They don't hear you singing to me~
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!
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?
Ready, willing and able, SIR YES SIR.
Okay, that's...not entirely true. I was raised on comic books, and of my two big fandoms, one involves reincarnation (BSSM) while half the other's cast is dead in some way (Bleach). So it's more, "Can you kill your characters off for good?" To which I say...sorta?
For instance, I had a death planned in Moonchild that seemed both necessary to the plot and terribly crushing at the same time. Would that be the last appearance of the character, though? Probably not; they were a little too influential to pull out of the story narrative completely. When I was writing "Scars," a post-Bleach Bleach 'fic, I went round and round with my betas about which Karakura characters to off. Because they'd be "dead" but not really dead, you know? Not with the freely traveled ways between the two realms (or the freely traveled realms as I was positing them at the time, at least). So it was more about showing that the war had gotten to everyone rather than the emotional impact of killing them off for good.
And while you kill people in BSSM, they always show up again another day. So I don't feel too bad about what's planned for the end of certain 'fics, for instance.
I don't tend to kill characters in interesting ways, though. Have yet to drop a piano on anyone's head, run over anyone with a train, or toss anyone into a volcano, for instance. How characters kill other -characters--that's where it gets interesting. :) And I'll leave that there.
25. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
Heh heh, I grew up with the "magical sidekick" idea firmly in my head, which means that yes, pet-like beasties are hanging around. Often talking. There's the wolf from the Reader stories, though he was less of Nyx's pet and more her companion; there's Q'ar from "The Beast," though she makes a good companion to Artemis and Luna; there's Emi from "Chemistry of the Dark Side"; and many others, I'm sure. Nowadays, people still get pets, though they don't tend to talk so much as be a projection for them to talk at. Or on. Or read looks from. As a cat owner, this would in no way be reflected in the author's real life, nooo, not at all. They do tend to be cats, though not because I have a preference for 'em; it's just that most of them are in apartments, which tend to be better suited to cat ownership.
So Logan has Mús the kitty in Moonchild, and Nym also has her own kitties. Morgan, I suspect, has a pet, too. And the beasties turn up in 'fic, too. My favorite is probably Yoruichi, the cat Ichigo and Rukia rescue in Covert (the spy-type AR). She's Rukia's cat, but lives with Ichigo, and she weaves her way in and out of scenes, always seeming like she knows more than the protagonists do. I don't think we ever settled on whether it was because she had a secret, or because she was just that kind of cat. They do exist! I have seen them in stories.
Oh! And I can't forget Ivan, the pregnant Great Dane. For lo, she is huge and awesome, and Svetka steals her from a whorehouse. But that is another story for another time. :)
I have also owned (well, part owned) dogs, a hamster, and some fish. Possibly one day, I will work one of those into a 'fic, too.