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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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  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13. Are you actively building your working vocabulary?

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    Postscript wrt. #WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13:My current WIP contains some obscure words. Per scrivener, some dictionary words used once (in 116,000) include:efficaciousblithechandlerphenethylaminedisparagementmultimodalferrulepalatinateablutionspostillionflatulenthalitosisinstarichneumonobnubliatedattestationsheterocyclicgumptionburgravestylops(etc.)I like to exercise my readers!
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub 17 Nov. What role does race play in your work?

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    cstross@wandering.shopundefined
    #WritersCoffeeClub 17 Nov. What role does race play in your work?The concept of "race" is a vile 19th century shibboleth invented to support colonialism and to justify so-called "scientific racism". Human races are far less distinct than cultivars of broccoli or breeds of dog: we're all one hominin species.So I generally only use it in my fiction as a handy tag for "the character talking about this shit is misguided and/or has an evil agenda".
  • cstross@wandering.shopundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12th.

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    @SteveClough @cstross I write nothing more creative than documentation for the software I produce, but people misunderstand that, too.The experience of people misunderstanding my docs, or simply failing to read them, was one of the things that turned me away from evangelicalism. (I bet you didn't see that coming.) I wasn't using parables to hint at ineffable spiritual truths in the face of religious persecution: I was just explaining how software worked, how to see its current state, and how to configure and maintain systems. People who were paid to read and understand this material would not or could not do so: their repeated questions made it obvious. Within a very few years, instead of reading TFM, people developed folk stories of commands they could type that usually did something that could be mistaken for success. They veered constantly off-course, and I kept having to drag them back. They consulted each other, rather than the docs, and developed their own mythology about how the software worked. They intuitively felt they knew the software better than I did, because my approach to problem-solving was careful and methodical but they knew a golden shortcut.If concrete, human-level explanations, written out literally, landed so badly, there's no chance that people will have remembered the figurative and unfathomable teachings of Jesus seventy years after his death, written them down accurately and fully, and built from them a useful picture of worlds seen and unseen and the will of God. I'm sorry; it just doesn't ring true.
  • emmacox@writing.exchangeundefined

    #WritersCoffeeClub Motivation

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    emmacox@writing.exchangeundefined
    #WritersCoffeeClub MotivationThis question has come at a good time because a lovely writer friend of mine is struggling to get back into writing after a long absence and mental health problems are heightening the issue. I’ve given them suggestions to rekindle their writing practice. But if you have any suggestions, please share them.