#ScribesAndMakers 25: The most important thing to bring on a creative retreat?
As many others have said, laptop. My typing speed far exceeds my writing, plus if I find I need to look up a tidbit, I tend to get stuck until it's resolved; I'm lousy at placeholders. Also, it contains music.
A butler would also be nice, to handle food and clothes and junk like that. But I guess that's an answer even without a retreat.
#ScribesAndMakers 26: Memorable live music experience?
I've performed at school XMas concerts before.
Audience-wise, there was a time I drove a couple hours with my wife to see a band in person we both liked. Also went to a BluesFest performance once. But nothing really memorable, and I generally find live concerts too loud.
If Victor Borge counts, I'm glad my parents took me to see one of his concerts before he passed.
#ScribesAndMakers 27: Good at threading needles?
I'd receive a passing grade. It's become more difficult the last couple of years as I get older. I'm currently adjusting to progressive lenses. But I can still sew badges on my daughter's uniform.
#ScribesAndMakers 28: Most stressful thing about your creativity?
That I'm probably not going to get it all out there, and maybe I'm choosing the wrong things to focus on.
I really hope the time travel story does well. I've got at least a half dozen other things I could be doing instead. I'm turning 50 later this year, and am bound to have more medical issues, not to mention mental ones as time progresses. Am I right to keep going with this?
#ScribesAndMakers 29: Most rewarding thing about creativity?
Exploring other facets of myself. I can amp up the queerness, tangent towards or away from things in RL, and make random references that only a handful of people will get.
This may be why, when I lack readership, it feels like a subtle rejection of not merely my writing or art, but me personally, and my philosophies. Which I suppose doesn't make a lot of sense, but there it is.
#ScribesAndMakers 30: Hogwash?
That would imply Log was l, Frog was Fr and Catalog was Catal. So, seems unlikely, even if you're trying some new pig latin. (Hog latin?)
#ScribesAndMakers 31: Creative work this month?
January's always an abysmal mess. Every year.
The one thing I can point to is taking time to update T&T for AO3 posting. Along with removing exclamation marks and renaming "Corry" to "Tori" (too many Cs), I added a sentence or two which I think helps the narrative. It's not nothing.
Time & Tied continues to update on Sundays and Wednesdays.
#ScribesAndMakers Feb 1: One creative thing for the month?
As February has the potential for more free time than the last two months put together, it would be nice to get through the Heather backstory part of "Untied", which I've been angling for since November. We'll see.
@QuasiTemporal very clever take on this! It took me a moment to understand what you were doing.