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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: What are your biggest fears for the writing world in 2025?
That it'll get bamboozled into accepting gen AI, either as "this will help us out somehow" (no, it won't, I assure you) or as "well, it's inevitable, so we might as well surrender to it." Nothing's inevitable! At least, not on its own! But it sure *becomes* inevitable if you just shrug and give up.
I'm not *very* afraid of this, but... a little. It'd really suck.
[Edit: Added following post. 1/2]
I see lots of other people are talking about censorship. Yes, I'm worried about that! But I guess I interpreted the question as being about things *within* the publishing world. Politically-motivated censorship is an external force, so it just didn't enter my thoughts.
But I'm *far* more worried about that than I am that the writing world will buy into AI.
Also, I'm just now noticing that I took it as "publishing" world, but the prompt clearly says "writing". Oops. 2/2
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I see lots of other people are talking about censorship. Yes, I'm worried about that! But I guess I interpreted the question as being about things *within* the publishing world. Politically-motivated censorship is an external force, so it just didn't enter my thoughts.
But I'm *far* more worried about that than I am that the writing world will buy into AI.
Also, I'm just now noticing that I took it as "publishing" world, but the prompt clearly says "writing". Oops. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: Would you serve as a judge for a literary award?
I suspect that would require taking a lot of time to read all the entries. If the award were for novel-length works, I don't think I'd have the time.
[Edited to Add: Also, https://writing.exchange/@orionkidder/113847602997228638 makes a very good point that I wish I'd also thought of.]
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: Would you serve as a judge for a literary award?
I suspect that would require taking a lot of time to read all the entries. If the award were for novel-length works, I don't think I'd have the time.
[Edited to Add: Also, https://writing.exchange/@orionkidder/113847602997228638 makes a very good point that I wish I'd also thought of.]
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Did you find a way through the maze of traditional publishing to get your book published? What’s your secret?
I haven't got anything ready to publish yet.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Did you find a way through the maze of traditional publishing to get your book published? What’s your secret?
I haven't got anything ready to publish yet.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Do any of your stories take place on the sea? In what way?
No, not yet. And the various story ideas I have percolating in my head for the future don't include any maritime concepts either.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Do any of your stories take place on the sea? In what way?
No, not yet. And the various story ideas I have percolating in my head for the future don't include any maritime concepts either.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: What differences do you find in your process if you write both short and long-form?
I only write long form.
Unless you count these vignettes... in which case, I still don't see any real difference in my process. I figure out a good foundation and starting point for it, get my base ready, and then start going according to plan.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: What differences do you find in your process if you write both short and long-form?
I only write long form.
Unless you count these vignettes... in which case, I still don't see any real difference in my process. I figure out a good foundation and starting point for it, get my base ready, and then start going according to plan.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: What prompted you to begin writing?
The confluence of two things:
1) I'd been kicking around the idea of cities as magic, and people talking to cities and operating as magicians in/with them, for some time; and
2) I got out of a job that had been sucking my soul, and found that I had creative energy to put into writing a book about the idea I'd been playing with.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: What prompted you to begin writing?
The confluence of two things:
1) I'd been kicking around the idea of cities as magic, and people talking to cities and operating as magicians in/with them, for some time; and
2) I got out of a job that had been sucking my soul, and found that I had creative energy to put into writing a book about the idea I'd been playing with.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you think it’s vital for a fiction writer to have empathy?
Yes. At least, they should have empathy for their characters. But I think building the characters requires at least a little bit of understanding of other people.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you think it’s vital for a fiction writer to have empathy?
Yes. At least, they should have empathy for their characters. But I think building the characters requires at least a little bit of understanding of other people.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: How long is the longest story you’ve ever written? Can you link to it?
So far, my longest vignette is "A Day in the Life: David Hartmann ('Good Day' version)", at 10,846 words. It's not in a place where it can be linked to, and that's deliberate. It's internal, background material. I might make it public someday, after publishing the novel, but that's still a "maybe".
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: How long is the longest story you’ve ever written? Can you link to it?
So far, my longest vignette is "A Day in the Life: David Hartmann ('Good Day' version)", at 10,846 words. It's not in a place where it can be linked to, and that's deliberate. It's internal, background material. I might make it public someday, after publishing the novel, but that's still a "maybe".
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 25: Do you have a worked-out magical system (or advanced technology in sci-fi)? Or do you make it up as you go?
It's not like, Brandon Sanderson levels of "worked out"; it has what I call "room for jazz" in it. I'm very much making sure that in my magic system, there's more than one way to do most things, and there's not just improvisation but hopefully also enough mystery to produce a little wonder. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 25: Do you have a worked-out magical system (or advanced technology in sci-fi)? Or do you make it up as you go?
It's not like, Brandon Sanderson levels of "worked out"; it has what I call "room for jazz" in it. I'm very much making sure that in my magic system, there's more than one way to do most things, and there's not just improvisation but hopefully also enough mystery to produce a little wonder. 1/2
But yes, the general bones of it are worked out; I can tell you many of the spells that exist, and what sorts of things are normally used to cast them, and so on. 2/2
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But yes, the general bones of it are worked out; I can tell you many of the spells that exist, and what sorts of things are normally used to cast them, and so on. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: If people tell you they’ve always wanted to write, what do you say to them?
Go for it! It's not something that takes a lot of start-up capital or a big investment. All you need to put in is time and energy, and some of your heart. I encourage you to go for it!
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: If people tell you they’ve always wanted to write, what do you say to them?
Go for it! It's not something that takes a lot of start-up capital or a big investment. All you need to put in is time and energy, and some of your heart. I encourage you to go for it!
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: What unpaid marketing sites have you found helpful?
I'm not entirely sure what this means, but it doesn't much matter; it's way too early for me to do any marketing. I have diddly-squat to market yet.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: What unpaid marketing sites have you found helpful?
I'm not entirely sure what this means, but it doesn't much matter; it's way too early for me to do any marketing. I have diddly-squat to market yet.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Would anything stop you from writing, or do you have the bug for life?
If life got busy enough, and there were enough other drains on my time and energy, I can see myself regretfully putting my WIP aside for a time. But that'd just be a pause, not a stop. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Would anything stop you from writing, or do you have the bug for life?
If life got busy enough, and there were enough other drains on my time and energy, I can see myself regretfully putting my WIP aside for a time. But that'd just be a pause, not a stop. 1/2
I currently have only a limited number of story concepts (like, roughly a half-dozen). If I got through the whole list, and somehow didn't come up with any new ideas along the way, then I guess I'd stop. (Why write if I have nothing to say, you know? That's part of why it took me so long to start.)
But that seems unlikely; I think more ideas would come to me along the way. 2/2
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I currently have only a limited number of story concepts (like, roughly a half-dozen). If I got through the whole list, and somehow didn't come up with any new ideas along the way, then I guess I'd stop. (Why write if I have nothing to say, you know? That's part of why it took me so long to start.)
But that seems unlikely; I think more ideas would come to me along the way. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: How do you format your drafts? Is it the same as the final manuscript?
"Formatting" and "drafts" hardly even belong in the same sentence.
A draft should be as close to raw text as possible. Sure, italics for emphasis. Things like indentation and dates for letters (e.g., in an epistolary novel), or indentation and alignment for SMS messages (like I'm using). Maybe a character writes a list or something, and you might... 1/3
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: How do you format your drafts? Is it the same as the final manuscript?
"Formatting" and "drafts" hardly even belong in the same sentence.
A draft should be as close to raw text as possible. Sure, italics for emphasis. Things like indentation and dates for letters (e.g., in an epistolary novel), or indentation and alignment for SMS messages (like I'm using). Maybe a character writes a list or something, and you might... 1/3
...want to format it as a numbered or bulleted list. But seriously, just do it either with mere asterisks in your text, or else the _absolute default_ formatting that your word processor provides.
Don't fuss around with formatting in your manuscript. You're the *writer*. Just write. Formatting is part of the act of *publishing*, not writing. Leave that for the typographers and layout people and editors at the publishing house. 2/3
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...want to format it as a numbered or bulleted list. But seriously, just do it either with mere asterisks in your text, or else the _absolute default_ formatting that your word processor provides.
Don't fuss around with formatting in your manuscript. You're the *writer*. Just write. Formatting is part of the act of *publishing*, not writing. Leave that for the typographers and layout people and editors at the publishing house. 2/3
That's presuming you have a publisher, of course. If you're self-publishing, then you'll need to format stuff and lay it out — but do it as an entirely separate phase, 100% distinct from the writing. They are *not* the same activity. 3/3
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That's presuming you have a publisher, of course. If you're self-publishing, then you'll need to format stuff and lay it out — but do it as an entirely separate phase, 100% distinct from the writing. They are *not* the same activity. 3/3
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: Do secondary characters sometimes get promoted to main characters?
It hasn't happened yet... but I'm still too early in my writing process for it to have happened! 😆 Who knows, maybe it will?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: Do secondary characters sometimes get promoted to main characters?
It hasn't happened yet... but I'm still too early in my writing process for it to have happened! 😆 Who knows, maybe it will?
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 31: How’s your writing progress so far this year? What are you working on?
I'm still working on the same WIP I've been doing since this hashtag began: the urban fantasy about San Franciscan magicians who talk to the City. I'm working through 2 different vignettes right now, exploring how certain groups operate and getting a little more comfortable with certain side characters.
I've written 6485 words this year (month), and done some background work.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 31: How’s your writing progress so far this year? What are you working on?
I'm still working on the same WIP I've been doing since this hashtag began: the urban fantasy about San Franciscan magicians who talk to the City. I'm working through 2 different vignettes right now, exploring how certain groups operate and getting a little more comfortable with certain side characters.
I've written 6485 words this year (month), and done some background work.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: Shameless self-promotion. What writing project are you working on?
As per yesterday... My writing project is still the same one I've been working on since Writers' Coffee Club started: the urban fantasy about people in San Francisco who can talk to the City.
There's not much to promote yet. If things go spectacularly well, maybe it'll be on shelves late next year? 😫
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@Bastacosi il termine antisemitismo si è affermato storicamente come sinonimo di antiebraismo, anche perché in Europa i soli semiti erano gli ebrei quando ancora l'immigrazione da parte degli altri semiti non c'era.
Ma ciò dimostra a maggior ragione che i palestinesi sono i veri discendenti degli abitanti originari di quei territori, che si convertirono prima al cristianesimo e poi all'Islam. E forse l'odio degli ebrei nei loro confronti si spiega in parte col fatto che li considerano rinnegati?
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@filippodb @prealpinux @spettacoli E io che ancora pascolo tra i torrenti...
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Ne sono consapevole, anche perché purtroppo ci lavoro (accolgo volentieri suggerimenti su come cambiare lavoro in direzioni più etiche).
Tendo però a concentrarmi, stoicamente, su quello che certamente posso fare (nel mio piccolo, come spesso argomentato in questo thread) e il costo è stato unicamente dovermi cancellare da due app di dating (e anche solo il fatto che un'app di dating usi un tracker mi fa schifo) e da una per la palestra.
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It is soooo satisfying to continue ditching/purging enshittified Microsoft, Adobe, etc. products for high quality open-source software without missing a beat. Things like LibreOffice, Gimp, OmniTools, etc.
And to be clear, I’m a LaTeX person. I’ve never seriously used that weird thing called Word.
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@marcoboh si dichiarano semiti ma semiti sono anche gli arabi, quindi il termine antisemitismo, nell'accezione che gli danno non ha senso.
Sarebbe più corretto parlare non di popolo ma di comunità, Israele era una tribù.
Trovo anche agghiacciante che la comunità ebraica di Roma protesti per la decisione del Comune di far sventolare la bandiera della Palestina sul Campidoglio.
Da vittime a peggiori carnefici è stato un attimo
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Intanto sono a caricar la Tesla al supercharger …. Ma diamine sono fuori autostrada in luoghi improbabili (parking di un centro commerciale chiuso , vista l’ora) : mettete un semplice distributore di bottiglie d’acqua ! 🤷🏻♂️ però 44ct al kWh invece di 85/90 in autostrada agli autogrill ….e funzionano meglio !
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Sirmione. Paesaggisticamente bellissima, peccato sia sempre più iper turistica. Gitarella di fine estate con cenetta a due. Sembrava di esser al mare a luglio tra il clima e i tanti turisti!
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@mannivu sei in grado di giocare a calcetto, non è da tutti! 😉
