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#ScribesAndMakers Day 30: Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Stand up and take (another) bow, Mr Weatherhead, who (among many other loathesome deeds) called me a liar when I told him at age nine that I'd read the whole of Lord of the Rings, and mocked me mercilessly when I said I wanted to be an author.
#ScribesAndMakers 5/30: Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
My German teacher in 7th grade, Frau Kelle.
She gave me additional homework - writing little essays - and praised me for every one. She gave me confidence in my words and my ability to tell stories.
It took another 20+ years before I actually wrote my first book, but she laid the foundation.
I wish I could find her, but I fear it's too late now.
#ScribesAndMakers May 30 Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
I took a creative #writing class in college, but the teacher wanted #litfic and I'm a #ScienceFiction & #Fantasy guy. It was mutual disappointment. Only one thing survives from that class: https://secondary.blog/2025/03/24/a-thirty-three-year-old-monologue/
It kept me from seriously pursuing writing for a long time, though.
#ScribesAndMakers May 30
Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
My 5th grade teacher intro'd me to Tolkien as an assigned class reading that year. I've been eternally grateful. In high school, I had a nice creative writing teacher who was always encouraging. Years later, in college, I tended to get good feedback on papers I submitted, but my biggest encouragement came from other students in my creative writing elective.
#ScribesandMakers Day 30: Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
I had several English teachers who encouraged me to continue writing.
The one who encouraged me most was the school librarian, Mr. De Latte. He wrote in my yearbook: "Long may she write, remember my percent, see you in Hollywood."
We had a running joke that he'd be my agent and we'd sell scripts to Hollywood and he'd get a cut of the profit. 
#ScribesAndMakers 30
Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
Most of my grade school teachers were awful and some were outright abusive. For the most part, I taught myself. I hid in the libraries from bullies until teachers caught me in there, and then I'd be locked out of the library which was only supposed to be used during class time with my home room teacher's supervision. Although I was hyperlexic and reading well above my age, my high school English teacher tried to flunk me because he hated me.
I had a couple of supportive elementary school teachers, but for the most part, students and teachers alike didn't enjoy my company. Hoorah for being neurodivergent. #ActuallyAutistic
30 Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
1st needlework teacher would slap your hands with a ruler if you didn't do stuff right. Hated to do it for a long time.
An arts teacher would praise my art in one lesson and condemn it as absolutely horrible the next. Great support. Not.
Another arts teacher, a local celebritiy, sketched assignments for kids who whined himself, they got good grades because he liked their style. 
1/2
#ScribesAndMakers 30 May: Did you have a teacher who either supported or hindered your creative activity?
When I lived in the US, I had a teacher in creative writing who was awesome. I had no idea a teacher could be so supportive of my little writing attempts.
I certainly never had that in Germany. School was very no-nonsense.
#ScribesAndMakers 29/5: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
I finally finished knitting my dad's birthday present! I started making a scarf that ended up needing to be a lot bigger than I initially expected, and it's about a month late, but it's done!
#ScribesAndMakers May 29: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavour this month?
This one comes from this morning. I have a separate bank account where my #KDP deposits go each month, and I also get an email from the bank when there’s been a deposit. I was pleasantly surprised at the deposit I saw today. However, when I go into my KDP dashboard it doesn’t show any sales or page reads for this current month, the previous month, or even the previous 90 days. Hmm 
#ScribesAndMakers May 29: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
I did a little proof-of-concept for a DIY optical mouse. Now the hard work begins. 
Also bashed out a fun little piece of #SFF #FlashFiction. Waiting for @SmallWondersSFF to open up submissions again so I can send it in. 
#ScribesAndMakers May 29: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavour this month?
I'm working on my third book, and this month was the first time I've written over 100k words in one manuscript.
#ScribesAndMakers 29. What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
My best moment this month with photography was the day my partner and I spent at Waimangu Volcanic Valley in New Zealand. We walked 4.5 km to the lake, taking some photos along the way, knowing we had a boat to catch for the lake tour at 11:25. We were the only ones on the boat tour so it ended up being a private tour, which was amazing.
Then we decided to walk back to the parking lot instead of taking a bus back so we could take more photos. It was a glorious day. Here's my favorite photo I took at Waimangu:
#ScribesAndMakers May 29: What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
Overcoming diffidence and impostor syndrome enough to put an original poetry commission into the Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction, and finding bidding rose to the heights that it's the most money a poem of mine has ever sold for. (In the circumstances, I don't even mind that I don't get the money.)
Oh, yeah -- I wrote the poem, and sent it off to the winning bidder, and they loved it.
What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavour this month?
That one day when the words came.
And stayed.
#ScribesAndMakers May 29
What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavour this month?
I guess reaching the end of Book II of my 3 book WIP. I am dragging my feet on these last chapters, but I think I'll get there before the end of the month. This is a book I found daunting to contemplate when I was in the early, note compiling stage. There was a lot to cover & I wasn't sure I'd work out how to do that, but it's coming along.
29 What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
I bored you all enough with my internet problems. No writing. A bit of beta reading.
Line is fixed but our new used router (old one has a kaputt dsl socket) had his wireless module die a day after we set it up. So I connected the old one to it as access point, and to keep them apart to prevent overheating stuck them upright into egg cartons.
That's the sum of my creativity this month.
#ScribesAndMakers May29. What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month?
It was really lovely to see my story, "Do You Love the Colo(u)r Of the Sky," circulating around the internet: https://magazine.trollbreath.com/do-you-love-the-color-of-the-sky/
I also quite liked the Wizards & Spaceships episode I did about my upcoming book, Blight: https://wizardsandspaceships.ca/2025/05/15/season-2-episode-1-blight-ft-rachel-a-rosen/
