@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers July 14: How objective do you feel you are when it comes to assessing your own work?
I'm probably more critical towards my own work compared to the works of others but then I also know exactly how I wanted something to be while when I assess others, I can only see their vision through their work 🙂
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot#ScribesAndMakers 13/08: Our next featured creator turned a short story into a novel. Have you ever done that, or the reverse?
I have, yes. It's a more than usually unpublishable novel, and it's of uneven quality, but I like it. It started off with someone else's short story that I really didn't like; I rewrote the plot of it as a short story of my own which I thoug…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers – July 13: Has a bear ever featured in your work? If so, what sort of bear?
I wrote a retelling of the myth of Kallisto in which Zeus takes the appearance of Artemis to have sex with Kallisto (that version is from an ancient Greek comedic play). Artemis turns Kallisto into a bear when she realises that she is pregnant and must have cheated on her with a man 😢 🐻
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers June 11: How much do you worry about what others think of your creative work?
Well, I'm a bit of an attention whore. I want readers to like it. That being said, I know that especially #erotica is very subjective and no story will please everyone. That's why I…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#ScribesAndMakers Aug 7: Is there a work of art that you didn't like at first but came to appreciate once you understood it better?
This is a hard one. There's tons of stuff I love now that I cab recognize I would have bounced off of completely when I was younger, but most of it I didn't actually have earlier encounters with.
I think jazz music as a genre counts for me though. Once I reached a certain level of my own musically and began to want more, I realized what Jazz was about and started to appreciate it.
There's also tons of stuff for me that's the converse: stuff I genuinely enjoyed when younger that I wouldn't enjoy now, from Harry Potter to League of Legends to Terry Goodkind.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers June 21: Do you create work based on the creations of others? (Eg. Pop art, fan art, fan fic, etc.) Why or why not?
All the time! Most of my stories are based on mythology, which in itself is a collection of collaborative of stories by countless humans we don't know the name of. I don't write fanfiction as much any more but fandom is where I first wrote e…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#ScribesAndMakers June 20: How difficult is it for you to receive criticism of your creative work?
I usually love receiving feedback on my work. Of course it can hurt if it was a work that I was emotionally invested in and people don't like it. But most often, the criticism is there for a reason and I can decide I either don't care, I don't agree, or I see their point …