WELCOME WELCOME! Time for our July edition of Beautiful People! We have a sort of lazy summery set of questions for you this month (apologise to those, like me, who are shivering in the cold). Also, if you write fantasy and need to tweak any of the questions (like what’s their favourite “food” instead of “ice cream”) GO AHEAD. We still love the rebels.
Also to those of you doing Camp NaNoWriMo, let me cheer you on and feed you motivating chocolate! The “cabin” thing actually terrifies this Hermit writer, so I’m waiting until November to join the legions. I’m editing this month. And by “editing” I mean I’m on pinterest thinking about editing.
Also, did you know it’s National Ice Cream day on the 19th? Isn’t that awesome? We have one ice-creamy in honour of that.
Anyway! Onwards, I say!
Don’t forget to grab the button and/or link to this page on your blog! So anyone can join in!
1. What’s their favourite ice cream flavour?
2. Your character is getting ready for a night out. Where are they going? What are they wearing? Who will they be with?
3. Look at your character’s feet. Describe what you see there. Do they wear dress shoes, gym shoes, or none at all? Are they in socks that are ratty and full of holes? What do they consider comfortable and what do they consider agony?
4. Do they have any birthmark or scars? Where are they and how did they get them?
5. What kind of music do they listen to? Does it change depending on their mood or is it always consistent? (Feel free to share samples!)
6. Do they have any musical talent? Play an instrument? How’s their singing voice?
7. What kind of book would you catch them reading?
8. How would they spend their summers (or their holidays)?
9. It’s Saturday at noon. What is your character doing? Give details. Ex. If they’re eating breakfast, what’s on the menu? Are they hiking, shopping, lazing around?
10. Is there anything your character wants to be free of?
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I would TOTALLY join in this because my MC Thomas comes from a summery place that is literally called “a summery place”. Sorta. ANYHOW *coughs* because I am actually trying to reach my goals, I think I’ll pass on this round on BP, although I’ll decide right away that Thomas likes mandarin sorbet. That is ice cream too. Do not discriminate against different types of ice cream.
I totally know what you mean about being on Pinterest instead of actually editing. And Christina’s Pinterest contest, where I saw your Neverland Pinterest board entered (btw, SQUEEE NEVERLAND), totally distracted me. But I have broken 15K and been somewhat on schedule so yay. I AM TOTALLY DOING CAMP NANO ALONE. I am a rebel and a loner and too impatient to wait until November. Besides, November is the pre-exam month. Writing then will cause strange hybrids of economics and dragons and chemistry.
Summery Place is an inspired name, tbh. JUST SAYIN’. hehe. 😉 Mandarin sorbet sounds absolutely interesting though, and I can just imagine the colour which just seems amazing in my imagination so YES I APPROVE, THOMAS. And pfft, I shall not be an ice cream discriminator. I’m a believer of equality amongst ice cream.
afjklds I LOVE NEVERLAND. And I’m totally loving the look of Christina’s contest too1! SO EXCITING. Ah, I understand doing Camp alone. That would be me, too, if I crawled out from my bookshelf and tried to write instead of all this reading. BUT YA KNOW. BOOKS.
Um, Cait, you can’t ask me what my favourite ice cream flavour is, that’s like asking me my favourite book. So I’m going to go with three because I can.
– Mango sorbet
– Cookies and cream
– Strawberry
Because clearly you needed to know these things about me 🙂
YAY can’t wait to do these questions, they sound fun 🙂
But I have to ask mean questions. It’s who I am. It IS. But cookies and cream, omg, you can stay. YOU CLEARLY HAVE GREAT TASTE.
Love the questions for this month!! Especially #2 and #9 — those types of questions are the ones I need to help figure out my characters. Sometimes they get on my nerves (and I take it out on them shamelessly), but I do love them.
Can’t wait to do this month’s edition!
~Emily
Yaay!! SO glad they’re applicable for your story and can’t WAIT to read yours!!
Chocolate. My favourite ice cream flavour is any type of chocolate – double, triple, quadruple (not kidding, this actually exists!!!). My FMC’s is probably honeycomb.
I’m behind on my word count!!!!!! But only because I changed my setting from England to a fictional country and therefore had to go back and edit.
#10 is actually the main theme of my story – almost everyone wants to be free of their reputation.
Chocolate is just glorious and the fact that quadruple chocolate is a thing just makes me have great faith in the gloriousness of this universe.
OMG. HURRY UP NOW. WRITE FASTER. *cracks whip* OR NO ICE CREAM FOR YOU.
I am ashamed that I have not linked up for this before… XP (All of this wasted time!! Ugh!) I might just need to fix that.
I’m still writing the novel I started LAST November!!! If I keep it up, I might continue it this NaNoWriMo too… I’m a slow little turtle. And too many plot-bunnies keep running circles around me. 😛
As for my favorite ice cream, I am a die-hard Butter Pecan lover!!! And if there are little toffee-bits in it, SCoRe!!!! <3 <3 <3
Pfft, don’t be ashamed. I host the thing and forget to link up half the time. xD Ahh, but slow turtles win the race right?! SQUASH THE BUNNIES! EAT THE TURTLE! HUZZAH!
Wait…
I started Camp Nanowrimo and have already changed the story I’m writing T.T why can’t I stick with one? WHYYYYYYYY?!?!?!? But I do like the one I’m currently writing more xP but it only has like 400 words and I need 20,000 by the end of this month…oh well I might get there…I do like where my story started though, it’s quite mysterious!
Anyways for this do you make your own blog post answering the questions? Or does it not matter? I think this is a great idea too!!!!
YOU ARE JUST TOO FABULOUS TO BE CONTAINED BY ONE STORY, CLEARLY. Heh. But best of luck with your book!! I BELIEVE IN YOU. Mystery is great, *nods* especially if it’s an ice cream mystery, and I won’t be pushy, but you should totally write an ice cream mystery and basically nothing else. *pushes you*
hehe I KID I KID.
AND YES. Make your own blog post on your blog and just link to us and add your blog link into the linky above!
MINT CHOCOATE CHIP. Sorry, all I saw was favorite ice cream. Excuse me while I take deep breaths and try to calm myself. (My second favorite would be cookie dough, of course.) Yes, the cabins in Camp NaNoWriMo are very scary, which might explain why I don’t consider it for very long before I decide that I am more of a November person. Maybe someday I’ll be brave enough, but today is not that day. 😛
Once again, these are great questions (though, since my current WIP is fantasy, a little less applicable–but still great). Now excuse me while I go prepare for National Ice Cream Day. (Is this an Australian holiday? Because, if it is, I don’t care. I’m still celebrating it.)
No, no, I quite understand. Don’t calm yourself. BEECAUSE ICE CREAM IS NOT A CALM TOPIC. IT IS A TOPIC OF GLORY AND DELICIOUSNESS AND LET’S JUST FLAIL AND SCREAM ABOUT ICE CREAM TOGETHER, SHALL WE? YES. THERE IS NO OTHER ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. AHHHH!!JKLFDSA!!!
Ahem.
I’m a hermit writer. I tried to psych myself up for cabins but. Nope. November it is, for me. 😉
Agh, yes, probably not so good for fantasy, but feel free to tweak the questions a little! I think National Ice Cream Day is an American thing because it’s winter in Australia and we ain’t celebrating ice cream in Winter.
Ice cream: anything with chocolate as long as there are no coconuts.
Word count: today, i’m suppost to be somewhere around 35000 if i stay on schedule
Random comment stuff: I love the questions. I’ve never done BP before but now I’m totally going to check out previous additions. I’m not doing camp NaNo but instead doing it in November. Hopefully I won’t crash and burn like last year.
Some of these questions don’t apply to my MC’s at all and I find it fun just to watch their reactions (I like to ask the questions in first person). Good luck to everyone out there doing camp NaNo.
~K.A.C.
OMG ARE WE TWINS???! I hate coconut so so much. ERK. Especially coconut-flavoured ice cream. It is just abominable. (Cookie dough or chocolate chip with vanilla is my outstanding favourite.) ZOMG YOU ARE ON FIRE!! 35K ALREADY?!! *showers you with small congratulatory chocolate chips*
I’m doing NaNo in November too! I have two books to choose from so hooopefully I’m mega inspired when it comes round. xD I had SUCH fun last year that I’m a little worried my expectations on myself will be to high and I’ll burn too. hehe. WE SHALL HAVE TO ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER.
I am enjoying Camp NaNo so far, and I’m very, very glad that I set my word goal to only 15k because we’ve had no wifi or anything since the 2nd. I’m worrying that the way I started my book is too rushed, but I can deal with that later; I just need to write, write, write.
And my favorite flavor of ice cream is all of them.
Write write write is an excellent motto, I highly approve and YOU CHEATER. YOU CAN’T PICK THEM ALL. Except. That is probably the best answer ever…except coconut icecream. *shudders* I will always skip that one.
My favourite flavour of ice cream is tiger tail, which is orange with a licorice ribbon. It’s a Canadian thing. I’m still looking for a vegan version, though!
Wait wait wait…liquorice flavoured ice cream? I WANT TO TRY THAT. *packs bags*
*moves to Canada*
OOOH. These questions looks delicious (and not just because they mention ice cream). I’m definitely going to try to join in this month as well, because BP is so helpful and fun, although I’m undecided on which character(s) I’ll use.
PS: I really love vanilla ice cream for some reason, but anything with lavender in it is pretty good too. Also, thank you so much for entering my Pinterest contest! I can already tell picking winners will be excruciating.
YAAY I AM SO GLAD!! (I totally need to link up for once too. haha. I just got very stage-fright-ish about my writing this year for some reason. I need to snap out of it. 😉
I have never had lavender ice cream but vanilla? YES. I like cookie dough. I LOVE IT. Or chocolate chip. Ohhh, I AM EXCITED ABOUT THAT CONTEST.
*singsong voice* I think I know which character I’ll use for this one! 😀
Question though: I tried including the button last time, and it didn’t work for some reason. :/ Any ideas for how to make it work this time?
ERK. I don’t know! I’ve had reports of that before and it could be because my blog is WordPress? You could try nabbing the button of Sky’s blog (her’s is blogger) or just saving the button and linking it manually. Which is a PAIN I know! I AM SORRY.
Oh, that would make sense. I’ll try using Skye’s. Thank you!!! 😀
Sadly, I missed last month’s so I might do two of them this time? And I’m not doing Camp Nano (sad face) which means I should have enough writing time to tack on an extra BP post. So.
But I might join you in traditional NaNoings in November!
And CHOCOLATE. Because I have to answer that most pressing question of favorite ice cream. CHOCOLATE ANYTHING.
I MISSED LAST MONTH TOO, ON ACCIDENT. I don’t even know where my brain is. How do I even forget my own linkup? Omg. Someone fire me, or at least feed me warm marshmallows because I clearly deserve them.
But anyway. Where were we?
CHOCOLATE IS LIFE.
I am very partial to cookie dough myself, or chocolate chip.
Great questions. I really need to start writing a new idea I have. As for my favorite flavor of ice cream, I really like mocha chocolate chip. Yum!
-Lauren
I have NEVER had mocha chocolate chip ice cream and now I want it so THANKS A LOT FOR THIS SUDDEN CRAVING YOU HAVE GIVEN ME. 😉
Not sure if I am going to do this right. So we do a blog post and link it here? I will put the button on my sidebar. 🙂
Yes! Just like a Sunday Post or a Top Ten Tuesday linkup, really. xD YAY SO EXCITED TO READ YOURS THOUGH!
I linked. It was so much fun and made me think, too!
I’ve probably said this for the last few months, but I AM going to do this one.
I was planning on doing last month, but June sort of disappeared on me.
I’m not doing Camp NaNo this time around…but hopefully I get around to doing it in November.
And I love chocolate icecream 🙂
Every month I want to do this and every month I forget haha! I hope I won’t this time! 🙂
Not sure why the add-link isn’t working for me (not showing up? Or have I just forgotten how to do these after almost a month? :P)
So, I’m posting my link here, about the MC of the novella I wrote for CampNaNo. Great questions this month, easy to deal with:
https://missalexandrinabrant.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/beautiful-people-lady-chronaire/
Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I’ve never participated in this before! Oh well, there’s a first for everything, I guess. 🙂
And let’s see… my favorite ice cream is a tie between cherry fudge and pistachio!
…And mint chocolate chip. And cookies and cream. And strawberry. And butter pecan. And coffee. Okay, I’m done!
Is there an actual linky? Because I couldn’t find it. 😛 X)
I’m posting the link to my post here because I can’t seem to get to the link page I found before.
https://phoenixgrey85.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/beautiful-people-july-edition/