Scribes & Makers

July 2025

  1. What do you want to work on this month? Alt: Bread?

  2. If you could have only one creative activity in the future, which one would you pick?

  3. When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?

  4. How do you feel about breaking the fourth wall? If you write, have you ever done it?

  5. Create a multiple choices poll with two things that are true about yourself, and one that is true of your MC. Ask people to pick which is the MC. If you don't write, choose an MC from a book you like.

  6. Share which thing from yesterday's poll was about the MC

  7. Have you ever taken a cooking class? If so, what did you learn? If not, would you like to take one? What would you like to learn?

  8. If you have had to give up your creative activities for a while, how do you motivate yourself to get back in?

  9. Do you sometimes write/create with friends and/or family, or do you prefer to do it all by yourself?

  10. How difficult would it be to continue your creative activity(ies) if you couldn't have your favo(u)rite beverage?

  11. Is art necessary, and why? Credit: @artofgoulwenr@mastodon.art

  12. If you could visit a fictional world, would you? If so, which one?

  13. Self-promotion day. Show us what you're proud of. Let's boost away.

  14. Talk to me day. Today's featured creator is: John Hartley ( johnyNocash@indiepocalypse.social )

  15. How's your creativity going? Do you need help? Would you like to share a paragraph or image for critique?

  16. Let's make a story. I'll start, then people keep adding to the thread to see where things go.

  17. Tell us about a book you like despite its cover (don't show the cover yet.)

  18. Show us the cover to yesterday's book, and tell us what you don't like about the cover.

  19. Invent a new imaginary instrument. What does it look and sound like? (Credit: @HeliaXyana@mastodon.nl)

  20. If you were given a modest but useful amount of money that could only be used for your creative pursuits, how would you spend it?

  21. Does music help or hinder your creativity? Or are you unaffected by music?

  22. Show us something you've created. Tell us the story behind it.

  23. Has someone created something for you? What was it?

  24. Do you create on the go? (i.e., create things away from home/studio)

  25. Create a multiple choices poll listing 3 books you personally consider “classics” and ask others to choose the ones they have read. Create a fourth option for None of the Above.

  26. Talk about the book that got the fewest votes in yesterday's poll, or share something about all three.

  27. Talk to me day. Today's featured creator is: Kurt Hohmann ( @KurtHohmann@writing.exchange )

  28. Has anyone been unsupportive of your creative pursuits / art? If so, how did you handle that?

  29. Why do you like your genre(s)/style(s)?

  30. Whether or not you did everything you hoped to, what's something that went well this month?

  31. How did it go? Any changes you want to make next month? Alt: Yellow?