I just had to do it. *grin*

The Author Tag

Do you have a pen/pecil collection? How many of those are chewed? Au contraire... somehow I always manage to lose all my pens and pencils. (Therefore I have no time to chew on them.)

Do you prefer handwriting or typing furiously? If it were for me I'd type furiously all day but every now and then handwriting is necessary to get over Writers' Block.

How often do you get inspiration? Every second of every minute of every day. Yes, literally. (It stopped scaring me two years ago.)

Are you blogging this on a computer or laptop? Laptop. My sidekick.

Do you get inspiration more in the early morning or late at night? Most of the good inspiration comes late at night so I can write it during the day.

Do certain movies/books/music inspire you? No, not really, but if I look for inspiration I'm going to find it. It's a gift I have.

How do you incorporate God into your stories? I don't really know. He's in there somehow, but I guess it's just in the sense that He's with me when I'm writing it... but when I read it it's more focused on the other characters. *gasps and hangs head in shame* But His presence is there, and if you look for Him He's there! Just look hard enough. It can be that little spark of hope in a character's heart... or maybe even just a smile during dark times...

Do you kill off your villains or make them repent? I can only kill the minor baddies. But Maeve, it seems, won't die 'till I'm, like, twenty. She's pretty much invincible until I can get Leslie in there, which won't be for a while.

Is the majority of your characters magical beings, humans or halflings? Or something else? They're all human beings. Talking animals creep me out. Plus, I prefer not to take leaves out of Tolkien and Lewis' books. I'll stick to my own.
Gillian: But what about Flugen?!
I DON'T KNOW WHAT FLUGEN IS. Maybe he's a mutant person or something but he is NOT a goblin. *inches away nervously*

What genre of writing are you most comfortable in? If you were to step out of your comfort zone, what would you write?  My muses call my comfort zone "Depressing Fantasy" and I quite agree with them. If I stepped out of that zone I'd try to write a normal modern-day fiction book, but I guess I'm not very modern-day because they never work out.

Do you work better alone or with someone else? Eh it depends... I don't mind working with other people, but what drives me nuts is when they take too long to write a chapter and I'm left hanging there for a whole summer. (OKAY, OKAY, I KNOW. I LEFT CAETY HANGING THERE FOR A WHOLE SUMMER. Dumb muses.)

Do your stories make sense, or do they ramble wildly? I think they make sense, if you're willing to drop your logical side and accept the presence of power/magic/whatever you want to call it.

Are your characters mostly Renegades, Peacekeepers or a mish-mash? Um... I don't know.

Are you a sucker for good grammar? I am a sucker for good grammar. And punctuation. In fact, I spent all summer on FictionPress copying and pasting my "THIS IS HOW YOU WRITE DIALOGUE" review on pretty much everyone's stories.

How is your handwriting? Well, I can read it, so I'm okay with it.

How evil are your villains? Eh, my villains who work for the main villain really aren't that bad. They don't actually have a choice; they're being forced to work for Maeve. Now, Maeve is your ultimate baddie. I don't even know how she'll even die in the end.

Are you long-winded or succinct? Uh.

Do you have typical "writer" traits such as inkstains on your fingers or a pencil behind your ear? Hehehe... I handwrote so much for the past few years that I think my fourth finger on my right (write!) hand will be sore for all eternity.

Would someone walking past you on the street consider you normal? Yes, surprisingly. On the streets I'm relatively normal. 'Cept for the fact that I try to ignore everyone with my iPod. Is that normal? 

Do you write mostly poetry, stories, novels or a mixture? Novels.

Do your characters vary in accents, appearence and attitude or are they mostly the same? I can't do accents but one day I might try. In appearance they do vary.

Do real people and/or places inspire your writing? Well, yeah, like I said, if I look for inspiration I'm going to find it.

How many blogs/websites/internet haunts do you have? I run one blog... and... that's it.

What is your favorite character? Or do you choose to remain unbiased in case of a revolt? MY FAVORITE CHARACTER?! Uh. Well, I'm going to have to go with Adrian. =D Guys in real life should be more like him.

Do you talk to your characters? Do they talk back? No. I don't really talk to my characters. Sometimes I ramble insults to them in my journal though.

Are you more comfortable with girl or boy main characters? Honestly? I can do both perfectly fine.

Do you follow basic overused plotlines with new twists thrown in or do you depart from the norm all the time? AKA cliches? I try to stay away from those. Sometimes I'll grab one that catches my attention and twist it until it looks like one of those balloons a clown might make, and that balloon can resemble anything, because when I twist I twist.

Do you feel God has called you to be a writer/poet? Will you grasp "the power of the pen"? Yeah, I think I might already be on the way to grasping it. Of course He has!!! I'm not good at anything else. Anything.

I tag Forestcrazy, Outfire, Storyteller, and ThrillAuthor.