C. R. Collins<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Mar 28<br>What would your best creative life look like if not bound by reality? </p><p>Enough money to not have to worry about it while I focused on being creative. A kinder, gentler revolution so world events wouldn't keep depressing & enraging me. I don't ask for much 😆</p>
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Lydia Vvinters<p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/scribesandmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scribesandmakers</span></a> What would your best creative life look like if you weren't bound by reality?</p><p>All I really need is time. So, I would need, wealth, a button to pause time, and immortality. Though I would get distracted by the time pause button.</p><p>Now there's a question, you buy a new phone which has an unexplainable extra button on the back and discover that is pauses time for every one but you. What's the first thing you'd do?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a></p>
Patch Arcana<p><a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> for March 27:</p><blockquote><p>Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p></blockquote><p>I am trying to find a way to say this that won't offend people.</p><p>I do not believe it is healthy, or best serves the artist, for your response to beauty in someone else's work to be shame in your own. It doesn't make you feel good (obviously), it wouldn't make the artist feel good (if they knew that was your gut reaction) and it lowers the overall expression of beauty in the world.</p><p>When I see the great work of others I try to direct that toward inspiring and informing my own work.</p>
Elyse M Grasso<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Mar 27. Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>Is that a thing? Do people also get 'discouraged' by sunsets? or scenery?</p><p>No wonder we end up with toxic randos trying to run/ruin the country and the world.</p><p><Grumble>Some people should not be allowed to raise children... and way too many of them have way too much money.</p>
Eve 😘📚<p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> March 27: Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>I've been playing guitar off and on my entire life basically. When I was in my teens, a guy I knew picked up a guitar and became <em>Hendrix</em> level good in six months. I found that a little discouraging. Later, I realized we had different motivations and different paths. I was always more interested in composing than I was in <em>playing</em> the most technical pieces.</p><p>It's so easy to say "don't be discouraged" but so difficult to actually take that advice. We're not doing the same things, though.</p>
C. R. Collins<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Mar 27<br>Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>I'm hung up on the word "great." Who decides? Is this synonymous with "popular" or "mass marketable"? Or is this asking if a work I personally thought was great discouraged me? No, those inspired me, although there are times I think I'll never be as good, I plod on. Conversely, there have been some extremely popular works where I didn't see the point & thought, hey, if they can succeed, I sure as hell can. 😆</p>
Sarah J Hoodlet<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 27Mar—Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>Generally, no. Like most of you, I find great art inspiring.</p><p>However, I won’t deny feeling discouraged sometimes. It has nothing to do with the author/their story, and everything to do with the comparison I make to my own work.</p><p>"Will I ever be this good?" is a question I ask myself too often. Imposer syndrome often follows, and darkness consumes my creative light.</p><p>I'm there right now, and it's hard. But I endure.</p>
Ray Ingles<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 27: Were you ever discouraged by someone else's great art?</p><p>I long ago learned to accept that I'm not a genius. I can be in awe of, and enjoy, great talent and skill, while only being a *tiny* bit jealous.</p><p>It's still possible to work at do the best with what I've got. And I've produced a few things I believe aren't crap.</p><p><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gifted" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">smbc-comics.com/comic/gifted</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Lydia Vvinters<p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 27, Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>In a way, yes. I hate seeing how artists are applauded in death while they were disregarded or much worse in life. It seems like we only value art in the past tense. When it is history, when the artist is history. So, despite my fondness for the works, van Gogh's paintings never make me smile. It makes me lament the lack of appreciation and compassion for art and artists today. Which is indeed very discouraging.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a></p>
Joyce Lionarons<p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 27<br>Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>No. I find great art of whatever sort -- fine arts, writing, music -- inspiring. I may never reach those heights, but great art tells me they are reachable.</p>
Christina Anne Hawthorne<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 27<br>greatness</p><p>Someone else’s greatness doesn’t discourage me, but it might inspire me.</p><p>I’ve been writing long enough to know that someone, who in my opinion is a great writer, didn’t reach that status by accident. They worked at their craft & earned their recognition.</p><p>I might envy where they are in their career, but I never wish them ill, nor do I feel discouraged. After all, I’m a different person, my writing is my own, my path my own.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
Anderlandbooks<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Mar 27. Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>No. I can admire greatness without the urgent need to compare.<br>Same as I can happy for the luck of a friend instead of feeling instant envy.</p><p>Some days, it's driving me nuts that people have to make everything about themselves.<br>Why not simply go: <br>There's a great artist! Wow! Kudos!</p>
ClaraBlackInk<p>Like, "a person made this!" is somehow always inspiring. </p><p>This is part of another person's soul, part of their life that they've shared. How cool!</p><p>And even "bad" art can be interesting, especially when there's a vulnerability that just hasn't been refined.</p><p>I am sad that so many creative folks get discouraged these days by what they see online. I feel like they've not received some tools to help protect them as they explore their own talents and experiences.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a></p>
ClaraBlackInk<p>I'm always able to return to that state of awe and inspiration when I experience other people's art. It's rare that I want to make what they've made, typically I'm just inspired to take the lessons of their work back to my practice.</p><p>Which, I think, is down to having been taught from a young age to engage with critique. To be able to recognize that the great art was made by the sweat and tears of a human being over a length of time.</p><p>It's always elevated the experience.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a></p>
ClaraBlackInk<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Mar 27: Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?</p><p>Not especially.</p><p>I think the only times some discouragement has crept in when experiencing other people's work is when I'm desperately comparing where I am with where they are.</p><p>I suppose the benefit of an arts education is being given tools for critique that teach you how to begin to disassemble something that seems perfect (because it is complete) in order to see how it works. It acts as a bit of immunization.</p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2503.26 — Ask the expert: if you're a specialist in something, would you answer questions for writers/artists regarding your specialty?</p></blockquote><p>I'll answer, but in public threads as one of my things is helping as many people as I can. Jack or Jill of many trades, but an expert in none? Let's see:</p><ul><li>I've now watched 102 Korean drama series and many more Japanese anime series, so I have some perspective there. </li><li>If you've followed me, I fancy myself an experimental chef (fancy being a keyword with multiple meanings).</li><li>I have some insights into oral traditions (folklore). RS has a degree.</li><li>I take pretty pictures, but went from a professional DSLR to using an iPhone most of the time.</li><li>I'm am arguably good at storytelling. My agent said that was the best thing about me. I might be convinced to answer questions like "How do you write a fight scene?" or "Is attention to gender all that important?" or "Is grammar good? Or… It's bad, isn't?" </li><li>What I am is an expert at <em>being shy,</em> what it feels like, and what that means to a person. You may ask me about that.</li></ul><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
Alexander Corby 🇵🇷<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 3/26 Ask the expert. If you're a specialist would you take questions?</p><p>I don't consider myself an "expert" at writing, but I would say so for juggling, theater, and balloon art.</p><p>In 2010 I was hired by Pixar to promote the movie Up as the Wilderness Explorer Balloon twisting chief. I had to teach reporters how to make a simple dog. Those guys were hopeless. But I did get a tour of Pixar and an early viewing of the movie along with my paycheck!</p><p>AND I got to keep the costume!</p>
GaH Learner<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> </p><p>Just shows you what an expert I am. I wanted to make a poll and thought it would show me who voted for what, but it doesn't. Some polls do, but not the ones here. Now I know. I'll contact you all in the comments and ask for yes or no. </p><p>Why? We would like to make a list on our website for people who agreed to share their expertise. It helps with finding resources or getting the information directly.</p><p>You can opt out or in any time. Just pm one of us SAM-o-teers.</p>
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Ask the expert: if you're a specialist in something, would you answer questions for writers/artists regarding your specialty?</p><p>As an educator at a public university, I devote myself to helping people learn. I have some expertise in science education, science writing, biology, ecology, botany, zoology, geology, technologies (unix, programming, web, maker), languages (English, Esperanto, Spanish, Japanese), Japanese poetry (tanka, haiku, senryu, renga, haibun), manga, anime, etc.</p>
GaH Learner<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> </p><p>You knew it was coming, didn't you? A follow-up poll on expertise.<br>I don't know why some of you wrinkle your nose at people being experts at something, I think it's rather something to be proud of, with or without academic or other kind of title.<br>Anyway, we would like to make a list on our website for people who agreed to share their expertise. </p><p>You can opt out or in any time. Just pm one of us SAM-o-teers.</p><p>Do you agree to be listed on our website with your expertise?</p>
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