#WritersCoffeeClub 7-Apr-2026. Do you combine poetic fragments and prose paragraphs in your work?

As often happens in life "accidental" rhymes might occur, but the characters do sometimes get more than a little poetic - though none (as yet) have been full-blown poets!

#WordWeavers #WritingCommunity
Apr. 6 – Can you create a character/place/storyhook/device on the spot? If so, share an example.

The walls of the tiny crater were glazed where sand had melted, flowed and set.

But that was of little interest to the child whose wide-eyed gaze had locked onto what lay there, at the bottom of the pock mark on an otherwise undisturbed beach.

Darting glances checked for any who might have witnessed the impact before a finger was extended to prod whatever it was...

I am curious about the logic of companies that (must) pay the spammers to send their myriad (clearly) spam messages...

How can they NOT understand that it does NOT encourage people to buy from them, and in fact, achieves the exact opposite by alienating anyone who might have become a client simply by PISSING THEM OFF!!!

And WHY, OH WHY, can we not have a program developer come up with a tracer program to track these assholes down, and spam them into oblivion?

#WordWeavers 3 April 2026
For which characters do you come up with a backstory?

Backstory is only relevant when those past events have an impact on the storyline - and is usually only ever revealed by the character, and only insofar as they are willing to share.

Some (rarely) get verbose, others are far more reticent and mysterious, but it's in line with the character's personality.

#ScribesAndMakers 04 How do you answer if someone asks you what you do? Is your answer different in person than it is online?

Usually as much as I have to.
Sometimes more.
Sometimes less.

Oh? You're serious?

It depends on the person asking... but generically I answer with my current professional employment, my TEFL teaching, Authoring, Table tennis playing and any other whimsical thing that I might be involved in at that time. Web dev/coding - a 3D showcase of 3 books for example,

What's on my mind?

A presentation to the local council... as a teacher, you might think this kind of thing is easy, but let me tell you... it isn't. I keep going over the presentation, the associated documentation, publicity suggestions, the search for sponsors and all of this in my second language!

It would be nerve-wracking enough in English, but to do it all in Spanish...?

¡Madre-de-dios!

¿...y si me falta algo, o equivocarme en cualquiera manera?

Yes... I'm a bundle of nerves!