Scribes & Makers

August 2025

1. What's on the docket for this month? Alt: Word?  
2. Do you have artwork on your walls? If so, describe one of the pieces.
3. Talk to me day. Featured creator: Julie Liddell Whitehead ( @JulieLidellWhitehead@writing.exchange )
4. What's the biggest barrier to your creativity this month? Anything you can do to mitigate?
5. What's the hardest thing about marketing?
6. Create a poll with two games (video, board, ttrpg, sport, etc) you like to play and one you don't. Ask people to guess the one you don't.
7. Reveal the game you don't like and tell us what you don't like about it.
8. Do you like baking? If so, what do you usually bake?
9. Bonus Talk to me day. Featured creator: Sarah J Hoodlet ( @SJHoodlet@writing.exchange )
10. What kind of photography do you most enjoy? (Taking, viewing, or both.)
11. Have you ever exhibited artwork in a public place?
12. What's the most rewarding thing about your creativity?
13. What foods can't you stand? This can be a sensitive subject for some people, so consider using a CW if you think it might be difficult.
14. What's the funniest needlework you've ever made or seen? Can you share a picture?
15. How's your creativity going so far? Would you like help and/or feedback?
16. If you had to live solely off of food you could grow yourself, how well would you be eating?
17. What's your favorite instrument?
18. Which of these would you like best for a weekend creative retreat: lake house, mountain cabin, city apartment, or oceanside hotel? Alone or with others?
19. What's your favorite two-letter combo? (th,ch,qu, etc.)
20. If your favorite show was cancelled without enough time to tell the full story, how would you want the writers to handle it?
21. What cliche best sums up your creative life?
22. Do you have a favorite texture? If so, can you describe it?
23. How many pixies can fit on the end of a paintbrush? Does it matter which end?
24. Is there a smell that brings back good memories for you?
25. What do you think makes for good alt text?
26. Is there a song where you enjoy the sound but hate the lyrics, or vice versa?
    27. What is a genre or style that you think is underappreciated?
28. You're a bored ghost talking to an aspiring author through a ouija board. Who would you pretend to be? Credit: Lydia Vvinters (@HeliaXyana@mastodon.nl)
29. Are there any sounds that bring back good memories for you?
30. Talk to me day. Today's featured creator is: MutinyCrinshaw
( @mutinyc@ni.hil.ist
)

31. How did it go? Alt: Fire?