Writing Meme Day 31

[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.



31. Question day! You ask, I'll answer.

GO FOR IT o/ Though frankly if you can come up with anything new that the meme hasn't already answered, I'll be impressed.

Comments

[ladylight.livejournal.com]

Easy! Same question I'm always interested in asking people ...

Why do you write?

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Waaaay back at the beginning, with Pokémon fics, I wanted to be one of the cool people on the internets :D Cos there were so many out there that were crap and I found, like, two good ones. The rest were all 'new trainer goes out with faithful Bulbasaur/Pidgey/Pikachu to become a Pokémon MASTAAAAA' things. I wanted to write something better. Oh yeah. I was such a modest 15-year-old.

Now, having branched into the less web-famous realms of original fiction, I write because I can't stop. Everyone in my head is real, and whether they want their stories told or not, I bloody do. To drop them and stop writing about them would feel like abandoning my friends and family all at once. I love them so much~ <3 And through writing them, I get to know them. WHO WOULDN'T? :DD

[shanra.livejournal.com]

Which one member of the Own would ou rather be stuck on a deserted island with and why?

If you were given the choice between unlimited wealth but never writing in Tsyllaes again and poverty but all the chance to write in Tsyllaes your life could require, which would you pick? *cruel, yes*

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Question 1: OH GOD DON'T MAKE ME CHOOOOSE. Let's assume genuinely stuck and not the ulterior motive of 'who'd be best at getting us back to the mainland/not letting us starve' for starters. They'd all be horrible to be stuck with, honestly, because they'd get so stir crazy and want to train. I'd make a crap sparring partner =( Probably Ulkar? He's gotta be the most positive of them all, and since I am, too, he's probably the one I'd get along best with. Also, I want to hug him. He's easily the most huggable of the Own riders.

Question 2: ... a;slkdghaskh;lk. I'm already a pov uni student (for the next week, anyway), does that count? >> I'd take the second option. There's always the chance of getting out of poverty. Money-wise, there's not really a shitload I could DO with unlimited wealth. Get a car and house and there's not much else I could do with it. Travel the world and never use the car or the house, YEAH~. Tsyllaes, though? That's everything for me. I know, money's real and Tsyllaes, however real it seems, is still just in my head, but it's still my everything. I'd be pretty bored without that place.

[shanra.livejournal.com]

*preens* Huggable is a good reason. ^-~

It doesn't, but that's okay. I am a cruel, cruel brat. *snugs* You're allowed to hit me, you know... ^-~

[annarti.livejournal.com]

No~ I couldn't hit the Shanra! *licks* Just be thankful I'll never have to make that decision XD

[drazzi.livejournal.com]

Do you have problems with keeping characters unique? Is it something you have to strive for, or does it come naturally?

[annarti.livejournal.com]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no? Hard one to answer. I just try to keep them real. The Own started out as being caricatures, but so many of them have evolved beyond that, so that their defining trait (paranoid, family, listener, stoic, try-hard, etc) is only a small part of them now. In some ways I regret that, mostly when in SH I need an Own rider to say a line or be part of a conversation, and I realise that half of them could be saying that and there'd be no difference. A lot of them are sort of 'with the public he's ____ but when he's just around his mates he laughs and jokes with them and is just one of the guys' and since the vast majority of the time, they ARE just with their mates, they sort of start to feel the same a bit. But that only happens in SH, where they are genuinely just background characters to fill the entity that is the Own, so they do fill their role there, just... yeah.

I dunno. I rarely never have a clear plan of how I want a character to react in given situations. They often start out with a defining trait, like Sahid, who is a dick, or a defining scene, like Flannel Flower going batshit in her dungeon cell, but the rest of it is up to them. So I guess it comes naturally? In that fantastically organic way of 'don't ask me, I just write the stuff' :D