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[MrStoob]

enayasoul wrote...
I think hearing the voices of the actors playing the character helps with writing them but sometimes our own thoughts/past influences in our lives get mixed in.

Couldn't agree more, though I have a problem that Liara ALWAYS sounds like ME1 Liara in my head with the softer tones and more 'innocent' expressions.  And my fic is a whole ball of silliness, so the characters have certain characteristics that (I think...) are unique to my own.  As most probably do, but I'm not as well read as most here, due to being a lazy arse.

:innocent:

Edit: Damn, top post again and no spares to throw on.  Too busy actually working on a story for random short scenes.  So that's probably a good thing.

RE-Edit: Are you people all hibernating for winter or something?    Anyway... some bugger on here put Skyrim FF in my mind and while this is an ME site... Road to Breezehome

I had fun with it anyway.

Modifié par MrStoob, 24 janvier 2013 - 11:15 .

[enayasoul]

Uploaded my latest chapter. "Give and Take." A few parts not sure about but will see if the readers accept them. )

Mostly about biotics being sensitive to touch and mass effect fields. I phrased it as saying: "Biotics have a heighten sensitivity to touch but even more so to mass effect fields."

The other issue is using biotic pull to lower someone's mass so they don't fall breaking bones... from high places.

Mostly reminded of the Shadowbroker DLC when Liara controls her decent with her biotics.

Lastly, the escape route, I think is logical but then again, I've never been in that situation so it might work for dramatic purpose. Can't make it too easy to escape.

[Drussius]

enayasoul wrote...

Uploaded my latest chapter. "Give and Take." A few parts not sure about but will see if the readers accept them. )

Mostly about biotics being sensitive to touch and mass effect fields. I phrased it as saying: "Biotics have a heighten sensitivity to touch but even more so to mass effect fields."

The other issue is using biotic pull to lower someone's mass so they don't fall breaking bones... from high places.

Mostly reminded of the Shadowbroker DLC when Liara controls her decent with her biotics.

Lastly, the escape route, I think is logical but then again, I've never been in that situation so it might work for dramatic purpose. Can't make it too easy to escape.

I doubt anyone will call you on the pull. I've had a character in my story using singularities on several occasions to catch herself when falling, and no one has complained about it. Although the "floating" technique used by Samara, Liara and other asari I think is a whole separate ability, not the use of pull.

[MrStoob]

Drussius wrote...

enayasoul wrote...

Uploaded my latest chapter. "Give and Take." A few parts not sure about but will see if the readers accept them. )

Mostly about biotics being sensitive to touch and mass effect fields. I phrased it as saying: "Biotics have a heighten sensitivity to touch but even more so to mass effect fields."

The other issue is using biotic pull to lower someone's mass so they don't fall breaking bones... from high places.

Mostly reminded of the Shadowbroker DLC when Liara controls her decent with her biotics.

Lastly, the escape route, I think is logical but then again, I've never been in that situation so it might work for dramatic purpose. Can't make it too easy to escape.

I doubt anyone will call you on the pull. I've had a character in my story using singularities on several occasions to catch herself when falling, and no one has complained about it. Although the "floating" technique used by Samara, Liara and other asari I think is a whole separate ability, not the use of pull.

Indeed, I just make vague references to biotic powers in those types of scenarios (falling, lifting, etc) and no-one has tried to call me on lore or anything.  If in doubt?  Spaaaaace Magiiiiiic!

[Spiritwolf1]

I usually don't put other things up ehre, unless there good so heres a great one to bump the thread back to the top

http://www.koobismo....-this-boshtets/

[MrStoob]

Vent:

Though still a novice in the great scheme of things, I'm beginning to understand why writers go on retreats 'cos FFS!  I've been trying to get this chapter together, total space magic bollocks, which can be quite hard to make 'credible' without good premises, so re-reading a lot to make sure it's okay, tweaking and whatnot and the last few nights I've not been going to bed 'til like 4am because it's the only time to get any real peace to think and work.  Gah!  Though I'm still waiting for someone to call bull**** on some of my space magic premises already lol.

Hope you are all well!

Modifié par MrStoob, 26 janvier 2013 - 12:36 .

[Ignis Mors]

MrStoob wrote...

Vent:

Though still a novice in the great scheme of things, I'm beginning to understand why writers go on retreats 'cos FFS!  I've been trying to get this chapter together, total space magic bollocks, which can be quite hard to make 'credible' without good premises, so re-reading a lot to make sure it's okay, tweaking and whatnot and the last few nights I've not been going to bed 'til like 4am because it's the only time to get any real peace to think and work.  Gah!  Though I'm still waiting for someone to call bull**** on some of my space magic premises already lol.

Hope you are all well!

At least for me, I've got no problems with Space Magic so long as it is not done to handle a plot point that was always minor, but turned into the motives for the villains. Ala, the synthetic organic tension of 3's ending. 
Then again, I spend too much time hating on ME3 so let's have smoothies!

[enayasoul]

MrStoob wrote...

Vent:

Though still a novice in the great scheme of things, I'm beginning to understand why writers go on retreats 'cos FFS!  I've been trying to get this chapter together, total space magic bollocks, which can be quite hard to make 'credible' without good premises, so re-reading a lot to make sure it's okay, tweaking and whatnot and the last few nights I've not been going to bed 'til like 4am because it's the only time to get any real peace to think and work.  Gah!  Though I'm still waiting for someone to call bull**** on some of my space magic premises already lol.

Hope you are all well!

Yep! That's me too.  Staying up way past my bedtime writing til 2-4 a.m. as well.  Going to work tired some days.  Lots of creativity happens at night.   Or when you wake up after thinking about your story while you sleep. Breakthroughs are always great.

[Drussius]

enayasoul wrote...

MrStoob wrote...

Vent:

Though still a novice in the great scheme of things, I'm beginning to understand why writers go on retreats 'cos FFS!  I've been trying to get this chapter together, total space magic bollocks, which can be quite hard to make 'credible' without good premises, so re-reading a lot to make sure it's okay, tweaking and whatnot and the last few nights I've not been going to bed 'til like 4am because it's the only time to get any real peace to think and work.  Gah!  Though I'm still waiting for someone to call bull**** on some of my space magic premises already lol.

Hope you are all well!

Yep! That's me too.  Staying up way past my bedtime writing til 2-4 a.m. as well.  Going to work tired some days.  Lots of creativity happens at night.   Or when you wake up after thinking about your story while you sleep. Breakthroughs are always great.

I actually do my best work in the morning. So that's when I've been writing lately. I literally wake up, do my necessary morning stuff, sit down with my laptop and bang out a few thousand words. It's been working well for a while now. If I wait until later in the day, then I'm more likely to get distracted and decide to play video games, or my kids are home from school and I'd rather spend time with them.

Besides, just after I wake up, while I'm half-awake and enjoying the warmth of my bed, seems to be when all my best ideas come to me.

[MrStoob]

enayasoul wrote...

MrStoob wrote...

Vent:

Though still a novice in the great scheme of things, I'm beginning to understand why writers go on retreats 'cos FFS!  I've been trying to get this chapter together, total space magic bollocks, which can be quite hard to make 'credible' without good premises, so re-reading a lot to make sure it's okay, tweaking and whatnot and the last few nights I've not been going to bed 'til like 4am because it's the only time to get any real peace to think and work.  Gah!  Though I'm still waiting for someone to call bull**** on some of my space magic premises already lol.

Hope you are all well!

Yep! That's me too.  Staying up way past my bedtime writing til 2-4 a.m. as well.  Going to work tired some days.  Lots of creativity happens at night.   Or when you wake up after thinking about your story while you sleep. Breakthroughs are always great.

Do you find though that when you do finally drag yourself to bed, the mind is still racing with ideas and it's difficult to sleep?  This also being a time when suddenly progressive ideas pop up?

Modifié par MrStoob, 26 janvier 2013 - 12:16 .

[enayasoul]

MrStoob wrote...

enayasoul wrote...

Yep! That's me too.  Staying up way past my bedtime writing til 2-4 a.m. as well.  Going to work tired some days.  Lots of creativity happens at night.   Or when you wake up after thinking about your story while you sleep. Breakthroughs are always great.

Do you find though that when you do finally drag yourself to bed, the mind is still racing with ideas and it's difficult to sleep?  This also being a time when suddenly progressive ideas pop up?

Yes, sometimes that happens when I lay down on my bed to get ready to sleep.  That's when the ideas come. I can either get up and write them all down or tell myself to remember and do that in the morning.  Sometimes it will go through my mind all night.  It depends.  Other times it's just before I wake up that an idea hits me. 

It can happen anywhere really, work, taking a shower or watching tv/movie.

[MrStoob]

Ignis Mors wrote...

At least for me, I've got no problems with Space Magic so long as it is not done to handle a plot point that was always minor, but turned into the motives for the villains. Ala, the synthetic organic tension of 3's ending. 
Then again, I spend too much time hating on ME3 so let's have smoothies!

Yum!  It's quite funny that you mention that particular plot point as really, that's what I'm expanding on.  Ha!

[Spiritwolf1]

I had to share this commercial, Im still laughing at it.



and I first saw it last night


They needed this for Mass Effect

oh and PS Ill stop with these silly vids now

Modifié par Spiritwolf1, 26 janvier 2013 - 11:38 .

[MrStoob]

On a general writing point and I feel like a waffle... hehe.

Mentioned it earlier but someone (Obsidian Gryphon I believe, thank you sir/madam!) inspired me to do a Skyrim FF and I've had lots of fun with it in my usual fluff stylee. Was a good learning experience as to where I am as a 'writer', I still use the quotes there because I'm just a bloke on the internet throwing musings out there. Makes you think about what you might try. I've not got any good original ideas I don't think, scenario-wise, to come up with totally my own piece yet. But the Skyrim thing did show me I can have a go a something else anyway.

Waffle over. As you were.

@spirit: I'd hope we can pop the odd other thing on here, being the relaxed thread that we are.

Edit: just watched teh vid and lol'd at his expression on the 'blind date'. 

Modifié par MrStoob, 27 janvier 2013 - 03:02 .

[Harshfacts]

Hey everyone!

I don't knwo if this is the right place but since it seems the like the closes i have found, i'll go ahead:

i'm looking for putting together a team of writers to do a fanfic possibly in the format of an audio-play or possibly comic if the opportunity presents itself for either. and i'm looking for creative writers at the moment. we will come up with the stories in private and write them and make them the best as possible and then share it with fans when they are ready! i think it will be very exciting the stories will NOT be set in the ME 1-3 trilogy and set in a different Galaxy. i will have to note also that it will revolve heavily on ME 3's ending and the ideas they represented, so if you're interested in doing some creative writign in groups and having fun PM me with anything you have written or done creatively for ME universe or anything else for that matter. i have some exciting ideas which i think will be really fun to write with fans and we'll doing this in our free time just to have fun!

Thanks

[Lilivati]

In this whole weird experience with fanfic, this month has been the most baffling by far. I've had the highest number of readers ever and the lowest number of reviews. Kind of really nice and infinitely frustrating at the same time lol.

[Drussius]

Lilivati wrote...

In this whole weird experience with fanfic, this month has been the most baffling by far. I've had the highest number of readers ever and the lowest number of reviews. Kind of really nice and infinitely frustrating at the same time lol.

Try to get past the frustration of it. For me, it's just nice to know that a few people are reading the entire fanfic to date each month. This month so far I have at least six views on every single Chapter. Nine on every Chapter up to the halfway mark. One apparently from the Czech Revar, since I have one visitor and 42 views there. So I have to assume that six new people have read the entire thing and a few more are working on it. Even if I only pick up a few devoted readers each month, I'm happy for every one of them. Even if they never review.

Of course, don't get me wrong, I love those of you who do review. You know who you are.

But take it as a compliment. People out there are interested enough to read what you're writing. For a writer, in regards to your work at least, what else really matters?

[enayasoul]

I reached my 60th's review. Woot! Have you ever had a character that you just don't know what to do with but is a family member of one of your protags? Mine is Miranda's sister Oriana. What's a civilian to do on the Normandy...? (I then think of star trek:next gen) I changed what I had originally planned. hmm... May opt to go back to my original idea.   I'll just have to think more on this...

Modifié par enayasoul, 28 janvier 2013 - 05:17 .

[hot_heart]

She's as smart as Miranda, she wanted to go into colony development; I'm sure there's something she could do to help the day-to-day running of the ship.

In personal news, I'm now at a problem inverse to the previous chapters. More dialogue and a lot less action. It's now a case of deciding which lines go where, then which are put as monologue or dropped entirely, and what causes a certain 'breaking point' for Oriana to try and shoot Henry Lawson...

[enayasoul]

From the looks of it... Miranda and Henry have glass cuts on their faces so they must have been near the glass when Oriana tries to shoot?

From the sounds when you get near the door... a biotic noise and then two/three pops from the gun?

Maybe Miranda and Henry were struggling/fighting with each other physically or with words?

Maybe Oriana was trying to calm them both and fire shots at them to stop fighting? Or Henry was hurting Miranda and she told her to shoot him?

Miranda at some point seems to be on the ground exhausted. And Oriana is in between them both.

Mr. Lawson certainly has no love for Miranda. He even refers to Oriana as a child. "Stop struggling child" from the other clips I've seen. Miranda's the 'poisionous influence' I think Oriana would disagree with Henry Lawson on that part.

Oriana see what her father really is and what he's done.

[jayred vas normandy]

I'm writing a scene that takes place during a space battle. Just wondering about the use of ftl jumps. I want to have a ship make a short jump from one point in the system to another point within the same system, like a micro jump in starwars. I don't think there's any reason I can't do this but I wantedto get some oppinions on it.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

From ME Codex : Starships still require conventional thrusters (chemical rockets, commercial fusion torch, economy ion engine, or military antiproton drive) in addition to the FTL drive core. With only a core, a ship has no motive power.


I interpret this as to mean ships used conventional thrusters within systems, they don't jump because there are no drives with that capability. For my fanfic, I used the term in-system drive to differentiate it from FTL and the translation corridor between relays.

I've read of point to point jumping in other SF novels / tv series, especially EM's Heris Serrano and Vatta's War series which used this. It sounds complicated to me ; time lag + precision jumping + real time fire capability + engine stress through constant burn, so fleet engagements are really ... well..a doozy since every single thing that goes on during the battle must be up to date every second else the ships might find themselves firing on a friendly or flying through a really bad mass of debris.

DW's HH series don't use point to point. They manuever like wet ships so every Fleet Admiral had to have good intelligence and tactics to try to predict just where the enemy will translate in. They also use torpedos, torpedo pods and laser grasers for close engagements. Fast travel is via hyperspace where various gravetic bands/energy surges existed. Ships deployed a kind of sail to latch on to these bands which varied in speed. However, the faster the speed, human physiology is affected.

Modifié par Obsidian Gryphon, 28 janvier 2013 - 04:40 .

[hot_heart]

enayasoul wrote...
From the sounds when you get near the door... a biotic noise and then two/three pops from the gun?

Oh, I've got the sequence of events sorted out, thanks. Been keeping that one a secret.

Without spoiling it, it's more as to what exactly provoked Oriana to snap in terms of what was said rather than done. Though, you've raised some valid points/ideas that I hadn't even considered. Damn you.

[Lilivati]

jayred vas normandy wrote...

I'm writing a scene that takes place during a space battle. Just wondering about the use of ftl jumps. I want to have a ship make a short jump from one point in the system to another point within the same system, like a micro jump in starwars. I don't think there's any reason I can't do this but I wantedto get some oppinions on it.

While I agree with everything Obsidian Gryphon said,  it's worth noting shuttles do occasionally "jump" in game, most notably when leaving the Lazarus Project station at the beginning of ME2.

On another note- thanks Drussius.  I think I just needed to hear someone say it outside my own head.  You're very right.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

Lilivati wrote...

 it's worth noting shuttles do occasionally "jump" in game, most notably when leaving the Lazarus Project station at the beginning of ME2.

I think that's not within the system, they went FTL. The actual journey wasn't really shown so I can't really say they didn't simply FTL to a nearby system or made a few hops through a few systems to reach the base.

Modifié par Obsidian Gryphon, 28 janvier 2013 - 04:52 .