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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 18/2: How balanced are your finished works? What do you do to achieve that balance?

As balanced as I can make them before it's over deadline (I need to get paid!). Assuming you mean the same thing by balance that I do. It's hard to do better than Michael Swanwick's dinosaurs-to-sodomy ratio:

https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006945.html

Making Light: D&S: a story from Capclave

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WellsiteGeo
WellsiteGeo
@WellsiteGeo@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@cstross
Well, that's a categorisation I wouldn't have, errr, come up with myself.

OTOH, having recently had weird interactions with non-avian-dinosaurophiles who really dislike people who don't like the term "thagomizer", I feel the need for a counterweight argument. I'll follow that one up.

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