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Character Questions Meme
1. Go here to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 100.

2. Choose a character that I write or have written, be it a canon person (Sherlock), an OC (Dr. Forrester) or whatever. Feel free to pick a character that was used last time, as the questions will most likely be different this time around.

3. Comment with the character and the numbers, and then I will answer the corresponding questions from here

OCS and AU versions of characters are welcome.

I've come to realize that I'm basically set designing with this programme. And having a really indecent amount of fun.

I've built a set for Martin Crieff's Attic. Below the cut, because I'm sure people are getting sick of these by now.

( The Pilot in the Attic )

Does anyone know the proper format for quotations within quotations within dialogue? I have a character reading from a book, and there is dialogue in the book. For example:

"Oh no!" the rabbit said.

How would you quote that in a piece of dialogue. Would it be something like:

"'"Oh no," the rabbit said,"'" Lisa read.

Or

"''Oh no,' the rabbit said,''" Lisa read.

Or something else?

Anyone have any thoughts on whether Harry Watson is an older sister or a younger sister? I can give arguments for either one, mainly that John has the responsible, caregiving nature of a stereotypical older sibling, but the show seems to be trying to parallel Sherlock and Mycroft's relationship with John and Harry's, which would make Harry older. Unless John is supposed to be the Mycroft and Harry the Sherlock.

If we go by 'canon', a newspaper that flashes up during Reichenbach puts John's age at 37, and if you add to that with the (two!) original canon theories about Watson's birthday, he'd either have just turned 37, or be about to turn 38. Which would put him at 35-36 during Series One. On John's official blog, he refers to Harry as being 36 during Series One. Which would make her either slightly older, or the same age. But I think Sherlock would have mentioned if they were twins. And canon isn't exactly brilliant with keeping itself logical. If you go by John's CV, he's 28 in Series One, which, despite Martin Freeman's spritely appearance, is stretching things a bit.

So, I guess it's basically up to me what I want to make her. She's always been older in my mind, but I was just curious to see what everyone else thought, or if I've missed something.

This is another opinion sort of thing, but what do you prefer when you're reading stories that have multiple parts: long chapters or short chapters? If it didn't make a difference how quickly you were able to read the story (i.e it was all posted up at once, so you could read it in one go) which would you prefer to have?

For example, I have a story that's about 9,100 words. I have two ways of dividing it up - either two chucks of approximately 4,500 words each or four, slightly lopsided chunks of 2000 to 2,500 words each. The natural breaks in the story allow for that. I suppose I could also try for three chunks of 3,000 words each.

I'll put a poll up to make it easier, but feel free to leave comments as well.

[Poll #1881752]

Does any know or have an opinion on what Anderson from Sherlock's profession is? Is he an ME or SOCO? Does he do forensics? The implication in ASiP is that he was doing what John does for Sherlock at some point before John ('Anderson won't work with me' and 'I need an assistant'), so would he be the person to examine the corpse and find cause and time of death at the scene? Or is he an overall forensic investigator?

Thoughts, questions, concerns?

Does anyone know if any of those Holmesian Scholars over the years have ever put forth a theory on where Holmes might have grown-up? My own Sherlock headcanon is that there's probably a fairly posh Holmes family house in the country somewhere where Mummy Holmes resides, but I don't know where to put it and I'm not familliar enough with England to make an educated guess. Any thoughts?

I haven't been on a plane since I was a very small child and the only thing that I remember about it was that there was very good cheese. Which is not useful for the story I'm trying to write. My mum doesn't like flying, so we drove everywhere when we traveled.

Can anyone who has flown more recently let me know the rough order of things before take off? When does the safety demonstration happen? Does the captain address the plane before take off and if so, what sort of things might he/she say? Or does it happen once you're in flight? Any sort of outline would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Opinion time!

If you were updating Poirot and Hastings to fit into the Sherlock 'verse (which I am attempting, somewhat unsuccessfully to do), would you expect them to call each other Poirot and Hastings or Hercule and Arthur?

Also, The Moustache: required or not? I mean, it's sort of essential to Poirot as a character, but it's also very, very not in fashion at the moment. I can have him sport it as a sort of eccentricity (which is a Poirot thing to do), but I don't know if it works.

Thoughts, questions, concerns?

Been having fun browsing through the fake websites the BBC has set up for Sherlock's Website and John's Blog. I was just trying to figure out when to set a story in the timeline they've set up, going by John's blog post dates, but I got distracted. They've done a very clever and thorough job of creating an extended universe. All sorts of new layers to play around with. I enjoy John's posts, but the comments are the best part. Especially this one. Sherlock's forum is great, too. I like that's he's apparently gotten stroppy because John's getting more attention than him.

Molly also has a blog, but despite the cheerful kitten theme, it's quite sad.

I would love to have the job of coming up with this stuff. It's like professional fanfiction.

( Not sure if this is spoilery, but just in case. )