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[#]WritersCoffeeClub Day 22: What prompted you to begin writing?
I started technical and research writing because that was part of the job. I started fiction writing because I am a natural story-teller, and a friend bought me a book on getting published and a boss put me on a writing course.
Once I started, I quickly discovered that I really loved the short-story form, and found an unpaid market that loved my work. Seven volumes of short stories later and I am still loving it.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: What differences do you find in your process if you write both short and long-form?
For me they are both part of the same process - all long form started as short form, but some short form stays that way.
I start almost all stories as a three-paragraph beginning/middle/end complete story, usually for weekly writing group workshop. Then if the story coaxes me, I expand it into a short story of 1,400-2,500 words. But almost all my stories start their life as a 3-para
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Ok #writingcommunity, if Bezos takes the stage with TFG on Monday, what alternatives to KDP and GoodReads are good enough for an Indie writer?
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 18 January. Would you serve as a judge for a literary award?
Hell no!
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 17 January. What are your biggest fears for the writing world in 2025?
That they will be crushed by the political turmoil enough to suppress writing, and that AI will pollute the market with thousands of pieces of rubbish encouraged by the twats who have come out with books on how to do exactly that.
I also worry that AI will replace a lot of editors, and will turn interesting pieces of original work into bland versions that are grammatically more pure but lack any soul
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 16 January. How would you describe the way you create your stories to a non-writer?
I take a possible event or one that already happened - like someone getting killed by the door on a big autoclave failing. Then I take the bare facts of the case report, or the risk, and I build in the characters and the plot that takes them from when they must have started to where the door knocks their soul clean out of their body.
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[#]WordWeavers Jan15. How long is your longest work?
Longest non-fiction, about 1,100 pages
Detailed audit procedure for computer installations, including security, fire, water, electrical, air handling, .... you get the idea
Longest fiction. My first start at a novel, which I put on ice after ~50 pages, and decided that I much preferred short stories. Longest short is three episodes each of about three pages. Most of my work is now 1,440 words to 2,500 words and that is my sweet spot.
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Hey #writingcommunity, what's your take on joining a writer's union?
Yeah or naw, and why?
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 15 Jan: would you ever hide your politics to avoid alienating some readers?
Too much like hard work to hide it.
My distaste for plutocrats and twats is clear in my writing, as is my support for women and LGBTQ+
If people hate on those groups, and want big bully-boy he-man characters, then they should rather go read someone else.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 14 January: Are you a pantser or a plotter? Have you always been this way? What brought you here?
Both
I plot some, pants some
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@bookstodon
If you are into slightly #noire short stories with themes of social justice and a fair amount of murder and misadventure, I make about half of my stories available for free
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Hey @@bookstodon do you promote writer newsletters?
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 1/9 Do you borrow settings, plots or characters from other works (without plagiarism)?
I borrow events and rarely, characters.
Like I might borrow an insufferable reply guy from a news story, movie, or book, and then make really bad things happen to them.
Events, I borrow a lot. Especially bad outcomes, or unsafe acts.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan 8: Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money?”
I will parade my blockhead with pride then.
Also, fuck him
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@alice
Still planning two stories - one with irradiated balls, and the other with sex toy that catches fire.
On the radiation, I am doing fine with the plot, but I have technical and plot issues with the sex toy one.
Like ...
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[#]WordWeavers Day 6: When was the last time you wrote a character facing a difficult choice? Have they made the right decision?
Every story I write has a difficult choice for the MC. They always take the wrong path, and it always gets them killed. My universe is predictable like that
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 6: What’s your current writing project? How’s it going?
I have nine short stories in writing stage, and two in planning. Another three are in editing, and four are ready for publication.
I am about to start assembling my eighth collection of short stories from published pieces.
It is going ok - I am standing and not crying, as the saying goes. Doing the collection is always a balance between panic and pleasure.
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 1/4: As a writer, what do you get from social media?
A lot of technical helpers - people who will check my writing for medical accuracy, true representation of LGBTQ+ experience, and feedback on plots and flow. I also get some interaction with other writers.
It hasn't helped with sales, but meh on that
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