#ScribesAndMakers Feb 21: Do friends/family give you gifts for your activities, or do you buy all your own supplies?
I buy all my own supplies, which is to say a computer and software. I spent *months* trying to get #Scrivener to run on #Linux (#Lutris did the trick).
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#ScribesAndMakers 20. Do you measure progress with something quantifiable, like word count, or something more abstract, like resolving an issue?
Resolving issues, yes, but also chunks of story. I don't know how many words the next scene or chapter or event will take up, but I know when I'm done laying down the very basics of what I want to happen.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 19: Do you find creative work therapeutic? Do you do it for that reason, or is it a side benefit?
Both/and. Yes, it's therapeutic, but I'd do it anyway. It's so much god damn fun.
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#ScribesAndMakers 18. Do you have multiple creative outlets? Are they distractions or do they work synergeristically?
Primarily, I do fiction for fun, but my job is already very creative and uses a lot of the same "muscles" in the brain (I'm an essay-writing prof).
They absolutely feed into each other, though. The biggest thing? Paragraphing. I swear to you, if you can really "get" essay paragraphing then fiction paragraphing is easy.
#ScribesAndMakers 17 Do you create for income? As a professional or as a hobby? Or for fun/ for yourself?
Nope. My day job covers me for money. Fiction is mine. I'm hesitant to even really get into selling it because it might upset the equilibrium of my life.
Of course, if someone *did* come knocking and wanted to pay me for it...
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 16: We're considering a monthly featured creator day. Would this be of interest to you?
Don't know who "we" is, but sure, why not?
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 15. Tell us about yourself and your creative work.
I write SFF. I like space opera. I like mythology. I love sneaking in humour. I'm interested in writing about compulsive behaviour.
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#ScribesAndMakers Feb 23: I do my best work in ___ ?
A room with some background noise but nobody talking to me directly.
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