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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!
Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
Oh, God, yes. I quite like writing romance of all stripes. I haven't written poly yet, but I've written straight, gay, lesbian, a bit of an open marriage, you name it. The thing with never having been in a genuinely serious relationship and being a virgin, and then writing sex and romance is that eventually you just sort of get over your unease about writing something you've never done before, because, hey, you're writing a lot of things you've never done before.
But, yeah, I don't mind going far, depending on the couple. That said, I do like to focus more on the action itself than on the, you know, action just because I've recently been all about writing (or attempting to write) stories with kick-ass women in the lead, and one of my least favorite things about reading other people's stories with kick-ass women in the lead is the bit where they're pursued by two or more incredibly hot guys and OH NOES HOWEVER WILL I CHOOSE?!
Heroine Addiction is kinda the epitome of that, in that the book (and any sequels, of which I've already started plotting out the first) will probably focus mostly on the case or adventure or whatever, and the romances for Vera will be there ... just not, you know, THERE. And the entire focus being on the romance won't happen for very long if it does happen because, seriously, when you have to rescue the city or escape a villain's trap or fight a bad guy, stopping to have an argument with your ex-girlfriend just bugs me. It can wait until AFTER the world's been saved, as far as I'm concerned.
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A few other things:
-- I threw down an idea for what could possibly end up a YA novel about a gay teenager. We'll see. Considering what trouble I've had lately getting anything started, this might be as dead in the water as the rest of my ideas.
-- I didn't get any editing done yesterday, as I am a lazy assbutt.
-- Happy Fourth of July! Or, if you're me, Happy Free Vacation Day In Which I Can Hopefully Avoid Too Many Flag-Waving Orgasmically-Nationalist Douchebags! (That won't work. I have to go to Wegmans in two and a half hours for orientation stuff so I'm bound to see someone being an all-American asshole. Uh, did I ever mention I'm not a big fan of the Fourth of July? Do I really have to celebrate? Can't I have just have a second Halloween instead every year?)
-- I just wanted to apologize if I'm not being all that entertaining lately. After all of the overtime I've done in the past couple of weeks and how tired I've been when I get home and how hard I've been trying to write only to fail miserably since I started the overtime ... yeah, I'm not really much for entertaining at the moment.
-- Oh, did I mention that I'm planning to hit DC on Labor Day weekend? "Planning" being the operative word, as I may not be able to get the extra vacation days for that weekend that I'd like considering how soon it is, so I may have to go the weekend after. But since I'll be starting at Wegmans shortly and there should be more overtime to be had at my full-time job, I should be able to afford to use my first paycheck in September to take a road trip down to the city for the weekend. And my brother's planning on coming with -- the only thing he asked was that we stop at the National Aquarium on the way down, which I am more than happy to do. Yay, road trip! FINALLY. I need a vacation so badly, you have NO idea.
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!
Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how “far” are you willing to go in your writing? ;)
Oh, God, yes. I quite like writing romance of all stripes. I haven't written poly yet, but I've written straight, gay, lesbian, a bit of an open marriage, you name it. The thing with never having been in a genuinely serious relationship and being a virgin, and then writing sex and romance is that eventually you just sort of get over your unease about writing something you've never done before, because, hey, you're writing a lot of things you've never done before.
But, yeah, I don't mind going far, depending on the couple. That said, I do like to focus more on the action itself than on the, you know, action just because I've recently been all about writing (or attempting to write) stories with kick-ass women in the lead, and one of my least favorite things about reading other people's stories with kick-ass women in the lead is the bit where they're pursued by two or more incredibly hot guys and OH NOES HOWEVER WILL I CHOOSE?!
Heroine Addiction is kinda the epitome of that, in that the book (and any sequels, of which I've already started plotting out the first) will probably focus mostly on the case or adventure or whatever, and the romances for Vera will be there ... just not, you know, THERE. And the entire focus being on the romance won't happen for very long if it does happen because, seriously, when you have to rescue the city or escape a villain's trap or fight a bad guy, stopping to have an argument with your ex-girlfriend just bugs me. It can wait until AFTER the world's been saved, as far as I'm concerned.
*
A few other things:
-- I threw down an idea for what could possibly end up a YA novel about a gay teenager. We'll see. Considering what trouble I've had lately getting anything started, this might be as dead in the water as the rest of my ideas.
-- I didn't get any editing done yesterday, as I am a lazy assbutt.
-- Happy Fourth of July! Or, if you're me, Happy Free Vacation Day In Which I Can Hopefully Avoid Too Many Flag-Waving Orgasmically-Nationalist Douchebags! (That won't work. I have to go to Wegmans in two and a half hours for orientation stuff so I'm bound to see someone being an all-American asshole. Uh, did I ever mention I'm not a big fan of the Fourth of July? Do I really have to celebrate? Can't I have just have a second Halloween instead every year?)
-- I just wanted to apologize if I'm not being all that entertaining lately. After all of the overtime I've done in the past couple of weeks and how tired I've been when I get home and how hard I've been trying to write only to fail miserably since I started the overtime ... yeah, I'm not really much for entertaining at the moment.
-- Oh, did I mention that I'm planning to hit DC on Labor Day weekend? "Planning" being the operative word, as I may not be able to get the extra vacation days for that weekend that I'd like considering how soon it is, so I may have to go the weekend after. But since I'll be starting at Wegmans shortly and there should be more overtime to be had at my full-time job, I should be able to afford to use my first paycheck in September to take a road trip down to the city for the weekend. And my brother's planning on coming with -- the only thing he asked was that we stop at the National Aquarium on the way down, which I am more than happy to do. Yay, road trip! FINALLY. I need a vacation so badly, you have NO idea.
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Date: 2010-07-04 06:55 pm (UTC)Also it sucks that you've gotta deal with the douchebag types that come out on the 4th. The only type I've had to deal with are the ones that set off so many %$#$%#$%# fireworks around the neighborhood that it sounds/you feel like you're in the middle of a war zone. *eyeroll*
Of course, the reason I've not encountered too many is because for the last couple years I've put on my own party so I can kick anyone out if they start acting that way. :D
But yeah I so get the whole wanting to avoid annoying ignorant "America is perfect! :DDD You must find no faults in it evar or you're UNPATRIOTICONOES!!" type people. Cause...they suck. And miss the point. *nods*