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#WritersCoffee Club 21 Nov: What are some preconceptions about writers you'd like to see challenged?

I'm not bothered, really. People have mistaken ideas about most jobs or activities they don't happen to do themselves. It just doesn't weigh on me very heavily. I guess people's misconceptions about other things bother me more.

#WritersCoffee #Club 7/8: Have you always written, a tipping point

There's a striking difference between vaguely floating around thinking being an author would be lovely and sitting down and dedicating time and effort to get somewhere.

So a long list of byways but in 2012 I had a sabbatical and I wrote a first draft... Now I have two trad books out, I'm trying self-publishing a third and I've got a novella ready to go.

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13. Favourite antagonist to write: Villains, anti-heroes, rivals?

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I have written genuinely evil people. I prefer people who are flawed and who are doing something for motives which are not entirely selfish.

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Jan 25 #WritersCoffee Club (cont'd)

I would want an Egyptian/North African artist for this project, but I have to say, my writing it being a problem because I'm not a mixture of Ancient Macedonian Greek, Persian and possibly Egyptian is a little ridiculous.

Jan 25 #WritersCoffee Club (cont'd)
I told my agent that I was writing a GN about Cleopatra. She said it was problematic because I don't have Cleopatra's background. But Cleo's exact ethnicity is unknown because of blank spots in her family lineage--her father's mother, her own mother. (Though it's safe to say the blank spots aren't occupied by anyone who is Filipino/Puerto Rican/Ecuadorian--and also 1.4% Egyptian if 23andMe tells the truth--like me.)
And also SHE LIVED MORE THAN 2000 YEARS AGO