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  #WritersCoffeeClub Sep24 Do you write primarily for yourself or a reader? I'm not sure that I write "for" anything at all. I end up writing as a kind of thing in itself; the audience isn't important to me. That's not to say that I don't enjoy it when other people enjoy what I've written - I do - but I don't think I produce it with them, or myself, in mind. It's more a sense of trying to articulate something than to communicate it, if that makes sense - to...

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  #WritersCoffeeClub Sep18 Share a word you've used only to learn later you were pronouncing or using it wrong. "Allegory" - I thought it was pronounced "al LEG or y" and not "AL leg or y" until my mid 30s.

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  illuminated beneath an overcast sky despite everything #haiku #DaikyHaikuPrompt

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  water and sunlight lingering after the storm unwilling to part #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  Do you have a favorite soundtrack cover? I posted the other day about how perfect the Octopath Traveler OSTs are, but sometimes a cover just hits different. Here's one of my favorites, Steven Melin's cover of Twoson, "Boy meets Girl" from Earthbound. Just lovely. https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03534 #music #gaming

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  #WritersCoffeeClub May19 How would changing genre change your current WIP's plot? I think it could be fruitfully reskinned as fantasy instead of sci-fi, but it's tough to get out of the realm of speculative fiction and still have talking animals. If it were fantasy, the setup changes from "we need a computer part to repair the supercomputer" to "we need a macguffin to heal the land", and there's setting information about magic instead...

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  an ambrosial sip the hummingbird is sustained one moment longer #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  #WritersCoffeeClub May20: If not your current genre, what genre would you write? If not for speculative fiction and poetry, I don't know what else I would write. I suppose I would try to write "literature", whatever that means, or maybe nonfiction. I'm not particularly interested in other fiction genres.

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  #ScribesAndMakers May20 Given $100 to spend on something to support your creativity this month, what are you spending it on? Submission fees. I doubt I could burn through $100 in submission fees in a month, but I could try.

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  oh, a butterfly! emerging from a cocoon unsure of its wings #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  You find a machine that can convert annoyances into small joys. You can either: a) Sacrifice a small joy of your choice, but permanently banish an annoyance of your choice; b) Gain a new (random) source of annoyance, and also gain a new source of small joy; or c) Walk away from the machine. So for example you could trade your ability to taste chocolate to never be bit by a mosquito again. Or suddenly be annoyed by the color red but find joy in the color blue. What do you choose?

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  #WritersCoffeeClub May21 What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency? I just try to write a little bit every week. One poem or one chapter. I've been doing the #SonnetSunday tag for a while now, where I try to post a new sonnet every Sunday. It often slips past me, but it's worth trying to keep up with.

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  The world is full of shallow words and deep nothings that linger between - what I meant to say was, "Please, don't go." But I said goodbye. #tanka #TankaThursday

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  #ScribesAndMakers May26 Who's your favorite vampire? Probably Raziel, from the Legacy of Kain games.

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  bowing solemnly a peony opens itself to a swarm of ants #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  #WritersCoffeeClub May26 In what ways does your work defy expectation? Judging from my writing habits, I expect it to write itself, which it thus far rudely refuses to do.

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  each time love occurs it is unique - unequaled - there is no first love; whenever we fall in love it is always the first time #tanka #TankaThursday

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  on a silent pond a single swan paddling alone with its grief #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  newly come to Earth and knowing only hunger a chick cries for more #haiku #DaikyHaikuPrompt

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  #WritersCoffeeClub May5 Have you ever taken inspiration from something which could have happened but didn't? There are four scenarios implied by this statement: * It could have happened, but didn't * It couldn't have happened, but did * It couldn't have happened, and didn't happen * It could have happened, and did I think you could write a great story about all four. For me, I don't spend much time on scenario 1, preferring 2 and 4.

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  dragging on the earth a bold pheasant's tailfeather insouciant panache #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  a winter morning the silence of the blue sky absent twittering #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  #WritersCoffeeClub Feb 2 How satisfied are you with the rhythm of your works? It's something that can always be improved. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, so I'd say I'm dissatisfied with it. I've gotten to a point with poetry that I can hear and plan meter well, so in terms of micro-rhythm, I've got that going for me. But in terms of slower rhythms like pacing and themes, I think it's something I still need to work on.

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  dissolved, coalesced the world returns to itself; that memory, rain #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  #WritersCoffeeClub Feb 3 What signature marks your work as definitively and effectively yours? Hmm, I don't know if I have one. People have described my writing style as "archaic", but I'm not the only one who writes in an outdated way. Maybe it's the combination of that with more modern sci fi themes. I think I might be the only one writing blank verse about robots, or sonnets about a singularity.

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  Few enough, the groves isolated from the world; their secrets remain #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  #ScribesAndMakers Feb 4 Our next featured creator is a comic artist. Tell us about a comic strip or web comic you enjoy. Surprised I haven't seen Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal mentioned, it's one of my favorites https://www.smbc-comics.com/

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  #WritersCoffeeClub Feb 4 How much detail do you use to describe your settings? It depends on the situation. Usually I try to reveal setting details through indirect means or in service of something else; like for example there's a bit in BOTNW where one of the characters gushes over the technology they see in the streets of the capital city. But I'm not above a setting infodump. Ideally I think settings should be left a little vague to leave some mystery for the reader.

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  humble barleycorns not much to look at, alone, but lovely to drink #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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  #WritersCoffeeClub Feb 5 What's a trait of other written works you admire, but don't seek to incorporate in your own works? Honestly, anything I admire I am going to try to imitate. I admire when authors do a ton of research and it comes through in their writing. Like knowing what fixtures a 1920's aristocrat would have in their bathroom, that kind of thing. I purposely avoid writing historical fiction so I can bypass the requirement for historical research + verisimil...