#WritersCoffeeClub Day 30: International Jazz Day! Do you participate in ‘writing jams’ with other writers?
Nope. The idea hasn’t ever really resonated with me. I don't lack motivation or need to bounce ideas off people. So going to the trouble to go somewhere and do what I can do at home or a coffee shop already just seems.... pointless.
I'd much prefer to do a happy hour or coffee meet up and talk about craft and business.
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International Jazz Day! Do you participate in 'writing jams' with other writers?
What is a "writing jam?" Do we all shout out lines at the same time? 
#WritersCoffeeClub 4/30. International Jazz Day! Do you participate in 'writing jams' with other writers?
No, I don't.
Coworking with an online friend can work, we tried that out, our days just don't match up often for it.
You see, I prefer writing at my own desk at home, so meetings won't do it for me.
I tried once, for NaNoWriMo, years ago. Taught me that I do not function that way. *shrugs*
We all have to find out what works for us, individually.
#WritersCoffeeClub 4/30. International Jazz Day! Do you participate in 'writing jams' with other writers?
I have done writing "sprints" and group writing sessions.
I'm really not sure how or if those differ from a writing jam. I've never participated in anything by that name.
"Writing Jam" sounds a lot more fun, though lol
#writersCoffeeClub - International Jazz Day! Do you participate in writing jams with other writers
Before the pandemic hit, I used to regularly meet up with two friends for write-ins - typically once a month. But then the pandemic hit and I was extra careful and avoided cafés and restaurants, and now I have Long Covid and meet-ups of any kind aren't possible for me right now.
I miss those Sunday mornings with write-ins, though. And I miss my friends!
#WritersCoffeeClub April 30 International Jazz Day. Do you participate in "writing jams" with other writers?
No. Just, no.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 30/4: International Jazz Day! Do you participate in ‘writing jams’ with other writers?
Not sure I even know what that is.
I have done collaborations in non-fiction, notably the expanded 2nd edition of ‘Outdoor Photography’ with Chiz Dakin.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 29 Have you ever written anything that didn't age well?
Not precisely, but I _did_ write something that has aged very _uncomfortably_.
In my 2022 book "Lurkers at the Threshold", I added a travel warning for regions of Germany where the fascist #AfD had received more than 20% of the vote. Now, after the 2025 federal elections, this covers much of the country.
I am not going to take these words back, and will likely repeat them in future volumes. But it is depressing how much obviously worse my home country has become in the last few years.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 29 Apr: Have you ever written anything that didn’t age well?
I started writing near-future SF in 1989, so, yeah.
I actually did some re-reads recently to see if anything was worth dragging out of the trunk. (TL;DR: Yes, BUT)
The tech held up better than I expected, mostly because I half-broke the world before rebuilding it. Some interpersonal, social & cultural elements need polishing, others are awful & need to be gutted. I was inexperienced & clueless.
#WritersCoffeeClub 28 How important is class or caste in your writing?
Going back in time a day to talk about this one, because it's a great prompt for a #cyberpunk author.
Class is a fundamental element of writing cyberpunk. I know the genre means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but one of the thematic cores of the genre is rebelling against out of control capitalism and the ruling class of wealthy corporate oligarchs.
Cyberpunk predicted this future decades ago, but I think it came on in reality much faster than we expected, and so it's really a duty of cyberpunk authors to depict this class division honestly, and a big part of the catharsis of these stories is watching someone resist and probably fuck up a part of that oligarchy.
Tessier-Ashpool, L Bob Rife/his Raft, and Arasaka to name a few class-based antagonists.
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Apr 29: Have you ever written anything that didn't age well?
My first book was semi-autobiographical. But the issue isn't the writing, it's me.
I didn't age well.
#WritersCoffeeClub April 29: Have you ever written anything that didn't age well?
You know how governments have requests for public comment on a situation or proposal? My legal name is tied to a hilarously outdated public statement. I was taking the right stance but two technological constraints I used as the crux of my argument were almost immediately removed. I don't feel like doxxing myself today so I'll leave that where it is.
One of the upsides to taking as long to get around to self-publishing as I have is that there's a lot of stories I started (and sometimes finished!) that will never ever see the light of day.
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didn’t age well…
Not in the context of “the times,” but of me. My earliest completed works show flashes of promise, & there are ideas I’ve since stolen.
They are, though, a lie.
There, I said it.
They’re painful to read, not because the writing is kinda bad, but because it isn’t my voice. There’s a voice subtext screaming to be heard, trying to claw its way to the surface. It’s me writing while at war with myself.
At last, I won.
#WritersCoffeeClub 4/29. Have you ever written anything that didn't age well?
Most definitely. Although the only specific example I can think of is essays I had to write when I was in Bible college (yeah, I was brainwashed. I'm better now)
But I feel like there's a good chance something I wrote in high school didn't age well. I barely think about most of that stuff, though. And I don't often comment on social issues. So maybe it wouldn't be too bad? 
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr29. Have you ever written anything that didn’t age well?
I wrote a short about a man with camera/computer augments as aids for retinitis pigmentosa. The implant tech was being developed by a German company.
The mag that pubbed it (Jim Baen's Universe) had it in their pub process for almost four years. By the time it was finally pubbed, the tech was implanted in about 50 users in the EU.
Sadly, that company went bankrupt, stranding the users who had it. /cautionary tale
#WritersCoffeeClub 4/29. Have you ever written anything that didn’t age well?
Not counting the first couple of books that were just bad (although I don't think they contained anything awful as far as subject matter is concerned).
I wrote the first Maliha Anderson book, Murder out of the Blue, before I knew there was a "kill your gays" trope (and long before I realised I was bi and became better connected to the queer community).
I mean it's not the worst because it's the plot (not just random or a side character) but it does embarrass me somewhat (though short of a completely different plot there's nothing that can be done to change it).
I made amends in later books - lots of solid queerness.
(Unfortunately my book MONSTERS, first written in the 2000s, is ageing rather too well.)
#WritersCoffeeClub 29: Have you ever written something that didn't age well?
Yes. Worse, I've published things that didn't age well. Most of my novels from before roughly 2008, if they ever go out of print and the rights revert, will only get republished once I've made some discreet edits.
(The novels are mostly salvageable: there are a couple of short stories I'd side-eye dubiously and probably walk away from.)
