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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 20: The alpha male is a misconception perpetuated in popular media. What's a misconception that bothers you?
That one. That one, specifically. Every time I hear it invoked, I immediately go into a speech I've given many times about how it's an utter bullshit concept that *certain people* are attached to bc they think it justifies them ACTING LIKE ASSHOLES.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 19: Our featured creator is an avid gamer. Does gaming affect your creativity?
D&D has profoundly affected my sense of storytelling, in good ways and bad ways. The good way is that I'm an improviser. The bad way is that I sometimes think in terms of "encounters," which isn't the same as *plot*.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 18. Our next featured creator has done her own book covers. Have you ever or would you ever do your own cover?
No, never. Not only can't I draw or draft, but I have no sense of design. In my head, I can see an old 60s-style cover. A background of space with recognizable constellations, in the mid-ground is a portion of Jupiter (the planet), and then foreground but still quite distant is a space station: three rings spinning around a dock in the centre.
@Emmacox So well put. That's it exactly. I close browser windows the *second* I don't need them any more.
@Emmacox Self-destructing posts is one of my favourite features of Mastodon.
@kagan Yeah, sounds like work. I write these off the cuff. That's what's fun for me.
#ScribesAndMakers Feb 17: Share a fun memory from a past SAM prompt.
Can people remember those individually? Wild.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 16: Do you have a favourite decade of music? Which one(s)?
Not so much favourites. Different eras hit me emotionally. Sixties music, which includes early the 1970s, reminds me of my childhood but in association with my parents. Eighties music reminds me of being a kid. Nineties and 2000s music is my own youth, so that can make me very nostalgic. And that's kinda when I stopped listening to contemporary music.
#ScribesAndMakers Feb 14. How are things going for you this month, creatively or otherwise?
Meh.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 13: How well do you sing? If you don't consider yourself a good singer, do you sing anyway?
I *yearned* to sing for most of my life and believed I couldn't, and then I sang a song in front of someone, and they complimented me, and so I sang my kids to sleep for years, but then they got tired of it, and now I'm out of practice, but that voice is there when I want to pull it out. If there were more hours in the day, I'd take lessons.
#ScribesAndMakers Feb 12: Guffaw?
Frequently and occasionally in a way that makes others uncomfortable, I'm afraid. I just really like laughing.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 11: Aside from the official birthday song and the ubiquitous Beatles song, is there a song about birthdays you like?
I want to name a "cool" song, but it's Weird Al's "Happy Birthday":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CrTQSLmCP0
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 10: What is the most out-of-character creative thing you enjoy? That thing that never matches the assumptions about you.
80s hard rock, ACDC specifically. I grew up on it. "Thunderstruck" is a masterpiece.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 9. Is one really the loneliest number?
I mentioned to a friend, once, the idea that hell is a room by yourself forever.
He said, "Is there a chair?"
I said, sure, I guess.
He said, "I'm good. I'm an only child. I learned to make my own fun."
One is the loneliest number for *me*. Not for everyone.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 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?
Indefinite disability due to having been kidnapped into a murder cult (in spaced!).
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 2: Do you have any annual traditions not tied to holidays?
My wife and I visit a thoroughly touristified place in BC called Harrison Hot Springs in the fall. When Vancouver is at its greyest, we spend two days in a hotel where we can walk down to a full-size pool that's a hot as a bathtub. I don't feel great about how the hotel stole the hotspring from the locals, and of course it's ALL stolen from the Coast Salish, but damn, man, a hot pool is amazing.
#ScribesAndMakers Feb 1: What's one creative thing you'd like to get done this month?
Finish reviewing my first draft. I haven't had the heart.
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