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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-16 at 02:47

[#]writerscoffeeclub #writing 14 Jan: Are you a pantser or a plotter?

I think you left out an option. Pantser + editor!

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-15 at 07:53

[#]WordWeavers 15/1: How long is your longest work?

73,000 words.

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-15 at 07:49

[#]PennedPossibilities 557 For the writers who have more than one WIP: How do you balance multiple projects at once?

One benefit to multiple projects: if you're blocked on one, you can switch to one of the others! 😀

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-15 at 00:51

[#]3goodthings

1. I'm selecting stories to share at the Hawaii Fiction Writers' upcoming read and critique session.

2. I think I've figured out how to install the water cooler in my new computer.

3. I had pancakes with chocolate chips and blueberries for breakfast.

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-14 at 03:32

Supreme Court rejects bid by oil companies to toss Honolulu’s climate suit | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/01/13/breaking-news/supreme-court-allows-honolulus-climate-case-against-oil-firms/

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to hear a bid by Sunoco and other oil companies to scuttle a lawsuit by Honolulu accusing them of misleading the public for decades about the dangers of climate change induced by the burning of fossil fuels.

[#]ClimateChange #FossilFuels

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-13 at 03:32

[#]Monsterdon Ah, now I remember the movie Battle Beyond The Stars. The cow ship, and the defenders mercenaries completely unaware of anything known as battle tactics.

[#]BattleBeyondTheStars

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-13 at 00:35

Just finished reading Thirsty by Jas Hammonds. Now you go read it, too. Great book.

[#]ya #books #JasHammonds #queerbooks #sober #bookstodon

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-12 at 19:37

Aunty Acid for 1/11/2025 | Aunty Acid | Comics | ArcaMax Publishing

https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/auntyacid/s-3545460

Worst character trait.

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-11 at 02:15

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Day 10: Do you use dream sequences in your work? How do you feel about them?

What if your stories move too fast for your characters to sleep?

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-09 at 06:00

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 9 January. Do you borrow settings, plots or characters from other works (without plagiarism)?

I have a planned work in progress based on reading Barbara Tuchman's book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century...It contributes to setting, informs characters, and sets parameters for plots...

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-09 at 05:54

[#]WritersCoffeeClub 1/9. Do you borrow settings, plots or characters from other works (without plagiarism)?

Not consciously, but I have heard of books saying that there are only 7 plots, anyway!

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-09 at 04:46

@inkscape Trying again today. When I export it as a TIFF, the image comes out pink.

I sure wish Inkscape's export behavior was consistent and predictable.

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-08 at 10:39

RIP Peter Yarrow

Folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86 | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/01/07/breaking-news/folk-singer-peter-yarrow-of-peter-paul-and-mary-dies-at-86/

American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died today at the age of 86, his publicist said.

[#]music #FolkMusic

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-08 at 08:58

[#]EngenderedWriting 67 — Have you ever included sex workers in your stories? Why/not?

No. In the world of one of my series, the human race went through a massive bottleneck (yes, nuke/bio/chem warfare wiped out human life on earth). The only survivors lived in orbital and other off-planet stations. Sex is free, reproduction strongly encouraged, pregnancy not required. Population is almost entirely mixed-gender, mixed-age polycules operating stations/spacecraft throughout the solar system.

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-08 at 08:49

Whenever I see the word "misinformation", I automatically translate it to what it actually is: "lies".

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-08 at 08:07

@inkscape Well, I've consulted your forums and searched the web, and found no solution. I have an SVG created in Inkscape 1.2 on Debian Bookworm: One white box. Some photos. One line of text (filled with black). Alpha is set to 100 for each of these objects.

Yet when I export it all as a PNG, it comes out transparent. I don't want it to be transparent. Can't find anyway to change that. Ideas?

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-08 at 00:19

A line for a #country #music #love #song

She laid a scratch down the highway of my heart.

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-07 at 07:12

The thrill of victory, the agony of the feet: What a marathoner feels after winning a race.

[#]badjoke #joke #running

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-05 at 09:01

[#]WordWeavers 5/1: Has your writing process changed over time?

First book started on a used Olivetti manual typewriter. It journeyed through a Commodore VIC-20, a Commodore, and IBM PC clone...

Putting words down is key, but I fondly remember the days when there was growing stack of paper beside the typewriter, making visible the progress!

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Written by David W. Jones on 2025-01-05 at 08:50

[#]WritersCoffeeClub Jan 5 What’s your worst writing month, and why?

Define "worst". What if I spent the month trying to get a story off the ground but nothing I could do would make it fly? Maybe it would be a good or great story, maybe I'm just not the right writer for it?

I had an idea for a law story, involving attorneys, the US Supreme Court, and the assassination of a (popular, well-respected) chief justice. I know nothing of the law, let alone anything as esoteric as US constitutional law!

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