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Hannah Steenbock @Firlefanz@writing.exchange · 4d ago

#ScribesAndMakers 10/08: How willing are you to take risks with your creative work? Well, the only risk I'm taking is that my books won't sell. That's not a huge risk, if you ask me. So yeah, I'm willing to take that risk if it means I can write what I enjoy to write (and read). Because writing needs to be fun. Maybe that's the bigger risk - writing becoming a chore instead of fun because I'm chasing money. #WritingCommunity

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Vivian Schey 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 <(FSM)<{ @TheAuthorVivian@mastodon.world · 4d ago

#ScribesAndMakers August 10th How willing are you to take risks with your creative work? My works are in general intended for an audience still considered teenagers but without their parents knowing. So, I think "Risky" should be my middle name instead of…whatever, doesn't matter. 😁

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Vivian Schey 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 <(FSM)<{ @TheAuthorVivian@mastodon.world · 5d ago

#ScribesAndMakers August 9th Have you ever switched perspective (1st, 2nd, 3rd person, 3rd close, cinematic, etc) mid-chapter/story? Was it successful in your opinion? I think I did that only once with "Romea" as it from the perspective of the MC to the narrator for the SC, chapter wise until they met. Was it successful? I don't know…

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SuzyShearer @SuzyShearer@mastodon.au · 5d ago

#ScribesAndMakers – 8th Aug. Polymorphous? As an author? I’ve written a couple of books with shape changing – wolf shifters, vampires. As a person? Not physically but mental, being neurodivergent I use multiple personalities depending on who I deal with the outside world when I have to face people ‘in the flesh’ so to speak.

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Joyce Lionarons @joyce@hcommons.social · Aug 06, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers Aug 6 - Tell us about a drummer whose work you appreciate. When I was young a very long time ago, I would have said Ginger Baker. Then I started listening more to folk and folk-rock, and my favorite drummer was Dave Mattacks. Nowadays? Probably Michael Jerome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jerome

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Will Elm @willelm@indieauthors.social · Aug 06, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers August 5. Tell us about a drummer whose work you appreciate. Animal, the Muppets drummer. For an example see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EAa67EHg3M&pp=2AEAkAIB

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Ellen's Very Southern Voice @ellenmorrisprewitt@writing.exchange · Aug 06, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers What book are you currently reading, or have you finished most recently? "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," a mere stepping stone on the rocky path of my Reconstruction reading. The "most recently" finished book was "Black Reconstruction in America" by W. E. B. Du Bois. This is the, I don't know, 15th book I've read on Reconstruction since Christmas. Why on God's earth would I immerse myself in such a niche era? Because my ancestors killed that era of hope

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Vivian Schey 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 <(FSM)<{ @TheAuthorVivian@mastodon.world · Aug 06, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers August 6th Tell us about a drummer whose work you appreciate. I'm no musician so please don't roast me, but there's a guy named Ethan Harb from Nashville, Tennessee, and he's making real dumb stuff when he's at work. Fun to listen to.

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SuzyShearer @SuzyShearer@mastodon.au · Aug 06, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Aug. Tell us about a drummer whose work you appreciate. Not sure there is a particular one. I did date a drummer years ago who was very talented and taught as well as played in well-known Aussie bands.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare@sunny.garden · Aug 04, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers for August 4: What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word troll? I hear Sean Bean in my head, wearily saying "They have a cave troll."

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G H Learner @gahlearner@sunny.garden · Aug 04, 2026

4 What's the first thing you think of when you hear the word troll? Trollstigen in Norway. The link leads to a Wikipedia entry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollstigen #ScribesAndMakers

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David Bridger @DavidBridger@writing.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers #WritingCommunity 30th Jul 2026. Smol? Nah, feckin big.

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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ @petealexharris@mastodon.scot · Jul 29, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers Jul 29 From soft to hard, where do your tastes fall on the Science Fiction scale? There's three axes: how much the science is the point of the story idea, how much the science is articulated, and how plausible the science is. So it's kind of a cube rather than a scale. If the science isn't the point, don't go on about it. If the science is the point, get it right (apart from the what-if impossible bit). Either is fine.

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Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury @maiakbc@climatejustice.social · Jul 29, 2026

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Very happy that today is the paperback publication day of my third novel, Rail: A High Speed Adventure! Thank you all who have supported this journey. In Rail, a designer is drawn into a globe spanning infrastructure proposal with uncertain motives. As ecological ethics collide with corporate ambition, she must confront the meaning of home, responsibility, and legacy—while her past and future converge in unexpected ways. The trilogy blends environmental storytelling, design thinking, and near future speculation, offering readers a grounded yet visionary look at the systems shaping our world. Chowdhury, a registered architect and circular economy strategist based in the Vancouver metro area, continues her exploration of ecological futures through character driven narrative and interdisciplinary worldbuilding. https://www.amazon.com/Rail-Maia-Kumari-Bree-Chowdhury/dp/B0H8X9HB3C/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Fqy5fZQ-fjH9HsgIYrdXwfP9Dn0Ix2dvprIl2YQW0dA.W5WNMRxVXjtCEqg1tkqKr1yPu9f5tdZVPOKE_U1H1Gk&qid=1785284413&sr=1-1 #Architecture #ArcticFiction #Ecofiction #IndieAuthor #IndiePublisher #JapanFiction #NewYorkFiction #Permafrost #ScribesandMakers #VisionaryEcofiction #WomenInSTEM #WritersCoffeeClub #WritingCommunity

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Nisaa (she/her) @Nisaa@sfba.social · Jul 21, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers π21 Tell us about a non-fiction book you've enjoyed. My favorite non-fiction book of this decade is “Rest is Resistance” by Tricia Hersey. It’s about how to reject grind culture and incorporate rest in our lives. Hersey talks about how racism and White Supremacy have made it so people of color have not been able to rest and how they can reclaim it. She talks about how rest can be as simple as daydreaming for a few minutes. Or it can be a curated group rest experience as part of Hersey’s Nap Ministry. It is really, really good and I wish everyone would read it.

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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi @NaraMoore@sakurajima.moe · Jul 27, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers 27. Do you feel your creative work leans more towards reflecting life as it is or as you would like it to be? As it is. And def. not the way I want it to be. Both in terms of what I reflect and what I add. #NMSAM #NMPrompts

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Vivian Schey 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 <(FSM)<{ @TheAuthorVivian@mastodon.world · Jul 27, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers July 27th Do you feel your creative work leans more towards reflecting life as it is or as you would like it to be? Oh, definitely as it should be! Because…well, life isn't as we want it to be, ain't it? So, let's dream a little…

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Hannah Steenbock @Firlefanz@writing.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers 7/27. Do you feel your creative work leans more towards reflecting life as it is or as you would like it to be? Uh, kind of? I mean, yes, I'd love to have similar happy endings to what my Wolves get, but that's about it. I honestly don't want to live in the fantasy worlds I create, I'm definitely not cut out to be the heroine. (I'm overweight, lazy and old. Hmm. Should I write a heroine like that?) But there is justice in my worlds, and that is nice. #WritingCommunity

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Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury @maiakbc@climatejustice.social · Jul 27, 2026

Three good things, the Sunday edition:

Amazing Futurescapes workshop which ended 42 minutes ago
New plot and character arcs coming for a new future-forward trilogy
Energy for the week ahead!

#ThreeGoodThings #Ecofiction #ScienceFiction @ThreeGoodThings #ScribesAndMakers https://futurescapes.ink/about-futurescapes

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Ellen's Very Southern Voice @ellenmorrisprewitt@writing.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers What's something you feel yo've become better at with your creative work this month? I keep saying I'm going back to doing near-final editing using a printed copy of the memoir, but it's hard to wean myself off this computer. I did it this month! (It's interactive, of course: read and edit with the hard copy; make revisions on the computer; meditate on how I feel about the resulting structure; return to the hard copy.)

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