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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 4: Share a tool of your trade.

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    #writerscoffeeclub 6 Process-wise, what’s improved for you over the years?When I started selling short fic in the mid 1980s everything happened on paper, via snail mail, and photocopying was expensive. By the time I was selling books in the 00s I could talk to my agent by email … but manuscripts and proofs still had to go via international air mail.Some time around 2010 it all flipped and now the main nuisance is publishers want Microsoft and Adobe files (see also: enshittification).
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    @cstross I mean, that's quite obvious: knowing how to do hello world in basic really doesn't qualify you to be a software engineer at Airbus.Boeing on the other hand ...
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    @cstross This reminds me when I was looking for the reading order of the Laundry Files, and stumbled upon some disgruntled Christian's review where he warns others that 'The Fuller Memorandum' contains stuff that he considers very offensive to his beliefs. And then I started listening to 'The Apocalypse Codex' and kept giggling whenever I imagined the poor sod's face when he started this one...
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    It's a losing battle, and it's one that isn't worth fighting in the first place, because the only people you're trying to convince are ones who *can't even recognize decent writing when they see it*. They're people who can say, with a straight face, that *lists of three* are signs of AI‽ As if they haven't heard every Tom, Dick, and Harry talk about "baseball, motherhood and apple pie" or "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" before? 5/6#WritersCoffeeClub