2026-09-03 12:01 UTC
#WritersCoffeeClub September 3: How does what you read influence what you write?
It can. I can't read writers with a strongly distinctive voice while I'm in the middle of a draft because I have a tendency to fall into mimicking their voice if I've been reading their work. I also occasionally analyze how authors do particular things to get a kind of range of options to expand the ways that I write.
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@JallBarret@hol.ogra.ph 2026-09-04 12:01
#WritersCoffeeClub September 4: If you work digitally, what application do you use? Mainly command line text editors like micro and occasionally Ghostwriter (a GUI markdown app made by the KDE team).If analog, what do you write on?When I physically write, it's generally on 8.5 x 11 in printer paper folded in half to make a leaf with four sides. I use a mechanical pencil for the writing and then I've got a clipboard that has a kickstand so I can type off of it.