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15th Oct 2026. How confident are you feeling about your work today?
Today, not. I'm continuing to work on `Wisdom`, but I don't really have a solid idea of how to make the story work, or whether it will appeal to everyone.
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#ScribesAndMakers Oct 15 - How confident are you feeling about your work today?
Gods, not confident at all but the thing is typeset and all, so there's no going back now, is it?

#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…

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 14: How do you feel when a show that is non-musical inserts an episode with a musical number?
To me, it often feels like they miscalculated the season length and had to do a filler episode. I know, how likely is that? Not really. The problem is, they're most often not good. So why else would you stick a poorly executed episode into a good series? Unless it…

#ScribesAndMakers – 13th Oct. Schadenfreude?
I don't condone bullying or being nasty to people. But when someone get a serving of their own cooking? I'm only human.

#ScribesAndMakers Day 30:
What was the last song you listened to?
River Guide You by The Movement
https://youtube.com/watch?v=raDvwX3dJpk

#ScribesAndMakers O7: Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose.
Oft the frost turns soft earth to crystal under mist
All things edge white; grey wings of geese against the light
Sigh without cease in their long flight
At the sun's waning.
Mind you:
1: It doesn't include the word goose;
2: It's such a mess of internal rhy…

#ScribesAndMakers 11. Is there a word whose meaning is benign that still grates on you for some reason?
That depends entirely on context, I have my pet peeves when it comes to my own writing (not so much when it comes to others'). I avoid 'suddenly' after a prolonged period of overusing the poor word. Now, it rests in the unused drawer. Preferably forever.
'Very…

#ScribesAndMakers 10/9: How full is your glass?
That depends on which glass we're talking about. The one I'm having now, previous glasses, or future glasses. I'm trying very hard to not lock my mindset down in a single set of rules. I can think of few things that are more damaging to the ability to think outside the box (my nan demanded I added: when it comes to creativity…

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 8: Our next featured creator is a poet, potter, author, and crafter. Do you engage in multiple creative activities or stick to one?
I play wherever creativity let me; music, paintings, drawings, poetry, and prose. I don't do it because I think I am good at it, but because I have fun with it.

#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.

#ScribesAndMakers 7 Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose.
Expensive outfits nice and loose,
it doesn't matter what you choose,
underneath the brilliant hues,
a goose is still a goose.

#ScribesAndMakers 8/22: "Fantasy stories are frequently inspired by medieval societies. Why do you think people are fascinated by that time period?"
Elite propaganda.
Medieval knights were a bloodthirsty elite. Armour allowed them to cut down commoners with relative impunity, and they did. The myth of the 'parfait gentil knicht' is entirely propaganda.

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 6: On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story?
There is no straight answer to that, in my opinion. That can vary wildly, depending on what the story needs, what kind of story it is and what its purpose is.

#ScribesAndMakers 10/5. Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it has taken you to complete a project?
Years. I can't be more exact because the oldest project of mine began in the early 1990s and ended a few years ago, and at the time I didn't really react. I was numb. Stunned that I'd done it.
And quite sleep-deprived, as I'd stayed up all night finis…

#ScribesAndMakers 3. Is there a common thread throughout your creative work (apart from the fact that you created it)?
I don't know, really. Maybe not. Or, if there is, I can't see it right now.
I paint (mostly cats). I play music (mostly piano). I write stories (satire, fantasy, science fiction, and horror) and I try to build dioramas (none finished yet).
If ther…

#ScribesAndMakers 1 Draw a fish and share it. (It doesn't have to be brilliant.)
Never drawn a fish before!

#ScribesAndMakers 29 Sep: What fruit do you like best for a still life?
I've only tried apples, so I don't know whether I would prefer peaches, grapes, or bananas.

#ScribesAndMakers Day 28: How satisfied are you with the creative work you've done this month?
I've finally made time for painting again, tiny miniatures and cats in acrylic. To someone with skill, it probably looks terrible but it's mine, and I'm proud.
I've failed utterly at the piano, but I am not giving up. Failing is a part of the process.
I'm…