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#writersCoffeeClub 4 Nov 'What's the funniest thing you've ever written?'

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#writersCoffeeClub 4 Nov 'What's the funniest thing you've ever written?'

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  • Charlie Strossundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 25 - Does 'destiny' have a role in modern fiction?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Footnote: "Destiny" tends to show up more in fantasy than SF. On my to-do list is a hard-SF Chosen One narrative—our protag knows from an early age they're not like the other kids in the hive. Only as they near adulthood do they learn that they're a member of a rival eusocial hominin subspecies, and they've been created to infiltrate a neighbouring hive and kill and replace the queen ... Like, "Hellstrom's Hive" meets this whackiness in ants: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 22: What inspiration have you taken from historical figures or events?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 22: What inspiration have you taken from historical figures or events?Tons! As Ken Macleod observed, "history is the SF author's secret weapon".I'm currently grappling with a space opera where the adversary is based on Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, only I'm having to tone him down a bit to make him more plausible!https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ignaz_Trebitsch_Lincoln
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub Oct 20 - What role does death (or undeath!) play in your work?I write genre fiction and it is *surprisingly hard* to write a novel in which nobody dies; death tends to be trivialized or used to advance the plot and seldom traumatizes the survivors.To which I say, to hell with that!(Current WIP massacres with gleeful abandon, but it's SF set in a future with lossy mind uploading and replay, so they've effectively got mechanised reincarnation. Societal whackiness ensues.)
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    #writerscoffeeclub Oct 16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?

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    #writerscoffeeclub Oct 16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works? One of my editors once observed, "every SF or fantasy author redefines the English language from scratch in every novel". It's about more than just calling a rabbit a smeerp: we assign new meanings to existing vocabulary.(The working language may be standardized within a series, but between stand-alones and series works I have to purge my autocorrect and spelling checker dictionaries!)