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Some questions for writers!
Reblog with your answers! I want to get more communication going in the writing community here. Answer one, answer some! Answer whatever you want to!
1. What was the first character you ever created? No matter how embarrassing.
2. Is there a specific thing that made you want to start writing more?
3. Favorite character you’ve ever created?
4. Do your stories tend to have only a few characters or a lot?
5. Do you sit down and plan out your worlds or just let them build themselves as you write?
6. Do you ever meet people and want to write about them?
7. What kind of environment do you do most of your writing in? Music or no music? Loud or quiet? In private or wherever?
8. Do the people in your life ever read what you write, or do you tend to not show them?
9. What inspires you?
10. What’s the weirdest character you’ve ever created?
11. What’s the most boring character you’ve ever created?
12. Do you name your background characters? Do you even have them?
13. Are you one of the writers who writes in symbolism and specifically thinks about things like the color of a hat or that kind of thing? Or do you just pick those things at random?
14. Are there any authors you feel have influenced your style? Published authors, fanfic authors, ect.
15. Were you a story teller before you could write?
16. How many characters have you created?
17. Do your stories tend to take place in the real world or in a fantasy world? Both? Neither?
18. Do you tend to set your stories in the present or the past or the future? Do you think about when it’s set or does that not factor into the story?
19. What kind of things do you like to write? Poetry? Short stories? Novels? Fanfiction? Children’s Books? Nonfiction? Something else entirely?
20. Do you like to do events like NaNoWriMo or the Three Day Novel, or do you prefer to do things at your own pace?
I’m distracted enough by this to answer them all, so for your entertainment…
1) My first character was Shayde, but she didn’t have a name and a past for a few years after I first doodled her.
2) It was a combination of things. First - Paramount decided to stop making DS9, and second - people kept telling me I should write books for a living. It still took me years of procrastination before I wrote my first novel.
3) Don’t make me choose from my babies.
4) I generally start out with simple ideas, but before I know it there’s 50 characters and it’s all got out of hand.
5) I mess with scenarios when I’m doing other things. By the time I sit to write, it just… flows.
6) Haha no, that would get me sued. What I do is nick aspects and build new people out of that. Frankenstein style.
7) I like to have background noise, usually music, but I can write and have written whilst binge-watching television.
8) I make my nearest and dearest Beta-read for me BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Beloved _used_ to read my fanfic, but those days are long over.
9) All sorts of different things. The media I take in, the odd shitpost on Tumblr, and of course, some things that piss me off.
10) That would have to be Shayde. Magical girl taken by “gods” and transformed into a Shadow Elemental before she was catapulted through loads of dimensions to fix things for the “gods”. Then she’s betrayed and returned to the right location (technically) but the wrong time.
11) If they were boring, I wouldn’t write them.
12) I have background characters, but they have a knack of becoming foreground characters soon after that. And that’s when they get names.
13) I don’t think about symbolism unless it’s fucking blatant.
14) Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU), Lois McMaster Bujold, Douglas Adams, and the Goons.
15) Oh yes. I would babble strange tales to myself as a kid. All goddamn day.
16) I have honestly lost count. Shit-tons.
17) I’m definitely fantasy. Reality is both too dull and too abundant to write about.
18) I am all over the fucking map. I generally choose my genre and setting before I start writing, though.
19) I love to write stories of all lengths, but I try to stick to novels. Science fiction and fantasy for the most part. What I write next is up to whichever good idea is the shiniest.
20) NaNoWriMo is a good idea in theory, but the practice is a little beyond me. I can manage 3K words a week without suffering (loose ligaments plus rheumatism is a pain in the anatomy. Literally) and that’s what I stick to. And I can spend a little time on side-projects for my own entertainment.
