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valarltdApril 9th - How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
They wander in, sit on my filing cabinet and talk to me. Or at least the David muse did.
Basically, I'll be plotting something and the characters tend to be there. They often look like actors or media characters. Or we have stock characters we borrow from when I'm working with my coauthor. I need a smaller black man, will the Adrien do, is Steven too large, do I need someone else entirely?
Sometimes characters spin off of other characters. When we were writing "Tuition Fees," Naomi and I had this really hot Nick/Chris sex scene that didn't fit anywhere at all. Then we got to playing with the scene, changed the characters up a little, got Josh the art gallery owner instead of Nick the politician and Anthony the artist (more ethnic, but much the same), and "Collared Hearts" was underway.
April 10th - What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
Sentenced to be stoned to death for allegedly being gay.
Forced to live as a woman and trained as both ninja and geisha
Falling for a hologram
Having kinky sex with conjoined twins
Turning into a train
Possessed by ancient Egyptian manicurists
Modeling for a Mapplethorpe style photoshoot
Attending the Scholomance
Bribing a pixie street gang with sugar to get information
Let's face it, most of it is weird!
They wander in, sit on my filing cabinet and talk to me. Or at least the David muse did.
Basically, I'll be plotting something and the characters tend to be there. They often look like actors or media characters. Or we have stock characters we borrow from when I'm working with my coauthor. I need a smaller black man, will the Adrien do, is Steven too large, do I need someone else entirely?
Sometimes characters spin off of other characters. When we were writing "Tuition Fees," Naomi and I had this really hot Nick/Chris sex scene that didn't fit anywhere at all. Then we got to playing with the scene, changed the characters up a little, got Josh the art gallery owner instead of Nick the politician and Anthony the artist (more ethnic, but much the same), and "Collared Hearts" was underway.
April 10th - What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
Sentenced to be stoned to death for allegedly being gay.
Forced to live as a woman and trained as both ninja and geisha
Falling for a hologram
Having kinky sex with conjoined twins
Turning into a train
Possessed by ancient Egyptian manicurists
Modeling for a Mapplethorpe style photoshoot
Attending the Scholomance
Bribing a pixie street gang with sugar to get information
Let's face it, most of it is weird!
