30 Days of Write: I Missed a Day so...23 & 24
I guess I'm supposed to do one of these a day for thirty days.
I kinda want to answer them all now but we'll see if I can be patient.
This meme is very timely as I have just gotten back into writing. I am writing my Canadian Zombie Movie.
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!
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story-from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
Are we talking full on process from idea, to prep, to completion? I tend to get concepts for my work months or even years before I do them, some are vague images or concepts, some are full on plots. I have even written an entire 50,000 word novel off of nothing more than a title (with some help during the idea stage). I suck at prep and rarely do outlines or things of that nature. I did research for two of my novels plus one unfinished/shelved story idea, but other then that I usually do all my prep in y head. When it comes to actual writing I tend to be a bit quicker. I have written 4 novels in a month (each), I can knock off a short story in as little as a day. Other works fall in between. So far the longest I have taken to write anything is my screenplay, I came up with the concept like 2 years ago, made one false start at it a year or so ago, and have now been working on it for nearly a month with only about 5 pages done.
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?
Heh. This meme has obviously not read my stuff. I would say I have not written a single thing that has not included death. One of my stories, Forever, takes it back and the character survives at the end but he still died and it is still far from a happy ending. In another, Queen, all the deaths are creations of an insane girls mind, but they seem real enough in the story.
As for interesting take your pick:
In Ded Moroz we have a dude frozen solid and then shattered. (Work unfinished).
In War: Vegetables vs. Meat we have a nurse gummed to death by an old man, which isn't mechanically interesting, but I love the idea of a senior citizen zombie, I don't think its something you see a lot in zombie movies.
In Job Security we see an abusive father get stabbed repeatedly by the Boogeyman's fingers.
In The Dark Side of Yoga we see a man get killed when he opens a present full of bees and gets stung to death because his daughter has blocked the door to his house.
In the specials someone gets decapitated by a force field.
And in The Chamber we see a man get eaten in government approved capital punishment by being torn apart by the zombies of his former victims.
I kinda want to answer them all now but we'll see if I can be patient.
This meme is very timely as I have just gotten back into writing. I am writing my Canadian Zombie Movie.
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!
23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story-from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
Are we talking full on process from idea, to prep, to completion? I tend to get concepts for my work months or even years before I do them, some are vague images or concepts, some are full on plots. I have even written an entire 50,000 word novel off of nothing more than a title (with some help during the idea stage). I suck at prep and rarely do outlines or things of that nature. I did research for two of my novels plus one unfinished/shelved story idea, but other then that I usually do all my prep in y head. When it comes to actual writing I tend to be a bit quicker. I have written 4 novels in a month (each), I can knock off a short story in as little as a day. Other works fall in between. So far the longest I have taken to write anything is my screenplay, I came up with the concept like 2 years ago, made one false start at it a year or so ago, and have now been working on it for nearly a month with only about 5 pages done.
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?
Heh. This meme has obviously not read my stuff. I would say I have not written a single thing that has not included death. One of my stories, Forever, takes it back and the character survives at the end but he still died and it is still far from a happy ending. In another, Queen, all the deaths are creations of an insane girls mind, but they seem real enough in the story.
As for interesting take your pick:
In Ded Moroz we have a dude frozen solid and then shattered. (Work unfinished).
In War: Vegetables vs. Meat we have a nurse gummed to death by an old man, which isn't mechanically interesting, but I love the idea of a senior citizen zombie, I don't think its something you see a lot in zombie movies.
In Job Security we see an abusive father get stabbed repeatedly by the Boogeyman's fingers.
In The Dark Side of Yoga we see a man get killed when he opens a present full of bees and gets stung to death because his daughter has blocked the door to his house.
In the specials someone gets decapitated by a force field.
And in The Chamber we see a man get eaten in government approved capital punishment by being torn apart by the zombies of his former victims.