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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/15. What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

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#WritersCoffeeClub September 15: What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

Silly that I would think I can offer much. But, I can offer snide comments. I'm kinda good at those.

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What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

Any of it, sure, but most of my actual expertise is about obscure and boring computer things that never make it into my writing, so why you'd want it in yours is a mystery to me.

#WritersCoffeeClub 15/9: What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?
Nothing. I am an expertise-less boob, and i constantly fear giving fellow writers an active disservice with my opinion.
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15th Sept 2026. What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

My expertise in German #folklore, obviously.

By this stage, I have probably read 15-20,000 German folk tales, and I have published two books on them.

So if you […]

#WritersCoffeeClub 15/9: What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?
Top of the list, photography. Freelance for over 30 years, taught it, written over 20 books, and my experience spans the film and digital eras…
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#WritersCoffeeClub 15th Sep ~ What expertise are you happy to offer to your fellow writers for their research?

My expertise covers commercial construction and creative writing as an undergraduate specialism. Everything else? Well, I can point at where to look...

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#WritersCoffeeClub September 14: Have you ever read a work of fiction you felt was advertising something?

Truthfully? The "weapons of mass destruction" narrative after September 11th. I don't mean this in the classical political sense. I just know hysterical reaction when I read it.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 14/9: Have you ever read a work of fiction you felt was advertising something?
Nothing comes to mind quite as blatant as some product placement in film (Jeff Goldlum saving the world with a MacBook in Independence Day). Of course…
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#WritersCoffeeClub 14th Sep ~ Have you ever read a work of fiction you felt was advertising something?

Not explicitly advertising in the way of a commercial advert. Wearing my analytical hat, I could argue that stories advertise relationships, for good or for ill

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#WritersCoffeeClub for 14th September 2026. Have you ever read a work of fiction you felt was advertising something?

Starship troopers.

#WritersCoffeeClub Sep13 What do you need to do before you sit down to write?

I need to think myself into the fictional world I am writing about. Sometimes I need to research a particular detail before I write about it. Today it was 14th century heretical sects.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Sep13 What do you need to do before you sit down to write?

Defeat the demons, balance the caffeine levels, quell the serpents in my veins, and blacken the reality of my world.