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1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.
To date, my favorite world has been the Allen Street stories (and here - I need to be more diligent about finding the rest of the stories). The idea is that a tiny bit of magic erupts from the earth at different points and those places are protected by a keeper. Magic beings and users are drawn to the area so that a little magical community has been built up around it. Allen Street is in the middle of a larger city (I think I was originally setting it somewhere in the middle of Portland but I decided to make it and unnamed city) and mundanes (non-magical people) are only allowed on it once or twice a month. Any other time and they don't even remember that it existed.
I liked this world so much that I wrote it for a Script Frenzy challenge, as well. I'm crap at writing graphic novels but I think the idea lends itself nicely. There are still so many characters that have very clear faces in my mind. They are on my list of "one of these days I'll dust this off..." stories because they're so vivid in my mind and I want to make them vivid to other people.
So why did I like writing it so much? Possibly because it was one of the first worlds I created (and I did extensive worldbuilding before I started) that was so fleshed out but also the characters were like old friends to me. They were the most realistic I had come up with ever. I also got to play with several different creatures - vampires, werewolves, angels, faeries, elementals, furies... Allen Street has them all! I was able to satisfy my curiosity for these characters while weaving them in and around the story in my head.
Does it have an ending? No. Is it complete? Not by a long shot. Why did I stop writing? I got stuck and NaNo was over and I started writing other things and it got lost. How sad! But it's always there on the edge of my muse. She likes it, too.
To date, my favorite world has been the Allen Street stories (and here - I need to be more diligent about finding the rest of the stories). The idea is that a tiny bit of magic erupts from the earth at different points and those places are protected by a keeper. Magic beings and users are drawn to the area so that a little magical community has been built up around it. Allen Street is in the middle of a larger city (I think I was originally setting it somewhere in the middle of Portland but I decided to make it and unnamed city) and mundanes (non-magical people) are only allowed on it once or twice a month. Any other time and they don't even remember that it existed.
I liked this world so much that I wrote it for a Script Frenzy challenge, as well. I'm crap at writing graphic novels but I think the idea lends itself nicely. There are still so many characters that have very clear faces in my mind. They are on my list of "one of these days I'll dust this off..." stories because they're so vivid in my mind and I want to make them vivid to other people.
So why did I like writing it so much? Possibly because it was one of the first worlds I created (and I did extensive worldbuilding before I started) that was so fleshed out but also the characters were like old friends to me. They were the most realistic I had come up with ever. I also got to play with several different creatures - vampires, werewolves, angels, faeries, elementals, furies... Allen Street has them all! I was able to satisfy my curiosity for these characters while weaving them in and around the story in my head.
Does it have an ending? No. Is it complete? Not by a long shot. Why did I stop writing? I got stuck and NaNo was over and I started writing other things and it got lost. How sad! But it's always there on the edge of my muse. She likes it, too.
