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#WritersCoffeeClub 18: Have you written something blasphemous?

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    #WritersCoffeeClub 11th Dec 2025. - How do you keep track of plots and subplots?Mostly by writing in @scrivenerapp these days (since 2008) which makes it ridiculously easy to edit individual scenes in a subplot as a continuous scrolling text—and to resequence scenes and edit the deep structure of a book.Seriously, Scrivener is as revolutionary a tool for writing books as the first word processors were for writing any kind of unstructured document.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub 25 NovWhat are some tips you can share to avoid 'clunky' phrasing?Everybody's suggesting reading your work aloud, but I disagree: prose fiction should not focus on replicating speech, but on conveying meaning. It's a separate art form from the spoken word and should be treated as such. Splitting long sentences so that they're readable aloud is a shibboleth of modern editorial fashion that focuses on accessibility and market share, meeting the needs of "young adult" readers.
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    #WritersCoffeeClub Nov 16, How much work goes into naming your characters?I'm generally shit at naming characters, although they can serve as useful world-building reference points.Current WIP is set in a crapsack Ruritanian space empire. The noble houses are all named after various species of parasite. (My MCs family is named for the Hippo arse leech, Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi, which drinks blood from the soft lining of the hippo's rectum and can only mate and spawn there.)
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    #WritersCoffeeClub day 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?I think they should only worry about it to the extent that they'd previously have worried about proving that their work wasn't plagiarized. Like, if seriously challenged (usually by one's publisher, not by some rando), it's good to be able to produce prior drafts or other artifacts of creation.But that's about all. 1/6