Original fiction meme - Day 27
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.
Not that much. Sometimes I can go for ten chapters before realizing I've totally forgotten to describe my main character. And such descriptions are often more along the lines of "blond hair, blue eyes, tall, average weight" than really detailed. Unless explicitely stated otherwise, you can consider my characters as "physically average, neither beautiful nor ugly". I think the only feature I tend to put emphasis on is the colour of their eyes. Don't ask me why, but eyes motifs as something recurrent in my texts/worlds.
Oddly enough, I start to really work on an appearance design when I happen to draw my characters. Once I do that, they become more defined to me, and I edit my written descriptions accordingly. This is the point at which specific, defining features worm their way in: dreadlocks, items of clothing, peculiar jewelry, etc. (And there's a couple of specific cases, like Ewan's-I only realized myself that he was sort of officially cute/handsome when I played him in a RPG, found myself with points I didn't know where to put, and ended up throwing them in Charisma and Appearance, just because the other alternative (Manipulation) wasn't his style. No kidding. XD)
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? Every thing 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 world building? 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. Mid way 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 spot light 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 any one 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!
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 some thing IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag some one! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
Not that much. Sometimes I can go for ten chapters before realizing I've totally forgotten to describe my main character. And such descriptions are often more along the lines of "blond hair, blue eyes, tall, average weight" than really detailed. Unless explicitely stated otherwise, you can consider my characters as "physically average, neither beautiful nor ugly". I think the only feature I tend to put emphasis on is the colour of their eyes. Don't ask me why, but eyes motifs as something recurrent in my texts/worlds.
Oddly enough, I start to really work on an appearance design when I happen to draw my characters. Once I do that, they become more defined to me, and I edit my written descriptions accordingly. This is the point at which specific, defining features worm their way in: dreadlocks, items of clothing, peculiar jewelry, etc. (And there's a couple of specific cases, like Ewan's-I only realized myself that he was sort of officially cute/handsome when I played him in a RPG, found myself with points I didn't know where to put, and ended up throwing them in Charisma and Appearance, just because the other alternative (Manipulation) wasn't his style. No kidding. XD)
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? Every thing 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 world building? 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. Mid way 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 spot light 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 any one 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!
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 some thing IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag some one! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!