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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: In honor of @john, who doesn’t really like coffee: what “established” writerly traits don’t really apply to you?
I'm not into kvetching and whining about how hard writing is? 🤷🏻
Edit: John's own post, https://mastodonapp.uk/@johnhowesauthor/114374951883315601, has a few other great ones that also apply to me, incl.: no writer's block; use adverbs; no pets (though I don't consider cats evil); no office; don't use Scrivener. Nice!
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: Earth Day! Who’s your most traveled character? Your least traveled?
Most traveled is probably Travis Winter. As the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar investment firm, he often has to fly off to other cities for business, conferences, and so on. (He's not very happy about that; leaving San Francisco doesn't feel that great for a City shaman.) 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: Earth Day! Who’s your most traveled character? Your least traveled?
Most traveled is probably Travis Winter. As the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar investment firm, he often has to fly off to other cities for business, conferences, and so on. (He's not very happy about that; leaving San Francisco doesn't feel that great for a City shaman.) 1/2
Least traveled is a toss-up between Kevin Wingard, Angel Castillo, and Deonte King on the one hand, and Van Martinez on the other. All 4 are born and raised in San Francisco; the first 3 attended UC Berkeley and then came back, while Van attended USF within the City, but nowadays she travels down the Peninsula to Mountain View for martial arts training once a week.
Which counts more, living across the Bay for a few years, or traveling a similar distance, routinely, now? 2/2
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Least traveled is a toss-up between Kevin Wingard, Angel Castillo, and Deonte King on the one hand, and Van Martinez on the other. All 4 are born and raised in San Francisco; the first 3 attended UC Berkeley and then came back, while Van attended USF within the City, but nowadays she travels down the Peninsula to Mountain View for martial arts training once a week.
Which counts more, living across the Bay for a few years, or traveling a similar distance, routinely, now? 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: How comfortable are you with ambiguity as a reader? As a writer?
As a reader, I appreciate when it's used deliberately as a technique for "having it both (or more than two) ways". Very cool.
As a writer, I want people to understand what I'm saying.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: How comfortable are you with ambiguity as a reader? As a writer?
As a reader, I appreciate when it's used deliberately as a technique for "having it both (or more than two) ways". Very cool.
As a writer, I want people to understand what I'm saying.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: What kinds of conflict do you find the most compelling?
Ones where both (or all) sides have a point, but they each think their own point is stronger. Ones where the various sides have given at least _some_ thought to doing what (one of) their opponent(s) is/are doing, but ultimately rejected it...
...and they're still not 100% sure they made the right choice.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: What kinds of conflict do you find the most compelling?
Ones where both (or all) sides have a point, but they each think their own point is stronger. Ones where the various sides have given at least _some_ thought to doing what (one of) their opponent(s) is/are doing, but ultimately rejected it...
...and they're still not 100% sure they made the right choice.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: What does a session of writing look like for you?
I sit myself down in my comfy chair with a drink at my side, or else I'm out in some bar or something, and then I write a lot on my ever-present laptop. Sometimes I get up and pace around while muttering to myself. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: What does a session of writing look like for you?
I sit myself down in my comfy chair with a drink at my side, or else I'm out in some bar or something, and then I write a lot on my ever-present laptop. Sometimes I get up and pace around while muttering to myself. 1/2
That part usually works better at bars than at home, as barstools are way easier to get up off of than my comfy chair. People do give me the occasional glance, but I live in New York City, so, seeing that I'm obviously not hostile or causing a problem, they just shrug and go back to whatever they were doing. 2/2
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That part usually works better at bars than at home, as barstools are way easier to get up off of than my comfy chair. People do give me the occasional glance, but I live in New York City, so, seeing that I'm obviously not hostile or causing a problem, they just shrug and go back to whatever they were doing. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: International Workers’ Memorial Day! How important is class or caste in your writing?
Pretty important, although more as a backdrop or underpinning than something explicitly examined in the text. But my solidarity is very definitely with workers — while my heroes range from "child of poor, working-class immigrants" up to comfortable middle-class, two of my villains are full-on billionaires (one the child of hereditary wealth) and 2 more are upper-middle.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: International Workers’ Memorial Day! How important is class or caste in your writing?
Pretty important, although more as a backdrop or underpinning than something explicitly examined in the text. But my solidarity is very definitely with workers — while my heroes range from "child of poor, working-class immigrants" up to comfortable middle-class, two of my villains are full-on billionaires (one the child of hereditary wealth) and 2 more are upper-middle.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: Have you ever written anything that didn’t age well?
None of my writing has had the chance to age yet.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: Have you ever written anything that didn’t age well?
None of my writing has had the chance to age yet.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: International Jazz Day! Do you participate in ‘writing jams’ with other writers?
I haven't yet. I'm not sure what's involved, so I can't even say if "I might in the future" or "no, that's not for me", but I suspect maybe the latter.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: International Jazz Day! Do you participate in ‘writing jams’ with other writers?
I haven't yet. I'm not sure what's involved, so I can't even say if "I might in the future" or "no, that's not for me", but I suspect maybe the latter.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: International Workers Day. Which writer’s work blazed the trail for what you write today?
Emma Bull's and Teri Windling's. They were very much the progenitors of urban fantasy as the modern genre we know now. (There had been other, earlier things that qualified retroactively, but they're the ones I credit with really turning it into a recognizable genre, rather than just a thing that occasionally happened.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: International Workers Day. Which writer’s work blazed the trail for what you write today?
Emma Bull's and Teri Windling's. They were very much the progenitors of urban fantasy as the modern genre we know now. (There had been other, earlier things that qualified retroactively, but they're the ones I credit with really turning it into a recognizable genre, rather than just a thing that occasionally happened.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 2: How much research does your setting require?
Tons. It's a recognizable, current-day, real-world setting, and millions of people either live there now, or have done so in their lives and have good memories of it. I'm going for a high level of detail and accuracy, and if I mess things up, I'm pretty sure it will get noticed. Even teensy things like if someone tells a story about going to Restaurant X in 2006, but the place actually didn't open until 2007.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 2: How much research does your setting require?
Tons. It's a recognizable, current-day, real-world setting, and millions of people either live there now, or have done so in their lives and have good memories of it. I'm going for a high level of detail and accuracy, and if I mess things up, I'm pretty sure it will get noticed. Even teensy things like if someone tells a story about going to Restaurant X in 2006, but the place actually didn't open until 2007.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 3: World Press Freedom Day. How has journalism influenced your writing?
My fantasy writing? Not much, to be honest. I'm not trying to give an accurate account of actual events, I'm sure as hell not going to use inverted pyramid format in a novel, and I'm also not concerned with telling "both sides" of this story.
Journalism has its place. "In a novel" is not it.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 3: World Press Freedom Day. How has journalism influenced your writing?
My fantasy writing? Not much, to be honest. I'm not trying to give an accurate account of actual events, I'm sure as hell not going to use inverted pyramid format in a novel, and I'm also not concerned with telling "both sides" of this story.
Journalism has its place. "In a novel" is not it.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 5: Have you ever worked through a bad experience by writing fiction?
No, and I doubt I will.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 5: Have you ever worked through a bad experience by writing fiction?
No, and I doubt I will.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 6: What does your usual workspace look like? Share a picture.
Here you go! It says the workspace, but not with me in it, so here it is as if I just vanished from underneath my laptop, Miss Sakamoto. (In retrospect, I should have folded her screen back a little more so the picture on the back of her lid was more visible.) The scarf is a cherished gift from my sweetie.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 6: What does your usual workspace look like? Share a picture.
Here you go! It says the workspace, but not with me in it, so here it is as if I just vanished from underneath my laptop, Miss Sakamoto. (In retrospect, I should have folded her screen back a little more so the picture on the back of her lid was more visible.) The scarf is a cherished gift from my sweetie.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 7: Share a special location you write in for inspiration.
Lately, I've been doing pretty well at writing at Oldies bar/Wakuwaku izakaya in Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The food's nice, they make an excellent Manhattan variant (the East Village Manhattan, and it pairs wonderfully with their chicken karaage), and the music and vibe are nice and chill. It's enough to give me the impulse to write, but not so hype that it distracts me. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 7: Share a special location you write in for inspiration.
Lately, I've been doing pretty well at writing at Oldies bar/Wakuwaku izakaya in Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The food's nice, they make an excellent Manhattan variant (the East Village Manhattan, and it pairs wonderfully with their chicken karaage), and the music and vibe are nice and chill. It's enough to give me the impulse to write, but not so hype that it distracts me. 1/2
Also, they let me plug my laptop in behind the bar so I don't have an artificial time limit. Also also, they have no wifi. I can and do use my phone's access point (I need to do research!), but it keeps me a little bit mindful of not blowing out my data plan, so I'm not so inclined to just goof off on social media. 2/2
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Also, they let me plug my laptop in behind the bar so I don't have an artificial time limit. Also also, they have no wifi. I can and do use my phone's access point (I need to do research!), but it keeps me a little bit mindful of not blowing out my data plan, so I'm not so inclined to just goof off on social media. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 8: Give an example of a project you’ve had to give up on.
None so far; I'm still on my first writing project.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 8: Give an example of a project you’ve had to give up on.
None so far; I'm still on my first writing project.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 9: Have you ever realised you’d included an unintended shibboleth in your own work?
A lot of writers are currently confronting the fact that way too many people are trying to make "uses em dashes" a shibboleth that indicates something was written with — or entirely by — an AI. To which I say (in the immortal words of Gwen DeMarco): "Well, *fuck that!*" 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 9: Have you ever realised you’d included an unintended shibboleth in your own work?
A lot of writers are currently confronting the fact that way too many people are trying to make "uses em dashes" a shibboleth that indicates something was written with — or entirely by — an AI. To which I say (in the immortal words of Gwen DeMarco): "Well, *fuck that!*" 1/2
(N.B.: They re-dubbed the line to "Well, screw that" in post-production, but you can clearly see Sigourney Weaver's lips forming a very different word. I guess that one Precision F-Strike would've otherwise pushed _Galaxy Quest_'s rating up higher than they wanted.) 2/2
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(N.B.: They re-dubbed the line to "Well, screw that" in post-production, but you can clearly see Sigourney Weaver's lips forming a very different word. I guess that one Precision F-Strike would've otherwise pushed _Galaxy Quest_'s rating up higher than they wanted.) 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 10: Recommend a poet or prosaist local to your city or region.
How can I pass up an opportunity to recommend Ina Coolbrith? Poems like "To San Francisco" and "San Francisco: April 18th, 1906" capture (and display) her love of the City, and also her poetic skill. (Honorable mention to George Sterling, though I rate Coolbrith's skill above his.)
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@bbacc io l'ho saputo da amici che hanno smesso di procurarsene senza contatto diretto del produttore quando l'hanno saputo, ma personalmente non ho indagato oltre.
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Vendemmia
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@stella 😂
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@francina1909 Mi associo ! @macfranc
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@oblomov capisco, grazie comunque . parli di un fenomeno globale ? secondo te con una ricerca potrei trovare simili pratiche anche nel contesto italiano ?
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@oblomov @matz @GustavinoBevilacqua @Puck più che altro una rottura di scatole toglierlo video per video (non uso account su yt). Tra l’altro non lo sopporto, è orrendo.
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ILIADE
Un progetto di Alessandro Baricco
Canti 9-24«... oggi io so di aver sbagliato, ma non sbagliano anche gli dei? La stoltezza ha piedi leggeri e non sfiora la terra ma cammina nella testa degli uomini per la loro rovina e se li prende, uno ad uno, quando più le piace. Ha preso me quel giorno e mi ha tolto il senno...»
#letteratura #poesia #storia
https://cctm.website/category/iliade/
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@GustavinoBevilacqua dalla mamma, duh
