Eve Ventually#ScribesAndMakers March 1: How much time do you expect to have for creative work this month?
Likely, 4-6 hours a day.
#ScribesAndMakers March 2: Hi, @NaraMoore !
No real questions. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday!
#ScribesAndMakers March 3: Ripple?
Fudge Ripple, Orange Creamsicle, Caramel Salt.
#ScribesAndMakers March 4: Make your own Mad Lib from your WIP. (Remove words, ask for suggested adj, n, v, etc to replace)
She went to the {noun} and {verb} for her {noun} using her {noun} discount.
#ScribesAndMakers March 7: Are you able to communicate in sign language?
Not in any appreciable degree. I can say 'thank you,' 'cat,' 'girl,' and the alphabet in ASL. Possibly a few other things in sign for babies. I'm reasonably good at reading lips in English though. Mostly because while I'm not HOH, I can't process human speech in a crowded or noisy environment.
#ScribesAndMakers March 8: Is there a country other than your own that influences your creativity?
Every country I've been to potentially influences my creativity. While I haven't been to Italy or Japan, their media impact my creativity as well.
#ScribesAndMakers March 11: Our featured creator does 3D printing. Have you ever?
I haven't. I don't have the space or the money but I've always been interested in that and CNC.
#ScribesAndMakers March 12: Our featured creator has an em dash key on his keyboard. Do you do any customizations for your creativity?
Congrats on the em dash key. I use HTML entities since I'm writing in Markdown and my workflow results in the em dashes showing up correctly in the final stories.
I've got a bunch of scripts that handle ... basically problems I've created through my custom workflow. 
I've written a bit about that previously if it's a really big interest to anyone. Reminds me I've got three blogs right now and one of them hasn't gotten updates in a while.
#ScribesAndMakers March 13: Our featured creator writes both novels and short stories. How do you feel about short fiction? Do you read short stories as often as novels?
I cut my teeth on flash fiction many years ago. These days, I tend to read things in the novelette to novella range (which is also where I do most of my writing). I do still read some flash fiction here and there.
#ScribesAndMakers March 15: Is the time you've had for creativity this month what you expected?
Conceptually, yes. In practice, the other issues I've had going on have somewhat damaged my emotional capacity. I knew I wasn't going to have two phenomenal months in a row but this month looks like it's going to be pretty disappointing.
#ScribesAndMakers March 17: What’s a creative habit you’ve wanted to adopt but haven’t yet?
Adopting doesn't tend to be the issue for me. It's more keeping up with it. For example, I think I made pretty good progress with my art last year but I'm not currently doing any daily effort on it.
#ScribesAndMakers March 19: How did you feel when you finished your most recent project?
The most recent thing I finished was the second story in the video game smutimatic universe series that started as ... kind of a borderline shitpost idea that happened between me, my roommate, and the Fediverse. Because of the way I have the stories building on each other, I mostly thought "time to write the next thing." Which has been slightly counterproductive because I now have two things that need to be edited and published while I'm writing the next things.
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#ScribesAndMakers March 20: Self-promotion day!
Get my most recent stories or read my most recent freebie Snowed In With You.
- Meeting Megan — Tammi is accidentally vacationing without her best friend when she runs into an older woman ... on the clothing-optional beach. Sparks fly but could there be something more between them?
- Boyfriend's Power-Up Makes Him Huge — When I got my boyfriend a prototype of the latest, he accidentally brought a power-up back with him. It makes characters huge. I can't wait for us to use it together!
#ScribesAndMakers March 21: What everyday object would you photograph as if it were art?
Pretty much anything. I had a running art project where I would take photos of paper towels that had been abandoned in odd places at my work place. I neglected to preserve the collection when I left. There's not necessarily anything which I would hold back from that impulse.
#ScribesAndMakers March 23: Do you consider yourself a frood who knows where their towel is?
I wouldn't go so far as to call myself hoopy but I know where my towel is at.
#ScribesAndMakers March 24: Do you have a sewing kit in your home?
I'm not quite sure. If we mean one of those repair kits you used to be able to buy in grocery stores and the like, ... somewhere. Otherwise, kit implies a lot more organization than I can attribute to my sewing supplies.
#ScribesAndMakers March 25: Do you use music as a storytelling tool? Give an example.
In prose fiction, generally no. At least not in a way most readers would recognize. A sentence and a paragraph each have their own rhythm and that rhythm can make or break how effective the prose is.
In contrast, some of the storytellers I admire the most work primarily in song.
Ah, you loved me as a loser but now you're worried I just might win
You know the way to stop me but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I've prayed for this to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
In First we take Manhattan, Leonard Cohen builds a story about a character who's up to some scary shit but, on his face, looks like what he's doing may be justifiable. In the last ~20 years, the song has become scary as hell but that's not really on topic exactly. The story he tells, he tells with very little in the way of concrete details about the characters or their relationship. And yet, it's completely evocative and engrossing.
It's one of the finest pieces of fiction I've experienced and it plays out in about 6 minutes for the studio version.
#ScribesAndMakers March 27: What's a book that made you see the world differently?
I think that's true of most books that I read in one way or another. When I'm trying to see the world in a new way, I tend to go for non-fiction. My favorite on that so far is A Brief History Of Time. I'm currently reading two non-fiction books. The one that's most relevant is The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert.
How?
Speaking of A Brief History Of Time (because I haven't finished reading Gilbert's book yet), it's hard to say whether the double slit experiment, the fact that little bits of nothing are popping in and out of existence in the void of space, or the inherent connection between the start of space and time had the biggest change on my worldview.
Walter Thinman@EveHasWords I would have enjoyed seeing that!
Wakeless River Press@EveHasWords I read this and my mind got stuck in a 'noun discount' loop. Considering discussing with my local printer.
G H Learnerhouse, bed, hairdresser
slither
She went to the lake and swam for her life using her deep discount.
Will ElmHouse
Decorate
Shoe
Light bulb
Art of Goulwen R@EveHasWords She went to the Alang Ship Breaking Yard and looked for her dismantle place using her retirement discount #scribesandmakers