5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them? My youngest major character is Mikayla Morgan, who is six years old at the beginning of Lane’s Girl. My oldest major character is… um… I’m not really sure. Once they become old enough I […]
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4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters! So you all know that I’ve been working on Fie Eoin for years, and that it was the first book-length original fiction I ever wrote. But there is this little known book called “My Life With Pone” that predates Fie Eoin by, oh, about a decade.
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3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)? I used to go crazy coming up with names for people and places in my stories. Parenthood.com’s baby name generator was on my bookmarks list. I looked up every single name in Fie Eoin until I
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2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females? How many characters do I have? Oh man, I have no idea. Give me a few minutes to count them all up… Sixty-three major characters. This doesn’t include short stories or The Good Man (which can hardly be called a short story),
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1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why. Can you guess it? Can you? I bet you can. Don’t look at the tags. You guessed Fie Eoin, right? Wrong. I love Fie Eoin, and working on it feels like going home to me, but it’s not my favorite. It’s
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Oh, guys. I’ve broken down and made myself a Twitter account. I thought this would be a good time to do it, because now I can post each question to next month’s Writing Meme each day, with a link to the blog for the answers. Now I just have to remember to update Twitter everyday
I figured that since you might be seeing the characters from the Top Secret Project in next month’s writing meme, I would tell you a little bit about them, without giving the book away. You already know a little about TSP. If you were paying attention a few weeks back you know it has to
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After Ancient is one of those great ideas for a sweeping, grand story that got too big for me to handle. I have confidence that someday I will be able to tackle it again and whip it into shape, but for now it’s a half-written, scattered-scene mess. The idea behind After Ancient is that in
If you haven’t noticed already, I’m a huge fan of mythology. My second grade teacher gave me a book of myths when I was in her class and I have loved them ever since. The first myth I read in that book was Orpheus and Eurydice (still one of my favorites) and I loved it.
You should all know almost as much about Phooka Tales as you do about Fie Eoin by now, since it deals very closely with my own past work situation and the main character is probably as close to me as you can get. Self insertion? Yes. Mary Sue? Not by a mile. Holly Thompson has