OH JEEZ i thought i asked a question earlier but i guess not whoops
Q17. At what rate do you tend to create OCs? How has this changed over time?
I come up with new OCs really quickly and really easily; I have over 1,000 OCs (the vast majority of whom have at least personalities, designs, and abilities planned out, but plenty of them are also fleshed out with backstories etc etc) and even though I've been trying to "delete" old OCs I've done nothing with (AKA I isolate them to a corner of my character list file and plan to maybe make them exist again someday) the void gets filled up fast. I'm really easily inspired, so it's hard for me to not make OCs. I'll make OCs based off of dreams, based off of whatever theme I find (seven sins, days of the week, months, zodiac, soil types...), one time I even made an OC based off of someone's boots! I've started adopting recently too, so the rate at which I create OCs is pretty high at the moment. Luckily the massive influx of characters hasn't really drained my creativity at all; my more recent stories/universes are some of the most complex yet and the ones I hold dearest to my heart.
I've always made a lot of characters, but the most active period of my life was probably the 2009ish area. Long story short I came up with an idea that gave me an excuse to make, like, 16 new stories/universes, and of course plenty of characters came with that. Unfortunately for most of them I just planned vague concepts that I wasn't really passionate about, so most of the OCs I created during that period are the ones I'm planning to "delete" since nearly all of the involved OCs were literally just names. I'd go on baby name websites, look up cool meanings that related to the story, and slap them on my character list without ever actually thinking about what the character was supposed to look like or do. Now I just keep a list of names I like instead of slapping them on to character lists without any context gg