Hi! Welcome to the other side of my apartment.
So, I moved my computer, hopefully this will work
I am now on the wall that directly faces the road
So maybe you can hear cars going by. Maybe that's exciting for you
I don't know!
Anyway, I am going to do another tag
I'm going to do the tag from Rachel Writes
from the coffeeandcalligraphy tumblr
It's just called writing tag there
people have been calling it character tag which makes sense because that is what it is
So I have had answers to this sitting on my desktop for a long time & I'm finally gonna tell you about them
isn't life thrilling?
Okay.
#1: A crazy hacker's gone into your computer, and has deleted all of your music, except for one song off of your writing playlist. Which song is it?
Partly because my computer was destroyed fairly recenty I haven't been using a writing playlist for this story
But there are recurring references to a certain song in the book itself
I don't want to tell you it sounds so -- it does not sound clever & wonderful out of context but --
um, it's "Love Story" by Taylor Swift.
I don't wanna have to listen to that over & over, but if I have to pick a song that would be most relevant
I guess so.
#2: Your protagonist and antagonist have been paired up by friends to go out to lunch together. Where do they go?
Okay so the closest thing Fay has to a human antagonist
is her hitherto unknown biological Uncle Jimmy
I guess they'd go to the tea room, since it's literally the only option
as long as they're stuck in the very small town they're in for the entire section of the book where they're forced to interact
which is the part I'm writing right now, so
they have 1 option, i guess they'd go there
Although they also have just tons of excess casseroles waiting at Jimmy's house
since his mother has just died
#3: You're crossing a bridge when the troll living under it stops you. He demands to read a chapter from your novel, and won't let you cross otherwise. Which chapter do you give him?
I feel like the "right" answer is the 1st chapter
but the one I find myself sharing from most is a totally random flashback scene in chapter 7
It's a really awkward sexy scene between my protagonist and her ex-gf
It's important to the plot in terms of explaining how she is in relationships & her past experiences
but it also stands on its own as just a funny ridiculous scene about underwear and #babydykeproblems
so hopefully that would appease the troll
and also it's something I put up on Patreon recently for all of my patrons
so it might appease anybody, i dunno!
My mom liked it, so that was weird.
#4: ...that's how many four is
Your friends have invited you out to a party. Surprise! All of your characters are there. Who do you choose to hang out with?
Umm...the parents.
because I am an old
but also because I had a lot of fun making up my main characters' parents
and they don't have that much time on the page
so I'd love to spend a little more time with them
and I love, Fay's parents are lovely and adorable
and Mai's mom and dad are definitely holding court with a quality jam sesh in the kitchen and I am all about that
#5: Crap. You left your car keys in your house, and you've (somehow) locked yourself out. Which of your characters picks the lock for you?
I thought about this, I went back and forth on this and the next one a couple times
could really go either way but I thought
I would not put it past Mai to have taken an independent study in lockpicking when she was homeschooled
so yeah I think Mai can take that
I think that's probably within her skillset
I'm countin' on you Mai
#6: The zombie apocalypse is happening right now. (It sucks.) Everyone is fleeing the planet, and moving to Mars. ONE of your characters can go with you. Who do you choose?
Doug. If I need somebody to remain calm and solve problems in space I'm going with the theatre techie every time
See, I also thought theatre techie might be able to figure out the lockpicking thing
& I definitely thought Mai might be a good choice for space also
partly I think she has more sort of mechanical knowledge
she can definitely fix an old Volkswagen Westfalia
which might come in handy for spaceships idk how much transferable skills there are there
But I think Doug. I think I would go with Mai for picking the lock & Doug for solving space problems.
#7: You've been given the opportunity to travel to one place (town, building, landmark, country) in your book. Where do you go?
You know, the book sprawls across this wonderful land of ours from sea to shining sea
but if I really think about it, the place I wanna go is Mai's house
I just really liked making up that house
and it's the house that ends up being the gathering place for a lot of their lives
they've always, since they've been this group of 4 they've always come together at Mai's house
and again, Mai's parents are these musicians so the house has a lot of familiarity to me
there's a lot of my experience of growing up folk music scene adjacent in Mai's experience
so I kind of like the idea of visiting her house & again, meeting her parents
I'm kind of enamoured with her parents & their adorable little family band
yeah I like them a lot
& that house has a lot of history & meaning in their lives
it was Mai's grandmother's house
I just think there's a lot I would love to just fully explore in real life that would be really interesting
I would like to just walk around, look at the books on the shelves
and uh, yeh. Fortunately I made it up so I can do that in my imagination any old time
#8: You meet your main character and start a conversation with them. Problem is, you've only got six words or less to do so. What do you say?
"Do you know anything about diseases?"
That should get Fay talking
She'd have lots to say on that subject. Um, yeah.
#9: Crazy acid rain is falling from the sky. Which of your characters would you use as an umbrella?
Um, so Lori probably has the agility for me to actually hold her up by 1 leg
& then she could balance a protective shield of some kind over her remaining four limbs to save both of us
so I don't know if that's in the spirit of the question but let's go with that
because I love all my bebes & I want us all to survive
K.
#10: You're out at a restaurant with your main character, and the time has come to order dessert. What do you order for them?
Anything with white flour and/or refined sugar will suit Fay just fine
She grew up in a house of sad & wholesome foods
So if it's got real sugar and, yeah, I think she'll be happy.
Um. That was fun. K. Bye.
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