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. A: Not necessarily KILLED... just never mentioned them again 2. Never have I ever based a character on someone I know without telling them. A: Many, many times 3. Never have I ever cried while writing a scene. A: No, but sometimes I cry while thinking about writing one 4. Never have I ever Googled something suspicious for research. A: My Google history is full of highly specific things like 'what colour was the pavement in 1833 in London' 5. Never have I ever written a kiss scene. A: No actually I haven't because I'm not really sure how to write romance 6. Never have I ever forgotten a major plot point halfway through a draft. A: I often get carried away describing the main character's bedroom... 7. Never have I ever written a character who was basically me. A: Um... maybe?! 8. Never have I ever had a crush on one of my characters. A: Nope my characters are too badly written 9. Never have I ever started a novel without knowing the ending. A: Nearly all the time, or I know the ending but don't know how to get there.. 10. Never have I ever written more than one book at the same time. A: I have like 6 unfinished stories at the moment 11. Never have I ever given up on an outline and just winged it. A: Outline? You use an outline? 12. Never have I ever spent longer choosing names than writing a chapter. A: I Google names and find their meanings and origins even though the most famous book series have main characters with pretty mundane names. (Harry Potter, Sophie Foster, Agatha and Sophie from SGE) 13. Never have I ever imagined who would play my characters in a movie adaptation. A: Can I play the main character? 14. Never have I ever had a notebook full of story ideas I'll probably never finish. A: A Google document because those have more pages. 15. Never have I ever accidentally written a cliché and kept it anyway. A: Always 16. Never have I ever spent an hour writing and only produced one sentence. A: You could make a million bricks out of my writer's block 17. Never have I ever named a character after a crush. A: No... 18. Never have I ever developed a crush on one of my villains. A: My villains are either pure evil or mean girls at high school so no 19. Never have I ever had a story idea while trying to fall asleep and then forgotten it by morning A: Story of my life 20. Never have I ever written a scene specifically to traumatize my readers. A: No, but sometimes writing scenes traumatises me 21. Never have I ever forgotten a character existed until the final chapters. A: I rarely ever get to the final chapters... 22. Never have I ever rewritten the first chapter more than five times. A: 23. Never have I ever stayed up past 2 a.m. because I couldn't stop writing. A: No... I need my beauty scene 24. Never have I ever written a very *questionable* scene. A: Nope 25. Never have I ever stolen an idea from another book or a movie. A: All the good ideas are taken! Or sometimes I write a story and then read it later and find out that I subconsciously paraphrased a book I'm reading. Remix and give your answers!
