Mastodon: Writers' Coffee Club daily challenge December 2023

Writer's Coffee Club

December 2023

Chapter 4: Nakatomi  Plaza

1. Does your work include any poetry? Share a snippet.

2. Do you use ARC readers? Do they help your book sales? What's an ARC reader?

3. What writing advice would you give your younger self?

4. Do you/will you write under your own name? Do you share a name with another writer?

5. What genre is your WIP?

6. Is it the reader's/critic's interpretation of a work or the author's? Would you fight an author's opinion?

7. What's your favourite book? Why?

8. Do you write in the active voice, passive voice or a mixture? Does it matter?

9. How would you write an online chat or text message conversation in your novel?

10. What aspect of your work are you most proud of? Don't be shy.

11. How close is your final manuscript to your first draft?

12. A game developer wants to base a game on your book. How do you feel about it?

13. Do you write to a specific word count, or do you let the story dictate the length?

14. What's the biggest edit You've ever needed to make to your work?

15. Question for paperback writers. What trim sizes are you published in?

16. Are there any writing tropes you dislike, without insulting other club members?

17. What aspects of your life do you bring into your writing?

18. Do you intend to read a book over Christmas/the holidays? What will you choose?

19. If you could remove one rule of grammar, which would you choose?

20. Do you name or number chapters? If you name them, how do you decide on a name?

21. When writing, are you ever distracted thinking about a future project?

22. Change one word in the title of a famous novel to change its meaning.

23. If you were to rewrite the nativity, what would you change?

24. Do your family and friends expect one of your books for Christmas?

25. Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays from The Writers' Coffee Club. Share anything you like.

26. What positive things do people say when you tell them you're a writer?

27. If you write in more than one genre, which is your go to?

28. What are your thoughts on using real brand names in your writing?

29. Do you have a favourite letter of the alphabet? How does it feature in your work?

30. What POV do you mostly write in? Why?

31, Will you be writing today? How do you feel about your writing journey over the last year?