#WritersCoffeeClub (Sep) 1: Intro: Shameless Self Promotion.
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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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#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.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader?
Details. Especially ones that help them anchor themselves in the place, as if they could pick up and use objects there, or walk around in it.
(And yes, I *do* have some locations I've never visited: my characters' homes! Also one fictional bar-and-grill/restaurant/café that I'm inventing.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader?
Details. Especially ones that help them anchor themselves in the place, as if they could pick up and use objects there, or walk around in it.
(And yes, I *do* have some locations I've never visited: my characters' homes! Also one fictional bar-and-grill/restaurant/café that I'm inventing.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you prefer to write urban or rural settings? Why?
Urban, urban, absolutely urban all the way. Because they're what I know and love and live in (by very deliberate choice).
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 23: Do you prefer to write urban or rural settings? Why?
Urban, urban, absolutely urban all the way. Because they're what I know and love and live in (by very deliberate choice).
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: What in your writing ‘dates’ you?
Well, the whole WIP is set in 2024. I'll be putting in some details that make it clear that's when it is, so readers won't even need to do any detective work or any arithmetic based on internal references to ages or times.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24: What in your writing ‘dates’ you?
Well, the whole WIP is set in 2024. I'll be putting in some details that make it clear that's when it is, so readers won't even need to do any detective work or any arithmetic based on internal references to ages or times.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 25: Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
All the musicians whose works are in my writing mix. High on the list of ones whose stuff really gets me going are: Paul Leonard-Morgan (specifically, a couple of his tracks for the _Limitless_ soundtrack), Agnes Obel, London Grammar, Lamb, Zero 7, and Carter Burwell's theme from _Blood Simple_.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 25: Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
All the musicians whose works are in my writing mix. High on the list of ones whose stuff really gets me going are: Paul Leonard-Morgan (specifically, a couple of his tracks for the _Limitless_ soundtrack), Agnes Obel, London Grammar, Lamb, Zero 7, and Carter Burwell's theme from _Blood Simple_.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: In your work, how much of an active character is your setting?
So much so that it has lines of dialogue and conversations with the human characters.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26: In your work, how much of an active character is your setting?
So much so that it has lines of dialogue and conversations with the human characters.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 27: What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I'm not sure I understand what counts as "load-bearing" and what doesn't, but I'm inclined to say: working. That gives me the money to keep myself fed, housed, and clothed, so that instead of having to worry about the basic necessities of life, I can instead devote my mental energy to writing.
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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! 😉
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@quinta @robross @phab @apex poi di recente ci sono stati problemi anche con Banca Etica che forse così etica non si rivela
https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/le-sanzioni-ad-albanese-non-puo-aprire-nemmeno-un-conto-corrente
https://altreconomia.it/le-sanzioni-contro-francesca-albanese-e-loccasione-persa-dalle-banche-italiane/
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Testaroli importati con successo sulla East Coast.
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@Bastacosi lo stato ebraico è un'invenzione (sionista) così come lo è il popolo ebraico.
Che poi a ben pensarci il popolo ebraico era l'obbiettivo dei nazisti, che hanno contribuito a crearne il mito.
Quindi credere all'esistenza di un "popolo ebraico" (detto anche "razza ebraica") è da nazisti.
E infatti cos'altro sono Netanyahu e il suo governo, democraticamente scelto dalla maggioranza degli elettori?
https://www.librerie.coop/libri/9791222313344-linvenzione-del-popolo-ebraico-mimesis-edizioni/
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E anche oggi abbiamo fatto un altro piccolo passo verso l'estinzione della specie umana. Ma l'importante è sempre armare gli stati amici ed evacuare quelli nemici.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says Tehran will suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after the United Nations Security Council voted not to permanently lift sanctions on Tehran.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/09/20/755397/Iran-suspend-cooperation-IAEA-
