@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WritersCoffeeClub for April 30:
How was this month for you, in terms of writing?
Eh. I wrote an angry post about #Draft2Digital's new fees while still sick with the flu and a little later a guide for alternatives. I don't have any sexy escapism ready for publicat…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#WritersCoffeeClub 17 Apr
Can plots which hinge on a misunderstanding be done well?
Oh, don't go there!
Especially romance plots. Romance plots based on misunderstandings are such an old, done, burned, cliche.
Unless you're a much better writer than Jane Austen, don't do it.
Just say NO!
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 7: Share a pair of consecutive lines of a current or recent project.
A recent commission:
The sensation of his harsh thrusts blended with another stimulation, something more unusual. He felt a grip on his hips with no one standing behind him, he felt drops of sweat fall on his back even though there was nobody above him, and finally, he realised it wa…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 10
How informal is your prose? Is there a limit to informality?
I think that, even where you don't have a first-person narrator, prose in fiction should express the personality of the point of view character -- be similar to but just a little more formal than their normal way of speaking.
To preserve the plausibility that they might have writt…