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apocalypsos1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
Um, lots? All of the novels that I've either finished or am still working on are sort of big ensemble numbers, and I try to get in some of everybody -- male, female, old, young, different races, religions, sexualities -- because the world isn't the Hot Young Straight Middle-Class Christian White People Parade and that's what makes it awesome.
When it comes to lead characters, I can go either way. I like writing guys in the lead just because I've always been a bit of a tomboy and grew up more comfortable hanging out with guys and find it really easy to write guys. And I like writing women in the lead because I'm one and it's fun to write (and read) an amazing female character and I love trying to deviate from the Hot Young Straight Middle-Class Christian White People Parade when it comes to my female characters.
That said, writing Barren is going to be a bit of a challenge for me, because one of my favorite things to write is guy-girl best friend relationships that would never go the sexual route (although, hi, I'm in fandom, I imagine if I ever do get published there will be Sean/Naomi and Davis/Candice and Vera/Gareth fics ahoy and the Flying Spaghetti Monster bless every damn one of 'em) and while I can certainly write women being friends and allies this is going to be an interesting change of pace for me.
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I did want to say before I went on with this meme that I debated including fanfic with my answers for this meme before I decided against it. The thing is, my fanfic is currently the only writing that everybody is reading of mine, save for the poor beleaguered agent-shaped person who gets to slog through my original stuff. No one else is really getting a chance to read any of it, or at least not a lot of it. I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my novels, and I get painfully worried about letting other people see my stuff until it's just right.
The plus side of that is that I'm not putting something out there that's not as good as it's going to get. The downside is that there's a decided lack of people I can talk to about what I'm writing specifically. I can talk about Sean and Davis and Vera and Johnnie and Ruby and Mary and a dozen other different characters I've currently got on my plate in some form or another all I want, and it still isn't going to change the fact that because I'm a bit touchy about letting anybody else see my stories and turn into OMG SPOILERS!!! Lady when I'm talking about my own damn stuff, I can't imagine it's all that intriguing to listen to. If I start venting or blabbering on about characters only the agent-shaped person and I know really well, it's really just me blowing off steam at this point.
But that doesn't stop me from needing to blow off steam occasionally, so ... yeah. Meme! :)
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
17. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
24. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!
27. Along similar lines, do appearances play a big role in your stories? Tell us about them, or if not, how you go about designing your characters.
28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.
29. How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
Um, lots? All of the novels that I've either finished or am still working on are sort of big ensemble numbers, and I try to get in some of everybody -- male, female, old, young, different races, religions, sexualities -- because the world isn't the Hot Young Straight Middle-Class Christian White People Parade and that's what makes it awesome.
When it comes to lead characters, I can go either way. I like writing guys in the lead just because I've always been a bit of a tomboy and grew up more comfortable hanging out with guys and find it really easy to write guys. And I like writing women in the lead because I'm one and it's fun to write (and read) an amazing female character and I love trying to deviate from the Hot Young Straight Middle-Class Christian White People Parade when it comes to my female characters.
That said, writing Barren is going to be a bit of a challenge for me, because one of my favorite things to write is guy-girl best friend relationships that would never go the sexual route (although, hi, I'm in fandom, I imagine if I ever do get published there will be Sean/Naomi and Davis/Candice and Vera/Gareth fics ahoy and the Flying Spaghetti Monster bless every damn one of 'em) and while I can certainly write women being friends and allies this is going to be an interesting change of pace for me.
*
I did want to say before I went on with this meme that I debated including fanfic with my answers for this meme before I decided against it. The thing is, my fanfic is currently the only writing that everybody is reading of mine, save for the poor beleaguered agent-shaped person who gets to slog through my original stuff. No one else is really getting a chance to read any of it, or at least not a lot of it. I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my novels, and I get painfully worried about letting other people see my stuff until it's just right.
The plus side of that is that I'm not putting something out there that's not as good as it's going to get. The downside is that there's a decided lack of people I can talk to about what I'm writing specifically. I can talk about Sean and Davis and Vera and Johnnie and Ruby and Mary and a dozen other different characters I've currently got on my plate in some form or another all I want, and it still isn't going to change the fact that because I'm a bit touchy about letting anybody else see my stories and turn into OMG SPOILERS!!! Lady when I'm talking about my own damn stuff, I can't imagine it's all that intriguing to listen to. If I start venting or blabbering on about characters only the agent-shaped person and I know really well, it's really just me blowing off steam at this point.
But that doesn't stop me from needing to blow off steam occasionally, so ... yeah. Meme! :)
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Date: 2010-06-20 01:24 pm (UTC)I've been wanting to read your original works for quite some time and if there's anyone I know from the fanfic world who deserves to hit it big as a mainsteam-ish author, it's you.
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Date: 2010-06-20 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-20 04:21 pm (UTC):-)
And I so need to do this meme!