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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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#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.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Have you ever done a writing mentorship? What was your takeaway?
I haven't, not on either side of the mentor-mentee relationship.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 28: Have you ever done a writing mentorship? What was your takeaway?
I haven't, not on either side of the mentor-mentee relationship.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: Tell us about an epiphany that changed your writing.
I haven't had one of those yet. A few ideas that helped with the world-building on this particular WIP, but nothing (yet) that's made a major change in _my writing_.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 29: Tell us about an epiphany that changed your writing.
I haven't had one of those yet. A few ideas that helped with the world-building on this particular WIP, but nothing (yet) that's made a major change in _my writing_.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: Who do you write for?
Anyone who will like the kind of thing I'm writing. Sorry if that sounds tautological, but...🤷🏻 it's true.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: Who do you write for?
Anyone who will like the kind of thing I'm writing. Sorry if that sounds tautological, but...🤷🏻 it's true.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 31: What fact of your life would give a reader a new appreciation for your work?
I've been having trouble with this question. "The fact that I lived in San Francisco for over 25 years?" I mused. "No, people would know that from the author bio. What sort of _extra_ thing would matter?"
And then I realized: nothing. Nothing extra _should_ make that kind of a difference. The book should stand on its own. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub Day 31: What fact of your life would give a reader a new appreciation for your work?
I've been having trouble with this question. "The fact that I lived in San Francisco for over 25 years?" I mused. "No, people would know that from the author bio. What sort of _extra_ thing would matter?"
And then I realized: nothing. Nothing extra _should_ make that kind of a difference. The book should stand on its own. 1/2
(And, TBH, even if I didn't include any author bio, or if I left out the fact that I'd lived there, I think any reader would easily be able to tell not only that I'd lived in San Francisco for a long time (and might assume I still did), but also that I *love* it very much.) 2/2
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(And, TBH, even if I didn't include any author bio, or if I left out the fact that I'd lived there, I think any reader would easily be able to tell not only that I'd lived in San Francisco for a long time (and might assume I still did), but also that I *love* it very much.) 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub day 1: Are there ethical principles fiction must adhere to? What are they?
Fiction particularly? Like, in a way that other things (including non-fiction, or just living) don't have to? No, I don't think so.
[Edit: Having written that answer on my own when the questions first came out, I would like to co-sign @orionkidder's excellent answer: https://writing.exchange/@orionkidder/114608746597852518.]
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 1: Are there ethical principles fiction must adhere to? What are they?
Fiction particularly? Like, in a way that other things (including non-fiction, or just living) don't have to? No, I don't think so.
[Edit: Having written that answer on my own when the questions first came out, I would like to co-sign @orionkidder's excellent answer: https://writing.exchange/@orionkidder/114608746597852518.]
#WritersCoffeeClub day 2: Do you write linearly? Why or why not?
Mostly, yes. Everything that happens rests on what's gone before — both for characters and for readers. It's easier for me to determine what a character will do in a particular situation if I know what they've been dealing with before. And descriptions of things need to be based in what the reader has (and hasn't) already been told.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 2: Do you write linearly? Why or why not?
Mostly, yes. Everything that happens rests on what's gone before — both for characters and for readers. It's easier for me to determine what a character will do in a particular situation if I know what they've been dealing with before. And descriptions of things need to be based in what the reader has (and hasn't) already been told.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 3: Have you ever done a writing challenge? How did it go?
I haven't.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 3: Have you ever done a writing challenge? How did it go?
I haven't.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 4: Do you consider writing work? Would you say writing is your life’s work?
Well, it is labor, and requires energy. In that sense, yes. But it isn't drudgery, or a chore that I have to do. So in that sense, no.
I'm still not sure what "my life's work" is. I think my writing will turn out to have been part of it, but not the whole thing.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 4: Do you consider writing work? Would you say writing is your life’s work?
Well, it is labor, and requires energy. In that sense, yes. But it isn't drudgery, or a chore that I have to do. So in that sense, no.
I'm still not sure what "my life's work" is. I think my writing will turn out to have been part of it, but not the whole thing.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 5: World Environment Day. Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, “I wish I wrote that.”
Honestly, "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe, is such a tour de force of rhythm and rhyme, it never fails to impress me. It's technically virtuosic, but you can almost miss that because of the emotion in it.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 5: World Environment Day. Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, “I wish I wrote that.”
Honestly, "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe, is such a tour de force of rhythm and rhyme, it never fails to impress me. It's technically virtuosic, but you can almost miss that because of the emotion in it.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 6: What are the conventions of the genre in which you write? How strictly do you follow them?
There are some that I follow pretty strictly, like: put it in a modern city; add some supernatural or magical stuff; and make it generally action/adventure oriented. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 6: What are the conventions of the genre in which you write? How strictly do you follow them?
There are some that I follow pretty strictly, like: put it in a modern city; add some supernatural or magical stuff; and make it generally action/adventure oriented. 1/2
There are also a few that I'm totally ignoring, like: make some of that supernatural/magical stuff be non-human species, like vampires, werewolves, fairies, angels, or demons; have only one MC; have that MC be some kind of investigator or detective; and use 1st-person POV. 2/2
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There are also a few that I'm totally ignoring, like: make some of that supernatural/magical stuff be non-human species, like vampires, werewolves, fairies, angels, or demons; have only one MC; have that MC be some kind of investigator or detective; and use 1st-person POV. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub day 7: Describe some facet — hidden or overt — which can be found in each and every one of your works.
I only have one work so far, and it's still in progress.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 7: Describe some facet — hidden or overt — which can be found in each and every one of your works.
I only have one work so far, and it's still in progress.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 8: Talk about something you wrote and later removed, and why.
I'm still on my first draft, so any "removals" are the kind of thing where you're writing, you write a paragraph or two, and then within a half-hour you go back and change, rewrite, or delete it.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 8: Talk about something you wrote and later removed, and why.
I'm still on my first draft, so any "removals" are the kind of thing where you're writing, you write a paragraph or two, and then within a half-hour you go back and change, rewrite, or delete it.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 9: Have you ever done timed writing sprints? Did you enjoy it?
I haven't.
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