Writing Meme Day 7

[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.



7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?

Yep, I have my writing playlist, which is roughly nine hours of instrumental stuff, featuring Armik (classical Spanish guitar), Fourplay (smooth jazz) and soundtracks from Gladiator, Chocolat, Noir, Memoirs of a Geisha and GuildWars. Chocolat and Memoirs of a Geisha are my favourites, but really anything without lyrics will do. Very, very occasionally, I'll take silence, but that's really only when I'm writing a character death, or emotion close to it.

As for character associations, I'm not really very good at finding those links. The Own and the healers had their individual characters based roughly on the lyrics of a particular song, but a lot of them have since evolved. Here, I'll give you the connections that came after the characters were made:

Touch, Peel and Stand by Days of the New = Kaen. It just bloody is. First time I've ever snapped halfway through a song and gone OMG THAT'S ___. 'Now I've finally found the reason, I don't need an excuse. I've got this time on my hands; you are the one to abuse.' Yep. Dickhead.

Ritualist's Theme from the GuildWars soundtrack = Kazin. Nobody in particular, but the whole gamelans thing, very Kazin.

Soar Free by Afro Celt Sound System = the Own. Just all of them riding home through the desert. Do love.

You Won't be Mine by Matchbox 20. Used to be for Nol way back when that's what defined him. It now works for about a month out of his 23 years. Eh, it's still a gorgeous song <3

And thus concludes! Told you I wasn't good at character associations with songs.

Comments

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

I forgot how much I like that song. 'Touch, Peel and Stand' fyi. We recently remembered how awesome 'You Won't be Mine' is.

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Touch, Peel and Stand is awesome <3 I love the guitars~ so so much, even if I accidentally left off the L the first time I typed that name there >>