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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.22 — How well would your current WIP work as a play?

No.

But there is a theatre play in it where the MC gets to watch "back stage" as the play is staged (including magical lighting and staging of backgrounds and props), and later takes photos while the celebrity actor is interviewed. Does that count?

No? [pouts]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.20 — If not your current genre, what genre would you write?

Fantasy. Not epic fantasy. No fan of Tolkien adjacent stories. Nothing with Norse or similar mythological roots. Something urban or hugely reality warping.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.20 — If not your current genre, what genre would you write?

Fantasy. Not epic fantasy. No fan of Tolkien adjacent stories. Nothing with Norse or similar mythological roots. Something urban or hugely reality warping.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.20 — If not your current genre, what genre would you write?

Fantasy. Not epic fantasy. No fan of Tolkien adjacent stories. Nothing with Norse or similar mythological roots. Something urban or hugely reality warping.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.20 — If not your current genre, what genre would you write?

Fantasy. Not epic fantasy. No fan of Tolkien adjacent stories. Nothing with Norse or similar mythological roots. Something urban or hugely reality warping.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.20 — If not your current genre, what genre would you write?

Fantasy. Not epic fantasy. No fan of Tolkien adjacent stories. Nothing with Norse or similar mythological roots. Something urban or hugely reality warping.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.19 — How would changing genre change your current WIP's plot?

The genre is essentially SF, but not hard SF. Yes, the story does discuss the effects of science and technology on people (David Brin's definition of SF), but the story is not about science and technology any more than a story set in modern times is about computers, cars, airplanes, electricity, and climate. You can't entirely remove references to them, but science and technology themselves aren't the heart of story. I called it social SF when I started writing YA in the 80s.

That said, the science and technology in the WIP could be crudely (and peripherally to the story) binned together as genetics and applied physics. I could change the genre to fantasy, where the genetics could be simply be presented as beastmen cultures and the physics as magic. The genre switch wouldn't largely change the WIP's plot, but it could make it seem more whimsical (I prefer gritty and realistic seeming) and less firmly constrained by rules. Good SF is all about ensuring the rules of the universe, like the laws of physics, are knowable, so that the plot and the constraints on the characters are knowable—and crucially, predicable.

Not so much with fantasy.

Since one of the factors in the Reluctance Series is an additional force of nature, it's inescapable that "violation physics" might be lumped into a bin with magic. Fantasy is an acceptable alternative genre.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.19 — How would changing genre change your current WIP's plot?

The genre is essentially SF, but not hard SF. Yes, the story does discuss the effects of science and technology on people (David Brin's definition of SF), but the story is not about science and technology any more than a story set in modern times is about computers, cars, airplanes, electricity, and climate. You can't entirely remove references to them, but science and technology themselves aren't the heart of story. I called it social SF when I started writing YA in the 80s.

That said, the science and technology in the WIP could be crudely (and peripherally to the story) binned together as genetics and applied physics. I could change the genre to fantasy, where the genetics could be simply be presented as beastmen cultures and the physics as magic. The genre switch wouldn't largely change the WIP's plot, but it could make it seem more whimsical (I prefer gritty and realistic seeming) and less firmly constrained by rules. Good SF is all about ensuring the rules of the universe, like the laws of physics, are knowable, so that the plot and the constraints on the characters are knowable—and crucially, predicable.

Not so much with fantasy.

Since one of the factors in the Reluctance Series is an additional force of nature, it's inescapable that "violation physics" might be lumped into a bin with magic. Fantasy is an acceptable alternative genre.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.19 — How would changing genre change your current WIP's plot?

The genre is essentially SF, but not hard SF. Yes, the story does discuss the effects of science and technology on people (David Brin's definition of SF), but the story is not about science and technology any more than a story set in modern times is about computers, cars, airplanes, electricity, and climate. You can't entirely remove references to them, but science and technology themselves aren't the heart of story. I called it social SF when I started writing YA in the 80s.

That said, the science and technology in the WIP could be crudely (and peripherally to the story) binned together as genetics and applied physics. I could change the genre to fantasy, where the genetics could be simply be presented as beastmen cultures and the physics as magic. The genre switch wouldn't largely change the WIP's plot, but it could make it seem more whimsical (I prefer gritty and realistic seeming) and less firmly constrained by rules. Good SF is all about ensuring the rules of the universe, like the laws of physics, are knowable, so that the plot and the constraints on the characters are knowable—and crucially, predicable.

Not so much with fantasy.

Since one of the factors in the Reluctance Series is an additional force of nature, it's inescapable that "violation physics" might be lumped into a bin with magic. Fantasy is an acceptable alternative genre.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.19 — How would changing genre change your current WIP's plot?

The genre is essentially SF, but not hard SF. Yes, the story does discuss the effects of science and technology on people (David Brin's definition of SF), but the story is not about science and technology any more than a story set in modern times is about computers, cars, airplanes, electricity, and climate. You can't entirely remove references to them, but science and technology themselves aren't the heart of story. I called it social SF when I started writing YA in the 80s.

That said, the science and technology in the WIP could be crudely (and peripherally to the story) binned together as genetics and applied physics. I could change the genre to fantasy, where the genetics could be simply be presented as beastmen cultures and the physics as magic. The genre switch wouldn't largely change the WIP's plot, but it could make it seem more whimsical (I prefer gritty and realistic seeming) and less firmly constrained by rules. Good SF is all about ensuring the rules of the universe, like the laws of physics, are knowable, so that the plot and the constraints on the characters are knowable—and crucially, predicable.

Not so much with fantasy.

Since one of the factors in the Reluctance Series is an additional force of nature, it's inescapable that "violation physics" might be lumped into a bin with magic. Fantasy is an acceptable alternative genre.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.19 — How would changing genre change your current WIP's plot?

The genre is essentially SF, but not hard SF. Yes, the story does discuss the effects of science and technology on people (David Brin's definition of SF), but the story is not about science and technology any more than a story set in modern times is about computers, cars, airplanes, electricity, and climate. You can't entirely remove references to them, but science and technology themselves aren't the heart of story. I called it social SF when I started writing YA in the 80s.

That said, the science and technology in the WIP could be crudely (and peripherally to the story) binned together as genetics and applied physics. I could change the genre to fantasy, where the genetics could be simply be presented as beastmen cultures and the physics as magic. The genre switch wouldn't largely change the WIP's plot, but it could make it seem more whimsical (I prefer gritty and realistic seeming) and less firmly constrained by rules. Good SF is all about ensuring the rules of the universe, like the laws of physics, are knowable, so that the plot and the constraints on the characters are knowable—and crucially, predicable.

Not so much with fantasy.

Since one of the factors in the Reluctance Series is an additional force of nature, it's inescapable that "violation physics" might be lumped into a bin with magic. Fantasy is an acceptable alternative genre.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.17 — If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (Or vice-versa!)

Hello! I work exclusively digitally. Arthritis makes it hard to hold a pen for any length of time, but typing, for whatever reason, is painless. Go figure!

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.18 — With whom do you wish you could share your work but can't?

Mom. She passed away six years ago.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.18 — With whom do you wish you could share your work but can't?

Mom. She passed away six years ago.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.18 — With whom do you wish you could share your work but can't?

Mom. She passed away six years ago.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.18 — With whom do you wish you could share your work but can't?

Mom. She passed away six years ago.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.18 — With whom do you wish you could share your work but can't?

Mom. She passed away six years ago.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.17 — If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (Or vice-versa!)

My handwriting is atrocious, and my calligraphy is legible but not after a few sentences. I actually got taught cursive penmanship in primary school, but you'd never know it. My writing's so bad that the old joke about bad writing meaning I would make an excellent doctor is a joke beyond the pale. Even printing, my letters become progressively distorted as my hand tends to cramp up and my dyslexic brain begins to forget right and left, causing my hand to jump.

Nope. Can't work by hand! Not happening!!!

I'd consider using a typewriter as a stopgap, but forced only to use it, I'd be annoyed.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.17 — If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (Or vice-versa!)

My handwriting is atrocious, and my calligraphy is legible but not after a few sentences. I actually got taught cursive penmanship in primary school, but you'd never know it. My writing's so bad that the old joke about bad writing meaning I would make an excellent doctor is a joke beyond the pale. Even printing, my letters become progressively distorted as my hand tends to cramp up and my dyslexic brain begins to forget right and left, causing my hand to jump.

Nope. Can't work by hand! Not happening!!!

I'd consider using a typewriter as a stopgap, but forced only to use it, I'd be annoyed.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.17 — If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (Or vice-versa!)

My handwriting is atrocious, and my calligraphy is legible but not after a few sentences. I actually got taught cursive penmanship in primary school, but you'd never know it. My writing's so bad that the old joke about bad writing meaning I would make an excellent doctor is a joke beyond the pale. Even printing, my letters become progressively distorted as my hand tends to cramp up and my dyslexic brain begins to forget right and left, causing my hand to jump.

Nope. Can't work by hand! Not happening!!!

I'd consider using a typewriter as a stopgap, but forced only to use it, I'd be annoyed.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.17 — If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (Or vice-versa!)

My handwriting is atrocious, and my calligraphy is legible but not after a few sentences. I actually got taught cursive penmanship in primary school, but you'd never know it. My writing's so bad that the old joke about bad writing meaning I would make an excellent doctor is a joke beyond the pale. Even printing, my letters become progressively distorted as my hand tends to cramp up and my dyslexic brain begins to forget right and left, causing my hand to jump.

Nope. Can't work by hand! Not happening!!!

I'd consider using a typewriter as a stopgap, but forced only to use it, I'd be annoyed.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.17 — If you work exclusively digitally, could you work by hand? (Or vice-versa!)

My handwriting is atrocious, and my calligraphy is legible but not after a few sentences. I actually got taught cursive penmanship in primary school, but you'd never know it. My writing's so bad that the old joke about bad writing meaning I would make an excellent doctor is a joke beyond the pale. Even printing, my letters become progressively distorted as my hand tends to cramp up and my dyslexic brain begins to forget right and left, causing my hand to jump.

Nope. Can't work by hand! Not happening!!!

I'd consider using a typewriter as a stopgap, but forced only to use it, I'd be annoyed.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.16 — What's a writerly risk you've taken recently? Did it pay off?

Two. One is the focus on the life, loves, and friends of the protagonist and to do it more intimately than I usually do, and second backgrounding some of the action, ultimately to make it a cozy yet spicy mystery sf novel. I think it is working out, but until I complete the first draft, I dunno.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.16 — What's a writerly risk you've taken recently? Did it pay off?

Two. One is the focus on the life, loves, and friends of the protagonist and to do it more intimately than I usually do, and second backgrounding some of the action, ultimately to make it a cozy yet spicy mystery sf novel. I think it is working out, but until I complete the first draft, I dunno.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.16 — What's a writerly risk you've taken recently? Did it pay off?

Two. One is the focus on the life, loves, and friends of the protagonist and to do it more intimately than I usually do, and second backgrounding some of the action, ultimately to make it a cozy yet spicy mystery sf novel. I think it is working out, but until I complete the first draft, I dunno.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.16 — What's a writerly risk you've taken recently? Did it pay off?

Two. One is the focus on the life, loves, and friends of the protagonist and to do it more intimately than I usually do, and second backgrounding some of the action, ultimately to make it a cozy yet spicy mystery sf novel. I think it is working out, but until I complete the first draft, I dunno.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.16 — What's a writerly risk you've taken recently? Did it pay off?

Two. One is the focus on the life, loves, and friends of the protagonist and to do it more intimately than I usually do, and second backgrounding some of the action, ultimately to make it a cozy yet spicy mystery sf novel. I think it is working out, but until I complete the first draft, I dunno.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.14 — For characters, plots, ideas, settings, &c: how much is too much? 2026.05.15 — Follow-up: and how little is not enough?

I see the merit of separating these two questions, but I'm answering together because there is merit in talking about a range of what works. I am very much a fan of keeping a story as minimal as possible, putting in only what is needed to tell the story effectively—whatever "effectively" turns out to be. In a mystery, you need a rich enough background of suspects, events, minor mysteries, and intrigue to obfuscate the clues and in which to state them clearly to be recognized after the fact. An adventure benefits from less description so as not to impede action. If a story requires a "cozy" moniker a dash of Charles Dickens descriptions and a panoply of interesting characters in the neighborhood and family add necessary color, and side plots that highlight them are a must. We want to be with our friends as long as possible!

For me, I'm loquacious with a problem with concision and ellipsis. I tune these things after the fact!

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.14 — For characters, plots, ideas, settings, &c: how much is too much? 2026.05.15 — Follow-up: and how little is not enough?

I see the merit of separating these two questions, but I'm answering together because there is merit in talking about a range of what works. I am very much a fan of keeping a story as minimal as possible, putting in only what is needed to tell the story effectively—whatever "effectively" turns out to be. In a mystery, you need a rich enough background of suspects, events, minor mysteries, and intrigue to obfuscate the clues and in which to state them clearly to be recognized after the fact. An adventure benefits from less description so as not to impede action. If a story requires a "cozy" moniker a dash of Charles Dickens descriptions and a panoply of interesting characters in the neighborhood and family add necessary color, and side plots that highlight them are a must. We want to be with our friends as long as possible!

For me, I'm loquacious with a problem with concision and ellipsis. I tune these things after the fact!

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.14 — For characters, plots, ideas, settings, &c: how much is too much? 2026.05.15 — Follow-up: and how little is not enough?

I see the merit of separating these two questions, but I'm answering together because there is merit in talking about a range of what works. I am very much a fan of keeping a story as minimal as possible, putting in only what is needed to tell the story effectively—whatever "effectively" turns out to be. In a mystery, you need a rich enough background of suspects, events, minor mysteries, and intrigue to obfuscate the clues and in which to state them clearly to be recognized after the fact. An adventure benefits from less description so as not to impede action. If a story requires a "cozy" moniker a dash of Charles Dickens descriptions and a panoply of interesting characters in the neighborhood and family add necessary color, and side plots that highlight them are a must. We want to be with our friends as long as possible!

For me, I'm loquacious with a problem with concision and ellipsis. I tune these things after the fact!

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.14 — For characters, plots, ideas, settings, &c: how much is too much? 2026.05.15 — Follow-up: and how little is not enough?

I see the merit of separating these two questions, but I'm answering together because there is merit in talking about a range of what works. I am very much a fan of keeping a story as minimal as possible, putting in only what is needed to tell the story effectively—whatever "effectively" turns out to be. In a mystery, you need a rich enough background of suspects, events, minor mysteries, and intrigue to obfuscate the clues and in which to state them clearly to be recognized after the fact. An adventure benefits from less description so as not to impede action. If a story requires a "cozy" moniker a dash of Charles Dickens descriptions and a panoply of interesting characters in the neighborhood and family add necessary color, and side plots that highlight them are a must. We want to be with our friends as long as possible!

For me, I'm loquacious with a problem with concision and ellipsis. I tune these things after the fact!

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.14 — For characters, plots, ideas, settings, &c: how much is too much? 2026.05.15 — Follow-up: and how little is not enough?

I see the merit of separating these two questions, but I'm answering together because there is merit in talking about a range of what works. I am very much a fan of keeping a story as minimal as possible, putting in only what is needed to tell the story effectively—whatever "effectively" turns out to be. In a mystery, you need a rich enough background of suspects, events, minor mysteries, and intrigue to obfuscate the clues and in which to state them clearly to be recognized after the fact. An adventure benefits from less description so as not to impede action. If a story requires a "cozy" moniker a dash of Charles Dickens descriptions and a panoply of interesting characters in the neighborhood and family add necessary color, and side plots that highlight them are a must. We want to be with our friends as long as possible!

For me, I'm loquacious with a problem with concision and ellipsis. I tune these things after the fact!

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.13 — Follow-up: if writing was not your "thing," what would your "thing" be?

Poetry and Haiga (Which is a picture combined with poetry)

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.13 — Follow-up: if writing was not your "thing," what would your "thing" be?

Poetry and Haiga (Which is a picture combined with poetry)

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.13 — Follow-up: if writing was not your "thing," what would your "thing" be?

Photography. Have a picture. Notice the horse's eye? Taken at the Elverhøj Museum, Solvang. California.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.13 — Follow-up: if writing was not your "thing," what would your "thing" be?

Photography. Have a picture. Notice the horse's eye? Taken at the Elverhøj Museum, Solvang. California.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.13 — Follow-up: if writing was not your "thing," what would your "thing" be?

Photography. Have a picture. Notice the horse's eye? Taken at the Elverhøj Museum, Solvang. California.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.13 — Follow-up: if writing was not your "thing," what would your "thing" be?

Photography. Have a picture. Notice the horse's eye? Taken at the Elverhøj Museum, Solvang. California.

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More in #AltText

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.13 — Follow-up: if writing was not your "thing," what would your "thing" be?

Photography. Have a picture. Notice the horse's eye? Taken at the Elverhøj Museum, Solvang. California.

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More in #AltText

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.12 — If not in your current format (novel, play, music, etc.), in what format would you write?

My life in the past decade has been this: dabbling in the other format. I was and had always been a novelist. The idea of something "short" was pretty much foreign, though not alien. When I began writing again after the 2001 burnout in 2015, I began first writing essays (which much of my output on Mastodon illustrates and demonstrates) and then writing short stories in the 1K to 3k range. I discovered the pleasure of starting, writing, then completing projects that novel length puts off and puts off and puts off... You get the idea. My answers today would be short stories, and if by novel you mean fiction, I'd write short essays or columns, though I doubt I'd enjoy it as much as writing fiction.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.12 — If not in your current format (novel, play, music, etc.), in what format would you write?

My life in the past decade has been this: dabbling in the other format. I was and had always been a novelist. The idea of something "short" was pretty much foreign, though not alien. When I began writing again after the 2001 burnout in 2015, I began first writing essays (which much of my output on Mastodon illustrates and demonstrates) and then writing short stories in the 1K to 3k range. I discovered the pleasure of starting, writing, then completing projects that novel length puts off and puts off and puts off... You get the idea. My answers today would be short stories, and if by novel you mean fiction, I'd write short essays or columns, though I doubt I'd enjoy it as much as writing fiction.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.12 — If not in your current format (novel, play, music, etc.), in what format would you write?

My life in the past decade has been this: dabbling in the other format. I was and had always been a novelist. The idea of something "short" was pretty much foreign, though not alien. When I began writing again after the 2001 burnout in 2015, I began first writing essays (which much of my output on Mastodon illustrates and demonstrates) and then writing short stories in the 1K to 3k range. I discovered the pleasure of starting, writing, then completing projects that novel length puts off and puts off and puts off... You get the idea. My answers today would be short stories, and if by novel you mean fiction, I'd write short essays or columns, though I doubt I'd enjoy it as much as writing fiction.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.12 — If not in your current format (novel, play, music, etc.), in what format would you write?

My life in the past decade has been this: dabbling in the other format. I was and had always been a novelist. The idea of something "short" was pretty much foreign, though not alien. When I began writing again after the 2001 burnout in 2015, I began first writing essays (which much of my output on Mastodon illustrates and demonstrates) and then writing short stories in the 1K to 3k range. I discovered the pleasure of starting, writing, then completing projects that novel length puts off and puts off and puts off... You get the idea. My answers today would be short stories, and if by novel you mean fiction, I'd write short essays or columns, though I doubt I'd enjoy it as much as writing fiction.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.12 — If not in your current format (novel, play, music, etc.), in what format would you write?

My life in the past decade has been this: dabbling in the other format. I was and had always been a novelist. The idea of something "short" was pretty much foreign, though not alien. When I began writing again after the 2001 burnout in 2015, I began first writing essays (which much of my output on Mastodon illustrates and demonstrates) and then writing short stories in the 1K to 3k range. I discovered the pleasure of starting, writing, then completing projects that novel length puts off and puts off and puts off... You get the idea. My answers today would be short stories, and if by novel you mean fiction, I'd write short essays or columns, though I doubt I'd enjoy it as much as writing fiction.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.04 — Is there a scene or a character or even a plot you regret adding to a finished work?

Define finished? When the editor loved it and the publisher bought it, I thought it was finished. Then I had to cut out half the story. That turned out to be 105K from 200K. Do I regret all the effort I put into all those scenes (including all the spicy ones)? You betcha, but the book sold very well, so there ya go.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.05.04 — Is there a scene or a character or even a plot you regret adding to a finished work?

Define finished? When the editor loved it and the publisher bought it, I thought it was finished. Then I had to cut out half the story. That turned out to be 105K from 200K. Do I regret all the effort I put into all those scenes (including all the spicy ones)? You betcha, but the book sold very well, so there ya go.

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