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January 2013

2 posts

gingerblivet: straddling-the-atmosphere: onceuponabopper: thetimetravelersguidetothegalaxy: wittywallflower: Writing is weird. One minute you are telling a story. The next minute you are researching the average amount of snowfall Edinburgh gets. or how to kill someone with a piece of barbed wire and a tomato Or how much force it takes to dent a human skull with a can of Pepsi. ...

under-mycrofts-umbrella: I feel like writers are murderers who just found a legal way to kill people.

August 2012

4 posts

July 2012

6 posts

“The fact that you would be willing to make yourself completely miserable if you...”

– Levi Wright (Willy and Nilly)

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Is your character an early bird or a night owl? [[MORE]] Definite night owl. Lanie hates mornings. With a passion.

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

How does your character react to temperature changes such as extreme heat or cold? [[MORE]] When it gets really cold, she cuddles closer to whoever she happens to be with at the moment. When it gets really hot, she gets cranky. She does not like heat at all. She loves the rain. She tends to go out and walk around any time it rains, just to be out there.

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

What does your character’s bed look like when s/he wakes up? Are the covers off on one side of the bed, are they all curled around the pillow, sprawled everywhere? In what position might they sleep? [[MORE]] It depends on if she’s sleeping alone or not. If she’s sleeping alone, she curls into the tiniest ball possible under her covers; half the time, her head isn’t even...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

How is your character with technology? Super savvy, or way behind the times? Letters or email? [[MORE]] Lanie’s really good with technology, for the most part. She once lost every file on her computer thanks to a virus she accidentally downloaded off a Clark Sawyer fansite when she was in her early teens. Since then, she’s gotten a lot better. When it comes to letters or email, she...

June 2012

50 posts

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Is there an animal you can equate to your character? [[MORE]] Any kind of animal that is calm unless threatened. Dogs would be a good example. Lanie is very easy-going unless you threaten her or those she loves.

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Can you define a turning point in your character’s life? Multiples are acceptable. [[MORE]] A definite turning point in Lanie’s life would be when her best friend, Jude, died. That started her on her path toward Dalton, Dobry, and the rest of her life. Another turning point occurs about halfway through her senior year, when Logan is released from prison and she has to, in a way,...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Who does your character trust? [[MORE]] Everyone. Including people she shouldn’t. Well…no, that’s a lie. There’s a few people she doesn’t trust, and she begins to develop trust issues after the middle of her senior year. People she trusts with her life: Satchel Davis Blaine and Shane Anderson Logan Wright The Warblers

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Day of favorites! What is your character’s favorite ice cream flavor? Color? Song? Flower? [[MORE]] Lanie’s favorite Ice Cream Flavor is Strawberry. Her favorite color is green. Bright green. The exact shade that can be found in Logan Wright’s eyes. Her favorite song….you can’t even begin to ask her that. She has too many favorites. “Let’s Be Us...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Is there one event or happening your character would like to erase from their past and why? [[MORE]] Hands down, the night that her best friend, Jude, died. Lanie arrived in the alley just in time to scare off Jude’s assailants, and she held him as he passed away, singing him to sleep all the way. She wouldn’t let go of him until the paramedics finally pulled him from her arms. She...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Describe your character’s happiest memory. [[MORE]] It depends on which point in her life you ask her. Up until the beginning of her senior year, her happiest memory was a night she spent under the stars with her two best friends, Satchel and Jude, and her brothers, Blaine and Shane. It was the last night that the four of them were together before Jude was killing Freshman year of high...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

What’s your character’s ranking on theKinsey Scale? [[MORE]] Lanie is a zero on the Kinsey Scale, meaning completely and totally heterosexual. Her boyfriend, on the other hand…he would be a five - predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual. That incidence of heterosexuality would be Lanie Anderson, and it ends up being the one he spends the rest of his life with....

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

How vain is your character? Do they find themselves attractive? [[MORE]] Lanie is not vain, really. She knows she’s good-looking, she admits that she sees how people could find her pretty, but she doesn’t take it to the extreme of “Oh, I’m so pretty, everyone should love me!” It’s more along the lines of “Yeah, I mean, I guess I’m kind of pretty,...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Name one scar your character has, and tell us where it came from. If they don’t have any, is there a reason? [[MORE]] Lanie has a very prominent scar on her chest, starting from an inch below her collarbone and spanning two inches down from there. Her scar came from the knife of Adam Clavell during senior year, a psychopath (for lack of a better word) who was hell-bent on seeking revenge...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

What are your character’s most prominent physical features? [[MORE]] If you asked Lanie, she’d say “Absolutely nothing!” Ask anyone else, and they’d say her smile and her dancer’s frame. While she’s far too clumsy to actually be a dancer, she was graced with a natural dancer’s body, and she loves to run. It gives her time to clear her head, which...

30 Days of Character Development - Lanie Anderson...

Describe your character’s relationship with their mother or their father, or both. Was it good? Bad? Were they spoiled rotten, ignored? Do they still get along now, or no? [[MORE]]Hoooboy, starting off with an interesting one. Lanie Anderson and her parents. Well. Here’s Lanie, for those who don’t know. Facecast - Tieka Dierolf Anyway. So Lanie’s Blaine Anderson’s...

Lanie and Jude (3/?) - Train Tracks

So…this is the third in a collection of picture-inspired drabbles…some might be just a few lines long, others might be a bit longer. These pictures were taken from Jude’s camera - he always said Lanie was one of his favorite people to photograph. Disclaimer - Jude Whittaker belongs to the all-powerful master of the universe, Miss “Mama” CP Coulter :) [[MORE]] “Don’t you...