30 Days of Writing: catch up!
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lathriel19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!
Sparrow Overbjorn- the supposedly dead younger sister of another minorish character in the Lotus Children series. I actually wrote my first NaNo novel about her :) She was originally just supposed to be dead, or maybe actually alive, but her real story became a novel unto itself. She's one of those poor character that you feel bad for having created because their life is such hell. She is ten when war breaks out on her home planet, and she sees her parents executed (and she thinks her older brother, Phoenix, is killed as well). As a prisoner, she rallies with other children and they escape to the wilderness. Unfortunately, a plague has been unleashed on the planet to kill anyone with DNA that is not of the human genome- and she is something like 1/8 alien DNA. But she has a photographic memory and is clairvoyant, and using her genius and an abandoned laboratory she develops a cure, kind of, that works for most of the infected children she is with (for the humans have been dying too- the virus mutated). She falls in love with the group leader, but in a final assault on the building they are holed up in, he is killed. She ends up joining a circus at some point and learning how to throw knives, perform aerial acts, ride horses. Aft that, she ends up disguising herself as a boy a few years later (she's rail thin and over six feet tall) and joining a militia that is hunting down the last of the men responsible for their quarantined planet's terrible fate. She's promoted quickly because of her skill with a knife, and makes enemies for it- then is is discovered to be a woman, and, well, you can imagine...
Also, when she turns sixteen, she begins to lose sight in both eyes. As it turns out, she's riddled with cancer, a side effect of her DNA having been altered by the plague. She goes blind and has only her clairvoyance into the spirit world to help her get by.
Sad face :(
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
Banter. Sometimes you just start having fun with your characters, probably more fun than you should, and you end up writing some hilarious crap that will probably be edited out in the second draft, but still... it's fun to write ;D
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
In my epic sci-fi series the main character from the first books ends up having children that he doesn't even know he has. They kind of become the main characters of the last few books. I think I write them pretty well, but I never write them as babies or anything- so I guess their like most "children" I write: young adults.
Sparrow Overbjorn- the supposedly dead younger sister of another minorish character in the Lotus Children series. I actually wrote my first NaNo novel about her :) She was originally just supposed to be dead, or maybe actually alive, but her real story became a novel unto itself. She's one of those poor character that you feel bad for having created because their life is such hell. She is ten when war breaks out on her home planet, and she sees her parents executed (and she thinks her older brother, Phoenix, is killed as well). As a prisoner, she rallies with other children and they escape to the wilderness. Unfortunately, a plague has been unleashed on the planet to kill anyone with DNA that is not of the human genome- and she is something like 1/8 alien DNA. But she has a photographic memory and is clairvoyant, and using her genius and an abandoned laboratory she develops a cure, kind of, that works for most of the infected children she is with (for the humans have been dying too- the virus mutated). She falls in love with the group leader, but in a final assault on the building they are holed up in, he is killed. She ends up joining a circus at some point and learning how to throw knives, perform aerial acts, ride horses. Aft that, she ends up disguising herself as a boy a few years later (she's rail thin and over six feet tall) and joining a militia that is hunting down the last of the men responsible for their quarantined planet's terrible fate. She's promoted quickly because of her skill with a knife, and makes enemies for it- then is is discovered to be a woman, and, well, you can imagine...
Also, when she turns sixteen, she begins to lose sight in both eyes. As it turns out, she's riddled with cancer, a side effect of her DNA having been altered by the plague. She goes blind and has only her clairvoyance into the spirit world to help her get by.
Sad face :(
20. What are your favorite character interactions to write?
Banter. Sometimes you just start having fun with your characters, probably more fun than you should, and you end up writing some hilarious crap that will probably be edited out in the second draft, but still... it's fun to write ;D
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?
In my epic sci-fi series the main character from the first books ends up having children that he doesn't even know he has. They kind of become the main characters of the last few books. I think I write them pretty well, but I never write them as babies or anything- so I guess their like most "children" I write: young adults.
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Date: 2010-09-20 03:16 pm (UTC)Banter."
I knew I loved ya for a reason. ;-)