Are you one of those authors who...

[Ashla]

"... It's a game where you state your quirks as an author."
So, are are you one of those kind of authors...

I'm one of those kinds of authors who:
Even when I'm not trying, I keep abusing my characters!
My characters talk to me and tend to file complaints and try to kill me.
When I'm writing descriptions, I will give the basic outline and any other add ins here and there, but when I write a scene concerning death or blood... "And his bloody innards scattered across the once clean floor with intense, red, liquid and lungs splattering everywhere and getting onto"... :P

[Zook Murnig]

What? I'm not sure what you're asking...

[Ashla]

What? I'm not sure what you're asking...

I mean are you one of those authors have have those things like if your character talks to you or something always happens in your stories even if you don't mean for them to happen, you just always have it written down in the end.

[Roht Mirage]

Zook, I assume it's a game where you state your quirks as an author. Like so...

I'm the kind of author who:
~ Willfully and with premeditation abuses his characters.
~ Sees all his characters as magnifications of different parts of his own psyche, which can be scary at times.
~ Proofreads everything over and over again, even days later, and even if it's not going to be judged.

Example: I just edited this to put in an 'and'.

[Ashla]

Zook, I assume it's a game where you state your quirks as an author. Like so...

I'm the kind of author who:
~ Willfully and with premeditation abuses his characters.
~ Sees all his characters as magnifications of different parts of his own psyche, which can be scary at times.
~ Proofreads everything over and over again, even days later, even if it's not going to be judged.

Yes, you are correct. Thanks for interpenetrating me :P
And the first and third ones of yours are me too!

[hoytti]

I'm the kind of author who:
~ Forgets to put a setting in his stories
~ Gives his main characters his personality
~ Has horrible grammar
~ Writes flat dialogues
~ Uses writing to get ideas out of his head.

[Ashla]

~ Gives his main characters his personality
~ Uses writing to get ideas out of his head.

Me too!

[Hysteria]

I'm the kind of author who:
~ Knows exactly how his characters will act in any setting
~ Imparts part of himself into each character (*high fives Roht*)
~ Hates to have characters with weak personalities
~ Never likes to read something he has written after the last proof read
~ Forgets what narrative style he was striving for as soon as there is action
~ Closes his eyes when he writes so he can picture whats going on
~ Listens to loud music, and kinda feel like I am floating when I'm in the 'zone'
~ Doesn't care what he scores for a thread (:p)

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

I'm one of those writers
-who believes that a story is only as good as the villain that drives the conflict
-hates re-reading my own writing, because I'll probably decide that it's utter garbage and nuke the whole thing
-doesn't care about overly flowery descriptions and metaphors; I only put in just enough details to make them actually matter
-compiles a short musical playlist for each major character in a story, and I listen to that playlist when I'm writing that character

[Lye]

~When I need to hurt something, I do it brutally in character.
~To purify my own madness, I give it to another through writing.
~If I need order and structure in life, I make it in a story.
~In an effort to be perfect, I obsess over grammar even though I know it's never right.
~I give my characters things I can't have then take it from them.
~When I dream something twisted and unique, I create a story to bring it to life.

[Noir.]

Focuses on writing to appease herself, painting a picture by sometimes overly indulging in detail.

Forces herself to stop rereading her posts more than twice, otherwise she has to continually change it.

Goes back to her posts sometimes days later and sometimes asks “what the fuck were you thinking?”

Has the intention of making friendly characters, but they all eventually end up dark and twisty.

Has come to terms that grammar will never be a friend, but the thought still drives her crazy.

Tends to listen to folk metal while writing in the fantasy setting, example Korpiklaani ftw.

[Ashla]

- Almost every time I re-read a post I find at least one thing I have to edit/ change.
- I'm a grammar freak, so whenever I see anyone else make any mistakes or typos, I'm like "... Must. do. EDIT!"
- My main character is based upon myself.
- I have a tendency to kill off a lot of characters after they become unneeded in the story as a way to explain what happens to them after their uses.
- If my characters aren't killed, they're tortured and then killed or are never heard from again anyhow.
- If they aren't tortured, they go missing... and maybe die off.
- If they don't go missing, they're extremely minor and go off on their daily business as if nothing's happened.
- If none of the fates listed above have happened to a character, they're one of my main characters.
- I'm (very) cruel to my characters.
- I based my main character off of other characters I've made before coming here. (one of those characters were named "Ayleth" and she was training to be a knight.)
- I already know what's going to happen to my main character at the end of my solos, even when I've first started them.
- I'm terrible at my description.
- I use a lot of imagery, personification, etc.

[Ashla]

- I go crazy after a thread I wrote in gets closed and just then I notice a grammar mistake but I can't fix it cause the thread is closed. :P
- I can't bare to read my older writings cause I was so terrible back then xP
- I write random, little vignettes off and on when in the random mood and never submit them to this website even though I want to see what people would think of them.
- Instead of writing I sometimes watch YouTube all day long...
- Whenever I'm angry or super excited I write it out in a story.
- I tend to be very poetic off and on in my writing.
- I've got a million ideas on writing, but whenever I actually go to the thread I want to write in I forget it all!

[Erikar]

Always ends up taking a lot of punishment in fights in a bid at realism(may get a slight masochistic pleasure out of it)

Has a lot of trouble expressing a specific persona

Judges his and other people's writing subconciously(I could probably judge, but that seems like a lot of work..)

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

I'm also a writer who, as an rp'er, plays a character who's best served in a story's supporting role; yet, but writing in first-person, I tend to force her into the spotlight... -_-

[Enigmatic Immortal]

I find it creepy how Roht has exactly the same quirks I do...

[Hysteria]

You're a creepy sort of guy *shrug*

But not as creepy as:


~I give my characters things I can't have then take it from them.

I'd like to see more people do this, Sei? Duffy?

[Silence Sei]

-I'm a writer who embodies Sei with almost every sigle one of my own good traits; family above all else, willing to sacrifice mind and body for friend, despite being burned on numerous occasion, gives anybody a chance, etc etc.

~ Likewise, Zack embodies all my negative traits; I'm arrogant, have a tendency to talk like I'm better than everyone, I get angry when I lose, etc etc.

~ Many of my characters started as templates based on other characters (Sei was Silence from Saga Frontier, Zack was Ash Crimson, Play Back was Ronin of Marvel comics fame....) but wind up becoming their own unique person by the end of their first thread.

~ I get upset over things that happen OOCly regardless of whether or not it made sense ICly for someone to do.

~ I'm the kind of writer that things Lye's the kind of writer that's dumb.

[Ashla]

- Some of the best stuff I think I've written is stuff I wrote purely for my enjoyment and not for judging...
- I write really gory scenes even though I can't stand gore :/ xP (Like, seriously, WUT?!?)
- I already have my level four character sheet written out.
- I love writing flashbacks!!!
- I've got a million flashback scenes written in my head that are just being saved for the perfect moment...

[Tobias Stalt]

I'm sadistic toward my kind characters. My evil boys are cruel.

I don't really write any bad guys on Althanas. Yet.

I enjoy giving my characters immense flaws. If you can't accept them of feel sorry for them because of them, you're seeing the best point of giving a character a flaw. They're not supposed to be endearing.

I enjoyed making Tobias the puppet. It works out well for story later.

Yes. I put an enormous amount of thought into how I would wage war on Eiskalt. No. I am not a humanistic tactician.

[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.

[BloodandBlades]

- I always have millions of weaponry concepts... only 1.1% of them ever make it to the bazaar and only 0.01% are bought.

[Ashla]

- I get massive plans for my characters but never execute them.
- I have some kind of reoccurring character.
- I try to be original, but everything's been done.
- I usually write late at night, and sometimes write with eyes half drooped and barely any conscious left...

[Rehtul Orlouge]

- I write in a very visual style for most of my attacks, yet my setting still suffers from lack of detail
- I tend to write in the passive voice a little too often
- I love combat threads, because of the action, even though my skills heavily favor dialogue and persona rather than action
- I try to keep my characters as human as possible, because I don't use my characters as power fantasies, but as ways of exploring philosophical, ethical, and moral ideas.

[Drumheller]

I'm the kind of writer that likes to use multiple senses in a thread. Scent and touch being the two most common.

I have to place the thread in time as well, if a time system doesn't exist for me to use, then I'll make one.

I'm the kind of writer, that once a guiding assumption is placed into a thread, and there is always at least one, then I have to follow that assumption to iits logical conclusion.

[Medeia]

-I am one of those writers that takes a single idea and flips it over and over in my head. Most of my ideas start off with a bunch of what would probably look like gibberish and disconnected ideas to anyone else, but makes perfect sense to me.

-I am one of those writers who actually gets up and acts out different combat scenarios my character is experiencing, just so I get the correct visualization and an adequate description of what's going on.

-I am one of those writers who is never 100% satisfied with my work, (ever), and will eventually just click the submit button out of fear of ruining a post.

- I am one of those writers that cringes when I see typos or spelling errors in closed threads. I tend to be a grammar nazi, though I try really hard to not be one. The eye-twitching is obvious, I know. >~< (Case in point, I previewed this post at least three times before submitting. xD)

-I am one of those writers who never seems to have enough time to actually sit down and write. Growing up sucks. I don't recommend it to anyone. e,..,e

-I am one of those writers who likes to intertwine mythology with fantasy, and almost all my characters are based off of some legend, fable, or story in at least one way.

[Max Dirks]

I am one of those writers who doesn't write :(

[Irate Pirate]

- I get massive plans for my characters but never execute them.

This speaks to me so much it hurts.

[Ashla]

- I never finish the stories I start xP

[Shinsou Vaan Osiris]

Emerald green eyes.

Storm Veritas / Sage will understand what I mean by that.

[realize.real.lies]

-I am one of those authors that tend to describe my characters as if they were involved in an erotic novel..

-I am one of those authors that just tend to through a comma in somewhere when I am unsure about the type of break it needs.

-I am one of those that tend to do multiple threads because I hate waiting for responses and I tend to reply fast most of the time..

[FennWenn]

~ often plans out lengthy and/or epic arcs for my guys beforehand and by hook or crook THEY WILL BE EXECUTED
~ tweaks most posts at least twice after putting them down
~ panics about writing a post wrong, so I put off writing it for a bit, and then I panic about putting it off for too long
~ likes using all five senses whenever I can
~ seems only capable of writing adorable main characters/woobies/adorable woobies?

I like forum games, do you like forum games? These forums have many forgotten games I find.

[Flamebird]

- I make the mistake of taking IC events personally and I need to stop.
- I struggle to write setting because I never even pay attention to my surroundings in real life. As a true visual thinker I struggle to put words to the events taking place in my mind that I have to write but can only visualize.
- Science and realism have become important to me so much, I plan to write absurd and overly fantasy-ish, not at all grounded in reality things out. I rely too much on science to explain even abilities (Ashla's powers are genetic, Felicity gained her abilities thanks to alchemy and a lab experiment.)
- I absolutely love writing from a psychological lense.

[Rayleigh]

I'm one of those writers who
~ Gets way too emotionally attached.
~ Thinks in dialogue, so that's why I write so much of it.
~ Struggles to see the big picture, and finds more comfort in slice of life stuff.
~ Steals snippets of style from all the authors I read.

[kitsune]

I am one of those writers who:

- Doesn't have a lot of motivation most of the time.
- Reads too much Fanfiction.
- Wants to learn Japanese so is writing a Japanese character who speaks Japanglish (Japanese and English).
- Loves creating new languages.
- Is horrible at writing setting.
- Tends to tell not show.
- Creates to many characters and doesn't actually use them all

[Storm Veritas]

I am one of those writers who:

- Uses his main character to express the author's id very frequently.
- Enjoys both the challenge of writing with superior writers and the relaxed nature of a good crap-thread.
- Doesn't delve well into deep fantasy.
- Gets significant motivation to write from alcohol.

[Flamebird]

- ... Rarely ever actually completes already started threads. :P