Writing Meme Day 21
Arg I forgot about this entirely yesterday. Blame the footy. The footy was awesome and totally worth skipping this for.
1. Tell us about your favourite 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 favourite 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 favourite character to write? Least favourite?
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 favourite 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. Favourite protagonist and why!
18. Favourite antagonist and why!
19. Favourite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favourite 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 favourite 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. And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
31. Question day! You ask, I'll answer.
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
About~ five of the Own riders have kids, I think? *checks* Four: Gylepi (son and daughter, duh), Ulkar (twin boys), Inel (...I forget and I can't be bothered getting the book out again) and Melraan (daughter). Of them, I've written Lania, Gylepi's daughter, once for a short fic of about 500 words and that's it. No fault of the kids, I just don't do a lot with the private lives of the Own riders-who-aren't-Nimay-or-Nol.
...Mithé has a child? :D;;; I've written a bit of young Nolryn and the twins before Shit Went Down, that counts, I guess. Writing mini twins is SO much fun. They were bloody adorable.
Yan had three children, but I've never written them as kids. Only ever written them once, and that was more middle-aged, when they were bringing Yan back.
Shizaaqa has four kids, but really only Assili can still be called a child. However, do that in her presence and you'll very swiftly learn that this 12-year-old is no child. I don't think Assili really counts. She's not childlike in the slightest :x Frankly, Her eldest brother, Sahid, is far more of a child than she is, and he's 20, but then if I include Sahid I'd have to extend that to about~ half the Own, too.
I don't have enough real-life contact with small children to feel as confident writing them, so I always feel like I'm going to screw them up, make them seem younger or older than they're supposed to be. Adult characters as children (such as mini-Nol) is fine, because I know exactly who they're going to grow up to be. Much easier to see their past that way.
1. Tell us about your favourite 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 favourite 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 favourite character to write? Least favourite?
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 favourite 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. Favourite protagonist and why!
18. Favourite antagonist and why!
19. Favourite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
20. What are your favourite 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 favourite 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. And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
31. Question day! You ask, I'll answer.
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
About~ five of the Own riders have kids, I think? *checks* Four: Gylepi (son and daughter, duh), Ulkar (twin boys), Inel (...I forget and I can't be bothered getting the book out again) and Melraan (daughter). Of them, I've written Lania, Gylepi's daughter, once for a short fic of about 500 words and that's it. No fault of the kids, I just don't do a lot with the private lives of the Own riders-who-aren't-Nimay-or-Nol.
...Mithé has a child? :D;;; I've written a bit of young Nolryn and the twins before Shit Went Down, that counts, I guess. Writing mini twins is SO much fun. They were bloody adorable.
Yan had three children, but I've never written them as kids. Only ever written them once, and that was more middle-aged, when they were bringing Yan back.
Shizaaqa has four kids, but really only Assili can still be called a child. However, do that in her presence and you'll very swiftly learn that this 12-year-old is no child. I don't think Assili really counts. She's not childlike in the slightest :x Frankly, Her eldest brother, Sahid, is far more of a child than she is, and he's 20, but then if I include Sahid I'd have to extend that to about~ half the Own, too.
I don't have enough real-life contact with small children to feel as confident writing them, so I always feel like I'm going to screw them up, make them seem younger or older than they're supposed to be. Adult characters as children (such as mini-Nol) is fine, because I know exactly who they're going to grow up to be. Much easier to see their past that way.