Scribes & Makers

July 2026 Questions

π1 Our featured creator is a former librarian. What has been your experience with libraries?

π3 We have some new people in the community. Re/Introduce yourself and tell us about your creative work.
π4 Sample?
π5 You're whisked away by faeries to a woodland cottage for a weekend. Necessities will be provided, but for entertainment you're allowed 1 item of your own creation. What are you bringing?
π6 Share the first sentence of the last chapter of one of your novels (or someone else's that you like if you don't have one of your own.)
π7 What do you find compelling in a podcast? If you don't like podcasts, is there anything that could make you interested?
π8 How many spaces do you like after a period/full stop?
π9 What's a fairly typical amount of time you spend reading per sitting? How many times per day do you generally get a chance to read?
π10 Do you prefer when a time traveler can choose a specific time/place to go, or when they don't have control over it?
π11 It all started when...
π12 For printed books, do you have a preferred size?
π13 Has a bear ever featured in your work? If so, what sort of bear?
π14 How objective do you feel you are when it comes to assessing your own work?
π15 Our next featured creator has made toys. Have you ever?
π16 Our next featured creator is a baker. Describe a baked good you enjoy.

π18 A can of worms or a barrel of monkeys?
π19 When you read or watch a mystery, how often are you able to solve it before the answer is revealed?
π20 What scented marker do you like best?
π21 Tell us about a non-fiction book you've enjoyed.
π22 Create a poll listing 2-3 creative things you've accomplished this month and 1 you're still hoping to. Ask people to guess the one you're hoping to.
π23 Link to or summarize yesterday's poll and reveal the answer.
π24 What's something you feel you've gotten better at with your creative work this month?
π25 What's something you feel you've gotten better at with your creative work this year?
π26 If you were to metaphorically assign your non-culinary creative work a flavo(u)r, what would it be?
π27 Do you feel your creative work leans more towards reflecting life as it is or as you would like it to be?
π28 How difficult is it for you to write characters whose taste in art/books/music/television etc are vastly different from your own?
π29 From soft to hard, where do your tastes fall on the Science Fiction scale?
π30 Smol?
π31 Were you able to accomplish the thing you were hoping to in the poll?

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