#ScribesAndMakers – 6 Some people have creative work inspired by their dreams. Have you?

Oh yeah. Dreams have been a major inspiration for several of my stories, including one I'm working on right now.

#ScribesAndMakers – 6 Some people have creative work inspired by their dreams. Have you?

All of the following scenes from #KonbiniIdol were inspired by dreams. As a surreal author, dreams are an important inspiration.

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#ScribesAndMakers – 6th Apr. Some people have creative work inspired by their dreams. Have you ever had dreams inspired by your creative work?

Certainly. I wrote a series that actually started from a dream I had. And I often can solve writing ‘road blocks’ in my sleep.

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Apr. 5: Could you do a scrapbook accompanying your current creative process?

I wouldn't know where to start. Never made one.

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Apr. 4: How do you answer if someone asks you what you do? Is your answer different in person than it is online?

Oh I run The Crafty Moose. takes out business card, hands over to the person asking We deal with hand-beaded jewelry and accessories. In fact, I'm wearing one of my works! shows off bracelet or necklace or pendant

#ScribesAndMakers 5. Could you do a scrapbook accompanying your current creative process?

My lab notebooks will have to suffice. Most of my current creative process isn't creating much "side art" or even scrap for junk-journalling.

#ScribesAndMakers 5 Could you do a scrapbook accompanying your current creative process?

Probably not? All my records are just writing, no images or memorabilia.

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I was the kind of student that wrote the essay before the outline, if we had to turn in an outline as well as the essay: outlines are analytical, not productive.

And I won''t try to describe how I handled "object-oriented" programming projects. But if certain OO evangelists find themselves stepping barefoot on Lego a lot, they have only themselves to blame, and programmers' curses.

My fractal creative process may be a reaction to OO requirements.

#ScribesAndMakers 5 Could you do a scrapbook accompanying your current creative process?

Scrapbooking isn't really a thing I'm into and I don't think it would help me. But I am trying to do better documentation of timelines, character details, and themes in hopes of making revision quicker and easier.

#ScribesAndMakers 5 Could you do a scrapbook accompanying your current creative process?

Probably not. 1 I have never done a scrapbook in my life for ANY purpose.

2 With my process, that would just be a waste of time and effort. Honestly, I read people discussing their spreadsheets and serial-killer-walls, and what-not and it sounds to me as if they are turning a large rock into a bucket of marbles and then trying to make a sculpture out of the marbles. My brain just does not work that way.