#WritersCoffeeClub (Sep) 1: Intro: Shameless Self Promotion.
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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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#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.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 11: How does your setting contribute to the conflict in your work?
It's quite possibly the city with the starkest, most jarring levels of wealth inequality in the country. (Or else New York, probably depends just how you measure.) Tech bros and fascists have deliberately made San Francisco a symbol "the sin of empathy" with their crusade against homeless people there.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 11: How does your setting contribute to the conflict in your work?
It's quite possibly the city with the starkest, most jarring levels of wealth inequality in the country. (Or else New York, probably depends just how you measure.) Tech bros and fascists have deliberately made San Francisco a symbol "the sin of empathy" with their crusade against homeless people there.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 12: In what ways does weather or season influence how and what you write?
I write better after dark, but I deliberately put more effort into daytime writing during the summer months to counteract that.
(In related news, I just saw a headline on Gothamist saying "NYC won't see a sunset before 8 p.m. for next 3 months". Just knowing that should help me; it tells me in no uncertain terms that writing in the afternoon, instead of waiting until evening, is now a *must*.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 12: In what ways does weather or season influence how and what you write?
I write better after dark, but I deliberately put more effort into daytime writing during the summer months to counteract that.
(In related news, I just saw a headline on Gothamist saying "NYC won't see a sunset before 8 p.m. for next 3 months". Just knowing that should help me; it tells me in no uncertain terms that writing in the afternoon, instead of waiting until evening, is now a *must*.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 13: Does alienation feature in your work? Give an example.
I don't know about "feature", but it's at least somewhat present. At the beginning of the book, Jessie is feeling very alienated from her friends and family. David is also feeling alienated, not from people, but from the world, and he hasn't really noticed it. But it's there, and underlies some of his arc.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 13: Does alienation feature in your work? Give an example.
I don't know about "feature", but it's at least somewhat present. At the beginning of the book, Jessie is feeling very alienated from her friends and family. David is also feeling alienated, not from people, but from the world, and he hasn't really noticed it. But it's there, and underlies some of his arc.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: How do you use cyclic structures in your work?
I haven't used any of those yet, and I don't think I'll be able to fit any into the WIP.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 14: How do you use cyclic structures in your work?
I haven't used any of those yet, and I don't think I'll be able to fit any into the WIP.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 15: “The past is a foreign country.” What facets of your work do you hope remain intelligible to future readers?
All of them, really. Come on, I don't want my work to become UNintelligible, right?
But the most critical things are the fight against oligarchs and the value of diversity.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 15: “The past is a foreign country.” What facets of your work do you hope remain intelligible to future readers?
All of them, really. Come on, I don't want my work to become UNintelligible, right?
But the most critical things are the fight against oligarchs and the value of diversity.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 16: International Day of Light/Peace. Tell us about your favorite use of symbolic imagery.
I don't know about "favorite", but I've gotta say, butterflies just _keep_ popping up in my WIP.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 16: International Day of Light/Peace. Tell us about your favorite use of symbolic imagery.
I don't know about "favorite", but I've gotta say, butterflies just _keep_ popping up in my WIP.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: How do you ‘write what you know’?
I'm setting my story in (and making a character of) the City where I lived for over 25 years, about which a friend once observed, "You know this city like a Dashiell Hammett character."
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 17: How do you ‘write what you know’?
I'm setting my story in (and making a character of) the City where I lived for over 25 years, about which a friend once observed, "You know this city like a Dashiell Hammett character."
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: What do you do to actively avoid writer’s block?
I keep in mind that word count is not the only thing that counts as writing. Fleshing out character backgrounds, figuring out how a particular spell works, or how I'm going to resolve a particular problem, or how two characters met, or whatever... it all counts. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 18: What do you do to actively avoid writer’s block?
I keep in mind that word count is not the only thing that counts as writing. Fleshing out character backgrounds, figuring out how a particular spell works, or how I'm going to resolve a particular problem, or how two characters met, or whatever... it all counts. 1/2
It's all part of creating this world and story. So if I just can't manage to bang out some words in the narrative today, I can always pick up one or another of the various background things that need doing. 2/2
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It's all part of creating this world and story. So if I just can't manage to bang out some words in the narrative today, I can always pick up one or another of the various background things that need doing. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Is there a creative habit-building method you swear by?
Honestly, the big thing for me has been putting a 7-day exponential moving average on my hand-rolled progress-graphing tool. Just having line graphs with daily points would mean that taking a day off just looks like a brief downward spike. But the EMA means there's a *seven-day gap* in the line, and it just looks awful, and then it takes 6 or 7 weeks to scroll off the left side... ugh! 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Is there a creative habit-building method you swear by?
Honestly, the big thing for me has been putting a 7-day exponential moving average on my hand-rolled progress-graphing tool. Just having line graphs with daily points would mean that taking a day off just looks like a brief downward spike. But the EMA means there's a *seven-day gap* in the line, and it just looks awful, and then it takes 6 or 7 weeks to scroll off the left side... ugh! 1/2
That wasn't why I did it; it was just the obvious data-visualization move for dealing with the otherwise-far-too-jaggedy line of raw daily data. But it had this wonderful secondary effect. Seriously, nothing has made me grit my teeth and force myself to do "at least 10 or 15 minutes, just as a bare minimum" when I'm feeling crappy, tired, stupid, or whatever, more than that one small decision. 2/2
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That wasn't why I did it; it was just the obvious data-visualization move for dealing with the otherwise-far-too-jaggedy line of raw daily data. But it had this wonderful secondary effect. Seriously, nothing has made me grit my teeth and force myself to do "at least 10 or 15 minutes, just as a bare minimum" when I'm feeling crappy, tired, stupid, or whatever, more than that one small decision. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Pick two other writers’ works that would pair well with yours.
Fritz Leiber's _Our Lady of Darkness_ and Emma Bull's _The War for the Oaks_.
(Special bonus: Margot Chu wishes I'd picked John M. Ford's _The Last Hot Time_ instead of the Emma Bull.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 20: Pick two other writers’ works that would pair well with yours.
Fritz Leiber's _Our Lady of Darkness_ and Emma Bull's _The War for the Oaks_.
(Special bonus: Margot Chu wishes I'd picked John M. Ford's _The Last Hot Time_ instead of the Emma Bull.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: Are there facets of your work best understood in the context of when you wrote it?
Oh, very much yes. The whole plot strand about the villain trying to influence the upcoming San Francisco election, to get a mayor, half the Board of Supervisors, and a bunch of ballot propositions that he wants, with the future of the City hinging on it? It's extremely 2024.
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