G H Learner

gahlearner@sunny.garden

I like writing <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> and <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> stories. I write for pleasure. I have simple tastes and write simple stories. I'm German but write mostly in English for practice. TERFs, fascists, antisemites get blocked. Overgeneralizing boomer-bashers too. Twin account: <a href="https://sunny.garden/@gahlearner" class="u-url mention">@gahlearner</a> Header: My mascot Spidrophant with snake by @saposcat@indieauthors.com <a href="https://justmytoots.com/@gahlearner@sunny.garden" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translat

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Post #4373672
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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18 A can of worms or a barrel of monkeys? Can of worms. What kind of worms? Earthworms? Yes, please, they are good for my garden. #ScribesAndMakers
Post #3629729
5 You&#39;re whisked away by faeries to a woodland cottage for a weekend. Necessities will be provided, but for entertainment you&#39;re allowed 1 item of your own creation. What are you bringing? Fairies. Woodland. Cottage. Wow! What do I need entertainment for, I wonder. I *assume* they won&#39;t eat me since it&#39;s only a weekend, likewise there won&#39;t be time warps, that&#39;d defy the term weekend. I&#39;d talk to them. I&#39;d wander the woods see...
Post #3629728
5. What songs are going on your antagonist’s workout playlist? Workouts and playlists are not a concept in the Silverworld. Skip. #WordWeavers
Post #3629727
6 Share the first sentence of the last chapter of one of your novels (or someone else&#39;s that you like if you don&#39;t have one of your own.) It&#39;s still a WIP; from book/part 1: “What?” I yell. “No, no, no!” #ScribesAndMakers
Post #3629726
6. Which of your MCs would be most likely to win a dance off? In their youth, Bella and her brothers often won in events that could be called dance-offs, they were good dancers, but stopped participating as they got older, because of course the king&#39;s children would win... The Barrel Gang sometimes celebrates with lots of eating, drinking, song and dance. Carpe diem and all that. Pepper and Brassic are absolute insance dancers and always are the ones who get the prize. Which is usually...
Post #3629725
1062. MC POV: When was the first time you found the strength to walk away from something? Bella says, &quot;I was leaving my home and comfortable life because I thought I must save the world. But that&#39;s not really counting. It was hard, but I wanted to do it. &quot;When we found a way to deactivate the curse instead of breaking it, I had to leave my heart behind and walk away.&quot; #PennedPossibilities
Post #2302282
9 How likely are you to embrace changes to language usage? In my own language I accept new words pretty fast. But not the punctuation and spelling reform that happened in 1996. Some of it made sense, but most of it caused even more confusion. I wholeheartedly refused it. Which led to me being at a total mess with punctuation and spelling even in my own language. Which was something I was really good at before. I wouldn&#39;t notice changes in English. #ScribesAndMakers
Post #1711479
25. Our featured creator does &quot;a bit of educational activism on the side.&quot; Do you do any activism through your creative work? I rein myself in to avoid preaching. But I try to show worlds where the &#39;isms&#39; aren&#39;t a thing, where people fight oppression, and care for nature. I hope it reads natural and not constructed for a purpose. But they usually have their own ways of scapegoating each other, not necessarily the &#39;fantasy stand-ins for racism&a...
Post #1656155
995 — How do you balance making (emotional) demands on the reader with taking care of them? I&#39;m a selfish creature and don&#39;t think of readers when I write. I think of myself and what I like to read, and I don&#39;t like one action beat after the other without pause. I want to read about quiet moments, moments of relaxation, and reflection of what just happened. That&#39;s also why I like happy endings. They often don&#39;t end in &#39;boom, enemy dead, end of s...
Post #1607413
993. As we are approaching Prompt 1000 and there’s been a lot of reflection on this project (for the host, floofpaldi), let’s reflect on our writing journeys, how far we’ve come, friends we made, what we’ve learned along the way, etc. Finding the writing community and hashtags here gave me a huge boost, and talking to the mostly friendly and understanding people helped with my confidence (a little 😀 ). It feels good to be part of this, to come here almost every day and know that there are peo...
Post #1030415
9. Our next featured creator is a professor. Does any of your work involve professors and/or universities? My nonfic work involved professors and/or universities. In my current fiction there are neither. Education past the school years is done with tutors, mentors, apprenticeships and guilds. One of the MCs in my portal fantasy is a student at a university, and her mum was a professor, but that&#39;s not the focus of the story. Edit: Forgot the teaser for Saturday&#39;s TTMD #Scribes...
Post #893973
These are the pinned April questions for the ScribesAndMakers hashtag game. You also find the questions here on our new site: https://scribesandmakers.mataroa.blog/blog/february-2026-questions/ And all the other resources too. #ScribesAndMakers
Post #878870
971. Where does your SC feel the safest? Is there a particular person or object that helps them feel safe? Calanthe: in any library if she is there officially (as compared to sneaking in to steal something). Rosie: when she is with horses But there isn&#39;t much safety in their world. #PennedPossibilities
Post #878868
30 Do birds ever feature in your work? Give an example. They aren&#39;t featured like horses and dragons, and in one case dogs. They are there, in their natural habitat, doing their thing. In the current WIP birds are used as messenger birds. People who don&#39;t use magic use bird species that behave like homing pigeons. Elfen can talk to animals and can ask all kinds of birds to carry messages to significant landmarks the birds know. The Elfen prefer crows and ravens for their intell...
Post #794130
18 If your creative work could speak, what would it say about you? A chorus of writing, artsy, and craftsy projects sings: Finish me, finish me! Don&#39;t always leave me and start something new! #ScribesAndMakers
Post #750710
20 Self-promotion day. Shame optional. I write drabbles. They can be found on my blog. https://ghlearner.wordpress.com/ #ScribesAndMakers
Post #724584
20, Self-promotion day. Shame optional. Boost away! This is the perfect day to shamelessly promote our own hashtag. If you want to know what we are all about, what the Talk-to-me-Day is, where the resources are hidden, and all our other little quirks, check out our site at: https://scribesandmakers.mataroa.blog/ #ScribesAndMakers