ANOTHER Writing Meme?!
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1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
I've got two:
a) Nejiverse (circa 2001)
Neji (for those who don't know) is about the antichrist and all the people who are either out to encourage him, stop him, or just generally screw him over in various ways. The twist is Neji doesn't have mystical powers of awesome or a sleeping demon sealed inside him nor is he the illegitimate child of Satan and a firefly or anything - he's the antichrist due to his knack of causing untold collateral damage just by leaning on a lamppost (chain of events effect). He's a bit neurotic due to his environment, and all these extra weird people entering his life doesn't make it any better.
When I first started the idea there was Neji, these two otherworldly agents assigned to make sure he doesn't damage everything, a group of 5 terrorists who want to be #1 by using him, and a crazy childhood oneesan who uses a railgun to fend off evil. The plot parodied everything I could think of, and one of my favourites has the Pope bringing in his secret army to find Neji due to subtitle mistranslation (the Pope just wanted to meet and confirm the existence of an antichrist; the subtitles said he wanted to BUST OUT THE CHOPPAS AND BLOW UP THE ANTICHRIST. PREEMPTIVE STRIKE FTW).
Then Neji's universe expanded and it got sillier.
There's at least 20 characters who've been in and out of the story, the logical reasoning behind the existence of an antichrist, and the world has *already* ended once. The world is large enough that I can add anything at any given time and it'll fit anywhere. Even if I can't think of anything ridiculous for Neji somebody else can take over - currently the terrorists are getting screen time (one minor character has an entire OTHER universe he's connected to). If the Neji series was an anime, people could describe it as "Excel Saga + Zetsubou Sensei + Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt with a hint of Naked Gun" and it wouldn't be enough.
Why do I like it? Each time I think up a full episode, I laugh. A lot. Anything that makes me happy is a good thing.
b) Finneganverse (Circa 2007)
Finnegan is a god ruling a world in a place full of gods where they rule all the worlds in the entire universe who are then ruled by Allegra, THE God. Is Neji's world in there? Yes. Do we see his god? No. Why? There's another series for that. >_>;;
Finnegan is a guy who's gotten the short end of the stick many many times - despite the amount of effort he puts in his work, he's underappreciated and disliked due to questionable origin. Still he perseveres and keeps climbing his way to the top but unlike other protagonists in that situation, he acts the way we might - be mean to them too! At least he's not whining about it! The problem is karma is a bitch, and she enjoys yanking Finnegan around. ^^;
Finnegan's world is for the stuff I can't put into Neji's world - I designed Finnegan to be more of a JRPG game series, so Finnegan's plot mostly involves Finnegan walking through RPG cliches, KNOWING what he's getting into but gets into them anyway because it's easier than listening to ANOTHER 30-minute cutscene for the umpteenth time. 'Sides, he's a god. What can go wrong? If people were to describe Finnegan's story, it'd be like "Bard's Tale and Actraiser/Dark Cloud" or something except that there are serious bits of CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT omg.
When I first thought up the story Allegra was the original protagonist, but ideas ran out really quick and I thought well that's that; Finnegan being bottom-rung has much more development potential and I get to go crazy imagining nifty RPG outfits for him and his merry party, something I enjoy. This could only be better if I could design BUILDINGS. *__*
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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?
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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asliceoflove who ganked from discardtheold 1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
I've got two:
a) Nejiverse (circa 2001)
Neji (for those who don't know) is about the antichrist and all the people who are either out to encourage him, stop him, or just generally screw him over in various ways. The twist is Neji doesn't have mystical powers of awesome or a sleeping demon sealed inside him nor is he the illegitimate child of Satan and a firefly or anything - he's the antichrist due to his knack of causing untold collateral damage just by leaning on a lamppost (chain of events effect). He's a bit neurotic due to his environment, and all these extra weird people entering his life doesn't make it any better.
When I first started the idea there was Neji, these two otherworldly agents assigned to make sure he doesn't damage everything, a group of 5 terrorists who want to be #1 by using him, and a crazy childhood oneesan who uses a railgun to fend off evil. The plot parodied everything I could think of, and one of my favourites has the Pope bringing in his secret army to find Neji due to subtitle mistranslation (the Pope just wanted to meet and confirm the existence of an antichrist; the subtitles said he wanted to BUST OUT THE CHOPPAS AND BLOW UP THE ANTICHRIST. PREEMPTIVE STRIKE FTW).
Then Neji's universe expanded and it got sillier.
There's at least 20 characters who've been in and out of the story, the logical reasoning behind the existence of an antichrist, and the world has *already* ended once. The world is large enough that I can add anything at any given time and it'll fit anywhere. Even if I can't think of anything ridiculous for Neji somebody else can take over - currently the terrorists are getting screen time (one minor character has an entire OTHER universe he's connected to). If the Neji series was an anime, people could describe it as "Excel Saga + Zetsubou Sensei + Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt with a hint of Naked Gun" and it wouldn't be enough.
Why do I like it? Each time I think up a full episode, I laugh. A lot. Anything that makes me happy is a good thing.
b) Finneganverse (Circa 2007)
Finnegan is a god ruling a world in a place full of gods where they rule all the worlds in the entire universe who are then ruled by Allegra, THE God. Is Neji's world in there? Yes. Do we see his god? No. Why? There's another series for that. >_>;;
Finnegan is a guy who's gotten the short end of the stick many many times - despite the amount of effort he puts in his work, he's underappreciated and disliked due to questionable origin. Still he perseveres and keeps climbing his way to the top but unlike other protagonists in that situation, he acts the way we might - be mean to them too! At least he's not whining about it! The problem is karma is a bitch, and she enjoys yanking Finnegan around. ^^;
Finnegan's world is for the stuff I can't put into Neji's world - I designed Finnegan to be more of a JRPG game series, so Finnegan's plot mostly involves Finnegan walking through RPG cliches, KNOWING what he's getting into but gets into them anyway because it's easier than listening to ANOTHER 30-minute cutscene for the umpteenth time. 'Sides, he's a god. What can go wrong? If people were to describe Finnegan's story, it'd be like "Bard's Tale and Actraiser/Dark Cloud" or something except that there are serious bits of CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT omg.
When I first thought up the story Allegra was the original protagonist, but ideas ran out really quick and I thought well that's that; Finnegan being bottom-rung has much more development potential and I get to go crazy imagining nifty RPG outfits for him and his merry party, something I enjoy. This could only be better if I could design BUILDINGS. *__*
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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!
