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Day 5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?

By age, this is a tricky question to answer. Aerlun and Daemien are both young at the beginning of their stories. But by the end, they're the oldest in a way; they live three lifetimes, hundreds of years apart. Aerlun is ten at the beginning of his story, and Daemien is around fourteen. Kayden is the youngest at the end of his story; he'll be about twenty after the events of Blood and Heat. And once I finish the current short story I'm trying to work on, I'll start a book centering around the main character Roren's kids, but I haven't developed them yet; I just know they'll be in their early teens, they'll be named Rory and Darian, they'll be male and female twins, and Rory (the girl) will be the source and Darian will be the channeler. As for the oldest by age, that could be Aerlun and Daemien or it could be Grey, who is 26. And that's not including fandom characters. In Elemental Force, Naizhen is 16, so she could also count as youngest.

Youngest and oldest in terms of creation are much easier. Aerlun is easily the oldest still in use. Roren is the youngest who has been actually developed, though his kids are sort of twinklings in my eye, lol -- I guess you could say they're still in the womb, so to speak.

Yeah I'm weird.

( So last night... )

I should be doing homework. But this is more fun!

3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you're writing about fictional places)?

I put together random syllables until I come up with something I like. Usually I have some feeling for how the name should sound--long or short, harsh or soft. Sometimes I find something good quickly, but other times I just can't be satisfied. I've been known to change a name after a while because it just never really felt right. But I've come up with some weird ones. Lately, I'm trying to concentrate on making sure they're pronounceable.

Think this will get me to post all month long?

( 30 day writing meme )

Day 1: Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you've worked with and why.

Now that's a toughie. The world I can never let go is Eysuria, but it's also the most frustrating.

I think the one writing project I've had the most fun and least frustration with (despite attempting to write it like 5 times now) is my Legend of Zelda fanfic, Elemental Force. In some ways, I like fanfiction more than original writing. It's a challenge to create a new story that fits the canon of the original one, particularly if you're like me and you like to stretch canon to its limits to create something really interesting. But it's also easier to have a pre-defined world. My problem with original fiction seems to be that there's too much room for change, too many directions I can go, and I have trouble sticking to one.

Anyway, if I ever get around to actually writing EF all the way through, it's probably my one story with a defined plot that I'm not going to have to stop and wonder about halfway through, and that eases a lot of frustration, leaving just fun behind.