I managed to miss out posting on #9 yesterday, so I’ll just do it today and pretend I always intended to do it that way 😉 9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them. It’s a process of accretion, very much like building up a stalactite or a…
8. What’s your favorite genre to write? To read? I don’t honestly know. I’ve very much enjoyed writing historical, but I also love contemporary magic realism, or historical/paranormal/mystery. I enjoy reading Age of Sail, mystery, romance, fantasy, science fiction. I don’t think I’d normally seek out a Western, but I very much enjoyed Calico by…
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters? I find music too distracting to listen to it while I write. I prefer silence. I’m one of those people who can’t help but stop and give the majority of my concentration to…
Excitingly enough, there is a m/m romance in the final round of Dear Author’s DABWAHA competition this year. It’s not False Colors, but it is the book that False Colors lost to. I’m thinking “wouldn’t it be brilliant if – out of all the different categories, and against all the m/f romances of this year,…
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol’ pen and paper? I’m most comfortable writing at my desk, using my computer. Afternoons are best, but time is less important than solitude. I prefer if there is no one else in the house. I can write if other…
Hee! Well, my nervous trepidation over what the cover art for Shining in the Sun would be like is over, and I have to say I am thrilled 🙂 It makes such a difference, when you know that the novel you’ve angsted over and spent so long on, polishing every word, will be going out…
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them? I think my youngest character is probably Oswy, one of the viewpoint characters of The Witch’s Boy. He’s 11. The oldest character I’ve ever written was about 20,000 years old, but he was one…
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters! I segued imperceptibly between making up childish games – “you’re King Richard, and you’ve been captured by the Saracens, and we’re your knights and are coming to look for you…” – and writing down stories where the characters did what I thought they ought to, rather…
I was reading this lovely article about Marketing for Introverts at the Shrinking Violet Promotions blog today. It really struck a chord with me because of this extended writer’s block thing I’ve been going through recently: “Mitali Perkins is someone who has become quite an industry presence, but she also tweeted over 50,000 words last…
Meme question #3 3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)? I have about as much luck with names for characters as I do with titles. I’m concerned to get them exactly right for the character, and that often means giving the character an…
