Writers' Coffee Club
January 2025
Chapter 17: I'm Not an MC, But I Know What Love is
1. What are your writing goals for 2025?
2. Have you ever made up something in a story which has come
true in real life?
3. What form do your stories take? Flash, short, novella,
novel or other?
4. As a writer, what do you get from social media?
5. January can be a dull month (especially in the UK). What’s
your worst writing month, and why?
6. What’s your current writing project? How’s it going?
7. What are your biggest hopes for the writing world in
2025?
8. Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, “No man but a
blockhead ever wrote, except for money”?
9. Do you borrow settings, plots or characters from other
works (without plagiarism)?
10. Do you use dream sequences in your work? How do you feel
about them?
11. Do you write or imagine a backstory for your secondary
characters, or do they pop into existence as required?
12. Do characters use words not in the language you write
in? Italics for this, or not?
13. What’s your favourite trope? Do you lean into it for
your work or shy away?
14. Are you a pantser or a plotter? Have you always been
this way? What brought you here?
15. Would you ever hide your politics to avoid alienating
some readers?
16. How would you describe the way you create your stories
to a non-writer?
17. What are your biggest fears for the writing world in
2025?
18. Would you serve as a judge for a literary award?
19. Did you find a way through the maze of traditional
publishing to get your book published? What’s your secret?
20. Do any of your stories take place on the sea? In what
way?
21. what differences do you find in your process if you
write both short and long-form?
22. What prompted you to begin writing?
23. Do you think it’s vital for a fiction writer to have
empathy?
24. How long is the longest story you’ve ever written? Can
you link to it?
25. Do you have a worked-out magical system (or advanced
technology in sci-fi)? Or do you make it up as you go?
26. If people tell you they’ve always wanted to write, what
do you say to them?
27. What unpaid marketing sites have you found helpful?
28. Would anything stop you from writing, or do you have the
bug for life?
29. How do you format your drafts? Is it the same as the
final manuscript?
30. Do secondary characters sometimes get promoted to main
characters?
31. How’s your writing progress so far this year? What are
you working on?
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