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Written by Em on 2024-10-22 at 16:41

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 22/10/24: What's your favourite writing convention to eschew?

I don't play favourites. All get their turn, just not all at once.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-21 at 07:18

[#]writerscoffeeclub 21/10/2024: If you write adult fiction, would you consider children's stories and vice versa?

I have written poems for children because that was simply the best format for dealing with a specific topic. If something similar were to happen for a story I would have to write a children's story. Given that I disliked children's books even as a child I don't know how likely that is.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-20 at 07:22

[#]writerscoffeeclub 20/10/24 co/ed:

Obviously, applying stringent logic to a mere statement, as I just did, is petty af.

However, suggesting that struggling with writing means you are not a real writer is a bit rich, especially from a funny but mediocre author.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-20 at 03:48

[#]writerscoffeeclub 20/10/24: Do you agree with Terry Pratchett, who said, "There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write."

Congratulations on getting one quote absolutely right. Pity it's a silly one.

And thank you @VVitchy for providing the link to the full interview.

I am sure Pratchett did not mean to imply that writing books like his is more difficult to achieve than a successful moon mission.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-19 at 03:32

[#]writerscoffeeclub 19/10/24: Do you go to fan conventions or similar?

Not compatible with full hermit mode.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-17 at 03:59

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 16/10/24 co/ed:

I don't feel like I have culture I could write about. I am part of several minorities with uneasy / unacknowledged intersections; it would be nigh on impossible to get anything right.

I am also simply not into doing guided tours. Let me look at the so-called mainstream instead.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-17 at 02:44

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 17/10/24: What's the body count in your WIP? Is this typical for your work?

Oh dear. 3 dead, 2 more injured, several to go, as the MC tries to rewrite history? Plus however many they got as a grieving toddler when their older siblings died?

I don't normally write comic villains trapped in the real world. Which reminds me, there's also at least 2 characters who have had visions about their own evil potential.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-16 at 03:41

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 16/10/24: Have you ever tried to write something set in a culture other than your own? How did it go?

i. In the the past/future is a distant country sense.

I do what I can to disturb the popular 'what we know but in space / the past / with funny clothes' reading mode.

ii. I am basically trying to troll my readers without utterly frustrating them. We'll see how it goes.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-15 at 14:22

[#]writerscoffeeclub Oct15. Which of the different marketing tactics you may have tried has been the most successful?

👆 present:me to future:me.

They haven't answered yet.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-14 at 03:51

[#]writerscoffeeclub 14/10/24: How does your plot structure grow? Linearly as you go? Or does it grow out from one or more ideas?

Organically. In the first draft the story arc grows into a plot. It thickens and sprouts subplots, some of them leafy, some quite thorny, as I revise. I am hoping for flowers at some point because that will count as 'finished'.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-13 at 16:27

[#]writerscoffeeclub 13/10/24

co/ed:

Make that 'pretty emotional'.

me: right, and now they board their respective ships.

also me: my babies! noooo!

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Written by Em on 2024-10-13 at 11:10

[#]writerscoffeeclub 13/10/24: Has anything you've written made you cry, either when writing it or on a re-read?

Not quite cry, but certainly emotional, even though I know exactly what will or wont happen next. For example, yesterday I had a bad moment when I sent several characters back into the fray of the Napoleonic wars.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-12 at 05:30

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 12. October: Do you prefer euphemisms or technical terms to refer to genitalia in your writing?

I'd prefer it if my characters were as disinterested in discussing genitals as I am. Alas...

The current WIP is set in the Regency, which was a robust era. Think O'Brian's sailors, but also Austen's gentry, who are blatantly discussing how 'well hung' men are.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-11 at 04:24

[#]writerscoffeeclub 11/10/24: Do you have a favourite phrase or word that crops up in most of your work?

"Realise" and "realisation" aren't favourites. I'd just forgotten all their synonyms for a while.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-10 at 05:11

[#]writerscoffeeclub 10/10: How do you research and plan your stories?

Depends. For the current WIP I alternate between writing and research, but writing always comes first and I do not do research before finishing a given chapter.

That's because some historical accuracy matters but it is not, and I do not want to turn it into, a historical novel.

The research and reading that lead to this WIP in the first place predates it by about 12 years; which admittedly wouldn't be much for whisky.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-09 at 04:22

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 10/9: What motivates you to keep going when sales are low?

I only just finished the first draft of the first part of the WIP. Sales are still pipe dreams. But submitting poems meant accepting terrible acceptance rates. Besides, poems are read by poets, apparently, but a novel might be read by a non novelist, which will be a novel experience.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-08 at 04:46

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 8/10: What's your favourite food and drink combo when writing?

A coffee or a tea with one or two gf Madeleines to get started, no other snacks. Plenty of very thin herbal tea or diluted juice for hydration.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-08 at 03:47

WIP status:

It's twins!*

The first draft of the first part is ~60k words, only basic research done, omg this is going to be gigantic😭 .

I have the overall arc as well as some of the plot of the second part.

• wasn't my intention when I began but, among other reasons: the underlying themes are just too serious.

Also, there's far more Napoleon in it than expected, which gives me a little insight into how a person in 1800 to 1814 might have felt.😂

[#]writing #amwriting #history

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Written by Em on 2024-10-07 at 07:35

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 7/10: Tell me about something new you tried to do with a story. Did it stretch you?

I have an unprecedented (for me) number of POV characters, many of whom I do not like. Keeping all of them fully human, even the truly awful personalities, is proving complicated and is my main reason to discard chapters.

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Written by Em on 2024-10-06 at 07:20

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 6/10:Have you mixed genres in your work?

Genres are like the three act structure. Editors and reviewers see them all the time, and clearly, unless the writer is considered literary. Writers have certainly heard about them.

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