@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…
@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.scotWhich ~~phrase, paragraph, or page~~ are you most proud of writing this month?
#writerscoffeeclub 2026-01-29
"all of the people who live in the land that was promised and is now tortured have equal claim to be of the seed of Abraham"
It's not from fiction, it's from a bleak essay about the situation in
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WritersCoffeeClub January 26: Do you include things you personally find repellent in your work?
Yes, absolutely. Edgy Aimée wrote a lot of horrible stuff. 😂
Also, there are sexual fantasies that are not desirable in real life, an obvious one being non-con. I'm writing for adults, so I'm confident readers know that some things that are hot in fiction or as a consensu…
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub
18. Are there writing ‘traditions’ which ought to be preserved?
19. If you were to teach a writing course, what would be the most important lesson?
20. If you write instalments (issues, chapters, etc) what’s the average length of one instalment?
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18. I dunno. Are there?
19. Any writing "rule" can be broken. But extraordinary choic…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 19: Talk about something from your own life which made it onto the page
Many, many experiences from my own life make it into my stories, though usually not exactly as it happened. But to name one example, in my other life I used to work with decontamination equipment for laboratories. I certainly drew from that experience when describing other characters be…
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
15. What’s a non-literary artistic tradition which inspires you?
16. Do you have one format you write in, or many?
17. Give a shout-out to a resource or site you think more writers should know.
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15. Just one?
Stand-up comedy as a successor of court jesters.
Not the most important, merely the first that comes to mind.
16. I hav…
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
12. Who is a writer whose life inspires you?
13. What have you written for another writer?
14. Share how you tackle a first round of revisions.
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12. At this point, no idea. I prefer keeping lives of authors and works of authors on separate shelves. Specifically, lives of authors share space with lives of people. Lives of other people do not …