Writing Meme Day 9

[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.



9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.

Yeah~ I was dreading this one. How should I know? They introduce themselves, I say hi, write about them and get to know them that way. The only bit I have a say in is the black and white of who they are. For example, Nol! Crown prince of Raykin, archer for the King's Own, proposed to Nimay only to be turned down, and something else spoiler-related, but again, that's another fact rather than character. The rest of it I just find out as I'm writing. I don't make them so much as find out who they are, which I do by writing them.

Everyone (or rather, everyone who matters) gets a short story or a drabble/character meme or something written for them before they appear in SH, enough at least that I feel comfortable writing them. This is why I'm on a bit of a Kazinian royals kick recently: Assili and Sahid are due to make their appearances in a few chapters and I want to know them before they rock up. We're getting there. Learning that Assili isn't as much like Shizaaqa as Nol fears, so that's nice. She's still frustrating as all hell to him, tho XD Yay, Kazinian authority <3

I guess the best way of figuring them out is putting them with characters I already know, or in situations that are absolutely typical of them. Then by the time they're pulled roughly out of their comfort zones, I'm not sorta left high and dry.

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