Let's play Never Have I Ever: Writer's Edition! Here's my answers, and if you want you can remix the project and give yours! 1. Never have I ever killed off a character just because I didn't know what else to do with them. I mean, maybe eventually, but usually either the character just gets like ZERO screen time or they die or they have a purpose, however small or ev!l. 2. Never have I ever based a character on someone I know without telling them. Real life people? Nope, not yet. Book characters? Yeah, since this was basically just his story but with different stuff 'cause it was a different character. 3. Never have I ever cried while writing a scene. Nah. I just haven't written any like depressingly sad ones. I mean, there was this one time when I read this scene from a book and I legit almost cried but thought, "If I'm crying over any character's d34th, it's Kenric's." (KotLC) So yeah, never while writing, not even while reading, though I came close a couple times. Why kill off Sara? Why kill off Kenric? That's what I Google randomly. 4. Never have I ever Googled something suspicious for research. Well... I kinda can't... everything I write (except for bits during computer class) is on a school Chromebook, so... it'll get flagged if I do. 5. Never have I ever written a kiss scene. Lol who hasn't (I know probably plenty of people but if anyone throws romance into stories they probably include a kiss scene, amirite?) 6. Never have I ever forgotten a major plot point halfway through a draft. Not really--but sometimes I'll make a note of something using an acronym and then completely forget what it means. Actually oftentimes. 7. Never have I ever written a character who was basically me. I throw elements of my life into it, and almost included myself as a side character before I knocked some sense back into my brain (this was, like, I dunno, third grade or something but still that was such a terrible idea) 8. Never have I ever had a crush on one of my characters. I've never had a crush on any book character, my own or otherwise. 9. Never have I ever started a novel without knowing the ending. Well, usually I have some sort of idea of where it ends, or where the next book picks up, but I still have yet to figure out an ending for the series that is my current pride and joy, even though I have a little, like, epilogue book pretty much planned out. 10. Never have I ever written more than one book at the same time. Lol I've got one that's excerpts I plan to include, one that I'm still like getting the details straight on, one that I really should work on instead of doing this, and one that I'm working on bits and pieces of so it actually gets finished before my deadline 11. Never have I ever given up on an outline and just winged it. If I make an outline--which happens like one a book now--I stick to it. It just gets to complicated otherwise, like I made that outline for a reason 12. Never have I ever spent longer choosing names than writing a chapter. Well there was this one time when I spent way too long deciding what font the signature at the end of my main character's letter would be. I mean there was this one book where each section I'd have to make up like twenty names so I just played a game for a bit and based some names off of the other players' names. Worked out great, y'all should try it sometime. 13. Never have I ever imagined who would play my characters in a movie adaptation. There were a couple times where I imagined how a trailer for my book--no, I think it was the series in general--would go, but I never imagined characters. 14. Never have I ever had a notebook full of story ideas I'll probably never finish. Well I don't have so many original story ideas so I might actually finish them and get them self-published if I ever work up enough free time later on in life
15. Never have I ever accidentally written a cliché and kept it anyway. Um... name a cliche and I'll see if I've done it...? I'm not sure I have the time or energy to check for cliches, like seriously after I'm done with this Koralie kid fanfic I'm planning then I'm going into the next book in the series and I'll probably have to go through most of her twelve labors to stay on schedule 16. Never have I ever spent an 2 hours writing and only produced one sentence. Well... usually it's songwriting (not my ideal career I probably suck but like I want to use them in my writing) 17. Never have I ever named a character after a crush. Nope. My only crush doesn't deserve that after--okay, maybe I deserved it for the way I confessed (it was pretty cowardly, who else does it through Gmail? probably no one), but I am NOT putting him in my books! 18. Never have I ever developed a crush on one of my villains. They're kinda too evil for that I'm gonna be honest and I've seriously only had one crush on a real boy who probably had half the girls in school crushing on him anyway 19. Never have I ever had a story idea while trying to fall asleep and then forgotten it by morning Well there was this really great idea I had where two of my characters were singing a duet for this awards thing and while I could remember most of it I COULDN'T REMEMBER THE SONG THEY WERE SINGING. And now, weeks after I've decided that it would have to be the whole quintet anyway, I remembered it was probably CANCELLED! (I think the official song title is in all caps) 20. Never have I ever written a scene specifically to traumatize my readers. Nope but I'll probably make my few readers mad when I k!ll off several of my characters to make the victory realistic and balance it out *considers going into hiding like SM* 21. Never have I ever forgotten a character existed until the final chapters. Now I realize I've been neglecting Hugo unintentionally and the Muggles on a porpoise so I should probably not only go with the original plan for bringing the Muggles back but give Hugo and Rose a chance to shine... thanks, now I feel guilty but no legit this is a great question to remind me who to include... 22. Never have I ever rewritten the first chapter more than five times. I stick with my chapters, I just do rephrasing in every other sentence. I legit don't have time for that with the self-publishing schedule that the school has 23. Never have I ever stayed up past 2 a.m. because I couldn't stop writing. I did it when I wasn't writing (please please please don't tell Mom) 24. Never have I ever written a very *questionable* scene. Well, recently it popped up on one of my Google Docs that it contains "sensitive content" and I think I know why and I'm debating whether I wait and see if someone calls me out on it or I try to fix it myself 25. Never have I ever stolen an idea from another book or a movie. My current pride and joy is a crossover of so many stories I can't count--and I have this one that has a couple small details I doubt anyone will actually call me out on that were based on an idea from another book Bonus!! 26. Never have I ever tried to write a book, finds no words and storms off angrily Have written two books and gotten them self-published, I will not give up, but I wonder if Jagger will when he realizes he has to write 125k words in this year's novel, not likely though 27. Never have I ever stared at the screen while eating chips trying to think what to write lol I don't eat while I write, I do them separately. I think someone will legit k!11 me if I destroy my Chromebook eating while writing. 28: Never have I ever made up a characters name from the top of my head Like I said, it's either whatever garbage I come up with or I base it off of a player name in a game I play that is unfortunately now blocked, whatever, that sounds like a next school year problem Remix, I'm curious to see what you've done!
