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30 Days of Writing - Day 2
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.
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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.
( Days 3 to 30 )