And it seems we gravitate to the characters in the stories we currently work on the most I think? … I still have favorites 
and Alicia and Kattar are great 
we love a power couple lol
I would agree with that lol. Probably because we;re getting to know the most about them...
but I still don't pick faves XDDDD
And yes I love Kattar and Alicia to bits.
Who is your most attractive character?
Carolina White, our dashing femme fatale whose magnetic charisma may or may not be a result of magic. I purposefully make her a woman in red to show she may or may not be trustworthy. So is she just naturally dashing, or is this Delilah hiding something about herself?Who is your smartest character?
Danu ni Muach, the Last of the Druids. The mentor figure of my comic. She managed to find a way to escape death, but also seems to be the only one with a deep sense of wisdom. She sees reality as it is, not as what we think it is.
One could argue her protege, Stephen Barnes AKA Emerald-Man, is also deeply intelligent, since he has outwitted many of his villains. True, sometimes he seems absentminded about social things, but that is what Danu and Carolina are for. But when it counts, such as outsmarting the criminal mastermind Dr. O'Reilly or finding weaknesses in his foes, he seems to always find something and prevail. Instead of just using technobabble or whatever, I like to show characters actually outwitting each other.
what? lol. my whole novel is called "Damsel in the Red Dress," but despite being a woman in red and Alicia is very much so NOT a femme fatale
3 What story is next?
Do you already have planned what story you'll be doing next when your current one is completed?
Technically I do, as I'm already working on my second novel "Rigamarole" but besides that, I'm also working on another novel for a competition, and if I lose, I'll be posting it here on tapas (please don't root for my failure.) This is another romance novel, but quite honestly, a lot less romantic that DITRD, so I might be shooting myself in the foot. (Why do I keep trying out for romance novel competitions? I'd never written a romance novel in my life before DITRD. Sigh.)
I also have a short list of other novels I'll be picking between when ALL of that is done. One is sci-fi, one is a really trippy...slice of life??? And one is a YA about a girl who is a total geek XDDD. But kinda proud of it.
4 What is your writing super power?
I think mine is bringing emotion to my stories/chapters/scenes. I think I'm really great at making people FEEL the emotion I'm trying to bring to the story, whether that scene is sweet and playful or cute, or heartbreaking. I just got through writing a short story the other day my editor told me was stressful.
Nailed it.
here you go if you want to cry:
Most attractive: Caramella Red, for sure. She's known as the Sweet Crimson for a reason!
Smartest: Either Caramella or Azure! Both are the best of the rival groups.
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The chapter The Traitor: The Life of Mother Heidi of my new work, Letter Addressed To The Fire, has been released this week! :DDD Letter Addressed To The Fire is a story told through letters, documents, newspaper articles, and the likes, aside from the thoughts of the main characters. There is yearning, there is angst... will they be or will they be not? If you like some angsty Romeo-and-Juliet-esque type of story, please look into this :)) <3
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Synopsis:
Twelve years ago, Azure Skylar, the Knight of the Cross of the unparalleled syndicate, the Chapel, was favored by the Pope himself to work on a mission that would determine the fate of their entire group against their growing rival, the Empire.
Twelve years ago, Azure met Caramella Red Aberdeign and found a friend in her. For once, he knew rest, quiet, peace, and comfort. Little did he know that Caramella Red was also the infamous Sweet Crimson, the ace assassin of their growing rival, the Empire.
A mistake, a wrong decision, a missed opportunity, all wrapped in the same regret that led to the ink on paper weeping about all that should have been said and done before time came and went. A story inspired by Taylor Swift's Evermore, Letter Addressed to the Fire will take you to a trip down the star-crossed soulmates' memory lane and tell you about all that was only whispered in the wind twelve years ago.
QUESTION 3
I’m using your advice and I’m now circulating between three stories! But I do have an order in which I’m gonna finish them (I hope) which is a story inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but only very loosely, and it’s set in Mexico. The next story is the story with Kumiko which I shared somewhere above. Then the third story about two siblings because I love siblings dynamics but I have many many siblings across a lot of my stories 
in this story though they find out they’re psychics. But maybe I’ll finish them in a different order, I’ll just have to write to find out!
QUESTION 4
I actually don’t know what my writing strength is? 
I actually can’t really pinpoint my drawing strengths either but I know I am a good artist. I enjoy the process very much, as I don’t have very much finished projects. My anti super power is starting a billion stories and never finishing the manuscript
Like same? I love writing sibling dynamics (have five siblings myself) and there is at least one set of siblings in virtually every story I write. Like the male and female lead of Rigamarole are siblings and their dynamic is like, the point of the whole story tbh
The most attractive character in "Lyra's Magnum Opus" is the bassist for the band Yellow Lizard. This is one of the MC's mentors' bands. He is quite built, but still lean. Tall. He's styled very gothic, and is often shirtless on stage. He's got nip piercings. His hair is long to his waist and very shiny, straight, and black. He's the known s*x symbol of the band and is often dressed in BDSM theming on stage.
The smartest character is Masaki, of the band Lyra. He's in IT for his day job and has a master's degree for that. He's very logical and thinks things over carefully before speaking. The rest of the band often seeks his opinion when they need someone smart.
I currently don't have plans for another story. I'm writing "Every Day is Beautiful With You". I'm usually pretty into the book I'm writing.
My writing superpower is making people cry their eyes out lol. "With great power, comes great responsibility" lol. I try to give people happy moments, too. Humor. Tender things. But it's gonna get you to cry a lot.
Ahh, looks like we have something in common there. I love writing humor too, but my stories can get pretty emotional
5 How long do your couples usually know each other before they become official?
Also, if they went on a few dates, how long into that did they wait to become an official couple?
So my leads have known each other for 15 years, and are now starting to go on dates together. Since it has yet to happen yet, I can't spoil and say how long it takes from this point for them to become official, but I'll come back and answer that later XD.
I can't say I have a consistent "usually," because my couple vary greatly from story to story. If the story is about a couple, it's often friends to lovers and they've known each other for at least a few years, but if romance is just a subplot, or there is a couple in the central friend group, they more often became a couple pretty fast.
6: How long in the actual timeline of the story does it take your leads to reach their first kiss? How long should you keep baiting the readers on/teasing them before you actually write the first kiss.
I won't spoil this either lol. But I'll say that I don't think I have a "usually," for this either, because all my couples are pretty different from each other. Some have more impulsive halves that make this come pretty quickly, others are very slow to reach this point.
I enjoy baiting my readers on/teasing them too much for first kisses and I'll probably keep doing it lol. I'm evil.
I've currently teased the readers...mmm, probably twice so far in "DITRD."
Here:
Y aqui tambien
Each new couple means more ways to tease my audience.
5: what are the most frustrating parts of being an author in your opinion?
This is just going to be my rant time lol, but the amount of competitions I can't compete in because I don't live in the USA is a big one.
I'm a dual citizen of the Dominican Republic and the USA (Dominican on my father's side) and reside in the Caribbean, but SOOOO many writing competitions require you to reside in the USA, and even really specific parts of the USA, or to have a U.S. drivers license as I.D., which I find pretty crazy since not even all U.S. citizens drive.
I understand that there are different laws to follow in different jurisdictions, but it's still pretty frustrating IMO. I spent basically all of May up to this point preparing for this publishing company's romance novel writing competition, only to learn that I can't compete because I'm not currently in the U.S.A.
This has been my rant. low bow.
Also just the amount of competitions that want you to be affiliated with a publishing company.
It's pretty frustrating to feel like my stress has basically been for nothing grinding away for thirty days (which may not seem like a lot, but it's been stressful, so bear with me.)
But whatever. In the end, I guess I'll just be posting the story on tapas. I told @skidiggy I'd be doing that anyway if I failed, but now I don't even get an opportunity to lose the competition.
6: what is the most fun part of the writing process for you?
well, i think my favorite part and the most fun part are slightly different for me so I'll mention both.
Crafting the emotional conversations I think is my favorite part. I'm a sucker for drama I guess, so anytime there are strong emotions to be felt, developing the character's reactions, ways of expressing themselves, and such is my favorite part of basically every story I work on.
That and writing character dynamics, be they conversations, playing, or anything else, I love writing the way my characters interact with others.
So I think I would consider character dynamics the most fun part. I also really enjoy writing narration though, because that's when my poet brain gets to come up with fun metaphors and ways of describing things to make the worlds more vivid.
Strong Emotions
I wake up drenched with sweat that feels like ice - coursing down my spine in tortured torrents-
And something in me is so shattered-
So fed up with the torment that I lose my mind- like fire through my blood and the bed-
I tear my sheets off the mattress and throw them to the floor, hearing threads fracture and fabric tear - I throw the pillows at the wall and my words after them, shrieking at the tops of my lungs.
“I DON’T CARE! I DON’T CARE! I DON’T MISS YOU! I DON'T WANT TO!”
And it’s not the first time I’m glad the house is empty! Glad everyone who cares about me is millions of miles away! That I have no one close enough to hold me after the nightmares and I’m completely and entirely alone! So I can scream like a demoniac until the howling on the inside of my head calms to that mellow, roaring melancholy I’m so used to that it’s almost comforting - almost mothering - and I can lay down on the bare mattress, weeping like a raving maniac with anger and agony-!
Not because I miss her.
I don’t miss her.
Kat is lying propped up against the couch pillows playing on his Gameboy in a state of absolute zombification when I open the front door.
It takes a second for his eyes to unglue themselves from the screen, his gaze seeming to move through water as he glances up at me. Then his eyebrows knit together, his expression a canvas of mingled horror and disgust in mild shades of disbelief.
“Nu-uh…”
I can’t help but start laughing.
“Is that a plaid tee-shirt dress? Where do you even find this stuff? Why did you change out of the black dress?”
“Just wanted to,” I say teasingly, pushing my hair back. “Why? Why are you so stuck on the black one anyway?”
He manages to keep his expression impassive and disinterested, as he says flatly, “When you only have two tolerable dresses in your entire wardrobe, I think it’s only natural for me to try to mitigate the suffering you inflict on my eyes.”
Hmm.
Not even the faintest vestige of embarrassment, color, or discomfiture shows on his face, and for some strange reason that bugs me - like an insistent light drizzle drumming on my psyche at 100 bpm.
What is with you, you little creep?
Taking the scrunchie off my wrist, I pile my hair up onto the top of my head and adjust the sleeve of the dress.
“That’s better.” I smirk, “My hair got in the way of the embroidery. Check it out, there are these little flowers around the sleeves.”
His mouth opens with an expression that reminds me of a muppet, if a muppet could be gorgeous, looking up at the ceiling like he’s searching for divine intervention.
“I know you’re doing this on purpose,” he raises his eyebrows, pressing against his temples with both fingers, “I know you’re doing this just because you KNOW it’ll make me angry.”
“Why on earth would it make you angry?” I laugh, shoving his shoulder as I plop down on the couch beside him. He rolls his eyes and shakes his head simultaneously.
“Okay, the dress itself doesn’t make me angry. You IN that dress sends me into a blind rage.”
Character interactions
I think after Tales of Valor is fully uploaded (probably in like two to three months) I´m taking a brake from that story before writing vol. 2, I have a few stories in mind I would like to upload, one is about Urban legends and mythology from Latin American culture, but that one I want to do in Spanish as well as in English so it might take a while, I also have a new story in mind, but is too early to give too many details but I do have a pre-view on other sites.
"At the center of the ocean, there’s a maximum security prison, a place for criminals that had done so many horrible things, but in the lowest level of the Maw of the Dead Man, lies another section of the prison, a level reserved for people that must be contained, people that have awoken a must dangerous facet of their inner selves, so far, there are three such individuals at the bottom of the hole, this is a story about them and how they will shape the foundation of everything."
“Inmate G-01, Male, 25 years old, from the providence of Navori, he was confined to this facility after a whole mountain was destroyed from the inside, casualties were in the double digits”
“Inmate G-02, Male, 23 years old, From the Vally of Killark, he was apprehended on the site of a horrible train accident, it is believed that he was the cause of it, we had to sedate him to gain access to the area, reports said that he would attack anyone that tried to get close to the wreck”
"Inmate G-03 not much is known about him but the library at Marlusha had to be remodeled after he was done with it."
I think we share this super power Xp, I´m often told that when my friends read form my writing they can feel the exact emotion(s) the characters are going through
i think that for me, is probably the bad feeling I get when I´m writing something and is not going that well, having to delete/save for later 10+ pages, is very discouraging
I love it when I write chapters where character just get to have fun, "For Thou Happiness!!!" is my favorite chapter I have written, chapters where it allows me to explore some aspects of my characters.
Same lol. except my OCs never seem to be able to have a full chapter of uninterrupted fun. the closest is probably "White Hot Sugar."
7: What character is your favorite to write (story by story)
It would be too hard to pick an overall favorite, and maybe for most writers, other than @beebutterbee so in each individual story, who is your favorite character to write?
In "Damsel in the Red Dress" I really enjoy narrating in Alicia's voice, but picking a fave is still pretty tricky. I like Shannon's dialog, but since he was supposed to be so clever and funny all the time, it did make writing him more of a conscious effort. The way Mrs. Moon speaks is just so much fun, and I love writing Kattar and Alicia's banter with each other BUT, if I have to pick one character who is THE most fun to write it's Melissa all the way.
She's just so crazy and weird and chaotic that writing her dialog is almost entirely stress free, I just get to ramble and tangent in her personality and it's a riot.
I’m hit by a human meteorite the second I step into the room.
The world spins around me for one second - a confused sphere of blinding white as I try to make sense of the noise and color, chirping in front of me.
At first, I’m not even sure who or what I’m looking at - vaguely conscious of a young-ish woman, even shorter than me, speaking a million miles an hour.
She’s wearing a plaid dress that’s designed to look like a long button-up in an ambiguous shade of lavender plum and a name tag that says “Melissa X.”
So this is Mrs. Xochitl?
Considering her name, I'm caught off guard by the strong Jewish accent, as she practically squeals, clapping my cheeks in both of her ice-cold hands-
“Oh my goish!” she laughs shrilly - her jaw dropping and eyes wide - “So this is the doll face everyone has been talking about! You're even prettier than you were in the video! I love your shoes! Huh! I love your hair! I'm so glad I finally get to meet you in person! I wasn't able to make it to the ceremony cuz my son had the worst cough you ever saw in your life and he gets to be such a baby whenever he's sick - You and me have the exact same taste in footwear. I'm going to be hitting you up for the rest of your life to talk about shoes, just you count on it-"
So for "Rigamarole" this is weird, but I just really enjoy writing Leia's cat, Lord Licorice. He's adorable and sweet. But if I had to pick a person, I personally really enjoy her friend Alyssa, who has yet to be introduced, but she has a sort of crazy chaotic-good energy like Melissa, except mildly creepy XD. I guess I just like writing chaotic-good characters.
Leia's Cat
Lord Licorice mews anxiously, and I raise my right arm to let him snuggle up next to me.
“What are you upset about?” I pout-scold as he nuzzles desperately, like he’s trying to breathe in my sweatshirt. I roll onto my back and hold him out, up above my head, his legs dangling like jellyfish tentacles from his fuzzy body, paws swiping vainly at my arms.
I mutter softly, trying to comfort the cat, though I know the words feel hollow in my ears.
“You don’t need to worry about me, okay?”
But animals are more perceptive than people ever are, and the second I set him down again he goes back to nuzzling.
I must smell like fear.
(this is available for free for everyone to read on my Patreon public posts
Its definitely Higen, his dialogues or scenes are fun for me, he and Ozwald come from another realm and while Ozwald adapted quickly to technology Higen still has a hard time adapting to it, I like to mention normal day-to-day things through Higen, here are some examples:
- Mechanical horse = motorcycle
- the giant worm used for transportation = subway/train
- The black mirror Ozwald uses for scrying = a T.V
- Ozwald´s modern loom = a sewing machine
- that tool that turned you into a living zombie = the computer
I have a fun day when I write a Higen centered chapter