Beautiful People Linkup #3

I'm doing the Beautiful People linkup for August hosted by Sky at Further Up and Further In and my lovely blogger friend Cait at The Notebook Sisters !:D I'm doing it for two reasons: 1. It's about writing and characters. Writing is basically my favorite thing and creating characters is my favorite part of the process. Perfect, right? 2. I'm starting to plan for my NaNoWriMo 2014 novel!!:D Exciting stuff, people!

For the linkup I'm going to do all three of my main characters: Gwendolyn Hadley Scott, Samuel Elijah Richardson, and Christopher Gage Quinn. I'm also answering interview style. You'll be getting the answers directly from my characters;P

Meet the Three Musketeers of 2017

Gwen is a private investigator. At the ripe age of 19, she is the youngest private eye she knows. The youngest most people know. Which can be pretty hard on business. She mainly works in the petty little "find out if my spouse is cheating on me" cases. 

Sam (or Sammy, depending if it's Chris or Gwen calling his name) is an ex-Federal Agent. Yes, he quit the FBI. It was for his own good. He was a bit young for the job at 22 anyway.

Chris is the distribution manager for the only paper sold in every state west of the Mississippi (it also still needs a name. Suggestions please?). He's also soon to be unemployed and on the run from the bad guys. Not most 21 year olds imagine they could work their way to such a high rank job and then have to leave it behind all in the same week.

Now, for the questions:

1) What does your character regret the most in their life?

Gwen: I regret letting myself regret things.

Sam: Probably for not having more fun as a teenager. I was so focused on school and doing whatever it took to become an agent that I didn't leave myself enough time for friends and just having fun.

Chris: Letting people walk all over me. I used to let people do that all the time. I had a hard time telling people no. Once I got over that I climbed to the top and became the distribution manager. Then I had to run because I was being chased by a bunch of crazy people.

2) What is your character's happiest memory? Most sorrowful memory?

Gwen: Happiest: Just about every moment I got with my parents. All ten years. Most sorrowful: when I lost my parents.

Sam: Happiest: When I became a federal agent. Most sorrowful: When my golden retriever, Maxxie, died a couple years ago.

Chris: Happiest: When I graduated. Most sorrowful: Nothing really that sad has ever happened to me.

3) What majorly gets on your character’s nerves?

Gwen: People who complain about petty, stupid things. And people who can't handle a little blood or a dead body or stuff like that. And people who scare to easily. And basically just people in general.

Sam: Not much of anything. I'm pretty hard to irritate.

Chris: Opera music. I'll leave it at that. Opera music.

4) Do they act differently when they're around people as opposed to being alone? If so, how?

Gwen: When I'm around people I tend to show as little emotion as possible. When I'm alone 

I let that go.

Sam: I try to be braver and show no fear when I'm around people. It's an agency thing.

Chris: Nah. I'm more of a "what you see is what you get" type of guy.

5) What are their beliefs and superstitions? (Examples: their religion or lack of one, conspiracy theories, throwing salt, fear of black cats.)

Gwen: I don't believe in any of that stuff.

Sam: I'm a Christian.

Chris: I don't really know.

6) What are their catchphrases, or things they say frequently?

Gwen: Sam and I talk in quotes a lot. Oh, and I say, "Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his piehole" a lot. I think it's from a show, but I'm not sure.

Sam: Gwen mentioned she and I talk in quotes a lot. I also tend to shush people a lot. Gwen hates it.

Chris: Catchphrases? Really? Come one, we're not superheros! And even then, the cools ones don't have catchphrases.

7) Would they be more prone to facing fears or running from them?

Gwen: Running is for the weak. The only time I run is if it's for a plan to catch the dirtbag.

Sam: I agree with Gwen on that one.

Chris: Am I the only one who doesn't like to walk right towards the big scary guy with the gun?

8) Do they have a good self image?

Gwen: No comment.

Sam: I've made some mistakes, but I've also owned up to them.

Chris: What kind of a question is this? I'm awesome!

9) Do they turn to people when they're upset, or do they isolate themselves?

Gwen: I lock myself in the bathroom of my own, locked, hotel room and don't let a single sole inside, so, whatever you can deduce from that, Sherlock.

Sam: Definitely isolate myself. I don't go as far as Gwen, but I find a room by myself.

Chris: Not really sure.

10) If they were standing next to you would it make you laugh or cry?

This question is more for me, so, if it was Gwen I would cry. I'll be putting and have put that girl through way too much. If it was Sam I would laugh. That guy just has a really great personality. If it was Chris I would laugh, but I would also hit him over the head for becoming such a scared and arrogant character. Mainly because those to traits do not complement each other at all!

There you have it! That was fun!:D I'll be sharing my new story with you all later! I'll also be posting pictures from our vacation!:D It was awesome!

What Exciting Things Are To Come

I've blogged three weeks in a row!! This post is going to be me telling you a little about the plans I have for the future of my blog. I know, I know, a little boring, right;P Just hang in there, ok. 

1. I have an author friend!:D She used to live in my town and come to our church:) And she wrote a really great book. So, I plan on reviewing it and asking her to do a little interview with me. 

2. I want to talk about my writing more and I am considering doing weekly or monthly short stories and posting them here for all my lovely readers to review and tell me where I can improve and what they thought of it.

3. I want to start doing occasional "Fandom Highlights". I'm a part of a ton of fandoms: Sherlockians (BBC Sherlock), Whovians (Doctor Who), the Avengers (and basically anything Marvel), Potterheads (Harry Potter), The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Supernatural, Psych, Lunartics (The Lunar Chronicles), and countless others. So, in the "Fandom Highlights" I'll pick a fandom and do a post talking about what sucked me into the fandom, what I like and dislike about it, memorable moments, etc.

4. Book and movie reviews. This one is going to be a bit harder seeing as I don't get to go to the movies or buy new books as often as I would like to. I can do reviews on older books, but I can't really do that with movies because most of the time everyone has already seen itXD

5. I want to find some fun monthly linkups and participate in them. Anyone know of some fun ones?

6. I'm also going to just do some random updates on my life, personally. These will probably be few and far between, but they will be there.

I realize this has been a short post, but I'm pressed for time and I've been busy this week. Next week I promise I will have a longer post!

So, what do you guys, being my amazing readers and all, think I should add to the above list? I'm open to just about anything! And what do you think of the ideas so far? 

Favorite Five Characters

Only ten days since my last post! Yay! I would have put up another post sooner, but I had wisdom teeth cut out. I've felt a whole lot better than I thought I would and I haven't had any problems whatsoever, but I just didn't feel like typing up a post. I'm going to take advice from two of my lovely blogger friends, Cait and Lydia, and pick a specific day to post each week. I'm not sure what day it will be yet, but this week it's Friday.

I found some blog prompts that were pretty cool and I'm going to do one of those, but I'm going to change it up a bit. The prompt is this: In a fantasy world, forget about spouses and loves, if you could fall in love with a movie or tv character, name 5 you would choose. Not the actors, but the characters themselves. Here's what I'm changing it to: In a fantasy world, if you could meet any movie or tv character, name five you would choose and why. Not actors, but the character themselves.

Hopefully I'll be able to limit myself to five! In no particular order:

1: Sherlock from BBC's Sherlock series. Why? I've always loved detective shows and movies and Sherlock Holmes has always been my favorite among them. Sure, we might butt heads once in a while over his snark, but I think Sherlock Holmes is one of the best fictional detectives out there and would love hearing that, so he would keep me around;P I could be his second Watson who may or may not be as good at the job as Watson is.

2. Dean Winchester from Supernatural. He and I would definitely butt heads often. Unless he changes a lot between Season 4 and Season 9. He sort of aggravates me when he doesn't listen to Sammy even though Sam is right. But, he always comes through in the end and most of the time he knows what he's doing anyway. Ok, 98% of the time.

3. Sam "Sammy" Winchester from Supernatural. Sam and I would get along a whole lot better than Dean and I would. Until Season 4 where Sam starts that whole bad mojo thing with Ruby while Dean's gone (if you've seen Supernatural you know what I'm talking about). I would be right there with Sam fighting with Dean over whether we should kill the thing or not. I'm not saying Sam is better than Dean (Season 1-3, Sam was my favorite. He screwed that up in Season 4, though), because he's not, I'm just saying we have more in common personality wise.

4. The Doctor from Doctor Who. I think I would make a pretty good Companion in Doctor Who. I love time travel, I can think on my feet pretty well, and I definitely would not question the Doctor's orders. I'm not sure which regeneration I would like to travel with the most, but I'm pretty sure it would be Eleven. He was always my favorite.

5. Shawn Spencer from Psych. Seriously, he's basically a modern Sherlock who pretends to be a psychic so the police department doesn't think he committed all the crimes! He's awesome and hilarious! He is just extremely observant and notices things others don't and claims to be psychic to cover for it. He's always getting himself and his best friend, Gus, into all kinds of trouble, but he gets them out of it in the end, too.

Ok, so there's my five. Notice 4 out of the 5 are from huge fandoms. SuperWhoLock for me! I feel extremely nerdy now.

     So,  if you could meet any movie or tv character, name five          you would choose and why.