I'm glad I'm not the only one haha ): I've been working on perfecting my profile template for yeaaaars just learning little things here and there. I still have a ton of work to do too! But yeah, coding each pet individually would take soooo long :c

, Hahaaaaaaaa if you can believe me, I just copy paste my code for each and every one of my pets' profiles. I mean I did code it myself originally - but that was sooo long ago looool. Just all the crap that's on there is positioned in different ways and I make different-styled layouts. xD

I really fucking hate coding tbh so I try to do as little of it as possible. Once in a while I'll experiment with different things when I'm feeling bold and daring but that does nooot happen often enough. xDD

you explained what I attempted to explain with more clarity and not as many words so yay. 'zactly how I work. 8D

I get them done... whenever I get them done. I don't think there has EVER been a time when I had all of my pets finished; not back when there was five, or ten, and certainly not now, with twenty-five. I work on stories as inspiration hits, including rewriting. I'm really lazy when it comes to getting art, and the pieces I do have are usually outdated because of tweaks I made to a character's design since getting the initial artwork.

The profiles I commission are usually pretty simple, because the major draw for my pets is the stories - not the art, not the profile.

heehaww High five for working in the same ways ;3;

I work on multiple pets at a time. I honestly hate iiiiit. It just gets so expensive. I had three pets that I did a pretty good job working on individually: Mr. Froggums, Roboraptor, and Bobbery. Everything else was just all at once, and it's becoming overwhelming. I don't mind working on different stories at once, though.

I guess for example, I was trying to create designs for multiple pets at the same time. Then there's buying overlays (not that expensive, but still). And there comes the TCs. My pet Brittany has an expensive TC and I just can't afford it at the moment. I kind of gave up on buying art, because prices have inflated and I just can't afford them anymore. (Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I understand why the art is expensive. I just can't afford them lol). And there's ordering pet profiles. Raaawr. I feel like I never get them finished.

Writing stories is usually the hardest part for me. Some just come instantly. Others, I really have to think. And then I get upset when some of my stories appear too long, but I can't figure out how to effectively shorten them. Boo :c Even creating the design is hard. I can draw, so I can create references. But it's figuring out what exactly I want the pet to look like.

I really have to change my habits. I just /have/ to do one pet at a time. I would actually begin to complete my pets this way. Or maybe I should worry about the TC AFTER I get the art, overlay, story, and profile together. I dunno! I need to figure this out.

I mostly work on two pets at a time. Not for any one reason. That's just how it happens. However, I am constantly collecting art work and sifting through profile shops. Working at a gas station has really, seriously helped me get my pet stories in gear. Hahaha. There's not much else to do when you're sitting by yourself in a chair for seven hours, confined to one little box with maybe three customers every hour or so.

As far as "over time," I doubt I will ever fully feel that my pets are finished. I'll always want to tweak something, knowing me. It's a long and terrible process when you're as lazy as I am. I love my pets dearly, though. They'll all have stories and awesome profiles, one day.

c':

I'll only usually work when I get hit by inspiration, for art/profiles that comes very often but I get lazy when it comes to stories xD So for art and profiles, I go ahead and finish it in one go, but for stories I dabble a little? I have 6 with everything finished (a tentative 6 because one has the first profile I ever coded and I might want to change it), 3 with profiles/art and 1 with nothing much really cause the stuff on her page is for another pet I need to save up for as slot for I probably seem like I get them done quite quickly to some people, but I do all the art and code the profiles myself so it's not like I'm waiting on comissions ^_^; Aaaand I have a lot of free time :V I don't like to force myself into doing something, because then it feels like a chore and turns out crap most of the time xD

I tend to work on a bunch of pets, all at once, then get overwhelmed and not work on them at all for a while. Occasionally, I'll focus on one pet for a couple of days, if I've been inspired to work on his story... (I'm talking novel style stories... With several chapters.) Progress on their stories most directly affects the description and TC on here. Most of my stories have at least two pets associated with them though, so eventually I'll start working on multiple pets again... At which point I get overwhelmed and decide not to work on them at all for a while.

(it is a vicious cycle)

All of my pets are stand alone stories, or in some cases fan pets so I usually don't work on more than 2 pets at a time. That said, the amount of time it takes to actually finish one pet and there is always elements that aren't finished can takes weeks, months or only a day or a couple days at most. It just depends on the pet.

Usually I work on story and treasure first and art if I feel like doing it is whenever I feel like drawing mostly since I pretty much never commission pet art, but profiles may take months or a while in general because my CSS coding skills are non-existent and I'm too impatient to learn so it's whenever I have the sp to buy a spiffy profile.

Generally though, the fan pets take the least amount of work as I already know beforehand what the concept is going to be, and to date I've only had one pet that took a total of one day to complete and that was Roccoco but I had her story and general idea planned out from the moment I came up with her name so it was just a matter of writing the ideas down in a story-like format.

As for other pets, those can take forever because I'll work on them whenever I have the inspiration to work on them which in some cases may be never or may be in a week or a couple months and then the amount of time it takes to finish just depends on how much I'm willing to work at it.

There's been many a time I'll write something, and then not like it a few weeks later and completely rewrite it...

I'm very bad at working consistantly on pets. When inspiration hits I try and get as much done as possible. As all my profiles and art are commissioned this means the story and background information. Often I'll sit down and review the plans and ideas I have listed on my pets profiles and then see if the writing bug bites, usually that ends with me churning out a few paragraphs of text for someone though not always the pet I started on.

I keep a spreadsheet that lists everything that needs to be done on my pets and as each one is finished I tick it off. This also allows me to at a glance see who needs what as well as letting me know when a character is complete enough to order art and then get a profile made. Specifics for the pet such as profile notes (styles, ideas, images) are also kept in this spreadsheet because I'm slightly paranoid.

I drift from pet to pet as I work on them. I rarely will focus on just one pet. But I also never really consider any one pet 'done' so... meh. I always feel, even after there's a layout, story, art and all there could be more. It's just a matter of which pet I feel like messing with. Sometimes one of my pets will just be nagging at me until I sit down and start drawing/writing. Occasionally I have bursts where all sorts of stuff for just one pet will come out, but generally I work on one pet, then the other characters they interact closest with will generally creep in and get their turn in the spotlight, and around and around I go, just cycling through as they catch my fancy.

Since I'm not really a coder, most of my effort goes into writing the story or drawing the art - I also have little doodles of ideas in some of my sketchbooks about what I'd ideally like some of my pet's layouts to be like, but I haven't the coding knowledge, nor the balls yet, to ask a coder if its possible and get around to commissioning. xD The great thing about story writing and drawing is that it doesn't have to happen solely on the computer. I can carry a sketchpad with me while I work and if inspiration hits, I can start drawing. Or writing, if its story line that pops out. If I like the sketch and think it's worth ending up on the pet's page, I can then scan it into the computer and clean it up and finish it digitally. If I don't like it enough for that, well, doodles still help refine a design for a new character, and keep the attitude and personality of them fresh in your mind. Same with story blurbs. I have lots of different little story blurbs, interactions between my different characters, written out in my notebooks, yet quite a few of those pets don't have a story on their page yet because that bit of writing didn't seem to convey what I wanted about said character(s). And most of them would leave people going 'wtf just happened' anyhow, because they wouldn't know any other background info like I do.

It really depends for me!

What I try to do is at the beginning of each month I will select two characters who I think I'm in the mood to work on and try to have them finished before the end of the month. This usually involves me flailing around like a chicken with its head cut off gathering art, ordering profiles and writing stories but some times I will know exactly what I want to do and have x, y and z finished in just a matter of days.

Chantal, for example, was only adopted roughly a month ago and I had her completely finished within three days. Others, such as Princess, will take me several weeks to finish even while knowing what I want to do.

That said, when I know I'm in a rut I will try and read or watch things that I know will inspire me to be productive or chat with friends and bounce ideas around. Others it will just be a matter of time. For example, it took me seven years to pull Vi's character out of the back of my head. I knew what I wanted yet at the same time, I didn't.

I usually work a bit here and a bit there until certain point and suddenly I finish everything. I did that with hemic. I wrote her story in half an hour after I got her. I didn't work on her for months and suddenly I finished her profile in one evening.

I tend to work on a lot pets at the same time, it just depends how inspired I am.

omg I go back and forth so bad. I'll get in these moods where I'm bent that I'm not done yet and get 2-3 things done every day for a week straight, and then I realize I'm losing my mind and need a break. It's more the latter right now with nursing school--I'm lucky to get one thing done a week!

It is hard to believe you use the same code! I've admired all of your pets for the longest time ;o; they all look so unique!

I made my code yeaaaars ago but unfortunately my template still needs work... a lot of work, lol, I'm less than happy with it. I've managed to code really simple ones like my Juliette's, but even that is less than impressive :b I need to learn more about graphic-making, I envy pets with amazing profiles like yours!

I usually have a little idea of what I want for my pet and then I let "inspiration come" for the rest. If it doesn't I move to another pet. I used to think of profiles before finishing the story but not anymore. Sometimes there is a pet I really want finished and focus on them (at the moment it's Kumoshitsuji). There are also pets who need more research. For example Caterine who is an activist and whose personal story matches with history of modern social protests in France; and Clothilde who lives in the Belle Epoque.

almost all of my pets get worked on in stages, usually going by what is the least challenging for me to do at any given time. i'll write a description (i always create a pet knowing full well what's going to become of it, so this part is not difficult). then i'll come up with an overlay. considering i still do not have overlays for all my pets, that kind of speaks of my slow pace. then i'll be like "ugh fine" and make them a profile layout and then i'm done forever. until i inevitably decide to rewrite their descriptions...

so, in short, over time. definitely.

If I have a set idea as to a pet's story, I can finish the description in a couple hours or so, and then once I've got a story the graphics and treasure and everything else swoop in in the next couple hours, so that I end up finishing an entire pet in less than a day. If I've got a pet and don't have any good story ideas for it, I do the whole add a bit here and there thing, and end up writing part of a story and stopping in the middle to finish later (which, more often than not, I never end up finishing and just start all over because I find it hard to get into the same voice and mindset).

The only thing that actually works for me is getting the whole thing done in a day as opposed to a work over time. At least, I need the story done, and everything else can come whenever; finishing a pet's description usually motivates me to work on everything else about the pet right after, unless I have to go to sleep or something. I tend to work on one pet at a time, because if I'm working on more than one then that usually means I don't have good ideas for either of them (because when I'm really motivated to work on a pet then I finish it all in one go).

My pet, Walternate was just like a "BAM OMGOSH" I had a total vision and this is what happened.