#ScribesAndMakers 1: What's one creative thing you'd like to get done this month?
For these pens, two more shorts and maybe finishing up one of my backlog stories.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2: Do you have any annual traditions not tied to holidays?
Not ones that aren't tied to any holidays, no. Although, one of the holy days I celebrate isn't on any calendar I've ever seen and another one I celebrate more for my ancestor's appreciation of the day than for any tie to the particular saint whose day it is. 
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#ScribesAndMakers 4: Our next featured creator is a comic artist. Tell us about a comic strip or web comic you enjoy.
Keeping in theme with the sorts of stories I talk about here, one of my favorite webcomics is Curvy (link is to the first episode). Of Curvy, TV Trops says:
Anaïs Phalèse is an Ordinary High-School Student, who plays softball and worries about passing her Physics class. One day she meets Fauna Lokjom, Despoina (Princess) of Candy World. Anaïs helps Fauna flee from the bad guys who are chasing her. They flee from reality to reality. They are chased by the minions of Prince Boglox of Stupid World, and by Fervid Wexler, a Federal Agent who believes that Anaïs and Fauna are terrorists.
At least in the beginning, it's Adults Only mainly for art and themes. It's a lot of fun. The original run ended in 2019 but apparently there have been updates since then.
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#ScribesAndMakers 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?
Office worker. Largely inferred by the fact that she's able to take a tropical vacation once a year.
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#ScribesAndMakers 8: How do you define a book? Do audio books and graphic novels fit your definition?
Thanks to the goofball way that ebook stores work, I presently define a book as something I can sell on an ebook store. Plus some things I can't. Which basically means a story that's 4K or longer can be a book regardless of its format. I'm not sure what the minimum length is for a graphic novel or children's picture book.
To be clear, the part of this that I resent is the part where a 4-5K story is a 'book' rather than a short story. Which it definitely is when I'm publishing it as a 'short' book. (I also resent the fact that pricing policies on #Amazon and #Draft2Digital mean I more or less have to price a short at $2.99 USD.)
Kind of off in the weeds here at this point. Getting more to a point, I'm generally not accepting of gatekeeping definitions. I will happily define book as broadly as possible. I would just like to be able to to call a short story a short story.
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#ScribesAndMakers 9: Is one really the loneliest number?
Nah, but it is one hell of a Harry Nilsson song.
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@EveHasWords TIL that the opening musical phrase was based on a busy signal. Now that I know, I can't believe I never realized it before, because I can't unhear it.