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12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
Definiteily Dragonverse. There aren't many landmarks, a few kingdoms that grew into empires and then nations, a broken empire, deserted kingdoms, yeah the maps are terribly hazy, but I like the races in it and how they interact with each other. While there are 5 species of dragons not all of them have the same motivations and interactions and the deities looking over the world have their own mythos. It's a pretty brutal world that's marked by different figureheads throughout history, such as one who began the dubious act of making pacts with their malicious amoral gods, one who brought airships to the fore and one who created necromancers.
My particular favourite is a rather brief description about Green Dragons (or rather the Green Dragons in that particular region) where they consider anybody who ventures out of their home ground a heretic and they don't even accept their remains if they die outside, and any dragonling born disabled is interpreted as paying for the sin of the heretic so they have prayer rituals to apologize to the gods for not obeying them. Then they feel really guilty for that dragonling and it gets raised by the whole village instead. Outsiders don't even get to step foot in the village and sleep outside instead. There's kings and their empires and...stuff. Yeah. I don't know what other notes I can share on that unless you ask me questions about it. >_>
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
Sometimes I think our culture is rather cool because there's so many things to make fun of. Then there's Victorian culture because everyone loves coats and floofy skirts. There's the other floofy skirt culture but those have men in powdered wigs so you can't play much with the male designs.
...Let's just stick to saying I like writing about any culture with floofy skirts, yeah?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
1. Draw squiggly boxes
2. Close eyes, randomly hit spots. Where pencil hits, it is now a place.
3. ????
4. PROFIT!
I have only one map, it's not drawn by me, and the story has changed so much it needs a tectonic plate shift. So no, you're not seeing it.
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
A long time ago when there were no such thing as internet memes and everyone loved Gensoumaden Saiyuki,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_sb wrote the best sexy fanfiction. By sexy I meant she would write about Gojyo & Sanzo desecrating a pool table and it was the HOTTEST YAOI EVER. I remember when she admitted she wrote that fic and flat_foot and I went NO WAYYYY DDDDD8 She still writes sexy fanfiction mind you, we just don't share the same fandoms anymore. I do admire her writing if only because she can do the one thing I can't write well AT ALL.
There was also this girl I knew waaaay back in 1998 who was the only other Malaysian sailormoon fan on alt.fan.sailor-moon and she was a pretty awesome writer too. She introduced me to parody-writing way back then and I haven't found someone who writes "14 X Characters In A Van With Fuuma Driving" as fantastically as her. This was stuff from TEN YEARS AGO and I'm still laughing - I can only imagine if she was still writing she'd be AMAZING. Jo-chan, where are youuuuu ><
I have no professional writers I really admire - Murakami is too impulsive, Amy Tan writes the same story 500 times, I never want Tolkien as my history teacher, Pratchett gets draggy, Anne Rice got preachy, Gaiman is overrated....and I only read two Adrian Mole books, so I don't know if Susan Townsend is credible enough to admire. I do recommend everyone go out and read the first 2 Adrian Mole books though!
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!
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
Definiteily Dragonverse. There aren't many landmarks, a few kingdoms that grew into empires and then nations, a broken empire, deserted kingdoms, yeah the maps are terribly hazy, but I like the races in it and how they interact with each other. While there are 5 species of dragons not all of them have the same motivations and interactions and the deities looking over the world have their own mythos. It's a pretty brutal world that's marked by different figureheads throughout history, such as one who began the dubious act of making pacts with their malicious amoral gods, one who brought airships to the fore and one who created necromancers.
My particular favourite is a rather brief description about Green Dragons (or rather the Green Dragons in that particular region) where they consider anybody who ventures out of their home ground a heretic and they don't even accept their remains if they die outside, and any dragonling born disabled is interpreted as paying for the sin of the heretic so they have prayer rituals to apologize to the gods for not obeying them. Then they feel really guilty for that dragonling and it gets raised by the whole village instead. Outsiders don't even get to step foot in the village and sleep outside instead. There's kings and their empires and...stuff. Yeah. I don't know what other notes I can share on that unless you ask me questions about it. >_>
13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
Sometimes I think our culture is rather cool because there's so many things to make fun of. Then there's Victorian culture because everyone loves coats and floofy skirts. There's the other floofy skirt culture but those have men in powdered wigs so you can't play much with the male designs.
...Let's just stick to saying I like writing about any culture with floofy skirts, yeah?
14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
1. Draw squiggly boxes
2. Close eyes, randomly hit spots. Where pencil hits, it is now a place.
3. ????
4. PROFIT!
I have only one map, it's not drawn by me, and the story has changed so much it needs a tectonic plate shift. So no, you're not seeing it.
15. Midway question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
A long time ago when there were no such thing as internet memes and everyone loved Gensoumaden Saiyuki,
lady_sb wrote the best sexy fanfiction. By sexy I meant she would write about Gojyo & Sanzo desecrating a pool table and it was the HOTTEST YAOI EVER. I remember when she admitted she wrote that fic and flat_foot and I went NO WAYYYY DDDDD8 She still writes sexy fanfiction mind you, we just don't share the same fandoms anymore. I do admire her writing if only because she can do the one thing I can't write well AT ALL. There was also this girl I knew waaaay back in 1998 who was the only other Malaysian sailormoon fan on alt.fan.sailor-moon and she was a pretty awesome writer too. She introduced me to parody-writing way back then and I haven't found someone who writes "14 X Characters In A Van With Fuuma Driving" as fantastically as her. This was stuff from TEN YEARS AGO and I'm still laughing - I can only imagine if she was still writing she'd be AMAZING. Jo-chan, where are youuuuu ><
I have no professional writers I really admire - Murakami is too impulsive, Amy Tan writes the same story 500 times, I never want Tolkien as my history teacher, Pratchett gets draggy, Anne Rice got preachy, Gaiman is overrated....and I only read two Adrian Mole books, so I don't know if Susan Townsend is credible enough to admire. I do recommend everyone go out and read the first 2 Adrian Mole books though!
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!
