#ScribesAndMakers March 1: How much time do you expect to have for creative pursuits this month?

[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 1: How much time do you expect to have for creative pursuits this month?

[gentle weeping]

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[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 6: How do you choose a title for your book?

I don't choose them so much as they come to me. My current book has only a working title, "The Order," which I find incredibly boring. It needs a better one.

In general, I like it if it's descriptive, evocative, but also mysterious. I want to draw people in.

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[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 8: Is there a country other than your own that influences your creativity?'

I'm Canadian, so I'm eye-balls deep in American media, so that's a huge influence, and I'm a lit professor, so multiply Canadian anglophilia by 10; England is a gigantic influence. This is what it's like for us.

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[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers 13 March: Do you read short stories as often as novels?

I teach, so I read a lot of short, medium, and long fiction. There's a difference between what I like and what "teaches well," so my reading experience is often split. If I sense something will work in class, I go down a different path in my head.

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[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 15, Is the time you've had for creativity this month what you expected?

Yes.

Sigh.

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[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 16: Convincing to read a book you don't care for.

You might not *enjoy* #JekyllAndHyde, but it's such a huge cultural touchstone (for anglophones) that you'd be doing yourself a favour to know how the original actually goes.

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[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 17: What’s a creative habit you’ve wanted to adopt but haven’t yet?

Finishing a novel.

Sigh.

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[teflontrout@beige.party]

@orionkidder

Truth! It is a great story though, and a good message. Good and evil lives happily side by side inside us all

[abramkedge@beige.party]

@TeflonTrout @orionkidder The person who inspired the story, Deacon Brodie sounds like an absolute nightmare of a man. I've read only short summaries of his life; I think I'd prefer to research more about him.

One of the things I've heard was that the young Robert Louis Stevenson woke up one night to see Brodie staring at him from the foot of his bed.

[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

@TeflonTrout I mean, not *happily*! Jekyll tortures himself about the mildest alleged "sins" that aren't even mentioned in the text. It's like "Victorian England: The Novel!"

(novella)

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@AbramKedge @orionkidder

1 large yike, to go please

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@orionkidder

Was he not happily coinhabited prior to taking the draught? XD

[firlefanz@writing.exchange]

@orionkidder

*offers a hug*

[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

@Firlefanz Hugs are good.

[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

@TeflonTrout Well, not to get picky, but no. His discomfort with his own very minor "sins" and his desire to do them any way is what drove him to make the potion.

[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 18: If your creative work could speak, what would it say about you?

"People who seek power are inherently suspect."

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[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 19: How did you feel when you finished your most recent project?

I was literally high for a little bit. It was a rush. It's the first time I'd done it.

I'd been working on a short-story cycle that turned into a novella, and when I wrote the last words, satisfied that I'd nailed the basic shape of it, it realized it now existed in the world. I'd made a thing.

Magic.

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[dotyk@mastodon.social]

@orionkidder I realized two things: that this is only the beginning, and that I’ve chosen a very difficult path to enlightenment. But I have no intention of stopping.

[orionkidder@writing.exchange]

#ScribesAndMakers March 22 Micro-fiction in 6 words.

He said, "she's got your eyes."

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[pentup@mastodon.art]

@orionkidder A radically different story, depending on whether the genre is romantic comedy or horror.