Someone asked a very good question on the NaNoWriMo Facebook page: How old are your favourite original characters?  I blinked and then had to do math.  Math!  And man, did I feel strange afterwards.  My favourites are twenty-years old.  You read that right.  Twenty.  My first short stories with them were written when I was eleven.  I am now thirty-one.I then did some even more scary math because people then wanted to know how long I’d been writing.  The first stories my mom has saved are from kindergarten, though I apparently was writing stories a bit before that first saved one.  This means I’ve been writing stories for twenty-five to…