Writing Meme Day 21
Mon, May. 24th, 2010 11:53 pm
Arg I forgot about this entirely yesterday. Blame the footy. The footy was awesome and totally worth skipping this for.
( the questions )
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
About~ five of the Own riders have kids, I think? *checks* Four: Gylepi (son and daughter, duh), Ulkar (twin boys), Inel (...I forget and I can't be bothered getting the book out again) and Melraan (daughter). Of them, I've written Lania, Gylepi's daughter, once for a short fic of about 500 words and that's it. No fault of the kids, I just don't do a lot with the private lives of the Own riders-who-aren't-Nimay-or-Nol.
...Mithé has a child? :D;;; I've written a bit of young Nolryn and the twins before Shit Went Down, that counts, I guess. Writing mini twins is SO much fun. They were bloody adorable.
Yan had three children, but I've never written them as kids. Only ever written them once, and that was more middle-aged, when they were bringing Yan back.
Shizaaqa has four kids, but really only Assili can still be called a child. However, do that in her presence and you'll very swiftly learn that this 12-year-old is no child. I don't think Assili really counts. She's not childlike in the slightest :x Frankly, Her eldest brother, Sahid, is far more of a child than she is, and he's 20, but then if I include Sahid I'd have to extend that to about~ half the Own, too.
I don't have enough real-life contact with small children to feel as confident writing them, so I always feel like I'm going to screw them up, make them seem younger or older than they're supposed to be. Adult characters as children (such as mini-Nol) is fine, because I know exactly who they're going to grow up to be. Much easier to see their past that way.
( the questions )
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
About~ five of the Own riders have kids, I think? *checks* Four: Gylepi (son and daughter, duh), Ulkar (twin boys), Inel (...I forget and I can't be bothered getting the book out again) and Melraan (daughter). Of them, I've written Lania, Gylepi's daughter, once for a short fic of about 500 words and that's it. No fault of the kids, I just don't do a lot with the private lives of the Own riders-who-aren't-Nimay-or-Nol.
...Mithé has a child? :D;;; I've written a bit of young Nolryn and the twins before Shit Went Down, that counts, I guess. Writing mini twins is SO much fun. They were bloody adorable.
Yan had three children, but I've never written them as kids. Only ever written them once, and that was more middle-aged, when they were bringing Yan back.
Shizaaqa has four kids, but really only Assili can still be called a child. However, do that in her presence and you'll very swiftly learn that this 12-year-old is no child. I don't think Assili really counts. She's not childlike in the slightest :x Frankly, Her eldest brother, Sahid, is far more of a child than she is, and he's 20, but then if I include Sahid I'd have to extend that to about~ half the Own, too.
I don't have enough real-life contact with small children to feel as confident writing them, so I always feel like I'm going to screw them up, make them seem younger or older than they're supposed to be. Adult characters as children (such as mini-Nol) is fine, because I know exactly who they're going to grow up to be. Much easier to see their past that way.