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Writing Meme: Days Eight and Nine.
May. 9th, 2010 10:03 pmDay eight: What's your favorite genre to write? To read?
To write: supernatural themes, fantasy, m/m romance. To read: fantasy, history and auto/biographies. That was easy!
Day nine: How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
There isn't a process per se - usually the idea comes to me while I'm in the bathroom. Doesn't matter what I'm doing - taking a shower, brushing my teeth, whatever - the bathroom is the Room of Wisdom, aka RoW. Nearly every idea for plot or characters or dialogue has come to me in the RoW. I've also gotten a lot of ideas from my dreams, which usually results in waking up, staggering half asleep to the laptop and getting down enough to be able to work with it when I'm awake for the day. On occaision, I'll wake up completely and write solidly for several hours before going back to sleep.
No great revelations of writing secrets here, I'm afraid. It just happens when it happens, and usually the RoW or my dreams is when or where it happens.
To write: supernatural themes, fantasy, m/m romance. To read: fantasy, history and auto/biographies. That was easy!
Day nine: How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
There isn't a process per se - usually the idea comes to me while I'm in the bathroom. Doesn't matter what I'm doing - taking a shower, brushing my teeth, whatever - the bathroom is the Room of Wisdom, aka RoW. Nearly every idea for plot or characters or dialogue has come to me in the RoW. I've also gotten a lot of ideas from my dreams, which usually results in waking up, staggering half asleep to the laptop and getting down enough to be able to work with it when I'm awake for the day. On occaision, I'll wake up completely and write solidly for several hours before going back to sleep.
No great revelations of writing secrets here, I'm afraid. It just happens when it happens, and usually the RoW or my dreams is when or where it happens.
