#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 1 #26 — Have you used a MacGuffin in your writing? Be honest.

Often. 

It's pretty inescapable since everything I write is complete confabulation anyway. 

If you read my Definition of Miracle, a 350-word microfic (https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/111122888641242687), the demon is a MacGuffin designed to let Mina hold in her feelings for the main character and sets up what's so miraculous. 
I have a character in serialization who for chapters has been a MacGuffin, existing as a depressed girlfriend to whom the POV "gives" her boyfriend, only to have them... well... you know, loudly, which sets the POV off on her various adventures,  keeps her finding new people to sleep with each night so she doesn't have to return home, and finding her own lovers. 
In my current SFF work, the whole story revolves around a dangerous MacGuffin, which if found and used will spark an Interstellar war. In the end, the POV character never actually sees the result of the MacGuffin actually used because she's tricked everyone and is escaping the conflagration with her friend.

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