What is your favorite 'aspect' of your novel?

[Project nachonaco]

For me, it's probably the fact that every single character has a foil. Sometimes they even crisscross.

How about you guys?

[kaitie]

My MC. I love him.

In the new one it's the voice. The characters in general aren't as much fun as my last MC (hard to top him, in my book), but the story is first person POV and it's so much fun to write.

[Ellefire]

The banter. I have three brothers in my novel. Craig is reserved and sensible but Euan is snarky. I like snarky. He also swears a lot, which my word counter likes. The third brother has no personality as yet. He's spent 38k being lost and the other 1k unconscious.

[Freelancer]

Just as Kaitie, I love my MC too, because even if she can be considered as a superhero, she has many faults. She is a lovable character and I like to develop her character to the maximum.

But what my favorite aspect is? Maybe the overall theme of my world, that I know it has no frontiers and it can be expanded to anything later. Also I like it's philosophical aspect, the moral values as it's been presented and I love how it is showing this philosophical aspect as a mirror to our present world and our present dilemmas.

[Anarchicq]

My villain. When he enters the picture, the novel actually all comes together, so some readers have told me.

[Matera the Mad]

All of it. It's mine, every lovingly hand-crafted word of it.

[Kaiser-Kun]

My main character reminds me of Ralph Wiggum. Only he's 20-years old and able to use magic.

[Kitty Pryde]

My MC and his will to carry on in the face of his extreme uselessness. I love him so so so much.

[Steam&Ink]

I love that my MC will just say what she's thinking with little or no thought for her own safety or other people's feelings...

[Stijn Hommes]

Without a doubt, I love my characters the most. They somehow manage to get through all the stuff I throw at them, no matter how ridiculous it is and they always manage to make sense of it. They practically do my research for me...

[ejaycee]

My characters. I either love them or I hate them, but they're all my favourites.

Also, the magic system. I adore my magic system. I could go on for ages about my magic system. :D

[Maiah]

The interactions between the characters, whether those between the primary characters, secondary characters, or somewhere in between. I love them.

It's the interactions that keep the story going, and I'm particularly pleased if it's going the way I want it to be.

[Moonfish]

I love how this story knows what it wants, and isn't afraid to tell me...

[Alpha Echo]

My MC.

Same here.

For some reason, I started writing my WIP in first person, and I NEVER do that. But I love it! And I love my MC! She's hilarious!

[C.M.C.]

My favorite aspect is that it's done.

[Fredster]

The action.

Bad guys, guns, car chases, shootings, crashing trucks, SWAT teams, a serial killer, and a dogfight between a news chopper and an F-35 Lightning II over the Las Vegas Strip.

And that's just the first act. :)

[Khimera9]

I love the dialogue between two characters. So much you can learn and so much that can be said.

[Maxinquaye]

My MC, and because he's so hard to write. I can't explain it better than that. He makes me work for it. His only response when I try to get some sense of what he wants to do is a grunt. Then he just looks at me as if I'm the most stupid person in the world before he puts the earplugs in. :)

[Linda Adams]

Favorite aspect of a novel? I could say it's the treasure hunt part, or the omniscient viewpoint, or the humor--but the truth is that my favorite aspect is all of it.

[Rhys Cordelle]

My antagonist. He fascinates me, and he drives the plot.

[Cliff Face]

My favourite part is that my feeble attempt at romance actually adds a lot of depth to the characters.

[Idkwiaowiw]

My characters. I've never had so much fun. I've also never gone as in-depth with them as I am now, so that could explain some of it.

[roonil_wazlib]

In my Western WIP, it's my MC. He's so weird and creepy and almost endearing. The bad guys are pretty awesome, too. Dirty, filthy, vile things that they are, they're still damn fun to write.

In my new WIP (under 10k), it's the setting. Fall in a small Maine town. Once I get vacation time, I'm planning on heading over to Maine for a week or so, just so it's not painfully obvious it's a Coloradoan writing about a state she's never been to. And the MCs four-year-old daughter is pretty awesome, too.

[JoNightshade]

The humor. I worked really hard at it and judging by the responses from my writing group, it's paid off. I'm not a naturally funny person so I'm particularly proud of the fact that they keep saying "And it's SO funny!"

[AuburnAssassin]

The sex scene.

What?

[ToddWBush]

You know all those wonderfully horrible, terribly mean, but at the same time hysterically funny comments that enter our brains but are shut down by the "filter" in there? My MC doesn't have that filter. He's my hero.

[DannySherbet]

For me, it's probably the fact that every single character has a foil. Sometimes they even crisscross.

How about you guys?

I love the differences between my characters' public and private personas, the differences between their interior and exterior monologues.

The protagonist in my WIP has a unsavoury private life, which he keeps hidden from his colleagues and family. Only the reader knows the true extent of his seediness.

[scarletpeaches]

The sex scene.

What?Only one?

[Libbie]

My "antagonist" is basically just me, but stuck in ancient Egypt. Admitting that to myself was shocking at first. Now I love her as much as I love me. I kept us true to our usual raging, conniving, angry selves, though. We just embrace it now.

[Maxinquaye]

I'm not at all like my MC. :(

He's driven, young, ambitious, clever, can fight - and i bet that in five years time (he's kind of young atm) he'll be a monster in bed.

I'm a middle aged white man in the suburbs.

*cries*

[Tanydwr]

I love my MCs - I have to add the s because I have at least two major WIPs at the mo, both close to being finished. The current aim is to get at least one finished by the new year.

But I love Crisiant because she's smart, and clever, and sarky, and capable, and compassionate, and has a guilt complex and a problem with authority. Plus she ends up with Connor. Who is gorgeous. I'm weak and cannot write plain love interests. Not yet, anyway.

And I love Tanwen because she's clever and manipulative and strong and compassionate and complains about her eldest brother's conquests and libido and tells everyone about them in an attempt to ensure that her protectors can view him as human and an ally, not just a foreigner. She also ends up with a gorgeous prince who quickly becomes a king, but in extremely different circumstances (she's imprisoned and he actually oversees her torture - but has to in order to conceal her identity, which would get her into even worse circumstances, and then he has to pretend to rape her to prevent another man actually doing so). Yes, I know I'm weird. This is a woman who can argue about the longbow vs. the crossbow and plan a coronation feast in a few weeks. She likes male company, but hates their lust. She likes tournaments, but hates death. By the force of her love for Beorn, she as good as *orders* a healing potion that should only work for her countrymen to work for him (it helps that, since they've agreed to be wed and been sleeping together by then, they are technically married in the view of old law and ancient magick).

What's not to like?

The love interests are fun to write, and I love some of my secondary characters too.

I also love Crisiant's horse. She's named after one of our family's pet dogs, and has quite the opinion of herself.

[AuburnAssassin]

Only one?

Sadly yes, only one sex scene in my NaNo WIP. But it was a humdinger of a scene... Hmmm...

[Lady Ice]

I love the dialogue :)

[CocoCat]

I love how many levels it could be read on.

[Albannach]

My MC. Absolutely. And the general time period which I spent a lot of time studying.

Edit: No one asked but what I like least is the sex scenes which I've been tempted to cut. I'm not generally fond of sex scenes in general.

[Trauntj]

the atmosphere and environment of one of my WIPs. The world is always changing structurally, sometimes subtle and other times drastic, making it perfect material for political conflict between the various dominations as the antagonist uses the chaos for his own goals.

I have not read anything remotely like it before regarding sci-fi/fantasy locations so it should become very interesting in seeing how the characters deal with it.

[socact]

I feel like in everything I've written, my favorite aspect is the MC's love interest. Not the MC. I wish it were the MC, since it's all told from his/her perspective. But it's always the #2 that pops up and outshines everyone else.

I wonder why this happens. Hmm.

[roseangel]

My two minor characters.
They were originally the main characters in a much older, unfinished work.
They intruded in this work and they have been my favorite part.

[LaceWing]

I love the world my characters want to live in, want to create for themselves. It's humane, it has singing wolves, and it has REAL magic, the kind that raises the sun through fog and colors the sun's setting just because it's beautiful.

[Melenka]

The fact that my MC has two perfectly wonderful and strange men in her life and, as yet, does not feel the need to choose one over the other nor sleep with either of them. And they're okay with that. I'm okay with it, too. The UST is delicious.

[Aidan Watson-Morris]

So many things. But ultimately, probably the character Abigail.

Abigail is a highly cynical, sarcastic, homosexual, blue, talking egg. With an English accent. I LOOOOOVE writing dialogue for characters like that.