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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov
24. How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
25. What are some tips you can share to avoid 'clunky' phrasing?
26. How do you keep yourself sharp?
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24. It is out of my scope but for complex things it is a good idea. Create coffee breaks. Crack a joke. Make characters mull ideas for a while.
25. Know whe…

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?
In one novel I've written, I based my main character on what I imagine I would have been like if not for the trauma of my childhood. He came out as very successful, but also extremely arrogant and entitled — not a likeable person.

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28. Have you ever edited another's work? Was it harder than editing your own?
29. Do you include elements of the horror genre in your(non-horror) work?
30. Do you tend to include epilogues?
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28. Yes.
Not really.
29. No.
Terror, existential dread, despair... yes. Horror... no.
30. I used to when I was a beginner. Now I usu…

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30. Have you ever written as a commission? If not, would you?
31. How was this month for you, writing-wise?
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30. Not for payment but yes. I participated in the "Secret Santa" event where a bunch of people wrote short stories using prompts from each other on what they wanted to read.
I'm mostly satisfied with how it turned out.

#WritersCoffeeClub 23/9: How ‘self-reliant’ are you as a writer?
Extremely, but I try to open up to others and let them in. My reflexes are not helping, I'm kinda used to withdrawing into my own little corner of the world and shut the world out.
Outside influence, however, has always meant a better end-result, so I'm trying. I'm trying hard.

#WritersCoffeeClub 26 Oct
How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?
In my fantasy stories, the Great Place is a very complex theocracy; the Coast has a broadly communistic peasantry with superstructures of a capitalist urban merchant class and a autocratic aristocracy; the Western Clans are a tribal society which is broadly communist; the Wild Herd are a puritanical mat…

#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Nov
How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
I think it's perfectly OK to include things in stories that 90% of readers won't pick up on -- because the delight of discovery for the 10% of readers who do is worth it, I think.
In some of my writing I use a lot of subtle intertextual references -- which readers who kn…

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28. Have you ever added to a work after it was ‘finished’?
29. Speaking for yourself, what would make a work ‘obscene’?
30. Were you able to accomplish your goals this month?
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28. Not often but yes. A perk of the whole-digital format.
29. The word…

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22-23-24. I gave a gnawing deja vu. I have answered these before.
25. Does 'destiny' have a rôle in modern fiction?
26. How culturally diverse do your casts tend to be?
27. Recommend a book that had an impact on your prose.
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25. It is now a trivial plot device. As such, it — or its denial/deconstruction — begs for originality. Warcr…

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25. How many works do you have in progress at a time?
26. How does your heritage show itself in your work?
27. How do you support your fellow writers?
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25. At most two to three. Usually no more than one. Not counting background ones where I accumulate snippets without actively writing.
26. I don't like the word much. But I believe my cu…

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21. What are some preconceptions about writers you'd like to see challenged?
22. What has been the biggest change to your style since you started out?
23. What's your niche?
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Answers from the community are already good, I'll cover additional things.
21. That they will write anything a bystander asks.
"Oh, you're a …

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov
18. Do you include real-world quotations in your work?
19. What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
20. How did you find your writerly voice?
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18. I did once. Now my settings are mostly fictional so real-world quotes are immersion-breaking and rarely appropriate.
It's not so hard to reforge them.…

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov
16. How much work goes into naming your characters?
17. What rôle does race play in your work?
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16. Much. It's part of the research, and I love my research.
Generators are a good starting point but I always polish and iterate on it to ensure it fits my vision. I like to sift through old dictionaries (as in Arabic, Ye Olde English/Welsh/S…

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22. What have you discovered about yourself through your writing?
23. How ‘self-reliant’ are you as a writer?
24. How do you handle asides? Parenthesis, em-dashes, commas?
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22. A number of personal things. Writing is a great tool for self-exploration. You can roleplay as different people without the need to meet with the truck-kun.
23. Hard…

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19. How do you keep track of dates and events in a WIP?
20. What rôle does death (or undeath!) play in your work?
21. What is your take on the adverb debate?
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19. Any WIP that needs dates and events is probably already big enough to void memorization.
I went all the way from stickies to txt files to wikis to, eventually, Campfire. I love m…

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14. How objective or authoratative do you strive for your narration to be?
15. Does the bulk of your research come before starting a work? During? Or not at all?!
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14. Define 'objective'.
I have trouble channeling some characters. My preferences override my sense of the work. I see this as a flaw. Char *subjectivities* contribute to the …

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19. Talk about how you’ve fixed a mistake in your work.
20. How might your work be seen as a criticism of the present moment?
21. Write a bit in praise of yourself, as if anonymously.
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19. Noticed it, fixed it.
I'm bad at this, am I?
20. I can't say for sure how it *is seen*, but it can be easily applied. I do not translate peo…

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16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?
17. What is the significance of a work's dedication?
18. Do you tend to incorporate supernatural elements in your work?
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16. Not much, for better or worse. I adapt to the setting, of f course, but beyond that my vocabulary is a part of my writing style.
17. Such dedication.…

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13. Name the oldest work to have inspired you.
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13. Hard to say. Lots of people here mention Gilgamesh or some other ancient epic. I know these mostly by name. It is manageable to relate to despite the alien temporal and cultural context but I'm not 'inspired' by it. It's research.
Inspiring things probably don't go as much back a…

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16. What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?
17. Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?
18. Have you written something blasphemous? Tell us about it.
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16. How to cut words and squeeze myself into character limits.
That's why I generally do not set character limits.

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10. What have you recently learned which will have a big impact on your work?
11. How accessible is your work?
12. How can writers ensure the focus is on the work and not the writer? Or should they?
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10. That's a hard question.
I fear I've reached a plateau where nothing freshly learned can do that.
11. It consists of words.

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9. How does the means of publication change a work? print? digital? audiobook? something else?
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9. I do only digital so my answers are limited. I wouldn't change my preexisting work to fit the publishing format (I am naive enough to believe it fits most formats I need 'as is'). But creating a new work (or recreating it) would get a lot from le…

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13. Talk about the joy writing has brought you.
14. Why do you write in the form you do? Why not in another format? (poem, short story, novel, etc)
15. How do your immediate surroundings influence your work?
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13. A usual mix on neuromediators, I believe. Not sure if there's anything special about it. Hard to describe.
14. Trivial: that&…

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10. What encouragement would you give writers younger than yourself?
11. If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
12. What kinds of love appear in your writing?
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10. You have lots of essays and structured metamaterials. Power of the Sun at your fingertips. Enjoy.
...I would love some encouragement myself.
11…

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6. Do you make use of unconventional punctuation?
7. Talk about a character from another's work that's stuck with you.
8. How do you keep yourself motivated?
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6. Not much. I love my em dashes tho.
7. I dunno. At some point it was Motoko Kusanagi. Sylvanas Windrunner. Before Blizzard butchered her in WoW.
Oh, and April Ryan and …

#WritersCoffeeClub November
3. How much of your writing time is actively spent putting words on the page?
4. What's the funniest thing you've ever written?
5. Is the idea of a work requiring a takeaway 'moral' old-fashioned?
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3. Much less than mulling it over. 5%? Probably still too generous.
I can cycle ideas for years.
4. Wish I could r…

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7. How much does your writing occupy your thoughts away from the keyboard?
8. What about the current writing milieu do you wish was different?
9.What incorrect assumptions might a reader make about you?
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7. When I am actively writing, there's the "flow" mode and a "background task" mode.
In flow mode I keep thinkin…

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct-Nov
31. In terms of writing, how did this month go for you?
1. What do you need to amplify in your work?
2. What makes character growth believable for you?
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31. As in writing "writing", as bad as usual. That probably won't change in the next months. Or years
In terms of my ongoing translation, pretty well. Steadily growin…

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4. What's a sure sign an author is a master of their craft?
5. Have you ever included real-world disproven science in a work?
6. What size casts do you tend towards? Why?
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4. When the author's work looks and works exactly as intended.
5. I don't think so, no. Some of my characters used magic but this flavour has never been IRL s…

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4. How do you handle nudity or sex in your writing? Subtly, graphically, not at all?
5. How much should a writer read?
6. Do you write daily? Why or why not?
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4. Depends on the goal.
I did write explicit scenes at some point, and I see no problem in doing so again if the need arises.
Most of the time in generic audience writing I settl…

#WritersCoffeeClub October 2025
1. Have you written in an epistolary format?
2. Do you tend to include prologues? Why?
3. How do you transition into writing mode?
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1. Not the entire big literature thing. I did better.
In-game letters.
I love notes and letters in Morrowind, Deus Ex HR and MD as well as Dishonored. Not so much post-Oblivion (Beth Fallout3 …

#WritersCoffeeClub Septembah
1. What’s the most number of revisions you’ve gone through for a work?
2. Describe your aesthetic.
3. Have you ever based a character on yourself? If not, would you?
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1. One, probably. Rarely more.
Doesn't mean that I don't edit it later. I still catch typos years after finishing the piece. But my first draft is usually a…