So you call yourself a writer...

Hello random readers who I like to pretend exist.

This time I am actually writing about me. Mostly because it's easy, and I feel like this blog is dead. So yes, I do call myself a writer. For various reasons, the main one being that I write.

So I will be answering a good number of questions actually found on a blog chain. Which I stole. Or copied. Take your pick.

I will be answering them as quickly as possible. As many as one a day. Until they start coming at once a week. Or I come up with my own questions. Which eve comes first.

I will of course credit the blog chain right now for their inspiration, because I definitely need it.

The members of this blog chain are:

Girl With a Notebook

From Elysium

Sometimes helpful nonsense...

Somewhere in my Nowhere Kingdom

Flames and Shadows

If one of the people from aforementioned is reading this, thank you for your stolen questions. They make me happy.

Questions:

What makes a character memorable to you?

If you could present your work to one (or more) specific author(s), who would it be?

How do you improve your writing?

What is new with your writing life?

What was the last thing that inspired you?

What are your writing quirks?

What's your most recent obsession, as far as writing is concerned? Is there anything that's recently (or not so recently) begun to pop up in everything you write?

What are your plans for your career as a writer?

How do you manage your time when it comes to writing?

How has writing affected your life?

How much pre-writing do you do before starting a writing project?

What do you do when you are stuck?

How do you edit your own work?

When picking points of view for your fiction, what do you consider? Is there any rules about combining points of view in a longer piece? Any limitation to the number of narrators?

Do you prefer fantasy or reality? And, of course, why?

What influences your writing?

How do you come up with our characters' names?

What are your strengths as a writer?

Do you see your characters as people? As children? As tools?

What kind of writer are you?

Where do you write?

What do you find are the hardest things about writing?