For the ask meme: 14, 19, 28, 40!
14 : Do you have a favorite writing-related quote?
The entirety of Neil Gaiman’s “Make Good Art” speech. (x) Especially in this day and age seems important.
19 : Would you rather live in your characters’ world, or have your characters come live in our world?
Depends on if I get magic or not. I would risk everything to have goddamn firepowers. I want them. Give me to me. Let me control fire please. Otherwise, come into my less deadly world. I suppose.
28 : On a scale of 1-10, how much do you stress about choosing character names?
7. I find names very important and want them to mean things and sound cool and be unique. I want them to be appropraite for the nationality of the character and have a good flow. Sometimes names find me and it makes me fall in love. I wrote One Good Deed literally because I found the main character’s name. Originally she was Gwen (and white) but then Gwen became a radically different character and I wanted to go back to One Good Deed and edit it but Gwen no longer fit the novel. Then knowing her full name (Guinevere) I thought of calling her “Vere” instead of Gwen and suddenly I had the heroine my novel needed. Likewise, Radick, the hero, I have NO clue where I got that name from now. It’s not a common name in the least. But there we go.
Maybe someday someone will name their kid that and it will get common. That’d be cool.
40 : What would you ask your favorite author if given one question?
Yo, can you give your agent this manuscript and encourage them to read it? Thank, bro.
I’m awful at thinking of questions. I’d rather have like...five minutes of attention. Just a talk. I’m awful at those too, however. So *shrugs emoji*
