Procrastination.

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I haven't done much on Deviantart, lately, so I decided to do this note. It's long, so you don't have to read it if you don't want to. I've only decided to do it because I can't focus on any of my multiple school and piano exams starting tomorrow.
Enjoy, if you read, though.

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
      I have a bunch of favorite stories that I've been working on lately. I suppose my favorite would be my writings with Julia. I've collaborated them into journal entries, and I've got a good handful done. Most of them are dark, though, and have a lot of ... personal emotions, so that's why no one really reads them. I don't upload most of them anywhere.

2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
I have hundreds of characters. With each character, I like to create personalities and situations in my head, even if I don't write it down. I kind have created an alternate universe for myself. I suppose I prefer males over females, but it really depends on the character themselves.

3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?
Sometimes I scroll through the baby-naming sites on the internet. Other times, a name'll just pop into my head, and I feel the need to use it. I once saw this guy walking past me in the mall one day, and the name 'Lawrence Callun' came to mind, and by the end of the day, I had created is life and siblings and even his pet turtles name. So, you know.

4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
I wrote a story with an elementary school buddy. It was one hundred and six loose-leaf pages double-sided long. We were in the second grade.


5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about "youngest"?
My youngest character is about six years old. The oldest is.. twenty something. As in main characters, though. I have a large range of older and younger less-important characters.

6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol' pen and paper?
Evening, in my bed room. Normally with something warm, like a blanket, because it gets terribly cold in my bedroom. I'd rather write on my computer, because it's a lot faster (My typing doesn't even keep up with my ideas sometimes.. And I'm a fast typer), but if I get an idea at school, or on vacation when I don't have technology, I turn to paper and pens.

7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
Depending on my mood. Sometimes, I'm too distracted to listen to music. So, I type accordingly to the silence of my bedroom. Other times, when I'm feeling like my writing needs to be far more terrific, I'll listen to dramatic music.

8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
I like to write action scenes, with battles and knives and killing and everything. When I'm in a more depressed mood, I'd rather write as Julia, whom does a lot of thinking and is also.. depressed.

9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
Normally I'll just be thinking far too hard, and I'll end up creating a character in the process. In math class once, I created a female character because of a poster on the wall.

10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
Um.. I don't know. The memes that I've done where all my characters' personalities clash together.  

11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
My favorite character is Julia or Josh. Least favorite was a girl named Kelly. I liked her when I created her, but I ended up not liking her in the end..

12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of world building?
Julia's world. I have a perfect image of her house, her parents and brother, best friend, neighbor hood. The hockey rinks and soccer fields she plays at, even down to the last raindrop that falls after a storm. I never even really planned it.. It just came to me.

13. What's your favorite culture to write, fictional or not?
Umm. American?

14. How do you map out locations, if needed? Do you have any to show us?
In my head. If I'm showing someone, I'll use my finger.

15. Mid way question! Tell us about a writer you admire, whether professional or not!
A lot of people. Too many to name.

16. Do you write romantic relationships? How do you do with those, and how "far" are you willing to go in your writing?
Most of my characters are young - in their teenage years - so really, it's all just fun and games. Only one of my characters have really gone... 'Far' and I never really wrote about that. It was just implied.

17. Favorite protagonist and why!
Uh, my character named Raya. She's adorable, and doesn't care about her appearance, but has an amazing personality and loves everyone dearly, even those she doesn't really know. She'd travel the universe to save someone.

18. Favorite antagonist and why!
I don't really have an antagonist. A villain, correct? I don't really know what to say here.

19. Favorite minor that decided to shove him self into the spotlight and why!
Um.. Again, I don't know.

20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
Raya and Jasper.

21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
One of my characters - except he isn't really my character at all, he's more of a friends' and mine - has a year and a half year old son. I don't write as him, I just.. write of him.

22. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
I tend to just post short stories or short entries to a part of a whole story.

23. How willing are you to kill your characters if the plot so demands it? What's the most interesting way you've killed someone?
I'll do it. Even if I like the character. My most interesting way was a suicide- not all that interesting, I suppose. She killed her daughter, then herself.

24. Do any of your characters have pets? Tell us about them.
One of my characters has a rare gecko.

25. 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!
Sometimes I do, but I normally can't get them to look the way I percieve them. So I just keep them in my head.

26. 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.
I tend to 'act' out what I'm writing in my head, in a third-person-movie sort of way. So I see my characters doing every thing. Appearances matter.


27. 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.

I have two characters with physical disabilities, one with a mental disability. Of course, if you consider dyslexia a mental disability. The two physical ones both affected the legs. They are two of my favorite characters.


That was long. I'm considering not posting this, because it seems kind of pointless.

.. But I'll post it anyways, because I did all of that.


Goodbye, world.
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