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Hrrrrrrr the 4th of July weekend was really good for me, in terms of RECHARGING! In that I slept a lot (including sleeping in later on Monday than I have in literally years) and did nothing more strenuous than sit around in the cold and wet waiting for fireworks. And grocery shopping; it is possibly a little sad, how much I genuinely enjoy looking at and selecting and buying food. :|a
ON THE OTHER HAND, with Life and the move and everything, I've really sort of fallen behind and given up on the whole writing thing, which is really bad. :[ I believe creativity is as much like a muscle as anything in my physical body, and my personal experience has always loaned itself to that--the more I write, the better I feel about what I've written, and the less likely I am to stare at the screen going "durrrr" with a face like this: :B I tried to write some stuff the other night and it felt so much like pulling teeth: things felt awkward and clunky, and my ambition outstripped my feelings about my ability. I'm debating on whether I should try a different schedule and see if that helps, though in my heart I know any changes I make will not really finalize and take until![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rinkhals moves in. :|a
SO I AM GOING TO JUST KICK MYSELF A LOT, and I am going to steal the 30 Days of Writing Meme fromnayami and hope that actually talking about writing (especially consistently for a month) will guilt me into doing it again. And once I get started, I will keep going, and then I'll hit a point where it's not like wall+head=OTP.
1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
Oh goodness, hm. Proooobably the Ghost Story 'verse, which is a Catfish production, since I have my half of characters/plot to write, andsharky_chan has hers. Versions of the story and its characters have been rattling around in my head since at least early middle school; two characters in particular have survived nearly unchanged since their first inception, while others have gone through some additions, edits, and changes--but at their core, I can look back and see strong remnants of characters I scribbled about when I was first seriously poking around with original fiction.
The other part is that my favorite genre to write in is urban fantasy--actual urban fantasy, where there's underground cities and unseen mystic socities and the supernatural lying cheek-to-cheek with the mundane and everyday. I've loved the idea that creatures that are not quite human slipping through our society and how it dovetails and where it pulls apart for a long time; more than true epic fantasy (which I still enjoy reading!) I want to see a modern-day epic and a whole melting pot of mythologies and folklore and the occasional red herring. And Ghost Story has that--the main character of my main story [which I started as a NaNo in 07 and should go back to and start revising, hrr] is the grandson of a fox who's sort of reluctantly adjusting to how bizarre his family life is, and meeting his grandmother--there's the pair of characters who've made it through my flighty schooling years and are settled comfortably in their own little magic shop. There's even a super-flamboyant and outright gay vampire that is in love with a ghost and enjoys period clothing because he thinks the whole modern-day vampire thing is ~hilarious.~ It's set in a city I know very well (Seattle :B) and has connections to a city my co-creator knows very well (Boston) and spiderwebs inbetween.
IT HITS ALL THE PINGS I HAVE FOR MY OWN CREATIVITY and baww all I want to do is get it finished and share it. I don't even care about professionally publishing it, I just want to have it down in a method I am satisfied with it, and share it with folks. :(
1. Tell us about your favorite 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 favorite 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 favorite character to write? Least favorite?
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 favorite 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. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite 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 favorite 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. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
ON THE OTHER HAND, with Life and the move and everything, I've really sort of fallen behind and given up on the whole writing thing, which is really bad. :[ I believe creativity is as much like a muscle as anything in my physical body, and my personal experience has always loaned itself to that--the more I write, the better I feel about what I've written, and the less likely I am to stare at the screen going "durrrr" with a face like this: :B I tried to write some stuff the other night and it felt so much like pulling teeth: things felt awkward and clunky, and my ambition outstripped my feelings about my ability. I'm debating on whether I should try a different schedule and see if that helps, though in my heart I know any changes I make will not really finalize and take until
rinkhals moves in. :|aSO I AM GOING TO JUST KICK MYSELF A LOT, and I am going to steal the 30 Days of Writing Meme from
nayami and hope that actually talking about writing (especially consistently for a month) will guilt me into doing it again. And once I get started, I will keep going, and then I'll hit a point where it's not like wall+head=OTP.1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
Oh goodness, hm. Proooobably the Ghost Story 'verse, which is a Catfish production, since I have my half of characters/plot to write, and
sharky_chan has hers. Versions of the story and its characters have been rattling around in my head since at least early middle school; two characters in particular have survived nearly unchanged since their first inception, while others have gone through some additions, edits, and changes--but at their core, I can look back and see strong remnants of characters I scribbled about when I was first seriously poking around with original fiction.The other part is that my favorite genre to write in is urban fantasy--actual urban fantasy, where there's underground cities and unseen mystic socities and the supernatural lying cheek-to-cheek with the mundane and everyday. I've loved the idea that creatures that are not quite human slipping through our society and how it dovetails and where it pulls apart for a long time; more than true epic fantasy (which I still enjoy reading!) I want to see a modern-day epic and a whole melting pot of mythologies and folklore and the occasional red herring. And Ghost Story has that--the main character of my main story [which I started as a NaNo in 07 and should go back to and start revising, hrr] is the grandson of a fox who's sort of reluctantly adjusting to how bizarre his family life is, and meeting his grandmother--there's the pair of characters who've made it through my flighty schooling years and are settled comfortably in their own little magic shop. There's even a super-flamboyant and outright gay vampire that is in love with a ghost and enjoys period clothing because he thinks the whole modern-day vampire thing is ~hilarious.~ It's set in a city I know very well (Seattle :B) and has connections to a city my co-creator knows very well (Boston) and spiderwebs inbetween.
IT HITS ALL THE PINGS I HAVE FOR MY OWN CREATIVITY and baww all I want to do is get it finished and share it. I don't even care about professionally publishing it, I just want to have it down in a method I am satisfied with it, and share it with folks. :(
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 favorite 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 favorite character to write? Least favorite?
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 favorite 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. Favorite protagonist and why!
18. Favorite antagonist and why!
19. Favorite 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 favorite 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. Final question! Tag someone! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
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