Dovremmo tutti applaudire i piloti italiani che hanno computo una perfetta operazione in Estonia.
