TrevorJul 2, 2025

#ScribesAndMakers catch-up from June 30: How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month?

June was my best creative month in a long time. Work stress was noticeably lower for the first time since Feb 2024. And some personal revelations and changes have meant a significant change to my energy levels in the evenings, when I actually have time to work on creative projects.

I'm writing again. I'm doing *good* writing again. And for the first time in so long, maybe for the first time ever, I can do just a bit of work on something and feel good about it. I don't have to ramp up to it and I don't have to lock in for hours to feel like I've accomplished anything.

Most importantly, I'm taking better care of my health than I have in a long time. I feel much more *able* to take better care of my health. Other than the obvious improvements to well-being that creates, and the delightful vanity that comes with watching your body respond to exercise, it's having an immediately noticeable effect on the type and quality of my creative work.

I'm very lucky. June was a good month. Still hard for many of the reasons the past 18 months have been hard, but I finally feel like I'm in the driver's seat again.

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#ScribesAndMakers catch-up from July 1: What do you want to work on this month?

I already have a bunch of electroluminescent tape on hand for my littlest's Tron Halloween costume. She wants to be Quorra from Tron: Legacy. I need to experiment with cutting it to length and connecting it to power via wires. I should also stock the EVA foam I need and get serious about patterning. I should also also start modeling the child-sized identity disk for her. I don't want to get to October and be suddenly behind the curve.

Otherwise, have writing to do. I would like to crack open my MG fantasy adventure #PersephonesChampion to finally knock out the last edits I want to do before a brief but wider round of beta reading & prepping for query. If 2025 goes by and I don't have query letters sent to agents for this book I will be justifiably disappointed in myself.

Other than Persephone, I am researching and outlining for my next book - an extremely Canadian adult historical fiction.

I have test casts of my concrete sculptures to do. I have wire mesh to strengthen them and I think that's very necessary, I just haven't actually gone down into the shop to do it yet.

And I will continue tinkering with my video game #bHopper. That includes streaming it on Twitch from time to time. Join me, won't you? https://twitch.tv/lovemakeshare

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#ScribesAndMakers for July 2: If you could have only one creative activity in the future, which one would you pick?

I, like many others, hate this and would pick writing in a heartbeat. I wouldn't be happy about it but I would do it.

It's funny, everything I do informs my writing so much. I wonder what my writing would even look like without the rest of it.