#ScribesAndMakers day 23: If you garden, do you give away anything that you grow? If so, what do you give away the most of?
I don't garden.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 24: What's a work of science fiction that you love? What do you love about it?
I'm going to say, completely unironically: ST:TOS. Maybe it's partly because I grew up on it — and look, I'm not saying *every* episode; some of them were real stinkers¹ — but by and large, the message that humanity can come together, overcome our differences, triumph over the three evils of racism, militarism, and greed, and even ally with alien species in the pursuit of... 1/2
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...knowledge and peace, is one that I wish more works would promote, and more people would follow, today. 2/2
1. I know, you're thinking of "Spock's Brain". But "The Empath" is even worse. Hoo boy, does that one suck!
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#ScribesAndMakers day 25: You're going on a creative retreat. What's the most important thing you need to bring with you?
My laptop, obvi! I can't write without it.
Okay, assuming "whatever tools you need to do the creating" are considered to be already included, then... what the hell, I'm going with the alexandrite earrings and pendant my sweetie gave me as things to spur creativity.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 27: Are you good at threading needles?
No, but I have hardly any practice at it. I'm sure I'd improve quickly if I started sewing on a regular basis.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 30: Hogwash?
Folderol! Stuff and nonsense! Indeed, as the kids say these days: that's AI!
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#ScribesAndMakers day 31: Share something about your creative work this month.
My first version of chapter 9, scene 1, was a real banger. And then I realized that the whole rest of the chapter would be stronger if I decided the MCs (including the one who was the POV for that scene) *don't* know the thing I'd had her agonizing over.
So I tore it down and redid it.
That's a good capsule summary of my creativity for this month.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 1: What's one creative thing you'd like to get done this month?
At least one chapter of my WIP. Preferably two, but I know that's not a reasonable target.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 2: Do you have any annual traditions not tied to holidays?
None that I can think of.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 3: What's a creative project you would want to give someone for their birthday?
Well, I can bake a pretty nice chocolate cake...
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#ScribesAndMakers day 4: Our next featured creator is a comic artist. Tell us about a comic strip or web comic you enjoy.
It's an oldie but a goodie: I'm still enjoying Questionable Content (https://questionablecontent.net/) I'm still impressed with how much Jeph Jacques has managed to change the comic while still keeping it so much the same.
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#ScribesAndMakers day 5: You now have the same occupation as the main character of your current WIP (or book you are reading/last read). What job are you doing?
Looks like I'm simultaneously:
1. An architect;
2. A librarian;
3. A radiologist, specializing in MRIs;
4. An unemployed ex-accountant who might be able to make a living at painting if I gave it a shot; and
5. A front-end web developer.
(By a curious coincidence, #5 is, in fact, my actual job in real life.)
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#ScribesAndMakers day 6: Our featured creator makes graphic novels. As a reader, which do you think is more important in a graphic novel, art or words?
By their very nature, graphic novels place equal importance on both of those things! (That said, I tend to focus much more on the words when I'm reading them — but that's a tendency I'm trying to overcome, because I think it's a bad one.)
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#ScribesAndMakers day 8: How do you define a book? Do audio books and graphic novels fit your definition?
Audio books yes, graphic novels no. To my mind, the addition of all that art makes the graphic novel a different form. Not worse (or better), just different.
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@kagan folderol is new to me.