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2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
This is an oddly worded question... how many characters do I have where? I'm going to answer it as if it said How many characters have you created/written about? Do you prefer to create males or females?
The only problem is that I don't know exactly how many characters I've created. Let me see if I can break them down by the stories I remember...
Allen Street/Mark of Sin - approx 12 females and 9 males
Merry Things (First Draft) - approx 10 females and 6 males
Merry Things (Second Draft) - approx 3 females and 7 males
Faerie Hill - 3 females and 2 males
Christmas Angel - 2 females and 8 males
No Evil - approx 15 females (counting some of those secondary characters) and 12 males
(OMG! I just found my old writing journal with all my original stuff in it! For a moment there, I was concerned because I couldn't find as much of my original stuff at my old journal as I had thought would be there and now I can start moving it to someplace that might be more permanent. Whoosh!)
Unnamed House Project - 1 female and 1 male
Books that Kill - approx 4 females and 6 males
Protecting the Family Name - approx 7 females and 4 males
I've missed some. I know I have. There's that partial NaNo but it had a whole family tree of characters that I wrote a little here and there about so I have to count them but I can't find that information anymore so it's going to be lost to my memory.
Okay, back to the topic at hand... I write mostly females. It goes hand in hand with my sister's constant little tidbit she likes to quote to me when I talk about writing - Write What You Know. I know females. The only real male in my life to date has been my dad and I can't say I understand him. After writing numerous male characters in RPG's, I can say I have a better grasp of them but that doesn't mean I understand them.
What has this day taught me? I have a lot of original fiction that needs to be moved to a safer place and tagged MUCH BETTER. Seeing that this post took me AN HOUR AND A HALF and there's not that many words in it, you might see what I'm getting at.
It's also reminded me of how much fun I have creating characters. They're like my children. A couple of years ago, I was talking about a current world I was writing in to a couple of coworkers. There was a new person there as well. She asked how many children I had. The way I was talking about the story, it sounded like I had a whole passel of kids. It made me laugh. Yes, I get passionate about my writing.
How long has it been since I've been that passionate about my writing? Here's hoping I can find that again.
This is an oddly worded question... how many characters do I have where? I'm going to answer it as if it said How many characters have you created/written about? Do you prefer to create males or females?
The only problem is that I don't know exactly how many characters I've created. Let me see if I can break them down by the stories I remember...
Allen Street/Mark of Sin - approx 12 females and 9 males
Merry Things (First Draft) - approx 10 females and 6 males
Merry Things (Second Draft) - approx 3 females and 7 males
Faerie Hill - 3 females and 2 males
Christmas Angel - 2 females and 8 males
No Evil - approx 15 females (counting some of those secondary characters) and 12 males
(OMG! I just found my old writing journal with all my original stuff in it! For a moment there, I was concerned because I couldn't find as much of my original stuff at my old journal as I had thought would be there and now I can start moving it to someplace that might be more permanent. Whoosh!)
Unnamed House Project - 1 female and 1 male
Books that Kill - approx 4 females and 6 males
Protecting the Family Name - approx 7 females and 4 males
I've missed some. I know I have. There's that partial NaNo but it had a whole family tree of characters that I wrote a little here and there about so I have to count them but I can't find that information anymore so it's going to be lost to my memory.
Okay, back to the topic at hand... I write mostly females. It goes hand in hand with my sister's constant little tidbit she likes to quote to me when I talk about writing - Write What You Know. I know females. The only real male in my life to date has been my dad and I can't say I understand him. After writing numerous male characters in RPG's, I can say I have a better grasp of them but that doesn't mean I understand them.
What has this day taught me? I have a lot of original fiction that needs to be moved to a safer place and tagged MUCH BETTER. Seeing that this post took me AN HOUR AND A HALF and there's not that many words in it, you might see what I'm getting at.
It's also reminded me of how much fun I have creating characters. They're like my children. A couple of years ago, I was talking about a current world I was writing in to a couple of coworkers. There was a new person there as well. She asked how many children I had. The way I was talking about the story, it sounded like I had a whole passel of kids. It made me laugh. Yes, I get passionate about my writing.
How long has it been since I've been that passionate about my writing? Here's hoping I can find that again.
