#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12: How can writers ensure the focus is on the work & not the writer? Or should they?

I have no idea how to ensure anything when it comes to writing, and writers have to build themselves into "brands" in order to survive, so unless they're already financially supported, they probably shouldn't. I suppose you could tamp it down if you never write a series, only standalones?

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#PennedPossibilities 842: Which POV(s) do you prefer to write?

I used to think close-third was such a clever way to narrate, where the narrator is inside the protagonist's head, but now I'm so utterly bored with it because it's so ubiquitous that we seem to have forgotten how to write any other way. I need to construct a story that uses omniscient narration...

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 12 If your creativity had a mascot or symbol?

A tiny little pile of fluffy kittens inside my head, plaintively mewling to escape and gouging my skull with their needle-sharp claws. (The kittens are the stories.)

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 12: How can writers ensure the focus is on the work & not the writer? Or should they?

I have no idea how to ensure anything when it comes to writing, and writers have to build themselves into "brands" in order to survive, so unless they're already financially supported, they probably shouldn't. I suppose you could tamp it down if you never write a series, only standalones?

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#PennedPossibilities 842: Which POV(s) do you prefer to write?

I used to think close-third was such a clever way to narrate, where the narrator is inside the protagonist's head, but now I'm so utterly bored with it because it's so ubiquitous that we seem to have forgotten how to write any other way. I need to construct a story that uses omniscient narration...

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 12 If your creativity had a mascot or symbol?

A tiny little pile of fluffy kittens inside my head, plaintively mewling to escape and gouging my skull with their needle-sharp claws. (The kittens are the stories.)

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#PennedPossibilities 841: Reveal a source of joy for your SC.

Pulling weeds. They're just plants that need to be moved somewhere else.

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#PennedPossibilities 840: Tell us about a source of misery for your protagonist.

She spends half the booked trapped in the antagonist's paramilitary murder cult.

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#PennedPossibilities 839: What type of antagonist are you writing?

An authoritarian cult leader who uses violence to create more violence to justify her use of violence.

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 10: Has your art/craft/writing changed over the years?

Of course. I'd be sad if it hadn't.

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 9: Which sound in your environment sparks the most creativity?

A little bit of white noise is good. I used to write to music, but I cannot do it any more. Too many inputs.

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 8. Tell us about the book you no longer enjoy, and why you no longer enjoy it.

Sandman.

That piece of shit.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 11: How accessible is your work?

I would have said that you have to be a sci-fi person, but a colleague/friend read bits of it, and she's a serious poet who writes about very grounded events, but she was *in* from the start, so maybe it's really accessible?

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 8: How do you keep yourself motivated?

I'm not done until it's done. I don't how else to say it.

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#PennedPossibilities 838 — MC POV: You’re on your death bed. Who do you want by your side?

"I think I might have loved Brant." [croaks]

[gets up again]

"But Sim was pretty great, too." [croaks]

[for real]

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 7. Talk about a character from another's work that's stuck with you.

Gideon, from Gideon the 9th, might be the most entertaining character I've ever read, and I'm a literature professor. I've read a LOT of stories!

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#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 6: Do you make use of unconventional punctuation?

I *wish* I could use interobangs. Alas.

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#ScribesAndMakers Nov 6: Do you subscribe to any newsletters? Do you read them?

Cory Doctorow's PLURALISTIC. I have had others in the past, but they can become irritating if they're primarily marketing/advertising rather than having content. And look, they're giving them away for free, so I won't ever *complain*, but I will choose to unsubscribe.

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#PennedPossibilities 835. How does your antagonist like to unwind and relax?

She meditates on how to capture more children and train them to kill the children she didn't manage to capture.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 27: Recommend a book that had an impact on your prose.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

I am not joking.

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