#WritersCoffeeClub 13: What do you borrow from other fiction (or nonfiction!) genres?

From Terry #Pratchett, the explanatory footnotes.

From academia, the extensive citations.

From #TTRPG , a perspective on oral storytelling conventions that many "traditional" folklore researchers lack.

Wow
„You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it any more you tell them another lie and tell them they’re progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.“

#pratchett #discworld

Terry Pratchett fans might remember a contraption called the "Glooper" from the book "Making Money". It was a computational model of Anhk-Morpork's economy that worked by sending water through various valves and tubes. In the end, it worked a little too well.

TIL that this sort of machine was used in this world, too, in the 1940s.

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/07/g-s1-116575/how-bill-phillips-used-flowing-water-to-model-the-economy

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#Discworld

“People as things, that’s where it starts” – #Orkney News

[Quote from Terry #Pratchett]

The #Knesset, Israel’s #Parliament, voted to impose #death sentence (by #hanging) on #Palestinian #prisoners

- It is State #Execution based on #ethnicity. Students of history will realise that the world has been here before – in the #Germany of the 1930s and 40s

Israel runs an #Apartheid system

When most people think of Apartheid ...

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Next in the #GreatPratchettReread for #LunchtimeReading is the excellent Dodger, a wonderful look at London, through the eyes of a familiar but different name, written by Sir Terry Pratchett.

#WritingCommunity #Pratchett #MastaBooks

Has anyone watched "The Watch", loosely based (every loosely) on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld characters?
Made by #BBCAmerica

#Discworld #Pratchett #SamVines