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Optimist 
1. OMG I READ THAT BOOK AND LOVED IT AND THE ENTIRE SERIES TOO
1.5 have you started Cress yet?
2. I totally get that I do the same thing really!
3. OOoh nice I'm glad you love writing her.
3-but-not-its-a-new-question...are there any characters of yours that you actually dislike writing?
4. Interested - yes there are so many interesting names in the Wizarding World I get that...and you probably can tell I use different sources as inspiration for names myself (Places, Books, what not).
4.5 What is the character name you most loved coming up with?
Jesse, your numbering system is cray-cray. I'll do the best I can.
1. It's waiting for me at the library right now!
3. The ones I don't like writing generally don't end up getting written for long. My last Ministry character was dead boring and I had to trade her in for someone more interesting, but that's the worst I've ever had.
4.5. Hmmm. I love developing characters in general. As soon as they're a little voice and need a name and a history and a personality and a face, they're just fun times for me.
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StarShine Hi Ern!
1. If you weren't American, which nationality would you like to have and why?
2. Have you ever got bored of SS and stopped being active for a while?
3. How are you motivated for so many characters?
4. How can you manage so many characters? Or did some of them 'die' in your head even though you used to love them while you were playing them?
5. (I'm sorry if this was asked before) How do you create characters?
6. Do you like playing second gens/characters that are related to one of yours or a whole new one more?
That's it for now!
Hey, Deniz!
1. Oh, this is tricky. I think I'd like to be British, but that might be my Harry Potter fangirl coming out.
2. Not really, no. I'm not as active now as I have been in the past, but I'm still around almost every day. And it generally isn't boredom, but busyness that makes me go inactive.
3. I'm crazy, that's how! Like I was telling Jesse, I love creating new characters, and sometimes when you build history around them, it requires even MORE characters. I like connecting my characters to other people's, and building history together. It's a weird thing to find fun, but there you have it. I'm weird.
4. No, they can't all be active at the same time. Some of my earliest characters are pretty quiet a lot of the time, and I prefer to hand off new characters rather than try to play ALL of them. It's really hard to keep everyone active, definitely.
5. How? Gosh, that's a really hard question even though it isn't VERY hard to create characters. Generally I start with a name and a basic knowledge of what I need them for (sibling of so-and-so, Healer, youngest child in a notable family with two older sisters, etc.), and then I like to look at faces while I'm thinking about the character. Sometimes the known history and what I need informs the developing of the personality, and sometimes it's the other way around. I really try to struggle with the personality and motivations and all that because I want to make sure that how he or she reacts and acts is authentic and not just me playing a scene for the outcome I want. Writing a bio is REALLY helpful for making ideas concrete and exploring how personality and history and family dynamics all interact. Long answer
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BanaBatGirl So I'm coming to your neck of the woods to do this Coffee Tour thing this weekend and I'm wondering... what's your favorite coffee shop?
1. I think it's too late for that, since you're here already. My favorite place closed recently, so I really need to find a new one!