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#WritersCoffeeClub 27 July - How does your social class influence what you write?

I write historical fiction because I'm interested in history, and I think my style of writing reflects my age rather than my class. It is slightly old-fashioned (perhaps because I'm writing #histfic?) and doesn't use any words invented since the mid-20th century. So I'd say age and education are a bigger influence than my social class.

Sheila is visiting a family with a sensitive kid and currently it's a boy. She already has 2 boys. I feel as if there will be too many little boys.
I may change the kid into a girl, for some balance.

En el epicentro de mi soledad
Lánguida se siente mi existencia
Mi sentir
Escrito ahora en lenguas marginadas
Letras de fuego
Cenizas de recuerdos
Letras calcinadas
Y un volátil ser;
Caen ahora gotas
En la penumbra risas suenan
Mi hoy vitupera mi ayer
Mi doctos, ahora se aleja
No hay anhelos
En la burda inopía del soñar
Del Amar
Del querer

MCPM

#WritersCoffeeClub 27/7: How does your social class influence what you write?
Answer in <500 characters please?
Class in what sense? Proletariat/bourgeoisie/capitalist? Lower/middle class/upper? A/B/C etc.? This needs an essay—a Substack Post, perhaps.
But if you look at the Shattered Moon series, there’s a steady undercurrent, when it’s not an overcurrent, of awareness of imbalances of wealth and power. I didn’t get all of that from books.
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#WordWeavers 27/7: Have you ever written a battle?
I have one unpublished book from years ago that opens with the aftermath of the destruction of a space station, but it’s been a swift strike, not a battle.
Otherwise, the closest I get is the scene in The Skilthorn Congress where Mavrys overhears the Prince of Sessapont speculating about invading the Sung Lands, which he imagines to be defenceless because they’re led by women. He’ll learn.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 7/27. How does your social class influence what you write?

A surprisingly hard question to answer.

Of course I have a social and economic class as defined by "authority" and income. I'm pretty well off but it wasn't always that way. I have been destitute and my early life? Well we don't want to talk about that.

I'm an old white dude - but I don't think that way. I write anyone as an MC from aristocracy to enslaved, and anything in between. The keynote of writers is that we adopt viewpoints other than our own. It's what we do.

Does my social class influence me? Probably, but a whole lot less than my empathy and care for others (even the shitty ones).

#WordWeavers 7/27. Have you ever written a battle? What kind? Dragon, space, historical...

As I said yesterday, I have indeed.

The biggest was at the end of my Patterner's Path series involving two major armies, portals, dragons with the MC at the heart of the action.

However any scene that doesn't include character development and/or plot advancement is pointless. So that's what I have despite the scale.

I don't believe I spent 1:55 writing, and only produced 485 words.

Ugh.

(Yes, yes, some of that time was research. Now I know that Margot didn't awaken until after Lefty O'Doul's closed, frex, and I was able to ensure that Adrian Hardesty's McLaren sports car is a color that's legit available for those. Also, first-time descriptions of characters as I introduce them are a major PITA. But man, I feel like that words-per-hour rate is too low.)

Placement matters: "trying to literally rewrite history"; not "literally trying to rewrite history".

There's a figurative "rewriting history" which someone can actually attempt. There's no figurative "trying" to make literal.

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July 26. Talk about the most difficulty you had writing something sensory.

I had to describe a character's reaction to hearing the wail of a Banshee. Thankfully it is something I've never heard myself. Ultimately, it led to the character flashing back to a previous encounter.

That guy is probably the only one ever to hear a banshee twice and survive both times.