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Aurora<p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 16/03 asks what word or phrase we tend to overuse.</p><p>I've found that with those two at the kitchen table I made Jaden use a lot of "noch nichtmal" ('not even'). Verena in her story begins a lot of sentences with "Aber" ('because'). Since I am the one who writes these characters it's me who overuses these words.</p>
Charlie Stross<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 15/03 <br>Are we aware of any fanfiction about our work?</p><p>Yes.</p><p>Go to AO3 and search for "Laundry Files" and you'll find a fanfic community. (Shouldn't be too surprising as the second edition of the Laundry Files TTRPG is in production so a lot of folks are running narrative games in that setting.)</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 15. Are you aware of any fanfiction about your work?</p><p>Not fanfiction as _such_, but there _have_ been a few people who have used my translations in their own shows (something I actively encourage by releasing them under a <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> Zero license).</p><p>Also, I know of at least two people who have used them for <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> purposes.</p><p><a href="https://sunkencastles.com/in-other-media/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sunkencastles.com/in-other-med</span><span class="invisible">ia/</span></a></p>
Charlie Stross<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 14: What are new themes you are currently exploring?</p><p>The end of progress.</p><p>Science fiction embeds the enlightenment assumption of progress and improvement—but how does that look in the indefinite future, so far out that a Soyuz capsule and a flint hand axe are of nearly identical antiquity, and scientific progress has ended so long ago that nobody even *remembers* progress being thought possible (because everything that can be known, is already known)?</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 3/14. What new themes are you currently exploring?</p><p>The theme I am currently exploring in my translations from German folklore is "animal tales". Not fables, but tales of animals that are behaving in a strange manner or which are outright supernatural.</p><p>As an example, here are some accounts of strange chicken:</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/chicken-are-123440670" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patreon.com/posts/chicken-are-</span><span class="invisible">123440670</span></a></p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Mar 13. Are you mindful of your readers’ expectations? How so?</p><p>My readers expect English-language translations of German folk tales, which is already a pretty rare thing.</p><p>But I can't just translate the tales themselves and call it a day (or worse, run the texts through an <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> translator) - I need to provide _context_, for otherwise these tales won't make a lot of sense to my readers. 19th century <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> is culturally pretty removed from 21st Germany - let alone from modern international readers, many of whom have never even visited the country. They _need_ some pointers to what is going on in these stories.</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 12 March: Happy Plant A Flower Day! What role does nature take in your stories?</p><p>German local legends are deeply embedded into their environment. As such, they often seek to explain the local environment and its origin - or at least to make it more interesting and/or magical.</p><p>Thus, magical plants, rock formations that were caused by the Devil or some sin of humans, and other forms of fantastic natural environments were common.</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 11 Mar. Do writing challenges spur on your progress?</p><p>No, not really. I have a commitment to publish at least 1,000 words of text on my Patreon every Monday, and that is enough of a motivation for me.</p><p>Sometimes I translate more - and sometimes a _lot_ more - but it is in the nature of my day job that it can become _very_ busy overnight, so I am not looking for more commitments than I already have.</p><p>"Slow and steady wins the race" and all that.</p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>One of the best writing exercises I ever did was in college.</p><p>We were asked to distill a 10 page scientific paper on the relation between the dodo and a plant that went extinct along with it... into 100 words.</p><p>That plus the 10% Solution by Ken Rand are deeply ingrained.</p><p>Really helpful as I summarize these book chapters into a proposal. 150 words per chapter? PLENTY.</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/WriteTip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteTip</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a></p>
Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:<p><a href="https://io.mwl.io/tags/writerscoffeeclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writerscoffeeclub</span></a> 10: How do you handle the physical strain of writing?</p><p>I wrote with terrible posture in my youth, and paid for it. Today I use a standing desk to force correct posture. You don't have to stand: you *must* force correct posture.</p><p>The natural position of your arms is hanging at your sides, so that's where I mounted my split keyboardio model 100.</p><p>The upper keyboard is for work that needs a mouse.</p><p>Do NOT use the keyboard that comes with your PC or laptop. Unless you're one of the vanishingly rare folks of the correct size to use them, those things will inevitably and irrevocably trash your wrists! </p><p>Don't rely on mindfulness for posture and position. When you enter flow state, your mind will be elsewhere. </p><p>Get a comfy keyboard that doesn't permit use with poor posture or wrist position. I mean this literally. Make it IMPOSSIBLE to type with poor posture or bad hand position.</p><p>Also learn to write without the mouse. Decades of writing on bad keyboards and crap mice made mouse use painful. Trackballs are bearable.</p><p>Step away from your keyboard when you are not actively making words. Pace. Beat your head on the wall. If you're not typing, leave the keys. (This is the greatest benefit of a standing desk, btw.)</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 10 March<br>How do you handle the physical strain of writing?</p><p>After I switched to using an ergonomic mouse, I've no longer had any serious problems with carpal tunnel syndrome. Beyond that, I luckily don't seem to have any writing-related health problems.</p>
Charlie Stross<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 9/3: Does caffeine intake influence your writing?</p><p>Not caffeine (although I'm barely awake without 4 litres of strong tea a day), but the aspartame in diet coke (never pepsi) works wonders for my imagination! Trouble is, aspartame isn't good for you and I've consequently cut right back, but some of my books were fuelled by 2 litres of the stuff per day … not surprising, as aspartame contains phenylalanine, a neurotransmitter precursor (among other things). Mildly psychoactive!</p>
Erotic Mythology 🌷<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> March 8: Happy International Women’s Day! What female author has inspired you the most?</p><p>Probably Marion Zimmer-Bradley. I read The Mists of Avalon when I was 14 and for all the author's terrible flaws it showed little Aimée a fantasy story that centred women and gave an exciting depiction of paganism. I also remember finding it sexy.</p><p>Adult Aimée writes mythology erotica, though not (yet?) set in medieval Britain.</p>
Mike Gorden<p><a href="https://lsbt.me/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> from February 30th: Did you ever get hooked while reading your own book?</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 3/7 What's the first thing you do when you sit down with a new project?</p><p>Opening up a new Trello board centering on a specific theme from German folklore, which then gradually gets filled up with folk tales I want to translate.</p><p>I have about 50 of these boards at the moment.</p>
Charlie Stross<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 7. What’s the first thing you do when you sit down with a new project?</p><p>Stage zero: start a new note in Simplenote, my note-taking utility of choice. Jot stuff down that occurs to me.</p><p>Stage one: when I'm actually ready to start, create a new <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@scrivenerapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>scrivenerapp</span></a></span> project in a specific directory on my Dropbox. (If not working in Scriv—which is unusual—create a new directory in my work filesystem to hold project related files.)</p><p>EVERYTHING thereafter gets dropped into this structure.</p>
Stephen Cox Author<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6 March: How do you feel you can further develop as a writer?</p><p>I guess the last three years have been realising I'll never leave the learning zone. I know my strengths and weaknesses, I deliberately worked on two novellas to explore concision and a more focused plot. </p><p>I hope to find a balance between 'doing the writing' and the 'getting it out there' side - a balance of good work and not getting exhausted.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6 March: How do you feel you can further develop as a writer?</p><p>Largely by continuing to do what I am doing already. I feel I have a pretty good process in place.</p><p>Nevertheless, beyond finding more time for my writing, I think I could benefit from learning more about the history, culture, and geography these tales take place in. Which means more travel, more reading, and more visiting relevant museums.</p><p>I already know a lot more on these matters than I did when I wrote my first book on German folklore, and no doubt this trend will continue.</p>
Charlie Stross<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 5: What writing-related tools or resources have you found most effective?</p><p>Tools: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@scrivenerapp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>scrivenerapp</span></a></span> , markdown, pandoc, Unix CLI text utilities, rcs (git is massive overkill), perl, Apple's textutil, etc</p><p>Oh, and reading 1-3 novels/week over multiple decades, and analyzing them.</p><p>(Books on writing: I don't learn that way: the only one worth a damn was "On writing" by Stephen King.)</p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 5th March: What writing-related tools or resources have you found most effective?</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Trello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trello</span></a> for organizing the German folk tales I have read and want to translate </p><p>Google Docs for the first draft of the translation </p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> for typesetting</p>
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