Random writing asks - 1, 12, 15, 24
1. What is your favorite punctuation mark?
*whispers* the semicolon <3
12. Which is easier to write: original fiction or fanfiction?
Originals and fanfics have each their own unique challenges. In terms of technicalities, I think both can be just as easy or as hard. However, I think validation and feedback are easier/faster to get with fanfiction: your public is already hooked up to the characters you’re presenting them and are emotionally involved with their world.
15. Do you let people read your rough drafts?
Only close friends. They have known me since I was sixteen, so no rough draft I write now can be worse than what I made back then.
24. How do you figure out your characters looks, personalities, and speech patterns?
When writing originals (or introducing OCs), the plot tends to come before the characters. Not necessarily as in writing plot-driven stories, but I think the plot first and then play with combinations of personality traits that I find the most interesting to explore in the story.
As for looks, I usually take inspiration from people I see in the bus or at uni (seriously university is great for this, there are so many eccentric people) or resort to often terrible games of words (example: one OC I used for a longfic dresses in Lolita fashion because she’s nicknamed Dolores and in Spanish Lola/Lolita is a diminutive of Dolores).
I don’t think much about speech patterns, though. When writing fics in English I imitate the ones characters have in canon, but Spanish is more rigid and altering words to match accents/slangs is kind of frowned upon.
