#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.03.24 —Do you have a writerly "third place"?

One of the things I like about these prompts is learning about something I didn't know. I don't really have a place per se that I write other than home, and I am retired so I don't write at the office—though I did write while taking long walks during my lunch break (true, thumb-typing on my phone). I do occasional write at a park or a coffee place, but never consistently. I do often write on longer trips in the car. With the spouse driving! I don't think this latter constitutes what this question asks.

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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.03.23 —What's the most you've worked on a WIP before deciding to scrap it? What happened?

I don't specifically recall "the most," but a chapter is usually enough. I have had a lot of great ideas with no idea how the story could end, or for which I don't have the relevant experience. One recent idea was a young girl transmogrified into our world into a human being along with notebook which scares people other than her that touch it. When she's in college someone from the other world starts writes into it, offering her to learn magic. She's a runaway with little memory of her past, kind of a reverse magic mirror trope, and her pen pal on the other side possibly evil, possibly trying to trap her. I got a great first chapter out of the idea, but it requires writing someone living as a young adult in our modern gig economy world. I can't write that. Worse, I'm not sure how the story ought end.

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#WordWeavers 2026.03.24 —Tell us about something positive you experienced because of writing.

Writing is a very Zen experience, especially when the story is flowing. I lose myself. Apparently, being lost feels good.

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#WordWeavers 2026.03.23 —What are you careful about when writing?

• Using the vocabulary and diction that fits the character.
• When there are details about how things work—physics, mechanics, history, psychology, magic—getting it right so as not to dig plot holes.
• Not deviating from the point of the chapter or adding something that will contradict the planned ending of the story.

Revision has additional items to be careful about, but you didn't ask that.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.03.23 —Do you consider yourself a frood who knows where their towel is?

I am Groot. No hitch hiking. It's unsafe.

Honestly, self-confidence comes and goes, so no, and I'm a homebody surrounded by reassuring things. I love to travel, but never alone.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.03.24 —Do you have a sewing kit in your home?

RS takes a moment to engage the storyteller part of the brain…

One spouse had one from the beginning. A big clear plastic box like a tool kit, shoebox-size, yellowed with age, with an inside caddy. Hidden in the fragrant cedar plank walk-in closet. It makes a distinctive hollow clunk with it hits the shoe rack and a snap when the metal buckle latches, despite the muffling clothing. Plenty of spools of colored thread, from bobbin sizes to big wooden spools. Needles. Lots of needles. Some with golden eyes, plated with real gold. Tiny scissors; they fold.

One of us can mend tiny tears and even do a button. The other draws blood with a swear more often than not.

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