The downside is ...
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apocalypsos... I still haven't gotten a call back from Wegman's since I turned in my background check paperwork last week.
But the upside is that work has been offering overtime everyday all week long. It's going to be a week of twelve-hour days and if they offer any next week I'll be all over that, too.
But the downside to that is that I've had absolutely zero time or energy to do any writing whatsoever since Monday, which sort of sucks since just like any other time when I've been working my butt off on overtime or extra jobs or whatever, my muse is banging at the door to my brain saying, "Let me OUT, I've got stuff I need you write!" Stupid muse. If she likes me so damn much, the least she could do is go clean my apartment so I don't have to.
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1. 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!
Since I missed yesterday, I'm doing two.
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
Oh, God. Okay, so I've wanted to be a writer since about junior year of high school but most of those stories were these cheesy one-page things that needed a lot of work. (So of course my high school creative writing course focused on poetry, which I hate to write. Anyway.) But then in college I started this novel. (Or maybe it was before I graduated. Whatever.) I don't currently have a copy of it, which is probably a good thing because it was terrible. It was this futuristic Mad Max-ish post-apocalyptic pile of crap. There were four million characters, of which approximately 3,999,995 characters didn't have to be there because they contributed nothing to the plot, which is saying a lot since there really was nothing at all resembling a plot. Oh, and all of the dialogue was unrealistic and the romantic relationships had less chemistry than a creationist's dream school. Did I mention it was bad?
And then I finished it, and didn't let anybody else read it, and didn't really do any editing, and then I used it to learn what all of those things in Writer's Digest mean by sending my unedited first-time unsolicited lacking-an-agent manuscript to any publishing house which sat still long enough.
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
Well, to be fair I do get a chance to explore my characters at different times in their lives, but in terms of characters and the ages they generally are during the majority of the story, the oldest and youngest both come out of the Books of Boggs, since Toby has sort of always existed in some form or another (it's ... complicated) and then there's Ashley, who's two. And I suppose Scarlett also counts as a two-year-old, even though she's much older than that. In the grand scheme of things she's still a baby. An enormous muscular baby with metal teeth and a pink mohawk. Aw. :)
I will admit that I do sort of have a thing for throwing in a small adorable child with pretty much every story I write, though. I like making my characters interact with kids. It's a terrible affliction I've got, seriously.
Oh, and in terms of who is my oldest character that I still work with, it'd have to be Sean. He's been around forever. ;)
But the upside is that work has been offering overtime everyday all week long. It's going to be a week of twelve-hour days and if they offer any next week I'll be all over that, too.
But the downside to that is that I've had absolutely zero time or energy to do any writing whatsoever since Monday, which sort of sucks since just like any other time when I've been working my butt off on overtime or extra jobs or whatever, my muse is banging at the door to my brain saying, "Let me OUT, I've got stuff I need you write!" Stupid muse. If she likes me so damn much, the least she could do is go clean my apartment so I don't have to.
*
1. 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!
Since I missed yesterday, I'm doing two.
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
Oh, God. Okay, so I've wanted to be a writer since about junior year of high school but most of those stories were these cheesy one-page things that needed a lot of work. (So of course my high school creative writing course focused on poetry, which I hate to write. Anyway.) But then in college I started this novel. (Or maybe it was before I graduated. Whatever.) I don't currently have a copy of it, which is probably a good thing because it was terrible. It was this futuristic Mad Max-ish post-apocalyptic pile of crap. There were four million characters, of which approximately 3,999,995 characters didn't have to be there because they contributed nothing to the plot, which is saying a lot since there really was nothing at all resembling a plot. Oh, and all of the dialogue was unrealistic and the romantic relationships had less chemistry than a creationist's dream school. Did I mention it was bad?
And then I finished it, and didn't let anybody else read it, and didn't really do any editing, and then I used it to learn what all of those things in Writer's Digest mean by sending my unedited first-time unsolicited lacking-an-agent manuscript to any publishing house which sat still long enough.
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
Well, to be fair I do get a chance to explore my characters at different times in their lives, but in terms of characters and the ages they generally are during the majority of the story, the oldest and youngest both come out of the Books of Boggs, since Toby has sort of always existed in some form or another (it's ... complicated) and then there's Ashley, who's two. And I suppose Scarlett also counts as a two-year-old, even though she's much older than that. In the grand scheme of things she's still a baby. An enormous muscular baby with metal teeth and a pink mohawk. Aw. :)
I will admit that I do sort of have a thing for throwing in a small adorable child with pretty much every story I write, though. I like making my characters interact with kids. It's a terrible affliction I've got, seriously.
Oh, and in terms of who is my oldest character that I still work with, it'd have to be Sean. He's been around forever. ;)
