Meme - Day 5

And we're on to Day 5. So far, I'm not inspired to write, but I am liking the chance to talk about my characters lol.


5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?

Well, I've had characters give birth, so I guess newborn is the youngest. As for oldest ... I suppose one of the grandparents in Sandy Cove would count. Sandy Cove was interesting in that I literally dismissed all the parents and authority figures, since I was so afraid to write adults and parents. Those of you who bought the series will notice the parents were involved in the later books, only because I became more adept at older POVs.

Most of my characters have tended to stay around my age or younger. I'm much more comfortable writing younger characters, although I've been working on older ones as of late.

In terms of creation, I think I mentioned in the last entry, Joy Morrison is the oldest character (at least of those I wrote books about). I recently read my very first diary. I started keeping one in 1985, and found an entry where I mentioned my friend and I were going to write a book and "the twins Samantha and Dawn Mitchell are the stars." I wish I had written down characters I came up with when I was really young. Joy is the only one that carried through from a young age into things I wrote when I was older - and I still write.

The most recent character I created is probably someone for fan fiction. I don't really keep track of things like when I create a character though.