I done got tagged tonight--with another writing meme.
1. What’s Your Writing Style?
Do I have a style? I do have (or so I'd been told several times by my various professors), that I have a very distinct 'voice' as a writer, but do I have a "style?" I don't know. I THINK maybe I may tend to be a bit old fashioned and proper in my writing at times, at other times I'm a bit flippant and simplistic--perhaps even a bit shallow.
2. Are you a “pantser” or a “plotter?”
Oh, definately a pantser--that's a stupid slang term for writers like me, who tend to write by the seat of their pants, instead of wrestling for days over plots. It's probably not the best way in the world to write--at least, I don't think so, but it's what I'm comfortable with.
And, since I'm no professional hack, I can do as I please, since no one generally reads my fiction/plays, anyway.
3.Detailed character sketches or “their character will be revealed to me as a I write”?
Bit of both. I usually have some vision of a character--even an established character, like Dr Who or his companions--inside my head before I even start writing...but, I also let the story shape the charcter, as per his or her response to different situations.
4.Books on plotting – useful or harmful?
I own books on writing--mostly gotten through my English and writing courses in college...but, unless I'm genuinely stumped on some specific point, or feel I need to refresh my memory about something technical that I've forgotten, I rarely read books on writing. Guess I'm a bit lazy, but I figure if someone really is a good writer--why is he or she writing books on writing? 
5.Are you a procrastinator or does the itch to write keep at you until you sit down and work?
A bit of both...but, yeah, more of a procrastinator. Many a time in college I would put off writing an essay until the wee hours before the paper was due in class that morning.
Yet, I'm just as likely, sometimes, to dive right in and tear away at it. When I'm writing a short story, I do like to sit there and not get up again, until I've written a whole chapter...doesn't always work that way, but there ya' go.
6.Do you write in short bursts of creative energy, or can you sit down and write for hours at a time?
Again, both. It all depends on what I'm writing. Creatively, I write in short bursts of energy...but when I have to write something, I'll just sit there for hours and crank away.
There's this whole demarcation line, for me, between work I HAVE to do, and work I'm doing just for my own pleasure--as a hobby to pass the time. I enjoy doing both, but I do take two opposite approaches between writing-the "job" and writing--the "hobby."
7.Are you a morning or afternoon writer?
I write whenever I feel like writing...tho', quite often, that tends to be in the ungodly hours of the morning, I've no idea why, other than it's quiet and easier to think without any distractions of disruptions.
8.Do you write with music/the noise of children/in a cafe or other public setting, or do you need complete silence to concentrate
50/50. I prefer silence half the time, but, on the other hand, sometimes music can help me set a mood to my writing...particularly if I have a emotional scene to write, or if I need to set a mood with background--a rainy day may mean I put on some melancholy instrumetnal music, for instance, or, if I have a sad scene to write, I might put on a lament by Andy M. Stewart, or, if an action scene, maybe some pop music, like The Fratellis or a happy scene, maybe the Carpenters.
9.Computer or longhand? (or typewriter?)
It physically hurts me to write longhand, so definately a computer or typewriter...however, because of my Holy brain, sometimes make notes in longhand, though not as a regular thing, only if I get what I think is a scathingly brilliant idea, or something I may want to tie into, later. Otherwise, I basically "pants" it.
10. Does what’s selling in the market influence how and what you write?
Hell no! I'm not now, nor will I ever be (as far as I can see) a paid/professional writer, so what the hell do I care, what's "popular" or not?
11.Editing – love it or hate it?
Neither. It is what it is, a necessary--well, evil isn't the right word, but if you care about your work, you should edit it. Obviously, if I deliberately took a course on news editing in college--a 3 hour night class no less, which made me have a 13 hour day (not counting the 1+ hour commute to and from home) at college on Wednesday, I don't "hate" editing. It's boring and tedious--and my practical knowlege of grammar sucks quite honestly--, but on the other hand, it is also a vital part of the creative process, that polishes a work to make it the best it can be.
How could I hate something like that?
