#ScribesAndMakers day 2: Vivid?

I'll take this as a prompt for something from my own writing. Here's a snippet of a practice vignette. It's Kevin Wingard's birthday (roughly 8 years before the WIP novel takes place), and Adrian Hardesty and Derrick Devereaux are taking him out on the town. Adrian's gotten them into a very upscale club and asked if there's anything else that would make the night better. Kevin thinks he might hit the dance floor...

#ScribesAndMakers day 4: Share a mondegreen (misheard lyric) you like.

For the longest time, I misheard a line in the Smiths' "There is a Light That Never Goes Out". I heard it as:

> And in a darkened underpass, I thought:
> "Oh, God, my chance has come at last!"
> But then a strange fear gripped me
> And I just couldn't pass.

I thought it made an absolutely banger *triple*-entendre: Not only could he not pass by another car in his own, but he also... 1/2

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...couldn't make a pass at the woman he's driving around with... and therefore, couldn't pass as straight. (I initially thought it was only a double meaning, before discovering that Morrissey was gay. Even then, I thought it was clever, but the lyricist's homosexuality adds so much with that third level of meaning!)

Sadly, it turns out my mishearing was *way* more creative than Morrissey's actual line, which is merely "...and I just couldn't ask." Meh. 2/2

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#ScribesAndMakers day 5: Make a story or art based on the misheard lyric you shared yesterday

It'd really just be the story Morrissey was already telling in the song. Except a little more clever.

#ScribesAndMakers day 6: How long does it usually take you to decide if you like a piece of visual art?

Sometimes it can be as quick as "the moment I see it", if it's something that I can take in all in a glance. More complex things may take up to a full minute or more, if I have to really inspect the details and get a real understanding of the thing. 1/2

Though I do sometimes change my mind about a piece, after some much longer time. The first time I saw "Guernica", I went, "Ugh, what a gross mess!" (I am not proud of this reaction.) A couple of years later, I finally got the point, and I'm now in agreement with most of the rest of the world in considering it a very powerful artwork. 2/2

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#ScribesAndMakers day 7: How long does it usually take you to decide if you like a piece of music?

Anywhere from about two seconds up to the entire length of the song. Usually in the 5–15 second range, though.

It's rarer for my tastes about a musical piece to change, although sometimes I find that something gets overplayed and I get tired of it for a while. But a period of non-exposure will usually get me back to liking it again.

#ScribesAndMakers day 8: How long does it usually take you to decide if you like a book?

Could be as little as a page or two, or it might take me up to a few chapters — let's say, maybe up to 15,000 words or so — before I decide to DNF something. (Given how slowly I read, I should probably learn to pull the ripcord earlier, but I feel so bad about doing so.)

#ScribesAndMakers day 9: Is there a difference in how long it takes you to decide if you like different mediums? Why do you think that is?

I mean, there's a difference just in how I even *measure* the lengths, and there should be, because different media are... *different*.

#ScribesAndMakers day 11: Is your creativity ever inspired by dreams you’ve had? If so, can you give an example?

Yeah, there was this previous answer: https://wandering.shop/@kagan/115543052003675170 I still desperately hope every copy of that play has been purged from the face of the Earth.