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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar. 4: Share a recent experience where something just 'clicked’. Been wrestling with a White Whale of a novel for years, all the way through multiple re-writes: finally realized (w
Writer, among other things. Author of _The Arcane Revolution Trilogy_, _The Game for Scribes_, and a laundry-list of unreleased-and-upcoming work. Heavy reader, professionally unprofessional, and an engineer - technically. Living on the sunny, but often frozen, banks of the Wolastoq river, on unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.
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Writer, among other things. Author of _The Arcane Revolution Trilogy_, _The Game for Scribes_, and a laundry-list of unreleased-and-upcoming work. Heavy reader, professionally unprofessional, and an engineer - technically. Living on the sunny, but often frozen, banks of the Wolastoq river, on unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Corona onus grave est; noli eam gerere.
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Mar 04, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop It's small beer by comparison to be sure, but I'm on the *fifth crack* at one of these novels because it keeps turning out to be that I'm watching the actions of the wrong cast.
I think this one's the charm, but who knows; I'll probably get 90,000 words into it again and realize I profoundly hate the knight errant again.
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