Writers' Coffee Club
November 2024
Chapter 15: And the Booker Prize Goes to...
1. Introduce yourself in the third person, as if you're a world-famous author.
2. Do you write to music? If so, do you feel it influences your story?
3. What's the best money you ever spent as a writer?
4. Do you find your writing skills or writer's instinct useful in other walks of life?
5. Share a snippet of what you've most recently written.
6. Do you ever move characters between stories (if, for example, they don't fit into one plot), or are they intrinsic to their story?
7. Is there one genre or subgenre you would never write?
8. Where do you get your books?
9. Do you ever use particular punctuation characters like [, ], {, }, <, >, #, _, *? How do you use them?
10. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
11. Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, "What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure"?
12. How many times do you usually edit?
13. Is there a message that runs through all of your work?
14. What's the most challenging thing about writing characters of a different sex/gender from your own?
15. What do you owe the real people you base your characters on?
16. When did you reach the point when you thought: wow, I'm a writer? Are you still waiting?
17. Have you ever written anything where the POV shifts partway through to a new MC? Would you?
18. What have you written most different from your usual work?
19. Have still images ever inspired your writing?
20. Are Novel genres helpful or constraining? A bit of both?
21. Do you have a day job? What is it? Do you wish you could write full-time?
22. How did you develop the idea for your first book?
23. Do you write under a pseudonym? Would you?
24. What's the most challenging part of the writing process for you?
25. How do you decide on character names?
26. What's the best feedback you've ever received on your writing?
27. If Hollywood wanted to adapt one of your books but change almost everything, would you do it?
28. Do you try to give readers what they want or strive for originality? A balance?
29. What did you edit out of your most recent book?
30. As of now, how many stories have you written? How many more do you have planned?
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