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Hi, have you experimented with your own glaze recipes for pottery, or is there any glaze you've tried that gives a result you especially like?

#ScribesAndMakers 9 Oct
Our next featured creator is a 'relentless optimist.' How full is your glass?

I'm more a positive realist. I want to know accurately how full it is, and then how I deal with that is the bit that's in my control.

#ScribesAndMakers <9 Our next featured creator is a 'relentless optimist.' How full is your glass?
It has not been very full over the past few years. Sometimes I have days of optimism but I live in the US and things are not great here.

#ScribesAndMakers Day 9: "Our next featured creator is a 'relentless optimist.' How full is your glass?"

As am I: some glasses are fuller than others

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 10
Our next featured creator is a 'relentless optimist.' How full is your glass?

A drip in the bottom, desperately in need of a refill.

#ScribesAndMakers 10/9: How full is your glass?

That depends on which glass we're talking about. The one I'm having now, previous glasses, or future glasses. I'm trying very hard to not lock my mindset down in a single set of rules. I can think of few things that are more damaging to the […]

#ScribesAndMakers <8 Our next featured creator is a poet, potter, author, and crafter. Do you engage in multiple creative activities or stick to one?
Oh, I like variety too much to stick to one creative activity.

#ScribesAndMakers October 8 "Our next featured creator is a poet, potter, author, and crafter. Do you engage in multiple creative activities?"

I look at everything I do as storytelling, and there are many way to tell a story. But I'm reminded that I haven't made a whimsical device in a while.

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 8: Our next featured creator is a poet, potter, author, and crafter. Do you engage in multiple creative activities or stick to one?

I play wherever creativity let me; music, paintings, drawings, poetry, and prose. I don't do it because I think I am good at it, but because […]

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<7 Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose.

My spouse is a wibbly wobbly timey wimey silly goose
His idea of ‘birthday’ is a bit loose
Today he turns 59 anew, NOT a noose
Age we know is but a ruse.

#ScribesAndMakers 7 Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose.

Expensive outfits nice and loose,
it doesn't matter what you choose,
underneath the brilliant hues,
a goose is still a goose.

#ScribesAndMakers O7: Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose.

Oft the frost turns soft earth to crystal under mist
All things edge white; grey wings of geese against the light
Sigh without cease in their long flight
At the sun's waning.

Mind you:
1: It doesn't include the […]

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 7: Create a four line rhyming poem that includes the word goose.

Get out of town.
Run for your life.
Sun's going down,
And the goose has a knife.

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 6: On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story?

There is no straight answer to that, in my opinion. That can vary wildly, depending on what the story needs, what kind of story it is and what its purpose is.

#ScribesAndMakers 2026: On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story?

Conflict has a place, but for me it is not essential; I'd say 25

#ScribesAndMakers 6 Oct: On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story?

Zero. A lot of folk tales are about the protagonist encountering the supernatural. This does not need to have _any_ conflict to be compelling. Here is an […]

#ScribesAndMakers Oct 6: "On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story?"

Personally? None. "Compelling" can take many forms beyond conflict. Curiosity and hope are two that drive me as a reader.

#ScribesAndMakers 6 Oct
On a scale of 0-100, how much conflict (however you personally define it) is necessary for a compelling story?

Necessary? 1.

There has to be at least one thing that needs to be resolved. A story can contain many other things that are compelling: interesting and fun […]

#ScribesAndMakers 10/5. Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it has taken you to complete a project?

My doctorate took 13 years. If you are talking about actual writing projects - s-team origins took around 7 years.

Of course, both were being done part time. Things sped up when I went […]

#ScribesAndMakers <5 Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it has taken you to complete a project?

Oh that's so hard! I don't usually keep track of time. If I have a deadline, then I do.

I'm going to try to keep track of time for the next pebble mosaic project I do. I have the goal of […]