Writing Meme Day 27
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 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 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.
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.
If I plan on drawing them at any point, yes, appearance is very important. I have to rein myself in when introducing a new character or dressing someone in a specific uniform/regalia so I don't stop the flow of narrative XD; Hook noses, crows' feet, big ears, knobbly chins and Adam's apples (obviously for the guys only), crooked grins, all SO much fun to draw. Male characters are so much fun to design, especially since I'm generally not one for having pretty-boy characters. The only typically sexy ones are Nol and Kaen. Rumal used to be in his youth, and still has a bit of that left, but he's got the receding hairline and weathered face going now. He's pushing 40, and Raykinians age faster than those who aren't battered by the sun, wind and sand every day of their lives.
I like my characters to have character, basically. Manly mens are much more awesome X3 The girls change to fit their purpose more, I think. Yamin and Nimay have the sharp features of the desert people so that makes them look a little impish, Shizaaqa has her thin, pointed eyebrows and looks ten years younger than she is because she's a pampered empress, Lynnlita has nothing to do with her time but apply make-up look pretty, Flannel Flower looks a bit mannish because she sometimes plays one as a disguise. They're fun to play with body shapes, too, since just about every male character I have is in the Own or the Kazinian army so they all have much the same body type. Girls though, I have tiny ones, tall ones, muscled ones, weedy little things, stylish sexy girls, flat chested girls, and~ so on. Just the one little old lady though, sadly, who I totally forgot to count in my 'oldest characters' question, oops. Auin, head healer of the palace healing house before 'min. No idea how old she was, but she was older than Mithé, certainly.
ALSO. Hands. I love hands a lot. I could go into just about as much detail about a character's hands as I could about their face. Nol's and Nimay's are both loltastic, Nimay's more so being a swordie. Broken fingers healed a bit on the bent side, rough skin with archer's and swordie's calluses respectively, chewn fingernails down to the quick because they get in the way. Nimay's are kinda bony, too, as are Yamin's~ and she chews her nails, too. Thiras, who you've not really met but is a Tsaythi who'll come into things later, has long~ spindly fingers that look like spiders when she's twisting them in the air. Hands play a big role in character design, even though I can never get that all into drawing them, but I can put it in writing when the opportunity arises =3
ALL THAT SAID. If I don't plan on drawing them, the characters get next to nothing. They have their race, maybe a height or a hairstyle, and that's about it.
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 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 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.
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.
If I plan on drawing them at any point, yes, appearance is very important. I have to rein myself in when introducing a new character or dressing someone in a specific uniform/regalia so I don't stop the flow of narrative XD; Hook noses, crows' feet, big ears, knobbly chins and Adam's apples (obviously for the guys only), crooked grins, all SO much fun to draw. Male characters are so much fun to design, especially since I'm generally not one for having pretty-boy characters. The only typically sexy ones are Nol and Kaen. Rumal used to be in his youth, and still has a bit of that left, but he's got the receding hairline and weathered face going now. He's pushing 40, and Raykinians age faster than those who aren't battered by the sun, wind and sand every day of their lives.
I like my characters to have character, basically. Manly mens are much more awesome X3 The girls change to fit their purpose more, I think. Yamin and Nimay have the sharp features of the desert people so that makes them look a little impish, Shizaaqa has her thin, pointed eyebrows and looks ten years younger than she is because she's a pampered empress, Lynnlita has nothing to do with her time but apply make-up look pretty, Flannel Flower looks a bit mannish because she sometimes plays one as a disguise. They're fun to play with body shapes, too, since just about every male character I have is in the Own or the Kazinian army so they all have much the same body type. Girls though, I have tiny ones, tall ones, muscled ones, weedy little things, stylish sexy girls, flat chested girls, and~ so on. Just the one little old lady though, sadly, who I totally forgot to count in my 'oldest characters' question, oops. Auin, head healer of the palace healing house before 'min. No idea how old she was, but she was older than Mithé, certainly.
ALSO. Hands. I love hands a lot. I could go into just about as much detail about a character's hands as I could about their face. Nol's and Nimay's are both loltastic, Nimay's more so being a swordie. Broken fingers healed a bit on the bent side, rough skin with archer's and swordie's calluses respectively, chewn fingernails down to the quick because they get in the way. Nimay's are kinda bony, too, as are Yamin's~ and she chews her nails, too. Thiras, who you've not really met but is a Tsaythi who'll come into things later, has long~ spindly fingers that look like spiders when she's twisting them in the air. Hands play a big role in character design, even though I can never get that all into drawing them, but I can put it in writing when the opportunity arises =3
ALL THAT SAID. If I don't plan on drawing them, the characters get next to nothing. They have their race, maybe a height or a hairstyle, and that's about it.