Original fiction meme - Day 7
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
All the time. I seldom do anything without music (which makes learning and revising lessons pretty hard, haha, but that's another story), and writing as well as drawing are no exceptions to this, on the contrary.
Usually I either listen to OSTs, either from movies I liked or from anime (I'm especially inspired by Kajiura Yuki's stuff), or to a defined set of songs that apply to some of my characters. I tend to have 'cycles' of songs/music related to certain of my works. For instance, the Fate/Stay Night OSTs were what took me through my 2007 NaNo (Oraison d'Être). Was is pretty much linked to music from Pendulum (Lyle in particular) and Sonata Arctica (Ewan & Adrian), as well as the Alone in the Dark OST. Our Darker Purpose goes hand in hand with Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts pieces and Yuki's OST for Pandora Hearts.
Often you'll find neither rhyme nor reason to why a specific kind of music goes with this or that work/character. I.e. Sonata Arctica may not have struck anyone as being related to Was (nor was it right in the beginning), but after a while of listening while writing about Ewan among other people, the association just felt 'right'. I have many other examples to illustrate, but I'm not going to go through all of them, for sure.
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?
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? Every thing 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 world building? 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. Mid way 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 him self into the spot light 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 any one 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 some thing IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag some one! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!
All the time. I seldom do anything without music (which makes learning and revising lessons pretty hard, haha, but that's another story), and writing as well as drawing are no exceptions to this, on the contrary.
Usually I either listen to OSTs, either from movies I liked or from anime (I'm especially inspired by Kajiura Yuki's stuff), or to a defined set of songs that apply to some of my characters. I tend to have 'cycles' of songs/music related to certain of my works. For instance, the Fate/Stay Night OSTs were what took me through my 2007 NaNo (Oraison d'Être). Was is pretty much linked to music from Pendulum (Lyle in particular) and Sonata Arctica (Ewan & Adrian), as well as the Alone in the Dark OST. Our Darker Purpose goes hand in hand with Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts pieces and Yuki's OST for Pandora Hearts.
Often you'll find neither rhyme nor reason to why a specific kind of music goes with this or that work/character. I.e. Sonata Arctica may not have struck anyone as being related to Was (nor was it right in the beginning), but after a while of listening while writing about Ewan among other people, the association just felt 'right'. I have many other examples to illustrate, but I'm not going to go through all of them, for sure.
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?
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? Every thing 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 world building? 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. Mid way 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 him self into the spot light 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 any one 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 some thing IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?
30. Final question! Tag some one! And tell us what you like about that person as a writer and/or about one of his/her characters!