Merie Shen

@calidris I have too many projects so I have all types, haha.

@calidris I love writing him with any of my other characters, because he just spices up the scene so much. Chaos ftw.

@calidris Can’t decide…too many… I like writing Akira a lot. A sarcastic, no-good barista. Rides a skateboard, chaotic neutral.

@calidris

Greetings and salutations.

Welcome to this epic forum.

Questions:

1: What other anime do you watch besides Hiakyuu? My favorites are Death note, Erased and Attack On Titan

2: Don’t like pineapple on pizza.

@calidris Yess it’s always like that for me even though I dictate the outline they still do their own thing in each scene. And at this point the depressing endings are plentiful.

Yep, my characters are all their own beings now. I rarely plot them beforehand, and sometimes I’m surprised by how different than I thought they would be.

@calidris Samee I feel your pain. Usually I just make it up as I go along and don’t plot anything. It’s a ride.

@calidris Oh wow! That is really creative! Is it possible to go through the Veil?

@kathleenramm YO ERASED I have all the manga it’s the first manga I bought it’s so good it just brings tears to my eyes—

@calidris Oo, a mining museum! That sounds pretty cool.

Hmm okay. Then I’ll give you a variety of genres. Your lie in April is a really beautiful anime about music. I really enjoyed A Silent Voice manga as well, and the a…[Read more]

@calidris Give me some genres you like, and I’ll recc you some anime, heh. There’s a lot of different stuff out there.

Yee, I have a ton of current projects. Yesterday I just started a short story about alter egos and reality. And, yeah, I totally get having everything in your head. I used to be like that too.

I love Interstellar as well! And I…[Read more]

@calidris Oh my word someone else who watches anime! I haven’t watched Haikyu before but I know a lot of people like it.

Yo, your WIP sounds so cool! I love like modern fantasy type of things. It’s what I write too. I would love to hear more about Spire!

Anyways, I’m Linyang, a lot of people here call me Lin, I like writing fantasy, crime,…[Read more]

@kathleenramm About five or six years ago I started writing it. Stories, hmm…maybe it’s been a decade. It’s been a long time, ha…

@kathleenramm This is actually the sequel of a sequel of a spinoff for my original idea for Thirteen Ways, ha… It started out with me wanting to make a world where I could escape to, and gradually I just added on, and on, and on… And now, thankfully, I’ve run out of ideas for it.

@kathleenramm I’m gonna use the current arc of Thirteen Ways since the stakes are the clearest. Basic premise: they need to gather ingredients for a spell to vanquish a demon. If they don’t, then some friends and family are lost forever to the demon.

In order to collect the ingredients, they must defeat the guardians of some of the ingredients.…[Read more]

@kathleenramm Good luck on your story! Yes, now I think I want to incorporate at least one delivery boy henchman into a future story. I love it when henchmen have distinct personalities and appearances. Makes the story much more fun.

@daisy-torres Oo, nice! Looks great!

@abigail-m Sorry this took so long. I’ll answer your questions now.

how likable are the characters?

Very likeable! I do like the three that you introduced here.

If you had to eliminate all but one character, what one would you keep and why?

I’d keep Anton because I’m a sucker for minor characters. But seriously, I wouldn’t eliminate any of…[Read more]

@kathleenramm I fully pantsed some works some months ago. It was terrifying. Like, usually I have no idea where things are going when I’m writing, but at least I have an outline as a roadmap. No, for this I had one sheet of paper covered with characters I wanted to be  in it, and then another page for me to jot down ideas as I wrote.

And…[Read more]

@joy-caroline As someone who generally likes antagonistic characters I like her a lot already! Kind of reminds me of Caleb Trask, one of my favorite characters in all of literature, who is supposed to symbolize Cain. I think as long as you portray all of your above ramble clearly, then you should have no problem getting your readers to like her!…[Read more]

@elfwing Of course! I’ll let you know if I have time.

@elfwing Hey, awesome! Right now I’m kind of busy, ahhh….