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A New Faith: Solarpunk novel<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 18 July: Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>I finished "A New Faith" more than 2 years ago even though I started publishing it online in April 2025. There are some chapters (especially, in Part 2 which wrapped up last week) that turned out to be quite prescient, unfortunately. That surprised me a lot. That was the stuff I had hoped would never become the reality. It was - in some ways - a warning from my fictional world. I am not sure how to process that.</p>
Humphrey Archer<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Jul 18<br>Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>My writing always surprises me. So every time</p>
Bradley Bravard<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> for July 18: Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>My recent novella Bumper City surprised me. It's a humorous story that is satirical but also has scenes reminiscent of movies like Airplane and The Naked Gun. I've never written humor before and I feel like the work manages to be silly while still depicting characters with good hearts.</p>
Ray Ingles<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 18. Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>After I got the idea for SECONDARY, I sat down to write... and everything just flowed. Words pouring out. It *clicked* in a way I'd seldom experienced before.</p><p>That first two weeks is a blur, but quite a bit of that early draft is still present. Polished some, of course. Yet many passages survive intact, because they simply were right.</p>
Alexander Corby 🇵🇷<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 7/18" Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>This happens constantly for me, for better or worse.</p><p>Sometimes I'll read things I haven't worked on in a while and think, "wow! I love the writer's voice here! Funny and engaging. Who wrote this?"</p><p>Then I'll scroll down and find the passages where I reuse the same adjectives again and again, and the action is boring, too much tedious description.</p><p>"Man, this isn't fit to be used as toilet paper. Who wrote this?"</p>
C. R. Collins<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Jul 18<br>Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>I continue to be surprised by how I've kept going. I was only supposed to finish one book, y'all, after I hit 60. That one turned into a trilogy. Now there's 10 books out &amp; another two-thirds done.</p>
Owen G. Richards<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 7/18: Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you. </p><p>A novel in 30 days? Hah! Never gonna happen. Where do you find the concept, the flow, the detail, the motivation, the time...?</p><p>Starting from ground zero on day one? </p><p>Impossible.</p><p>But wait... NaNoWriMo 2016 (pre-bullshit AI stuff)... November 1st, I got an idea... Surpising enough you might think, but wait... </p><p>26 days later - The Awakening was a complete 60k + novel! </p><p>Published and withdrawn later.</p>
Rachel A. Rosen<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 7/18 Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you</p><p>"Do You Love the Colour of the Sky?" came about because I went to a reading, a fellow I met there told me about a new anthology he was editing, I had a story that I said kind of fit but might cause them editorial problems, and then on the bus ride home, an entirely new story occurred to me fully formed.</p>
Sean Patrick<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 7/18 Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>I'm struggling to think of an example. Occasionally I'm pleased with how something turns out, but I don't think I'd call that "surprise", necessarily...</p><p>No, I don't think my writing has surprised me.</p>
Christina Anne Hawthorne<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 18<br>my big ole writing surprise</p><p>My writing surprises me later continually, for better or worse, so I’ve no lack of stories to tell.</p><p>Most dramatic? Drafting Kovenlore Book2 while extremely ill. Later, I discovered a lot of nonsensical passages &amp; unraveling threads.</p><p>I also unearthed some of the most imaginative &amp; impassioned scenes I’d written to that point, so much so that they altered the series’ course &amp; how I approach my writing.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Joyce Lionarons<p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 7/18: Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you. </p><p>A week or two ago while writing my Gavin Rownt novel, I reminded myself that I needed to add in a particular scene that I had foreshadowed but not yet written.</p><p>Except when I went to write it, it turned out that I had written it. And it was pretty good.</p><p>I hope I'm not losing my memory.</p>
GaH Learner<p>18. Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>I'm mostly a pantser. That happens all the time. Ideas come out of nowhere and my characters do what they want.<br>That doesn't mean that the quality of the writing or some such surprises me, but the way the story finds its way. </p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/GL725" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GL725</span></a></p>
Charlie Stross<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Jul 18 - Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>Just this past Tuesday? Realized that if I lightly re-wrote the just-written two chapters and moved a minor character centre-stage I could finish the book with a much punchier climactic confrontation.</p><p>Seriously, if your own writing doesn't periodically surprise you then it probably won't surprise your readers either.</p>
grahamefleming<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Jul 18 - Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>It's always the research where the surprises come. The point where the book begins to write itself as people, places, and events in history all begin to connect for the benefit of the plot. 🙂</p>
Sarah J Hoodlet<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 18Jul—Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>Book four has been full of surprises. Let's go with one that's not a spoiler.</p><p>I create an outline by chapter, listing 2-4 points I need to hit within each. I finished a chapter a few weeks ago that was completely different from what I'd outlined, and it was...surprisingly better than I what I envisioned.</p><p>That's the first time that's happened since writing book one. It was quite strange. In a good way.</p>
V, The Dragon Witch 🌙<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 18: Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>Every time I look back at something I wrote in the past and I like it, I'm surprised and also very relieved.</p><p>There was a time where, looking back, all I could do was cringe. That time has now passed.</p><p>This means my imposter syndrome has taken a new tack: 'How will you ever write that good again?'</p><p>Aren't brains fun? :dragon_grimace:</p>
MaxTheFox<p>I have a website now! <a href="https://stardustverse.neocities.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">stardustverse.neocities.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>The bulk of it is about my worldbuild and writing project (Stardust), though I plan to add sections about me, my philosophy, or some sort of blog. It is under construction and updated near daily, but is very usable as is. Check it out especially if you're interested in my writing!</p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/writerscoffeeclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writerscoffeeclub</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/neocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neocities</span></a></p>
Anderlandbooks<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 18. Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.</p><p>The days when I started a scene and had no idea what to expect are unfortunately long gone. I loved that freedom of mind I had back then.</p><p>However, my characters still manage to surprise me. For instance, I seriously contemplated turning <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/TheChildrenOfAngels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheChildrenOfAngels</span></a> into a ployamorous story (I don't do love triangles, ever), but Miriam wouldn't comply.</p><p>I'm trying again with <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/Kyznon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kyznon</span></a> 😂</p>
Klepsis<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a></p><p>July 17. How much can a reader learn about an author through their works?</p><p>Probably quite a bit, if they want to pore obsessively over every written output of that author, dwelling deeply upon every choice of word, scene, and character. </p><p>At a certain point, it's just creepy. Let's not go there. </p><p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WCC</span></a> 2025.07.17 — How much can a reader learn about an author through their works?</p></blockquote><p>This worries me greatly. </p><p>I don't think that a reader can learn a lot about an author's public, or even private persona, from their stories unless the author intends it to be so. Hints maybe, philosophy likely, but about them? Not much. However, what leaks into the text (my text, anyway) is what most people severely censor, <em>what if's</em> we wouldn't approach "for reals." Fighting and the other f-word used as a verb, because readers want exciting stories—especially in genre fiction—that are NOT about the normal everyday people they know, or are. If you write murder mysteries, erotic fantasy, or vigilante adventure you are going to have to imagine <em>being those people</em> to write their stories, but this doesn't mean you murder people in a locked room, have a blazing libido, or use a .356 magnum to kill the criminals the police can't or won't. </p><p>My worry is that readers will think they understand me through my stories, and since my stories are more spicy these days than ever before, my self-censor is throwing fits and hysterics. I'm not my characters. I'm simply living the Walter Mitty life like every other reader, only more in control—though I'm sure people who ban books will be happy to tar me as advocating whatever offended them. Seems these days who you have sex with is far more important than the gun you conceal in your pants.</p><p>That's my thought on the subject, anyway. <strong>Note:</strong> I am still writing.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
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