Quid pro quo, Clarice.

[sarashina]

So I just came off a hellacious couple of weeks (which I will explain properly sometime soon) and I am feeling FREE AS THE WIND BLOWS. Best part? So many of my mental processes have been freed up, and I've been thinking about writing a lot more than I have been lately. Which feels so, so good.

I was thinking of a simple exercise I used to do with writing partners - I was actually telling moonsheen about it the other day - and I thought I'd put it up here so that we all could play.

Here's how it goes: you ask me a question about a writing project, I answer, and ask a question about yours. Simple as that! It could be about a specific project, or something in general (like, say, "Who is your most ____ character?" or something like that.) And the questions can keep going back and forth for as long as you like.

I've always found that it's easier to get enthusiastic about a project and dive right into it when you can share your enthusiasm with someone else. And there are my ulterior motives, of course - I get to find out about everyone else's writing, too.

Just to remind you all, my big projects are:

Completed:
In Descending Order
Grandmaster Draw

In progress:
Catalyst
The Imperial Guard
The Hungry Ground
Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law

And there are also short stories like "The Mountain Sleeps" (and the not-yet-written universe based around that story), and cowriting and such.

Let's play?

Comments

[ruffwriter.livejournal.com]

I've wanted to write the same kind of character! ♥


Ooooh. Most of the stuff I did to break Liam was pretty tough, as is a lot of the stuff I do to Cat. But I think the hardest things will come later in Imperial Guard. It's going to be rather painful. D:

Same question back at you!

laaaaate

[evilsimon.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Some of the things I have done/will do to Reynan were pretty mean. I've messed with a lot of characters' minds, but he's the only one who has pretty brutal physical torture in his backstory and extensive mental torture in the story.

How do you develop cultures when you worldbuild?