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@CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange @willelm@indieauthors.social @gahlearner@sunny.garden 'a celebration of creativity.' I like that. I think that's a pretty good summation of what we try to do.
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@WhatACharmingHouse@mastodon.social this gets you thinking
π16 Our next featured creator is a baker. Describe a baked good you enjoy.
I try not to eat baked goods often anymore because of my blood sugar, but probably the hardest to resist is a chocolate chip cookie, firm around the edges and chewy in the middle, with a balanced chip to cookie ratio.
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∆ 29. Someone else promotion day. Tell us about someone else's work. Let's boost away.
Once I finish up my current book I'm jumping into the world of Ontyre with Trust in the Forgotten by @CA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange
You can learn more about her books on her website.
∆ 25. Our featured creator does "a bit of educational activism on the side." Do you do any activism through your creative work?
I often work issues that are meaningful to me into the story, but I don't think of it as activism. I think of my writing as more likely to connect with people who share my views than change minds, but I'd certainly be happy if someone changed their views because of something I wrote.
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№ 29 Our next featured creator has done creative work with math(s). Does math(s) ever feature in any way in your creative work?
I have taken inspiration from Fermat's Last Theorem, but not the mathematical part of it. I can't think of anything else.
№ 4 How many songs are there where you know all the lyrics by heart?
Honestly, not that many. Mostly songs that don't have many words. I usually know some but not all of the words to songs I like.
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Last call for Talk To Me Day featured creators. After this month, we have one person who will be featured in August, and then we plan to retire it unless anyone else is interested. PM @gahlearner@sunny.garden @willelm@indieauthors.social or @saposcat@indieauthors.social if you would like to be featured.
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For your epsilon project, do you have a core of readers who vote regularly? Are there unexpected challenges to collaborating with your readers?
№ 3 When you see the word 'read', is your first instinct to read it as present tense or past tense?
Present tense, for sure. I'm not the biggest fan of words I have to know the context before I know how to pronounce it.
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@ElyseMGrasso@wandering.shop
What was your inspiration for the Elderkin?
∆ 19. Have you ever been to a poetry reading?
I think I went to a few in college, and many years ago I went to see Nikki Giovanni, but I don't think I've been to one since.
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@AlexCorby@indieauthors.social I think this is the #WritersCoffeeClub prompt. Ours is Leviathan
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@EveHasWords@toot.cat I'm always happy when we hit on something that's especially of interest to someone.
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@kmherkes@wandering.shop I think you're not alone in disliking ghoti. I've seen a few comments to that effect today 😆
I was surprised to see how far back its use goes, though. I find it a fun word, but judging by reactions, it seems like it must come up a lot in irritating contexts or something.
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@Klepsis@indieauthors.social talk to me day isn't until the 30th but I've bookmarked the question to help make sure it comes up that day
Our next featured creator Jess Mahler You can join us in asking questions by tagging them @JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social and adding the hashtags #scribesAndMakers and #TTMD or follow along.
You can check out their website here: https://jessmahler.com/
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@AlexCorby@indieauthors.social no problem. It's easy to get the hashtags mixed up. I just try to give credit where its due
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@WhatACharmingHouse@mastodon.social thanks, bookmarking this to listen to when I have the time
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@WhatACharmingHouse@mastodon.social Mule Variations is such a great album. Haven't listened to it in ages. I can see how the song fits the situation.
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@kmherkes@wandering.shop I can definitely see where you're coming from. I don't remember the contexts I've seen it in the few times I've come across it, but I remember having an 'oh neat' sort of reaction to it.
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@WhatACharmingHouse@mastodon.social btw I enjoy the new profile pic. (Liked the old one too)
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@crcollins@writing.exchange @SJHoodlet@writing.exchange The only thing I remember having to memorize and recite was Jabberwocky, which was actually fun (even though I'm sure I did a poor job at it.) We did have to memorize all the presidents (I think it was up to Reagen at that point) and one fact about each of them, but I don't think we had to say anything out loud, just a written test.
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@EveHasWords@toot.cat @ElyseMGrasso@wandering.shop I've been using udm14 (no ai google). I tried startpage but I've felt like it's harder to find what I actually want with it.
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@JoBee@mastodon.art 😃 fair enough. I definitely enjoy looking up lyrics but I have a hard time retaining them.
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@ArchaeoIain@archaeo.social in some ways I like the peculiarities of the English language, but I also sometimes wish it was more standardized.
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@JessMahler@indiepocalypse.social that's interesting. I haven't read all the responses yet, but so far it seems like a majority read it as present tense on its own.
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@anderlandbooks words are funny that way. I often double-check even words I know very well before posting things because doubt creeps in and the word doesn't look right or I suddenly wonder if it means what I think it means. But yes, salvageable is definitely a word, and that is the correct spelling.
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@klepsydra@wandering.shop oh, that must be devastating. Sorry to hear about your friend.
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@ringles we'll miss you, but completely understand. Good luck on the writing and I'll look forward to hearing about it in June.
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@grahamefleming@c.im I was looking at a display over the weekend showing all the things that killed more people in a year than sharks do, and it said vending machines kill 3 a year, which makes me wonder what people are doing with vending machines.
On the one hand, I accept statistics and tend to believe reassurances that things are basically safe, but I also tend to like the 0% odds of being killed by a shark when I'm not in water where they are (along with my near zero odds of being killed in a plane crash if I don't get on a plane, though I can't discount the slim possibility one might crash into me. I suppose there are even slimmer odds that a shark might get me in a sharknado, but I think the wind would be the bigger threat there.)
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@crcollins@writing.exchange @SJHoodlet@writing.exchange I remember not always agreeing with certain pronunciations, but I'm not sure which ones anymore. I remember a fair bit of it, but I don't think I could recite the whole thing.
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@grahamefleming@c.im I've seen images of drive in where people are watching from inflatables in a pool and it made me think what a way to experience that movie.
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@gahlearner@sunny.garden I wasn't wrong with the majority, but I was still wrong. I picked wire cutter.
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@SuzyShearer@mastodon.au did the dream reveal the killer, or did you have to figure that out in your writing process?
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@Nisaa@sfba.social interesting, I can't say this specifically for Duran Duran but I often go to lyrics websites looking for full words to songs I know part of and see something that doesn't match with what I was quite sure I knew very well. Since every site has the lyrics the same, I assume I must have been wrong, but now I wonder if at least on occasion the sites are the ones who have it wrong.
»31 Choose an adverb to sum up how your month went.
The month's over already? That went quickly.
Wait, no, that wasn't meant to be my adverb. That doesn't describe how the creati--
Cheating? Hows' that--
Yes, I know what the prompt says. I wro--
Okay, yes, fine, no exceptions. My adverb is quickly.
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π3 We have some new people in the community. Re/Introduce yourself and tell us about your creative work.
Walter Thinman is a pen name for my creative work, which includes running this hashtag with help from @gahlearner@sunny.garden and @willelm@indieauthors.social , a self-published novel out in the world (I'm doing a giveaway this month if you're interested https://indieauthors.social/@saposcat/116844555289716563) a to-be-self-published novel in the works with contributions from @johnyNocash@indiepocalypse.social , a near-finished novel I hope to self-publish sometime this year, and I occasionally make art. You can find out more on my website, https://www.walterthinman.com
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@diandralinnemann@mastodon.social my lawyers will contact your lawyers 😆
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@JoBee@mastodon.art that's impressive! I can maybe remember bits and pieces of thousands, but even that I'm not sure about.
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@WhatACharmingHouse@mastodon.social how did you come to be thinking of Shirley Jackson and Tom Waits at the same time? Now I'm starting to wonder what a conversation between the two would be like. He would have to still be pretty young for this fictitious conversation to happen in real life, but Tom Waits and the ghost of Shirley Jackson talking seems kind of interesting to me.