Writers' Coffee Club
December 2024
Chapter 16: Write Christmas
1. Does your work make you laugh when you read it back?
2. From all your work, who's your favourite character?
3. Do you agree with Tolstoy, who said, "The best stories come not from the conflict between good and evil, but from the conflict between good and good."
4. Have you ever written anything you thought was terrible
and saved it in the edit?
5. Add one word to the name of a famous novel to completely
change the meaning.
6. Sentence fragments? Punchy? Cliché? Essential? Wrong?
What's a sentence fragment?
7. What do you think is the most critical element in
storytelling?
8. Are you inspired by the state of current world politics, or is your writing an escape from dark reality? A bit of both?
9. Is it like slay to use sick street talk like in your lit literature, or is that just gonna give you salty vibes?
10. Do you set out to write a series of a certain number of
books, or does it evolve into a series?
11. When did you first start reading? How enthusiastically
(or not!) did you take to it?
12. Do you have a favourite author? Is your style influenced
by them?
13. Which novel to TV or movie adaptation was the most
disappointing and why?
14. Is it OK for a book to be purely entertainment, or must it have meaning or a lesson?
15. Do some readers over-interpret your work? Do they get messages you weren't sending?
16. What would be the best writing-related Christmas present
someone could give you?
17. Which writing conventions do you ignore, if any?
18. What are your biggest turnoffs or turn-ons when reading?
19. Do any of your stories occur in Winter? What do you take
from the season?
20. Is anyone getting a copy of your latest book for
Christmas?
21. Disney is making a musical animation of one of your
stories. How well does that go?
22. How would you describe the tone of your WIP? Hopeful,
dark, funny, emotional etc?
23. What Christmas treat will you enjoy while writing over the holidays?
24. The Christmas elves have granted you one writing wish.
What do you wish for?
25. Merry Christmas. Are you having a writing-free day or
sneaking in a few paragraphs?
26. Do real-life events inspire your writing? Share an
example.
27. How consistent are you with your writing? Daily? Weekly?
Whenever you get the chance in your already overloaded life?
28. Have any resources improved your
storytelling skills?
29. What are your feelings towards readers?
30. Do you like a book that is challenging or just
carries you along?
31. What were the big writing moments for you in 2024?
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