Writing Meme Day 5

[annarti]

1. Tell us about your favourite 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 favourite 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 favourite character to write? Least favourite?
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 favourite 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. Favourite protagonist and why!
18. Favourite antagonist and why!
19. Favourite 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 favourite 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. And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
31. Question day! You ask, I'll answer.



5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?

In the current timeline, Princess Assili's the youngest developed character at age 12. I've written plenty of the twins and Nol from when they were under 10, but I think of them being their current age, not small children. The Own kiddies haven't really been written enough to count, I don't think. They all range between about 3 and 10 years old, from memory.

Oldest... well now we're getting into technicalities. Yan's been around longest, so he's technically ~4100 years old, but he was killed when he was 41 and has been dead since then, so I never really know what to classify him as. ZOMBIE. Oldest living character would be King Mithé at 53. The king and queen of Llayad are in their sixties but haven't been developed yet. Oh god Llayan royalty. I'm going to have to get onto them at some point. Arg.

I just did the whole 'first character' thing a few hours ago so I won't go into those ones, but Yan's the oldest active character in terms of creation date. Twins came about the day after.

Youngest I have NO idea how to work that out. I'll just say the Kazinian princes, Sahid and Shoaib. They've had names, ages and occupations for a good three years, but only just got character and physical designs a month or two ago. They definitely haven't been around three years.

Comments

[shanra.livejournal.com]

So not looking forward to this day... >>

I'd say Yan is your oldest, though. (Who cares he's undead? Time still passes whilst he's walking around.) *snugs*

[annarti.livejournal.com]

It makes a difference when you draw your characters, as well as write them, cos Yan LOOKS a whole lot younger than Mithé. But yeah, in terms of writing, nobody else comes close XD