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#WritersCoffeeClub day 14: Do you take notes for your WIP? How closely do you follow them?
I made *COPIOUS* notes before starting on nearly everything I could. Both text notes and an actual spreadsheet tabulating various attributes of nearly all characters. It's very handy to be able to refer back to that stuff while writing, so I can keep all the details in order.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 15: Have you ever challenged yourself to write without editing? What were the results?
I haven't, partly because, what counts? Going back and fixing a typo? Not being allowed to even do that would drive me nuts. But if I can do that, how much change is too much?
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 15: Have you ever challenged yourself to write without editing? What were the results?
I haven't, partly because, what counts? Going back and fixing a typo? Not being allowed to even do that would drive me nuts. But if I can do that, how much change is too much?
#WritersCoffeeClub day 16: Do you write out accents phonetically/use eye dialects? Why or why not?
Only a teeny bit. I think that sort of thing should be used sparingly — basically, just enough to make the reader aware that this character has an accent when we first meet them, and then occasionally remind the reader, but there's no need to keep hammering on it. That pushes the character in the direction of caricature. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 16: Do you write out accents phonetically/use eye dialects? Why or why not?
Only a teeny bit. I think that sort of thing should be used sparingly — basically, just enough to make the reader aware that this character has an accent when we first meet them, and then occasionally remind the reader, but there's no need to keep hammering on it. That pushes the character in the direction of caricature. 1/2
Note that this isn't just for accents! It can also work for registers, like if a person who speaks General American English is speaking very informally, I might have them say they're "gonna" do something. Further, note that some characters code-switch, going from AAVE to GAE and back as befits the situations they're in. 2/2
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Note that this isn't just for accents! It can also work for registers, like if a person who speaks General American English is speaking very informally, I might have them say they're "gonna" do something. Further, note that some characters code-switch, going from AAVE to GAE and back as befits the situations they're in. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub day 17: As a writer, how anonymous do you want to be?
I plan to write and publish this under my legal name, so I guess that'd be zero anonymity, right?
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 17: As a writer, how anonymous do you want to be?
I plan to write and publish this under my legal name, so I guess that'd be zero anonymity, right?
#WritersCoffeeClub day 18: The eye of the duck: Share a ‘nonessential’ scene in one of your works that ties the piece together.
1) I had to look this up. Wow, what an interesting idea!
2) I probably will have such a scene in my WIP, but I'm not sure just what yet, or where in the book it will take place. I have a suspicion, but I'm not ready to say it yet. (And the scene I'm thinking of might not happen, anyway.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 18: The eye of the duck: Share a ‘nonessential’ scene in one of your works that ties the piece together.
1) I had to look this up. Wow, what an interesting idea!
2) I probably will have such a scene in my WIP, but I'm not sure just what yet, or where in the book it will take place. I have a suspicion, but I'm not ready to say it yet. (And the scene I'm thinking of might not happen, anyway.)
#WritersCoffeeClub day 19: How would you describe the theme of the whole of your œuvre?
🤣 I don't have an œuvre yet! I have three chapters, plus two more half-chapters, of a first draft!
If I had to pick a "theme" out of that, it'd probably just be the revelation that my two learner characters had on their awakening: The City is alive, and magic is real.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 19: How would you describe the theme of the whole of your œuvre?
🤣 I don't have an œuvre yet! I have three chapters, plus two more half-chapters, of a first draft!
If I had to pick a "theme" out of that, it'd probably just be the revelation that my two learner characters had on their awakening: The City is alive, and magic is real.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 20: Solstice. What’s the most you’ve ever written in a single session? What made that possible?
That was 3,824 words, on Thursday, September 12, 2024. I think it would have been *possible* nearly anytime, but the thing that made it *actually happen* that day was that I was trying really hard to get as much done as I could before my job started.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 20: Solstice. What’s the most you’ve ever written in a single session? What made that possible?
That was 3,824 words, on Thursday, September 12, 2024. I think it would have been *possible* nearly anytime, but the thing that made it *actually happen* that day was that I was trying really hard to get as much done as I could before my job started.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 21: Which facets of your writing only work in the language in which it was written?
I'm not sure if there are any.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 21: Which facets of your writing only work in the language in which it was written?
I'm not sure if there are any.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 22: What’s the best piece of writing advice you ever received?
There will always be haters. Don't internalize those jerks on Twitter and Reddit who jeer at everything, and don't write for them. Write for the people who *like* what you're doing. Even if you think the only person that means is yourself, that's okay. Just leave the haters out of it.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 22: What’s the best piece of writing advice you ever received?
There will always be haters. Don't internalize those jerks on Twitter and Reddit who jeer at everything, and don't write for them. Write for the people who *like* what you're doing. Even if you think the only person that means is yourself, that's okay. Just leave the haters out of it.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 23: Conversely, what’s the worst piece of writing advice you’ve ever encountered?
tHe oNLy lEgiTimATe, rEaL sTorY is thE hErO's jOuRneY. aLL sToRiEs aRe aKshUaLLy tHe hErO's jOuRneY.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 23: Conversely, what’s the worst piece of writing advice you’ve ever encountered?
tHe oNLy lEgiTimATe, rEaL sTorY is thE hErO's jOuRneY. aLL sToRiEs aRe aKshUaLLy tHe hErO's jOuRneY.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 24: What’s something you’d like to write, but know you never will?
A musical.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 24: What’s something you’d like to write, but know you never will?
A musical.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 25: How frequently do other languages (or conlangs) appear in your writing?
I have a large number of bi- or multilingual characters, and using a non-mother tongue is a part of spellcasting in my world, so a fair amount of non-English stuff is going to show up for various reasons.
No conlangs in this book, but maybe in something else, later. (I really hope so. Fingers crossed that I can ever make that project happen.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 25: How frequently do other languages (or conlangs) appear in your writing?
I have a large number of bi- or multilingual characters, and using a non-mother tongue is a part of spellcasting in my world, so a fair amount of non-English stuff is going to show up for various reasons.
No conlangs in this book, but maybe in something else, later. (I really hope so. Fingers crossed that I can ever make that project happen.)
#WritersCoffeeClub day 26: How much of the finished work do you need to have in mind before you start writing?
I'm still learning how much I need. I thought I had the first 5 chapters thoroughly outlined, as well as loads of background material including character bios and recent events. I knew my outlining on chapters 4 and 5 was a little vaguer than 1–3, but I thought that would be okay. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 26: How much of the finished work do you need to have in mind before you start writing?
I'm still learning how much I need. I thought I had the first 5 chapters thoroughly outlined, as well as loads of background material including character bios and recent events. I knew my outlining on chapters 4 and 5 was a little vaguer than 1–3, but I thought that would be okay. 1/2
It's turning out that that very vagueness has given me a noticeable slowdown in my writing in those chapters (even accounting for outside events like job vicissitudes). So it's really looking like I need to have things very well outlined.
I don't really like that much; I'd like to move closer to the middle of the plotter-pantser spectrum. 2/2
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It's turning out that that very vagueness has given me a noticeable slowdown in my writing in those chapters (even accounting for outside events like job vicissitudes). So it's really looking like I need to have things very well outlined.
I don't really like that much; I'd like to move closer to the middle of the plotter-pantser spectrum. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub day 27: Share an experience of writing in a restrictive format (sonnet, drabble, haiku, novella, script, etc).
I used to be really good at sonnets. Like, a couple of times, I sat down at a typewriter, improvised a first line, and then improvised the rest of it until I had fourteen. All iambic pentameter, with at least an ABCB DEFE GHIH JJ rhyme scheme, if not better.
But that was back in high school. I've let that muscle atrophy.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 27: Share an experience of writing in a restrictive format (sonnet, drabble, haiku, novella, script, etc).
I used to be really good at sonnets. Like, a couple of times, I sat down at a typewriter, improvised a first line, and then improvised the rest of it until I had fourteen. All iambic pentameter, with at least an ABCB DEFE GHIH JJ rhyme scheme, if not better.
But that was back in high school. I've let that muscle atrophy.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 28: Would you join a writing residency? Talk about your reasons.
I don't think I can fit that into my life or lifestyle right now.
Maybe if I became a professional writer? Not sure.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 28: Would you join a writing residency? Talk about your reasons.
I don't think I can fit that into my life or lifestyle right now.
Maybe if I became a professional writer? Not sure.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 29: Do you set rules for yourself while writing? What are they?
Not particularly. The closest I can think of is that when I record my "time spent writing", it has to be time when I was actually writing, not doing random other stuff. But that doesn't have to mean *typing*; research qualifies, and so does pondering what to have happen next. 1/3
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 29: Do you set rules for yourself while writing? What are they?
Not particularly. The closest I can think of is that when I record my "time spent writing", it has to be time when I was actually writing, not doing random other stuff. But that doesn't have to mean *typing*; research qualifies, and so does pondering what to have happen next. 1/3
But that's not so much "a rule" as recognition that if I want my records to have any value, they need to be an accurate reflection of what I was doing, not a fantasy.
Similarly, one could say I've "made a rule for myself" that when I start a chapter or scene with a new POV, I name the character whose POV it is within the first sentence. 2/3
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But that's not so much "a rule" as recognition that if I want my records to have any value, they need to be an accurate reflection of what I was doing, not a fantasy.
Similarly, one could say I've "made a rule for myself" that when I start a chapter or scene with a new POV, I name the character whose POV it is within the first sentence. 2/3
But again, I don't think of that as "a rule" so much as a recognition of the fact that if I don't do that, I'll confuse my readers. Which is a stupid thing to do.
I don't think "don't do stuff that's completely counter-functional" is really a rule, so much as... not being an idiot? 3/3
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But again, I don't think of that as "a rule" so much as a recognition of the fact that if I don't do that, I'll confuse my readers. Which is a stupid thing to do.
I don't think "don't do stuff that's completely counter-functional" is really a rule, so much as... not being an idiot? 3/3
#WritersCoffeeClub day 30: When is a piece of writing done?
I've done a fair bit of pondering on this, and not come to any good answer that I truly agree with. "When the author says it is" is *not* the answer, no matter what Neal Stephenson might want.
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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-
