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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!
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
Would Americana fall under a favorite culture? I think it's just that I'm comfortable with it because it's what I know and have grown up with, and the comfort makes it easier. I'm admittedly easily distracted when it comes to researching, and considering how nervous it makes me that I'm getting something wrong when I'm writing characters whose lives I recognize a very large part of it, I get profoundly stressed out when I step out of my comfort zone.
It sucks, I know, but I'm taking my baby steps. Heroine Addiction is part of that, of me stepping outside my IRL box.
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
Honestly, I like working with real places and real cities and throwing in the magic or superpowers or whatever. The Books of Boggs is set in Scranton. I could take you to the building I turned into Sean's apartment building and the place where I put the diner he goes to all of the time. The Grand Prize Winner is set in Washington DC, and with a catastrophic event in the past I got to have a lot of fun just trashing the entire city and rebuilding it in a world where magic is real. You know that scene at the end of Deep Impact when President Morgan Freeman is speaking in Washington and you can see the monuments around him that just looked completely trashed because of the giant wave? That's an image that stuck with me when I was first writing GPW.
Heroine Addiction is a departure on that count because I didn't just set the story in a real place by name, although I will say that the small town in it is based on my hometown but it's not actually my hometown.
So, yeah. I like taking a real place and dropping wizards and superheroes and whatever into it.
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
At this point I admire any writer who manages to tough it out and get published, seriously. It's such a long and arduous process even at the best of times, so anybody who has the patience and the mental fortitude to hang on through rejection letters and the editing process and the months and years it can take to sink into some editor's skull has my vote.
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So I've finally gotten to see all four episodes of Work Of Art that have aired so far. I hear it's getting awful reviews but I think this may be my new summer guilty pleasure. Oh, Magical Elves, thank you for boiling these sorts of shows down to what I like best (the artistic and creative things that go on), with a nicely-sized serving of the usual drama. FEED ME CRACK, MAGICAL ELVES. WHEEEEE.
I think Miles may be my favorite. Aside from the fact that his art is really interesting, he's sort of oddly charming, and I really dig that they're featuring his OCD as more of a problem than just "LOL I'M A NEAT FREAK." And I really like that for the book cover challenge, he actually took the time to read the damn book. And then fanboyed over Mary Shelley.
I also like Abdi (his art is right up my alley), Peregrine (SUCH a delightful weirdo), and Nicole (even though I wasn't too interested in her "shocking" art) the best.
Mark seems okay, but Ryan sort of lost me when he threw around the word "tranny." Jamie Lynn seems like a nice person, but I'm not really a big fan of her art and the way she speaks about Christianity sort of bothers me. It could just be the editing, but once an episode she just throws out a comment about being a Christian, and it's like, okay, your religion is very important to you, but hearing someone mention the same damn character trait over and over again gets tiresome.
I hated Nao so I'm glad she's gone, and Judith got on my last nerve. But I'm hoping Jaclyn goes next because her neverending concept of her own nudity as a comment on censorship and feminism or whatever is aggravatingly blunt and obvious all at once. Also, she called one of the most interesting characters ever written "Mr. Darby." And spelled Jane Austen's name wrong. And created a Pride And Prejudice cover featuring her naked hat and a bowler hat. Go home, moron. Go home NOW.
Also, their Tim Gunn is kinda crap. And China Chow creeps me out a little. She's not as stiff as the Kateebot was, but she's definitely not Heidi.
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!
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
Would Americana fall under a favorite culture? I think it's just that I'm comfortable with it because it's what I know and have grown up with, and the comfort makes it easier. I'm admittedly easily distracted when it comes to researching, and considering how nervous it makes me that I'm getting something wrong when I'm writing characters whose lives I recognize a very large part of it, I get profoundly stressed out when I step out of my comfort zone.
It sucks, I know, but I'm taking my baby steps. Heroine Addiction is part of that, of me stepping outside my IRL box.
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
Honestly, I like working with real places and real cities and throwing in the magic or superpowers or whatever. The Books of Boggs is set in Scranton. I could take you to the building I turned into Sean's apartment building and the place where I put the diner he goes to all of the time. The Grand Prize Winner is set in Washington DC, and with a catastrophic event in the past I got to have a lot of fun just trashing the entire city and rebuilding it in a world where magic is real. You know that scene at the end of Deep Impact when President Morgan Freeman is speaking in Washington and you can see the monuments around him that just looked completely trashed because of the giant wave? That's an image that stuck with me when I was first writing GPW.
Heroine Addiction is a departure on that count because I didn't just set the story in a real place by name, although I will say that the small town in it is based on my hometown but it's not actually my hometown.
So, yeah. I like taking a real place and dropping wizards and superheroes and whatever into it.
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
At this point I admire any writer who manages to tough it out and get published, seriously. It's such a long and arduous process even at the best of times, so anybody who has the patience and the mental fortitude to hang on through rejection letters and the editing process and the months and years it can take to sink into some editor's skull has my vote.
*
So I've finally gotten to see all four episodes of Work Of Art that have aired so far. I hear it's getting awful reviews but I think this may be my new summer guilty pleasure. Oh, Magical Elves, thank you for boiling these sorts of shows down to what I like best (the artistic and creative things that go on), with a nicely-sized serving of the usual drama. FEED ME CRACK, MAGICAL ELVES. WHEEEEE.
I think Miles may be my favorite. Aside from the fact that his art is really interesting, he's sort of oddly charming, and I really dig that they're featuring his OCD as more of a problem than just "LOL I'M A NEAT FREAK." And I really like that for the book cover challenge, he actually took the time to read the damn book. And then fanboyed over Mary Shelley.
I also like Abdi (his art is right up my alley), Peregrine (SUCH a delightful weirdo), and Nicole (even though I wasn't too interested in her "shocking" art) the best.
Mark seems okay, but Ryan sort of lost me when he threw around the word "tranny." Jamie Lynn seems like a nice person, but I'm not really a big fan of her art and the way she speaks about Christianity sort of bothers me. It could just be the editing, but once an episode she just throws out a comment about being a Christian, and it's like, okay, your religion is very important to you, but hearing someone mention the same damn character trait over and over again gets tiresome.
I hated Nao so I'm glad she's gone, and Judith got on my last nerve. But I'm hoping Jaclyn goes next because her neverending concept of her own nudity as a comment on censorship and feminism or whatever is aggravatingly blunt and obvious all at once. Also, she called one of the most interesting characters ever written "Mr. Darby." And spelled Jane Austen's name wrong. And created a Pride And Prejudice cover featuring her naked hat and a bowler hat. Go home, moron. Go home NOW.
Also, their Tim Gunn is kinda crap. And China Chow creeps me out a little. She's not as stiff as the Kateebot was, but she's definitely not Heidi.
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Date: 2010-07-03 01:20 pm (UTC)ETA: It should be a requirement to have Tim Gunn on every reality show.
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Date: 2010-07-03 01:31 pm (UTC)It should be a requirement to have Tim Gunn on every show, PERIOD. We may have to clone him, but I have no problem with that. :D
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Date: 2010-07-03 08:07 pm (UTC)