Charlie Stross#WritersCoffeeClub 26: Do real-life events inspire your writing? Share an example.
As Ken Macleod remarked, "history is the secret weapon of the science fiction writer".
Not every time, not for every story element, but it's an *amazing* toy box that you can borrow from whenever you're stuck for an idea! Because fiction illustrates the human condition and humans get up to some really weird shit, for values of "you can't make that up" weird.
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