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#WritersCoffeeClub – 25th Oct. Tell us about inspiration from an unlikely source.

My published fiction output across almost 30 years was "The Report From Potter's Point," a serial about characters in a small New England town, appearing at first weekly in three newspapers, and later rebooted to longer monthly installments in a magazine. In all that time, nobody ever had a pet, believe it or not. No dogs. No cats. Not even a goldfish.

In January 2019 a mini Australian Shepherd entered my life. And now in my current WIP, Jack has a dog named Wolf. (And there are a couple of cats here and there, too.) Who'da thunk?

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#WritersCoffeeClub 24. What is currently provisional in your workflow (or work)?

I have the first draft of my fourth book with my proofreader (still struggling with a title), and an idea for another book which will still be fiction but more philosophical.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 24th Oct ~ What is currently provisional in your workflow/work?

In my #WIP, most of the story is subject to change. Possibly character names. Maybe the title. Possibly the themes, styling, format, POV, beginning, ending, the middle...

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#WritersCoffeeClub 24/10: What is currently provisional in your workflow/work?

It's half term right now so I'll be writing every day this week. And I'm first drafting which ought to be finished soonish. Then comes the fun part!

#WritersCoffeeClub 24/10: What is currently provisional in your workflow/work?
Workflow is pretty well set at this point. The core writing process exhibits turbulent rather than laminar flow, but hey ho…
As to the work itself, this now means looking beyond the Shattered Moon series. The next book has key characters well established but some missing chapters and others that aren’t yet in order. Once they are, there will be some rewriting to do. All good fun.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.24 — What is currently provisional in your workflow (or work)?

Discipline.

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I'm not changing my profile photo, but here's me with my buddy Broxo. I'm the one wearing glasses. I'll hashtag some of the places where I regularly post.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/23
How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

I put a lot of unnecessary pressure on myself this year with an arbitrary release date that constrained me with a difficult timeline. While I did get it done, I’ve learned for the next book not to overpromise on what I can feasibly deliver.

My town's library is temporarily closed while a new furnace is being installed. I took out a couple of books from a nearby (Marion, MA) library where a family member works. The receipt shows the value of the books I got for free by borrowing instead of buying. Go libraries!

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#WritersCoffeeClub 23 Oct How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

Butt in chair, hands on the keyboard and...

Just keep writing, just keep writing, just keep writing...

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#WritersCoffeeClub 23 Oct How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

Promises, schmomises.

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 23
How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

My only promise is to myself. I'm good at lying to myself. "I'm going to finish writing this chapter in a week."

Yeah... about that.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct23 How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

What, like actually finishing the story I wanted to have done in like, May?

....I don't. But tbh, the very few ppl who read what I write are understanding. I write for fun, so like... surviving comes first.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 23 - How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

Up until recently I’d never had to write to a deadline.

Having announced I was serialising the short story collection Tales From the Demi-monde on my website I buckled down to writing to ensure I’d be able to stay well ahead of the scheduled publishing dates.

So far it’s going OK.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 23/10: How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?
Pardon? Is this a phrase with some specific recognised meaning that I have somehow never encountered before in decades of writing, talking about writing, and reading about writing? Or am I supposed to be like Humpty Dumpty. “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.''
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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/23. How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

I didn't promise nuthin'.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 23rd Oct ~ How do you make sure you deliver on your writerly promises?

That's part of the craft, right? That is, the way writers deliver on the story's promise is what it's all about. So, I suppose, I make sure I deliver by studying the craft.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.22 — Share a work you found really challenging to read.

The Hunger Games

Good story, unique characters. Author can't consistently handle the past tense passages that require beyond the simple past, and her editor didn't earn her salt. This doesn't even consider that 1st person present tense is jarring. Took me three tries and urging from a friend to finally get into the book. In the end, I liked it. It confirmed my agent's observation that bestsellers have nothing to do with good writing—they are just story and marketing.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/22
Share a work you found really challenging to read.

I find it difficult to stay engaged over a lengthy series. That’s likely why I still haven’t made it through The Wheel of Time yet.

#WritersCoffeeClub 10/22. Share a work you found really challenging to read.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, I’d particularly enjoyed Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, particularly the Pratchett-esque use of footnotes, but Piranesi left me cold.

It was vaguely reminiscent of an earlier novel which, if I rightly remember, had a character called the Bellman and also featured a dinosaur in the attic, but I can’t actually recall its title.

A more recent one was the China Mieville/Keanu Reeves novel, which I posted about as being unreadable a few weeks back.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/22. Share a work you found really challenging to read

I'm studying Arabic and reading the lyrics of Nizar Qabbani in Arabic. It's quite a challenge for me, but a great pleasure! To me, any translation tastes insipid.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 22
Share a work you found really challenging to read.

Nonfiction: Godel Escher Bach. I still haven't finished this book that my grandmother gave me when I was in my teens. It occupies a guilty spot on my sparsely populated shelf. One day ...

Fiction: Atlas Shrugged. The adolescent politics and philosophy of Ayn Rand aside, she is a terrible writer. I read her abomination of a book so I would have a baseline from which to read the sequel/response by my friend Robert Peate, titled Sysyphus Shrugged.

#WritersCoffeeClub 22/10: Share a work you found really challenging to read.

After hearing forever that Terry Pratchett was the greatest thing since sliced charred wildebeest, I decided this year to try him.

I could not get more than 35 pages into The Color of Magic.

Sorry, gang.

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October 22nd

Share a work you found really challenging to read.

Hamlet, in it's original.
I mean, I love the play *and* the 1996 movie adaptation. But reading…

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#WritersCoffeeClub 22nd Oct ~ Share a work you found really challenging to read.

At the moment, I'm reading Bleak House for my undergraduate studies, which feels like a chore more than anything else.

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