Two days of combined effort for sschan and me.

Holy crap, it's actually happening!



3801 / 50000 words. 8% done!

November is right around the corner now, which means NaNoWriMo will be upon us shortly... My very first since graduating college. I think we're gonna attempt it this year. We're not expecting to finish it, but if NaNo can re-spark the writing but that got us working on Omerta in the first place, then that will be worth it, right? :)

http://fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment.tumblr.com/post/27634683040/how-to-write-the-bad-guy

That moment where you realize that Vlad might actually be one of Omerta's antagonists...

Last night, I decided to do the unthinkable. I decided that I am going to change the LaCroix last name ( Read more... )

I miss my creativity. I miss Vlad and Silas and Evey and Lev, I miss Revere and Crouxes and the Ancient Dieties... I miss being able to craft universes with my words. I have been writing scientifically for so long that my ability to write beautiful descriptions has gone. I just don't have time anymore ( Read more... )

I figure now would be a good time to introduce the new dolls in the collection, since I never gave two of them who've been with me for three months proper introductions and, because of my buying an old character back and Emma not being able to wait until my birthday to give me my presents, my doll family doubled in size.

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Posting them for the rest of the weekend so I don't feel the need to steal my parent's computer every day. :)

9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.Usually they're created from a certain idea or concept. Huyun, Niyil, and Nayarang all evolved from yin yang. Almost their initial creation involves their ( Read more... )

5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?By age, Dominick is the youngest, as he is born during the events of Code of Silence and is about 2 1/2 months old at the wrap of the story. The oldest, not counting gods, are Hahshki, who's several thousand years old, Crouxes, who ( Read more... )

3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?Depends on the story. For stories that would theoretically take place in our universe, I usually decide upon ancestry, look at period names, then mix and match until I get a combination I like. Evelyn Coombs, Lev-Vasily Rivkin, and Kael ( Read more... )

2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?

Way, way, WAY too many. Following 13066301’s example, here’s a list of ONLY characters who have some plotline relevance to the stories I’ve worked on semi-recently. This is in no way, shape, or form a complete list ( Read more... )