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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 19: Talk about something (even if very small!) from your own life which made it onto the page. Lots of little details? Aspects of real people that get mashed up together to prod
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Jan 19, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop My partner wrote something into a screenplay, which I then got to see on the big screen.
A laminated poster on a street lamp in my street had, over months, become sodden via the two holes punched for the zip tie. It filled up like a water balloon.
In the film, a character punches a small hole in a water-filled missing person poster, to drain it. It takes a second, and shows the length of time passed since the person disappeared.
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