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@willelm@indieauthors.social · 1h ago
#WritersCoffeeClub May 1. Workers' Day: What can we do to support and protect other writers, not only now, but in the future as well? Write and read and promote real, human-created art
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 5h ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 5/1. Workers' Day: What can we do to support and protect other writers, not only now, but in the future as well? I just joined the Society of Authors in the UK which describes itself as the union for writers. So backing an organisation which actually works for writers rights (and is 100% opposed to AI). In comparison the Alliance of Independent Authors have a "relaxed" attitude to AI, which I find appalling. ("Oh we can't be too strident because we don't want to upset the authors that use it.") Grrrrr. #writing #writingCommunity
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@tiefling@bardicperspiration.club · 7h ago
#WritersCoffeeClub May 1: Workers' Day: What can we do to support and protect other writers, not only now, but in the future as well? Take the time to like, read their writing, offer encouragement. Ppl forget that writers put a lot of themselves into what they do. It's super demoralizing to spend w/e time on something they love, only to find that no one really bothers to read it. I'd say to do this for other creatives too. Just a little bit of feedback can be the diff between someone keeping themselves motivated and giving up. #writing
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@paranoiapen@mas.to · 1d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 30/4: How was this month for you, in terms of writing? It was all going pretty well to start with. I got going again on my book in the Easter hols and was doing a bit of daily writing. I managed to keep going when back at work (weekends) but then I got this stupid kidney stone which messed me up somewhat and so now I need to get back into it again...
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@Klepsis@indieauthors.social · 1d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub April 29: Share the best sentence you wrote this month. "Orcs are just regular people with funny teeth." #Writing
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 1d ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 4/29. Share the best sentence you wrote this month.

(I thought I’d posted a response to this because I did write it, but it turns out I didn’t post it, and then I deleted it to make way for tomorrow’s answer. This is more or less what I wrote before.)

I’ve been cranking out words at high speed, so I don’t really have a best, anyway you can have this:

The power of the miralin was tremendous just when Maylees thought they couldn’t go any faster, Khu would flex more and send them shooting across the waves like a boat with a hurricane filling its sails.

Miralin is the in-world name for mer-folk.

For context, imagine this is like the scene in the 1978 Superman where he’s taking Lois for that romantic flight. But with water. And nudity.

#writing #writingCommunity

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@Firlefanz@writing.exchange · 4d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 4/27. Share a possibly unpopular opinion. 👀 (Be kind!) Every time I see an author striving for being trad published, I wince inside. Trad publishing is a cruel mill, crushing dreams, crushing books. It is run by investment companies who couldn't care less about stories, and they certainly no longer build up authors. I do understand the yearning for recognition and a slice of fame, but trad... trad is crushing people. So ask me anything about being indie. #WritingCommunity
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@paranoiapen@mas.to · 4d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 27/4: Share a possibly unpopular opinion. 👀 (Be kind!) What, again? But I do that every day - all my opinions are unpopular! Here's one about writing. Fantasy is not a genre.
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@NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe · 4d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub – 26th Apr. Recommend a nonfiction book about writing. Like Edgar Rice Burroughs, I have never read a book on writing. Maybe I should, but it sounds too boring. So instead I will recommend my fav: Thesarus and reverse dictionary. (No AI) OneLook Thesaurus and Reverse Dictionary: #NMWCC #NMPrompts
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@KitAuthor@wandering.shop · 4d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 26 – Recommend a non-fiction book on writing. Dwight V. Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer. This book is vintage (putting it nicely) as it was one that was recommended to me when I started learning how to write. But there are things in that book I've never seen anywhere else.
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@Klepsis@indieauthors.social · 5d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub April 25: Share your current biggest creative frustration. Having a hard time getting the enemies to stop sniping at each other and start loving. #Writing #WritingCommunity
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@pretensesoup@indieauthors.social · 6d ago
#writersCoffeeClub 4/25: Share your current biggest creative frustration. I have two kids. I don't remember the last time I got to have a two-hour writing session where I was alone for the entirety.
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@cstross@wandering.shop · 6d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub April 25 - Share your current biggest creative frustration. Medical/age stuff. I'm over 60 and have multiple health conditions and the meds I'm on have side-effects—generally mild, but in combination it's exhausting. And it's been exhausting for 20 years. I can still write a novel a year but I *should* be able to do three, if I was suddenly magically healthy!
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@CMRosens@social.horrorhub.club · 6d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr. 24 — Share your current biggest creative frustration. I think my biggest current frustration is that I am spending so much time trying to market my existing work, design Bookbub ads and try to come up with reels and TikTok videos and YouTube shorts, that I'm not creating as much as I want to. I genuinely would hire a PA or content creator to do all that for me. I have 2 trad pubbed titles, and my publisher does behind-the-scenes stuff, but not social media.
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@cstross@wandering.shop · Apr 24, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub PS to "silly mistakes": a common misconception is that copy editors will spot your silly mistakes. They might ... but then again, they might think the mistake was the authorial intention and let it pass. CEs vary wildly in their approach (never say competence) and your trad publisher's commissioning editor is busy managing workflow (editing gets done on the side, in their own time). So don't rely on the editors cleaning up your messes.
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@cstross@wandering.shop · Apr 24, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 24 Share a silly mistake you've made while writing. Character name changes. If for some reason you change the name of a character you *really* need to double-check that it's changed *everywhere*. Hint: regular expressions and global *conditional* search/replace are your tools. Also how to manage word stemming with regexps. Then triple-check *everything*. Otherwise—guaranteed—you'll flip a character's name in one paragraph and the internet will never let you forget it!
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 24, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub 4/24. Share a silly mistake you've made while writing. Is silly the right word? Whatever. Most recently I had a "him" when I needed a "her" - it was a critically important distinction, and I didn't even notice until I was listening to the audiobook files. The mistake was due to a character that was no longer a "he" (it's complicated). Many of the characters knew about the change but *not* the one who said that line who said what they could see - but I got it wrong because I knew. #writing #writingCommunity
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@cstross@wandering.shop · Apr 23, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub April 23: What are some form conventions you disregard? All of them (whenever I need to). It's useful to know the rules in any field of writing, but only so you know why they exist, what purpose they serve—and by implication, when to break them. (I mean, I've sold SF novels written in multi-viewpoint second person present tense. And broken the fifth wall, never mind the fourth. And the novella I did *that* in won a Hugo award. So why not?)
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@aronsilver@indieauthors.social · Apr 23, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub 23 April: What are some form conventions you disregard? I dunno. I write in a pretty traditional, third person, past tense, chapter-based format. I also work with editors to ensure the form conforms, so to say.
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@Inverse_Shadow@indieauthors.social · Apr 21, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub 20. What's a (maybe silly) hill you're willing to defend? That the idea that there's only one way to write a story (the hero's journey) is rather silly and should be disregarded.
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