Al Hatch, author

alhatch@bookstodon.com

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Posts

Post #2638052
Visited this baby today, back in my home county.
Post #2638051
As 2025 draws to a close, it&#39;s time for a #NYE #resolution - 2026 is the year I finish #MeltdownExpected - a novel about growing up, punk rock, philosophy and the internet. #amwriting #writingcommunity
Post #2638050
#WritersCoffeeClub 12/27. How can we as writers support one another? New to this chat, and to writing fiction. As a former teacher I would say: remember no question is a stupid question. You were all beginners once - I was literally unable to speak once upon a time 😉 - and heed the &quot;curse of knowledge&quot;: being unable to imagine others not knowing what we know
Post #2638049
#WritersCoffeeClub 12/29. What’s something you’d like to see future generations of writers discard? I&#39;m new to this writing lark, but the idea of &quot;genre&quot; confuses me, how a book can be either &quot;contemporary&quot; or &quot;romance&quot; or &quot;literary&quot;. My WIP is hopefully all of those, and philosophical and funny.
Post #2638048
#WritersCoffeeClub 12.29 — How much would writing by another means (by hand, digitally, audio transcription) change your prose? I&#39;ve tried dictating, it&#39;s messy, my MO is towrite, delete, rewrite while typing, eventually I might flow through a few sentences but it takes full immersion for at least an hour to get that kind of pace going, and I can&#39;t see me doing that with dictation. Don&#39;t get me started on my handwriting!
Post #2638047
New year resolutions? Lemme dust off last year&#39;s and give them another blast. This time maybe they&#39;ll stick...