February 2025

Today begins a two-week introductory period for #ScribesAndMakers. I was inspired by a friend who started a monthly group where we met up at a local café for drinks, baked goods, and conversation about our creative work. We talked about our progress, asked for help if needed, and offered encouragement. I wanted to create something in a similar spirit for an online community, with goals, check in days, and daily questions. Please feel free to suggest any questions you would like to see.

1. Welcome to #ScribesAndMakers. Tell us about yourself and your creative work. (Unless specified, work refers to all your creative projects.)
2. We're considering a monthly featured creator day. We would develop a few questions for you and encourage the community to do the same. Anyone interested in being featured would contact us and we would schedule a day for you and let you know which month it would fall in. This could give people more engagement and an opportunity to self-promote separate from our monthly "boost away day." Would this be of interest to you?
3. Do you create for income? As a professional or as a hobby? Or for fun/ for yourself?
4. Do you have multiple creative outlets? Are they distractions, or do they work synergistically?
5. Do you find creative work therapeutic? If so, do you do it for that reason, or is it more of a side benefit?
6. Do you measure progress with something quantifiable, like word count, or something more abstract, like resolving an issue?
7. Do friends/family give you gifts for your activities, or do you buy all your own supplies?
8. Which creative activity gives you the greatest satisfaction, and why?
9. I do my best work in ___ ?
10. Time management. How do you manage to fit one or more creative activities into your day/week?
11. Do you buy your supplies online, at discounters, or in specialty shops?
12. In writing and with other activities, do you stick to one genre/category (e.g. historical, portraits, sweaters, architecture)?
13. Have you ever written to a writer/creator to tell them you liked their work? Did they respond?
14. Shameless self-promotion day. Let's boost away.

Please feel free to suggest any questions you would like to see. You can either pm or mention them to @saposcat@indieauthors.social, to @willelm@indieauthors.social, or to @gahlearner@writing.exchange, or just post them under the monthly question posts.