I usually like to have an idea of how my characters look, and in some cases it's the first thing I know and I use it to figure out the basics of their personality. I like knowing that before I write them, but it's more so I can picture them clearly--I'm not excessively descriptive with my characters' appearances.

QUESTION #28: Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.

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Well, I've done a mute character, and a two deaf characters. I'm afraid that's it, really, or at least all that I can think of at the moment. It's just one of those things that I haven't really done before, I suppose.

One of the chars in my WiP is a mute; in an early draft, the MC turned out paralyzed from the waist down after an arrow pierced his spine. One of the other chars in my WiP is partially a cripple who walks with a crutch all the time. If my WiP will start co-operating, one of the future characters will be a mentally underdeveloped girl.





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oe of my characters is a teacher at an academy and hes patially paralized.. or was

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That which does not feel pain is dead.

One of my stories is set in a fantasy world during a Holocaust like event. And several of the characters are mentally disabled/and or can't walk.

I really enjoyed writing those characters actually.:) Several of the people in my life have those disabilities, so it's neat to be able to put that into a story.

I have one girl with anemia--she's not very strong physically, but that does change.
Also have another girl who went deaf from a fever when she was ten.
Some winged charries whose wings never got the chance to grow...
yeah, that's about it.



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Tahir was blind. Writing him was actually really awesome because I had to concentrate on sounds and stuff rather than describing a picture. I think I grew a bit as a writer doing that. :)

Let's see...
I've had a blind man, a deaf girl, a wheel-chair-bound teacher, a crazy begger, and a guy who ends up paralized for a few months after a stupid act of bravery.

Lessee...I have a character who is mentally retarded (there is a PC term for that but I am woefully ignorant re: ableism, feel free to correct me!), I have a Thing for blind characters so they tend to crop up everywhere, I've written a deaf kid, a couple of schizophrenics, way more sociopaths than is healthy, and in my Rin backstory I had a girl who couldn't walk.

The first one was wonderful; she had the best surrounding cast, she had a really fun voice, AND I got to use her to explore issues of consent and adulthood and lots of troubling things.

But I think my favorites are the sociopaths. They hit that perfect balance between "difficult to write" and "easy to hear", plus they're great for driving plot.

QUESTION #29: How often do you think about writing? Ever come across something IRL that reminds you of your story/characters?

...If I'm the only one who has a way-too-long answer for this one, I will be SORELY disappointed, people. So post your little hearts out! I DEMAND IT. :P

Not sure how long I can make this as I'm supposed to be getting ready for school right now, but we'll see. :D

In a nutshell, yes. All of the freaking time. Sometimes it's even a character that wouldn't usually be in a situation like that, and then they'll be there, in my head, wondering why I'm here and why I'm so weird. And then of course, there's always the characters who are way more outgoing and entirely different than myself (Re: Anar, who's the weirdest kid I've ever met, but I love him), who pops up at random times for no reason, just to have random strings of dialogue in my head, or to tell me that I don't need to be so introverted. I would like to remind them all that they are figments of my imagination, and therefore should not be saying anything about my lives, (and besides that, oftentime they have really weird lives compared to me.)

Yes, sometimes me and my writing friends will walk into a store, and one of us will think of a character for some reason or another, and then they'll mention it, and then we're all going on about what certain characters would do in certain stores, and would react to each other in this store (which is really weird, when some of them come from entirely different worlds with different weird fantasy aspects).

Gah, and math tests. Characters LOVE showing up in the middle of math tests, when I'm supposed to be concentrating on math, and then they start doing things in my head, and it's really infinitely distracting, and way more difficult to ignore them than usual because math tests are rather annoying, and no where near as interesting as characters.

And that is all the time I have at the moment, so there's my long-winded response for you, Var. :)