#WritersCoffeeClub March 16: What's the largest cast you've ever written?
Like eight or nine named characters. I'm still pretty new. :)
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#PennedPossibilities 958: Favourite under appreciated novel?
#JekyllAndHyde. The original is *mystery* that leads readers to believe Hyde is blackmailing his rich, older lover, Jekyll. Until the very end, when Jekyll tells the story we're all familiar with. Everyone should read it. It's really good!
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#WordWeavers March 16: Do you have any kind of ritual to get in the mood to sit down and write? If so, what is it?
Open the file. Read something. If I can will myself to do that, then my fingers are already on the keyboard making changes.
If I'm meant to write something new, I open a fresh file and write what's in my head.
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What are people's thoughts on Pocket.FM? Particularly those in the #WritingCommunity. Anyone write something for them?
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Did you ever receive formal education in creative writing?
Sort of?
I was an actor for many years, doing Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekov, Greeks. Dramatological deep dives into the works to understand context and nuance. I've also worked with improv companies creating spontaneously. At drama school we learned story structure and techniques, the three acts, bait & switch, bathos vs pathos, etc.
Actually writing a book is waaaay different than any of that.
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I could be scared of finishing the witching novel, because then I'd have to sell my baby.
Oh yes, I am!
But fuck this, I wanna see my baby in those bookshelves!
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So, this guy, the author, is my wife's massage therapist, who happened to run across Canada faster than anyone before him. A crazy feat, and a good read.
https://medium.com/the-book-cafe/untethered-by-dave-proctor-a-book-review-3bc9d4ae37b7
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Realized looking at my printed and handwritten language, I needed a traditional that all these descended from. Sooooo.....here I am designing 150 glyphs. The pain of world buildilng? fml lol #writingcommunity #indieauthor #beloveduniverse #conlang #worldbuilding
#Writephant 2026.03.06 — A5. Bonus question: what is your favorite holiday ritual?
It is a toss up between decorating the Christmas tree or making and eating the Thanksgiving turkey.
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#Writephant 2026.03.16 — A4 . Have you ever made up a holiday for one of your stories? If not, what would you make up?
I won't say it's unique, but I did a variation on Carnival for a story about a shaman—she discovers she lives in an asteroid converted into a generation ship, but thinks the computer she wakes is a spirit. A friend from one of the nations inside the ship wants to get the shaman to loosen up. The holiday is about meat, a nod to the name, but also about the needs of the flesh. It's a crazy sensual and trance inducing celebration, yet as I wrote it not very spicy. The story and the scene were inspired by Natalie Merchant's Carnival.
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