I am writing a children's play for a local competition...

I have never written a play before.

I have never written anything for children before.

Should be fun!

#WritersCoffeeClub What is the greatest pleasure of your writerly life?

I’m never bored or alone. There is always an idea or a character wittering on even when I’m idle. I can shut myself away and not see or speak to anyone or do anything, but mentally, I’m with a host of characters going off on wild adventures.

#ScribesAndMakers (Excluding time travel) Do you have a preference between books that progress linearly and books that jump back and forth in time (flashbacks etc)?

No preference (not a book, but Memento was a brilliant non-lineal story). Whatever is needed to tell the story. Switching between characters who are operating in different times is no different to characters operating in different settings. Confusion is more likely to arise if the time jumps involve the same characters.

I’m intrigued, what accents do your fantasy/scifi characters have when you read their dialogue in your head? Why did you choose them?

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I know the line between photography and digital art has always been murky. But when you can't even be arsed to frame your shot, and edit the perspective post-shot, I don't think you can really call it photography.

What is interesting is the beauty of photography was in capturing a true moment in time. Now, we can edit them to our aesthetic liking. We've reached a point where we question if a photograph has been manipulated or if it is completely fabricated.

#ScribesAndMakers - If you had a chance to ask an author or artist (living or deceased) one question, what would it be?

After reading Satori in Paris, I have always wished I could have asked Jack Kerouac if he wanted to do a road trip with me around Cornwall to research his genealogy.

I mean, I'm sure my liver wouldn't cope. But that would be an amazing few weeks of zen and chaos and words.

There's a lot of focus on diminishing critical thinking caused by the reliance of LLM use. But is enough being said about the loss of creative skills on an individual level?

When music/prose/art can be fabricated with the touch of a button, will people lose the desire to innovate? Equally, will people lose the desire to connect with one another through their creative outputs because LLMs only manufacture?

#ScribesAndMakers What's something you consider creative that other people might not?

I remind myself to see the creativity in the mundane. The idle doodles while on hold. My choice of outfit and hairstyle. How I phrase an email. The savoury experience of cooking a meal from scratch.

Influencers like to big up about being creative every single day. My alternative suggestion is we rediscover and reconnect with the mundane, daily creativity we have become numb to.

http://emcox.co.uk/how-to-be-creative-every-day