#ScribesAndMakers 12
Say something kind about yourself and your creativity

I use my creativity not only to express myself, but also to improve the lives of those around me. I strive to always leave a space better than how I found it.

#PennedPossibilities 1041
What goal or prize is your MC chasing, even passively? What goal or prize have they abandoned, and why?

The punk mindset has always been a perfect fit for Zane; he's been pushing *against* something for most of his 40-some years. Making a Faustian bargain in front of an audience seemed like one more kick in the face to a culture steeped in self-righteous hypocrisy.

He's going to need to stand *for* something pretty soon; he just doesn't know what it is yet.

#ScribesAndMakers 10
(Excluding time travel) Do you have a preference between books that progress linearly and books that jump back and forth in time (flashbacks etc)?

I could say "it depends," but I believe that means my answer really is "no, I don't have a preference."

I've read books where a linear timeline made the most sense, and others where the story absolutely sparkled by jumping around. I've also seen others of both sorts in which I thought the authors chose poorly. So it goes!

#ScribesAndMakers 9
If you had a chance to ask an author or artist (living or deceased) one question, what would it be?

Why?

For a person so immersed in the world of fiction and fantasy, so adept at creating worlds, so apparently understanding of consent, wouldn't role-play have met those darker needs? Was it truly necessary to become a predator, to live a Jekyll/Hyde existence as one of your own antagonists while pretending otherwise?