Are you one of those authors who...

[Amber Eyes]

I tend to build my characters around a specific emotional moment that stay with me from different books/movies.
Kyla is very much based on the book The Mascot about a Jewish boy in WWII and dealing with watching all the people of his town die.
Cell is based partially on my own childhood, with a small mixture of various other works.
Selias is based off of a single scene in an old French film I don't even remember the name of. I will never forget that scene though.

I like to work with others to tell a good story.

I also tend to think that outside of the story you tell you have no control over your works. If I end a story with open ends, I have given that reality to the readers. It is up to them what they believe happened. Once I share a story with the world it isn't just mine anymore.

[Ashla]

- I try to give each and every character of mine a different fighting style. Ashla is a duel-blading person who likes to maneuver around and sneak attack opponents. She gets into a fight, gets the job done, and gets out. ~ Julius uses his eyes and just stands there looking at you the entire time... then you drop dead. ~ Kaida is a gunslinger! Since I can't get guns right now I'm trying to use alternates for her. ~ Gwendolyn will someday be the best single archer on Althanas... But she sucks at armed, melee combat.

- I take insults for my characters...

- One of the ways I deal with anger is writing a random story full of people getting hurt, wars, burning, and stuff.

- My best story ideas come at night but I forget them next morning!

[hoytti]

Connects better with characters of an opposite gender and a cliche personality. (Especially the snobby rich girl/guy)

[black shadow]

~ Gwendolyn will someday be the best single archer on Althanas... But she sucks at armed, combat!

*cough* second best *cough* just kidding.

- I always have thousands of ideas for characters but never use them because I'll get bored of them.

- make my characters basically myself in a different body. (How I think that is)

- am very new to writing and am not that great, especially compared to other people on this site

- get discouraged when I get a score under 40, then immediately wrire again to try and get a higher score.

- always have ideas, but never have time to write them anymore.

- make all my characters stealthy and/or use a bow

[Krausus]

-I don't care about my grammar normally. I'm pretty sure that if you get most of it, your brain fills in what's missing.

-I base all my characters off other things.

-When I edit things, I always regret it, because I change things that didn't need changing.

-The key to serendipitous writing is through loud music and occasional random writing sessions.

-Settings are annoying to write.

[Alyssa Snow]

... writes his characters based on individual but prominent qualities of his own psyche.

... is discouraged by any losing or low score, but shrugs it off to keep writing.

... enjoys thinking up details of just about anything fantasy related.

... tends to over-think scenes, word choices, and sentence structure when writing.

[Ashla]

- Also gets discouraged by low-rated scores... which happen a lot.
- I critic my own writing a lot...

[SteelVoltage]

I'm one of those writers
- Tries to use verbs to describe everything. Love showing, hates telling.
- Writes a lot, trashes most of it.
- Reads all sorts of books on writing but tends to forget the tips that awed him.

[Alydia Ettermire]

I give my characters a starting point, some notes to hit, and an end goal. If I try to micromanage my stronger, more developed characters, they shut down and refuse to do anything. Karuka was particularly stubborn... and this chick was never much more manageable.

[Ashla]

- I have recently learned to embrace unexpected plot twists in my stories!
- Once in a while I'll throw in a rhyme or something else annoying hoping it's a good technique...
- I edit a lot but in the end my posts still look awful. :P
- Whenever I'm making a new character, I spend most of the time looking up names for it.