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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?
To be honest, I don't keep track. My OCs tend to be organic - I create as many of them as I need for the writing and rarely count them. But if I had to, off the top of my head I have 15 OCs that I've really spent energy on, and 3 that I have thought about lately.
My preference for male/female OCs went through an evolution actually! When I was younger, I loved the Famous Five/Secret Seven setup that I was very careful with the gender mix of my characters. So there would always be about equal numbers of boys and girls where possible, and if I had an odd number there would be one more boy. Then I went to a girls school and my main characters all became female because it was simply the most common interaction around me. Now that I'm working things have evened out again, although I tend towards more females now because I want to see more of them in writing.
Funnily, for fanfic it's been the exact opposite of the evolution. I was mainly in shojo fandoms when I was at my girls school, so the characters I wrote about were males. Then I moved on to ensemble shows, so things have evened out a bit to maybe 55:45 in favour of males, depending on how narrowly I define the focus group of characters.
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!
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
To be honest, I don't keep track. My OCs tend to be organic - I create as many of them as I need for the writing and rarely count them. But if I had to, off the top of my head I have 15 OCs that I've really spent energy on, and 3 that I have thought about lately.
My preference for male/female OCs went through an evolution actually! When I was younger, I loved the Famous Five/Secret Seven setup that I was very careful with the gender mix of my characters. So there would always be about equal numbers of boys and girls where possible, and if I had an odd number there would be one more boy. Then I went to a girls school and my main characters all became female because it was simply the most common interaction around me. Now that I'm working things have evened out again, although I tend towards more females now because I want to see more of them in writing.
Funnily, for fanfic it's been the exact opposite of the evolution. I was mainly in shojo fandoms when I was at my girls school, so the characters I wrote about were males. Then I moved on to ensemble shows, so things have evened out a bit to maybe 55:45 in favour of males, depending on how narrowly I define the focus group of characters.
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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