#ScribesAndMakers day 1: Does the change to a new calendar year affect your creativity in any way?

#ScribesAndMakers day 11: Aside from the official birthday song and the ubiquitous Beatles song, is there a song about birthdays you like?

I'm not even sure which Beatles song is intended.

ATM, I'm kind of leaning toward what I've always heard called the SCA birthday song, which is performed as a dirge-like chant punctuated with grunts: 1/2

It's your biiiiirthday,
Ugh!
Happy biiiiirthday,
Ugh!
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
On your biiiiirthday
Ugh!
Happy biiiiirthday
Ugh!
Death and gloom and dark despair,
People dying everywhere
On your biiiiirthday

...and so on. A cheery little number, huh? 2/2

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It's your biiiiirthday,
Ugh!
Happy biiiiirthday,
Ugh!
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake
On your biiiiirthday
Ugh!
Happy biiiiirthday
Ugh!
Death and gloom and dark despair,
People dying everywhere
On your biiiiirthday

...and so on. A cheery little number, huh? 2/2

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#ScribesAndMakers day 12: Guffaw?

I'm usually more of a quiet laugh type, but if the joke's really good? Yeah, you'll get a full guffaw out of me!

#ScribesAndMakers day 13: How well do you sing? If you don't consider yourself a good singer, do you sing anyway?

Not well enough to satisfy myself, but well enough to do okay at karaoke, as long as I pick a track I can do justice to.

@kagan you may have answered this before, but what's one of your favorites to sing at karaoke?

#ScribesAndMakers day 13: How well do you sing? If you don't consider yourself a good singer, do you sing anyway?

Not well enough to satisfy myself, but well enough to do okay at karaoke, as long as I pick a track I can do justice to.

#ScribesAndMakers day 14: How are things going for you this month, creatively or otherwise?

Creatively? Not too bad. I've wound up getting on two-hour writing jags a few times, and my word count so far this month is over 8,000, even though I had to cut a few hundred at one point.

#ScribesAndMakers day 16: Do you have a favorite decade of music? Which one(s)?

Nah, I try to keep it fresh and keep up with what's going on. There are cool things to be found about every decade of music that I'm familiar with.

#ScribesAndMakers day 17: Share a fun memory from a past SAM prompt.

Interacting with people around the answers to https://wandering.shop/@kagan/114478930786331470 was a lot of fun.

#ScribesAndMakers day 18: Our next featured creator has done her own book covers. Have you ever or would you ever do your own cover?

I would absolutely not; graphic design is not one of my skills. If for some reason I had to, I'd go with some kind of design based on text and abstract shapes, because art is even less one of my skills. But in reality, I plan to either let my publisher handle cover art (assuming I find a publisher), or contract an artist/designer (assuming I don't).

#ScribesAndMakers day 19: Our featured creator is an avid gamer. Does gaming affect your creativity?

There are parts of my current WIP that sprang from pondering long and hard about some of the implications of a few concepts from the TTRPG _Shadowrun_.

#ScribesAndMakers day 20: The alpha male is a misconception perpetuated in popular media that our featured creator works against in her wolf books. What's a misconception that bothers you in popular media?

The "we only use 10% of our brains" thing is the first one that comes to mind. Oooooh, do I hate that one!

[Edited to Add: And I love the variety of really good answers other people are giving! *So many* excellent ones!]

#ScribesAndMakers day 20: The alpha male is a misconception perpetuated in popular media that our featured creator works against in her wolf books. What's a misconception that bothers you in popular media?

The "we only use 10% of our brains" thing is the first one that comes to mind. Oooooh, do I hate that one!

[Edited to Add: And I love the variety of really good answers other people are giving! *So many* excellent ones!]