Tag: mediocre young adult writer problems

Get to know my character

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01. What does your character’s name mean? Did you pick it for the symbolism, or did you just like the way it sounded?

02. What is one of your character’s biggest insecurities? Are they able to hide it easily or can others easily exploit this weakness?
03. What would be their favorite physical trait about themselves?
04. What are their favorite traits about their lover? (one psychological and one physical)
05. Are they sexually confident or more of the shy type?

06. Do they have any hobbies that their lover finds unusual, odd, or otherwise annoying?
07. Is there a catchphrase or sound that they tend to make a lot (likely without being aware of it)?
08. What is, perhaps, their biggest flaw? Are they aware of this or oblivious to it?
09. Do they have a favorite season? What about a favorite holiday?
10. Is your character more feminine or masculine?

11. What is something that would make your character fly into a rage?
12. Is there some particular talent, skill, or attribute that they simply could not give up?
13. What are your character’s sleeping habits? Heavy or light sleeper? Blanket stealer? One that always rolls onto the floor? Pushes their lover onto the floor? Sleep talker or walker?

14. Do they live alone or with family? How do they feel about their family/roommates?
15. Is there a certain person in this world that they cannot stand? The very mention of this person’s name makes them tremble with anger or fear.

16. Is your character the athletic type or more of a couch potato? What are some sports/games that they like?

17. Does your character have dreams of getting married and/or having children?

18. What kind of home would they want to live in? Where would they place this abode?

19. Would your character be the kind to get into fights? (physical or verbal) Would they be a good fighter or cave in rather easily?

20. Does your character like animals? What are some of their favorite animals? Would they want pets? What about mythological creatures?

21. What is one of your character’s biggest fears? How would they react when dealing with this fear?

22. What kind of tattoos, piercings, birthmarks, freckles, and other such unique physical features do they have?

23. What is your character like when it comes to school? What subjects are they good/bad at? Do they get in trouble a lot or are well behaved?

24. In their own words, how would your character describe what their lover is like?

25. Is there something traumatic from your character’s past that greatly affects them even to this day?

26. What is their lover like sexually? How do they feel about their lover’s quirks, needs, etc?

27. If your character was going to get arrested, what would be the most likely reason for it?

28. If your character became a celebrity, what would they be famous for?

29. What is one of the most courageous things your character has ever done for a loved one?

30. When it comes to the arts (music, film, theater, etc), what does your character like?

31. Would your character be the kind capable of killing? Would they enjoy killing or only use it when necessary or, perhaps, refuse to kill no matter what?

32. If your character’s lover offered to take them out on a dream date, what would they want to do?

33. If your character wanted to be alone, where would they go?

34. Does your character have favorite foods? (breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, snacks, etc)

35. Is your character afraid of death? If they got to choose how to die, how would they want to go?

36. Does your character have any medical conditions? Are they serious or minor? Do they affect their day to day life?
37. What are some of your character’s pet peeves? What are some things that annoy them or disgust them?
38. What kind of weather does your character like? Cloudy skies, rainy days, sunshine, etc?
39. When people look at your character, is there some assumption they might make about them just by appearance? Is that assumption correct?
40. Does your OC have any guilty pleasures they enjoy? Hobbies, past times, music, etc that they wouldn’t want known by others?

41. Does your character’s family affect your character in any way?
42. Is there anything in your character’s past that they regret, haunts them, or they wish they could change?
43. Does your character have a switch that changes aspects of their personality whether they are around friends, family, etc. Is there someone who gets to see their true self?
44. Is there a particular event that would emotionally devastate your character?
45. Is your character the kind to hide their true emotions or do they wear their heart on their sleeve?

46. What is some random affectionate thing that your character always does to their lover?
47. Is your character outgoing? Would they be the leader of the friend group, or the quiet one that gets dragged along?
48. Is there anything in particular that would ignite your character’s jealousy? Or does your character not get envious?
49. What is something that your character has nightmares about? Are these frequent? Do they heavily affect your character’s mood?
50. If your character confessed love to their crush, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc, what would they say?

perringcentral:

writerlydays:

does anybody have any asexual ocs? because I would love to hear about them!

mars is aro/ace and is the embodiment of the ‘I’d rather not’ meme (but will lowkey die for their friends)

mabel is also aro/ace and is this bubbly optimistic witch who can befriend anyone

and violet is demi-ace, incredibly charming and a huge flirt, i love him a lot

Millie the main character in Our Last Days is ace/aro and just wants to kill some zombies and have a cool robot arm (spoilers), Volkman and Vidal from the same story are ace lesbians in a relationship which they love bamboozling the public with cause whaaat how can you be together if you’re asexual, doesn’t that mean you don’t have emotions? (No, no it doesn’t. Also there’s Lilimar and Caiti who are all-out gays and sometimes when Volkman is gone they supercare for Vidal so she doesn’t feel lonely.) Ryan from The Rains Come is asexual and the most bubbly and positive and supportive person ever, Drew from Lucid’s ace/panro and similarly an all-smiles peanut.

Writing small clues and foreshadowing is weird cause I always have this urge to make it explicit like “EeeHH? Did you see what I did there?” cause honestly I don’t trust anyone to care enough to pick up on my clues but they’re so good it’d be such a waste to miss them.

We did it, Reddit!

I finished NaNoWriMo and well, this was certainly one of the most interesting years I’ve done. Not counting the first two because I really had no fucking idea what I was doing, this is the least amount of words I wrote in a year, according to the NaNoWriMo official counter: 111,195.

I started out with a story I had outlined and thought through several times for months by the start of November. It was a more personal story which I haven’t done before but I was confident. Ten days and almost 22k words later I was done. I didn’t like any of what I wrote, I didn’t feel the drive to go on and I knew that if I were to keep pushing I would ruin the story for myself.

That’s one of my bad habits, that if I feel like a story is ruined I can never get back to it. So I abandoned Lucid with a heavy heart and switched to plan B which wasn’t even a plan up until then.

I picked up another story, one I started last December after my semi-successful NaNoWriMo 2016, and have been writing for the better parts of 2017. I called it my comfort project, something I would only write if I felt like it, something I would put no deadlines on, and wouldn’t force until I grow to hate it, like I’ve done so many times before.

I didn’t like breaking these not-so-strict rules of NaNo, that you’re supposed to start a new story and whatever but I had been missing Vale already and I felt like jumping back into it. That’s when this year’s NaNo became fun for me.

I started with patching up the holes I’d previously left, then continued from where I left off, with only a few chapters to go until the end. And I never wavered. And I finished the story. And I was satisfied with it.

For a few hot moments I was thinking whether I should try to get on top of NaNo Faces which I’ve done for two years now, or reach 150k or 200k, but then I remembered it would just make me rush the story (cause after I finished I started editing, lol) and that would betray everything I’ve worked on. So I didn’t do that. And that’s partially me destroying my OCD which is also a victory in itself.

I set out to do something I haven’t done before and even though I failed I ended up achieving even more things I haven’t done before. Vale is a one of a kind story in my life and I’m proud of what I did with it. I’m sure editing it will be a bit of a struggle and I’ll flip my opinion on it upside down but just the fact that I managed to stick with it for a YEAR which I’ve never done before makes me really happy.

Every year NaNoWriMo, including the first two, shows me something about myself I didn’t know before. I may not have written 27k words in a day like last year, I may not have had a smooth journey from start to finish like in 2014, or pulled a pretty creepy story literally out of my bumhole and finished it in two weeks like in 2015, but I am proud.

Let’s do it again next year ^^

if vale found out im fighting my ocd and giving up being first on nano faces and im not forcing writing more because i actually care too much about the story to ruin it by competing with people that dont even know im competing with them shed think it was dope and thats all that matters,

Vale: *thinks she’s a piece of shit and covers it up by always talking about how awesome she is*
Cephas: *thinks he’s a piece of shit and covers it up by always talking about how awesome his friends are*

I finished Vale, whoooooooooooooooooooooo
Weird fucking feeling. First story I didn’t finish within a month but actually worked on for a year. I mean it’s now time to edit it but you know… I still finished the first draft. I started it outside NaNoWriMo, I wrote it in my own time, through Camp NaNo too, then I kinda abandoned it then I chose another story for this NaNo that didn’t work out so I returned to it and it worked and now we have it, Vale officially joined the series of now three stories I actually finished.

Ok that’s not true. Leaper, The Rains Come, In Static, Vale. Four. Ok July 14th but it’s a bit of a mess even though I love it. Five. WHOOPPPPPP