30 Days of Writing and ART challenge
tenebris did this really cool meme - 30 days of writing that I've been checking out. I thought it might be fun if I did it too!
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!
And to kick off the meme proper, here's question 1:
Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
To be honest, I haven't played in a particular verse long enough as I usually prefer one-shots, and the only one I've constantly revisited isn't even mine, it's
tenebris' Covert verse. But if I had to choose one verse out of all the backstories/worldbuilding that I've dreamed up of for my one-shots, it's the Three-Quarters of a Dark Moon verse. The idea of a voluntary Ichigo-Hollow Ichigo partnership tickled me ever since I wrote this 31_days drabble a few years ago, and spinning it out (in an IchiRuki way) into Three-Quarters, and then Tube of Love was fun.
But that's also why I want to get Lunar Eclipse - where Hollow Ichigo challenges Rukia on who has the right to be Ichigo's partner! - written, because I want to draw the two ideas together. I guess it's the potential of this verse that keeps me coming back, because canon!Ichigo is so adament that all his Hollow wants to do is eat him that a non-antagonistic relationship between them is nigh possible. But isn't the what-ifs what fic is for?
I do have a couple of original fic ideas - right now the one with an immortal and a reincarnating better half is the one dominating my brain, but I haven't written a single word of it. It's a fun story to spec when I want to do something easy though.
And now to put the above into practice!
tenebris, hallowd and I did a challenge called the TAR challenge earlier this year, in which we set daily word counts and tried to meet them. We had so much fun encouraging each other to meet those daily word counts that we decided to do it again! Only this time, we're calling it the ART challenge - still the same old initials, but only in a nicer order =)
For the TAR challenge, I set 100 words a day, which I met easily. So this time round for the ART challenge I'll be making an attempt to write 200 words a day. Admittedly I'm a little busier this time, but I don't think it would be much of a problem. I'll report in weekly, probably Saturdays, so you know which fic the 200 daily words are going to.
Right! See you tomorrow with the 200 words and another quesiton of the writing meme then!