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[YurigirlzCrush]

I tend to agree that events will shape a person. that's why I was wondering how much change would be justifiable without alienating fans of the characters. *smiles* I just can't see Liara, post-war, after the loss of her intended fiancee, being the same innocent and bashful scientist she was at the start of it all. nor could I see Tali being quite the same after 20 years of being a leader among her people and living on their homeworld instead of as wanderers. rinse/repeat for the other characters we know and love!

also true that Tali was young when introduced to the games. I was thinking about the equivalent of 18. but still, twenty years later would make her 38. and that's middle aged, assuming that like me, she doesn't wanna live much past 76! *grins*

I know, I know. before anyone goes all correctional on me, I know future science has extended the average human lifespan. so 38 is still pretty young, not middle age, if you live to 150. jokes, peeps! jokes! *winks*

and... what on earth is that clip from, Stoob? it looks like it was from TV in like the 70s! *blink blink* something that ran after leave it to beaver? *runs away*

[Seracen]

YurigirlzCrush wrote...

I tend to agree that events will shape a person. that's why I was wondering how much change would be justifiable without alienating fans of the characters. *smiles* I just can't see Liara, post-war, after the loss of her intended fiancee, being the same innocent and bashful scientist she was at the start of it all. nor could I see Tali being quite the same after 20 years of being a leader among her people and living on their homeworld instead of as wanderers. rinse/repeat for the other characters we know and love!

also true that Tali was young when introduced to the games. I was thinking about the equivalent of 18. but still, twenty years later would make her 38. and that's middle aged, assuming that like me, she doesn't wanna live much past 76! *grins*

I know, I know. before anyone goes all correctional on me, I know future science has extended the average human lifespan. so 38 is still pretty young, not middle age, if you live to 150. jokes, peeps! jokes! *winks*

Another interesting way to take it is basing their future selves off the people that influenced them (as you already stated for Liara with Joker).  Specifically, however, recall how Liara is acting more like her mother Benezia (and her "father" too, if we consider her martial prowess).

Similarly, you could have Tali act a bit like Admiral Ran (who was like Tali's mother), or Admiral Gerrel (who was like her uncle.

Although I don't know why BW forgot that in ME3...it's like they switched his and Zaal'Koris' personalities.  Plotwise I understood it, but it's odd to go from sympathizing one Admiral and hating the other to vice versa.  I thought it was an interesting wrinkle (war time changes people and priorities, etc), just jarring.

YurigirlzCrush wrote...
and... what on earth is that clip from, Stoob? it looks like it was from TV in like the 70s! *blink blink* something that ran after leave it to beaver? *runs away*

[Indignant Declaration]: You philistine! 

[MrStoob]

"The 'A' Team" (80s), Yuri. It was his catchphrase 'I love it when a plan comes together.' that I was appropriating.

"I ain't gettin' on no damn plane!" etc, etc.

Talking of which, Mr T's made quite a career for himself on British TV doing the 'World's Craziest Fools' clip show. (Pity the fool!)

Modifié par MrStoob, 01 juillet 2013 - 06:29 .

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...
Although I don't know why BW forgot that in ME3...it's like they switched his and Zaal'Koris' personalities.  Plotwise I understood it, but it's odd to go from sympathizing one Admiral and hating the other to vice versa.  I thought it was an interesting wrinkle (war time changes people and priorities, etc), just jarring.

That confused me first play through, I wasn't sure who was who really unless it was implicitly said in some scenes.  Qwib-Qwib's armour wasn't quite so... camp? as they'd portrayed in ME2.  Xen was still cool though, no mistaking her, hehe.

Edit:
Just looked on IMDB: Was surprised by who played Zaal'Koris.  Old school British actor who used to do crap TV shows lol.

And (sorry) was annoyed to see that Wendy Braun (Gianna Parasini) did voice work for ME3... what's that all about?  No room for Gianna on the Silver Sun Strip?  I dunno...

Modifié par MrStoob, 01 juillet 2013 - 06:52 .

[Seracen]

Speaking of Zaal'Koris, I like the one subtle joke they made in ME2.

How he would like to be a member of the crew of the "Deferens" or the "Ectomy."

And of course, those names would be preceded by "Vas."

Ah man, little touches like that are what amaze me with BW, and would like to see more of in future games.  This is where their strengths lie...and they need to be allowed time to excercise this talent.

ME3 had a load of missed opportunities. It was nothing that I would have minded, had the ending been better. Still, a few missed story opportunities:

1) Gianna Parasini returns
2) Corporal Toombs returns
3) dealing with the Reds or Talitha (if you were Spacer/Colonist)
4) the Keepers
5) Emily Wong (and I don't mean that crappy twitter feed) INSTEAD OF ALLERS!!!
6) fallout from Feros
7) fallout from Haestrom
8) fallout from the Collector Base (other than some arbitrary rating)
9) true revenge on the Council for ignoring Shep

Just to name a few. Not all of these are necessary, but they would have been amazing touches. Coupled with the various notes that surfaced about the ending, it's no wonder my "ME4" fic is nearly 50 chapters...

Man, I'd love to send my story in as an audition to work at BW, but that doesn't happen nowadays (although according to some stories, that's how Mac Walters was hired).

Blargh, I'm rambling...

Modifié par Seracen, 02 juillet 2013 - 02:39 .

[His Name was HYR!!]

  I'm finished!

Well, not really. I'm going back to review/revise my work before I go public. That's the nice thing about AO3, I can go back and edit what I've already published. And in that, I am rather meticulous. There's always something!

... like this post. I had to go back and edit it after submitting. 


Anyway, I kept views on my work restricted so that I don't have (too many) readers checking it out before it's finalized. That way I feel better about making these edits, and taking my time between posting chapters -- no one to notice how much I keep changing it or how long I take to post a new chapter.

If I'm not too shy/embarassed about it, I may link it up here.

Modifié par HYR 2.0, 02 juillet 2013 - 06:21 .

[Seracen]

HYR 2.0 wrote...

  I'm finished!

Well, not really. I'm going back to review/revise my work before I go public. That's the nice thing about AO3, I can go back and edit what I've already published. And in that, I am rather meticulous. There's always something!

... like this post. I had to go back and edit it after submitting. 


Anyway, I kept views on my work restricted so that I don't have (too many) readers checking it out before it's finalized. That way I feel better about making these edits, and taking my time between posting chapters -- no one to notice how much I keep changing it or how long I take to post a new chapter.

If I'm not too shy/embarassed about it, I may link it up here.

I totally understand your logic.  Congrats on finishing!

Modifié par Seracen, 02 juillet 2013 - 09:18 .

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...

Speaking of Zaal'Koris, I like the one subtle joke they made in ME2.

How he would like to be a member of the crew of the "Deferens" or the "Ectomy."

Ha!  Missed that.

[Seracen]

MrStoob wrote...

Seracen wrote...

Speaking of Zaal'Koris, I like the one subtle joke they made in ME2.

How he would like to be a member of the crew of the "Deferens" or the "Ectomy."

Ha!  Missed that.

You're welcome! 

EDIT: I finally finished another chapter (43) after an interminable hiatus!  WOOOT!  I think it really did just take me drafting the ideas for the finale, coupled with finishing the games I'd been meaning to.

This chapter was a bit more difficult, as it was my first (and maybe last) obvious sex scene (though not explicit)

Here's hoping I can average a chapter every two days.  If I can hit that, I have a shot at finishing the story this month!

Lord, this would be so much easier with strict deadlines, or a co-author to keep me honest.  Still, I'm having fun writing again, and that's the important thing!

Modifié par Seracen, 02 juillet 2013 - 09:18 .

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...

MrStoob wrote...

Seracen wrote...

Speaking of Zaal'Koris, I like the one subtle joke they made in ME2.

How he would like to be a member of the crew of the "Deferens" or the "Ectomy."

Ha!  Missed that.

You're welcome! 

EDIT: I finally finished another chapter (43) after an interminable hiatus!  WOOOT!  I think it really did just take me drafting the ideas for the finale, coupled with finishing the games I'd been meaning to.

This chapter was a bit more difficult, as it was my first (and maybe last) obvious sex scene (though not explicit)

Here's hoping I can average a chapter every two days.  If I can hit that, I have a shot at finishing the story this month!

Lord, this would be so much easier with strict deadlines, or a co-author to keep me honest.  Still, I'm having fun writing again, and that's the important thing!

Grats!

I too have produced some work I am really happy with just recently.  'tis a good feeling. 

[AustereLemur799]

Seracen wrote...

ME3 had a load of missed opportunities. It was nothing that I would have minded, had the ending been better. Still, a few missed story opportunities:

1) Gianna Parasini returns
2) Corporal Toombs returns
3) dealing with the Reds or Talitha (if you were Spacer/Colonist)
4) the Keepers
5) Emily Wong (and I don't mean that crappy twitter feed) INSTEAD OF ALLERS!!!
6) fallout from Feros
7) fallout from Haestrom
8) fallout from the Collector Base (other than some arbitrary rating)
9) true revenge on the Council for ignoring Shep

Just to name a few. Not all of these are necessary, but they would have been amazing touches. Coupled with the various notes that surfaced about the ending, it's no wonder my "ME4" fic is nearly 50 chapters...

Man, I'd love to send my story in as an audition to work at BW, but that doesn't happen nowadays (although according to some stories, that's how Mac Walters was hired).

Blargh, I'm rambling...

I'm totally with you on all accounts. ME3 missed out on a lot of golden opportunities that I was sure was handed to the devs on a silver platter.

I think I'm most annoyed by the fact that BW made a big deal of how they cut a lot of side quests in ME2 (by which I mean revisiting characters from ME1, e.g. all the Citadel meetings) but how how they were going to include them in ME3 instead. Well I didn't really see them. Perhaps I'm just blind.

I know I might be especially picky, but it bugs me that Rebecca (sp?) and Michael (the couple arguing over the unborn child in ME1) look completely different in ME3 compared to how they did in ME1.

Not really relevant to the current issue but I'm also bugged by how Shepard is wearing the commander's uniform with stripes in the prologue of ME3 (despite being booted from the Alliance, I suppose after getting killed by the Collectors between ME1 and 2) and then proceeds to don the normal crew attire thereafter for meeting with the Council (and yet having been reinstated in the Alliance military). It makes more sense to switch those two - have the standard Alliance uniform for the prologue and the commander's one thereafter.

Not sure if I've made much sense  - I'm generally bad at articulating myself, sorry!

In addition to your list above, I'd like to add Lorik Qu'in from Noveria and Helena Blake from the merc takeover plot in ME1 - if she survived, you met her on Omega when she was working for Aria T'Loak! Also if Patriarch survived, I would've liked that to have played some kind of role in the Omega DLC.

Gianna Parasini was the biggest blow, I think. I was surprised about Rana Thanoptis too since I thought she was totally fine (free from indoctrination) when she was working with Okeer in ME2. The treatment with Emily Wong was just a copout (as was Shiala, to be honest) - I honestly don't know if that was because they couldn't get the VA back? Or maybe everything got condensed because, after all, ME3 was targeted towards a new audience rather than an existing one.

Anyways, apologies for the rant - I know this isn't the right place for that .

However, I also wanted to say that I think you should take the plunge and submit your stuff to BW. As you say; that's the only way you really get noticed these days. What's the worst that could happen? And, hey, maybe I'm biased but I wouldn't say no to superior writers!

Modifié par AustereLemur799, 02 juillet 2013 - 11:43 .

[AustereLemur799]

HYR 2.0 wrote...

  I'm finished!

Well, not really. I'm going back to review/revise my work before I go public. That's the nice thing about AO3, I can go back and edit what I've already published. And in that, I am rather meticulous. There's always something!

... like this post. I had to go back and edit it after submitting. 


Anyway, I kept views on my work restricted so that I don't have (too many) readers checking it out before it's finalized. That way I feel better about making these edits, and taking my time between posting chapters -- no one to notice how much I keep changing it or how long I take to post a new chapter.

If I'm not too shy/embarassed about it, I may link it up here.

Congratulations . I'd guess that you either feel ecstatic or sick to the stomach with nerves (or maybe a bit of both? )

I also think that AO3 is great for enabling you to make simple edits after you've published, whereas FFN forces you to re-upload a new chapter - which is so annoying that I usually put off doing so until I'm putting up the next chapter (otherwise you might get propelled to the top of the list in terms of 'recently updated' even though you haven't actually added anything new).

I always make silly mistakes in my writing, and it's especially bad now that my beta's gone AWOL. Having to rely on myself is definitely not a good thing. I'm dyslexic so even if I read and re-read something, I still miss something (even if there's a mistake, I don't see it because I get so used to seeing it there that I don't even notice if it's wrong - if that makes sense).

I have to re-read my forum posts on here like five times, and even then I've still probably messed-up

[AustereLemur799]

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but here goes.

I'm terrified because I honestly can't see an end result to my fic. I'm doing a novelisation of ME1. I've got the next few chapters planned and then a few sporadic ideas based on the side quests in ME1 in the running, but I'm honestly afraid that I'll run out of material .

It's bad because I've got ideas written down for ME2 and ME3 (I've written more for the latter than the former).

It took me over six months to publish my latest chapter. My next one is nearly finished, but I guess I'm holding off to buy myself yet more time (and I know that I've been taking liberties - to the point where my readers have moved on to bigger and better things [not that I blame them! ]).

Granted, the whole writing process is a fickle one. I set out on each chapter banking on the fact that I'll come up with new ideas (stuff that I never even imagined) as I'm going. So far this has happened more or less as I've needed it to.

I'm just really holding back because I'm at the point where I'm releasing my own story as opposed to BW's canon - and yet I took the time to write author's notes about how I intended to stick to canon as much as possible.

Not only am I afraid that other people will hate what I've come up with; I just worry that it's not up to scratch. Even I think my own spin on things is crap. 

Whenever I'm not working on my main fic (which is more often than not ), I do what I call 'recreational writing' - stuff that I find fun to write and read back later, but also stuff that I don't really intend to publish - precisely because I think my ideas are too 'far-out' for people to get with.

I might be really weird or sadistic here, but I love to toy with certain characters having multiple romances/relationships with different people. Basically my ME SP experience is much different to how I write.

For instance I'm writing a story that takes place between ME1 and 2 where Liara and Vasir end up getting together. I know that a lot of Liara-Shepard fans will be upset by this. As a Liara fan myself, I can understand their misgivings.

I can't explain it exactly, but ME3 just made me pessimistic on the relationships and I've found myself exploring other characters (that BW didn't ruin - by my opinion, that is ).

Crap; I know I'm rambling here more than I meant to. Worse still is that I can't be around to read people's advice - I don't get on here as much as I'd like to (mostly because I'm too ashamed to come back after I've derailed the whole thing).

I really can't apologise enough for acting-up and being a general liability to this thread. I don't mind when people ignore me - I fully understand it! (I'm full of crap 99% of the time, and that's being generous!) 

Also I shouldn't expect anyone to make an effort on me when I don't make an effort on them (I'm notoriously bad at that, sorry! )

I keep expecting people to PM me, quietly asking me to stay away because I'm just...well a bad vibe, I guess.

You can be sure that my heart's in the right place, even if my execution is all wrong!

In any case; thanks for putting up with me .

[AustereLemur799]

EDIT: Double Post mishaps, sorry!

At the very least I can apologise for my long post above.

Modifié par AustereLemur799, 03 juillet 2013 - 04:08 .

[Seracen]

 @ AustereLemur799:

I don't hold it against you for paying attention to the small events.  It was that attention to detail that made BW what it is known for.  Sure, some people complained about "how the Citadel was slow" on ME1.

Me, I liked the investigative nature of it.  It's a lost art in gaming nowadays...the spirit of discovery, of spending an entire hour just building the atmosphere.

BW and ME got away with this b/c the characters were so compelling, and the story was paced properly.  By contrast, FF13 became a slog b/c I was 20 hours in still waiting for a cohesive story to arrive.

I've not heard of this AO3 of which you speak.  I'll have to check it out, anything to get more recognition out there.  Is the site invite only?

Anyhoo, I'm looking forward to reading everyone's amazing works, once I get finished.  I will still be actively editing and tweaking my story even after I've finished the last chapter, as posting over 50 chapters is not going to be a one day affair!

As such, I am still fishing for beta readers, if any are interested.  If anyone wants a beta reader, once I get done, I'll be happy to volunteer as well!

EDIT: saw AO3.  I applied a while ago, but forgot about it.  I think I'll have to reapply for an invite at some point.  Meanwhile, there's always deviant art.

Modifié par Seracen, 03 juillet 2013 - 04:29 .

[Seracen]

AustereLemur799 wrote...

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but here goes.

I'm terrified because I honestly can't see an end result to my fic. I'm doing a novelisation of ME1. I've got the next few chapters planned and then a few sporadic ideas based on the side quests in ME1 in the running, but I'm honestly afraid that I'll run out of material .

[snip]

I'm just really holding back because I'm at the point where I'm releasing my own story as opposed to BW's canon - and yet I took the time to write author's notes about how I intended to stick to canon as much as possible.

Not only am I afraid that other people will hate what I've come up with; I just worry that it's not up to scratch. Even I think my own spin on things is crap. 

[snip]

I can't explain it exactly, but ME3 just made me pessimistic on the relationships and I've found myself exploring other characters (that BW didn't ruin - by my opinion, that is ).

Crap; I know I'm rambling here more than I meant to. Worse still is that I can't be around to read people's advice - I don't get on here as much as I'd like to (mostly because I'm too ashamed to come back after I've derailed the whole thing).

I really can't apologise enough for acting-up and being a general liability to this thread. I don't mind when people ignore me - I fully understand it! (I'm full of crap 99% of the time, and that's being generous!) 

Also I shouldn't expect anyone to make an effort on me when I don't make an effort on them (I'm notoriously bad at that, sorry! )

I keep expecting people to PM me, quietly asking me to stay away because I'm just...well a bad vibe, I guess.

You can be sure that my heart's in the right place, even if my execution is all wrong!

In any case; thanks for putting up with me .

Again, I wouldn't worry too much about it.  I treat this board as a springboard for ideas as much as a place to rant about writing in general (or life getting in the way of it!).

I also wouldn't concern myself with how your story has panned out.  Just do an author's note about how you are inspired to take it a different way than originally intended.

Case in point, in the author's note of my ME3 fic, I flat out tell people why I did or did not do certain things, even if they were good ideas.

It boils down to what you have fun writing.  I don't include Jacob or James in my stories, b/c I don't find them interesting.  Nothing against people who do, but I won't do them justice.  I figure, rather not deal with it, than deal with it poorly.

That's why I didn't bother with certain choices and romances being developed in my ME3 multipath epic.  Nobody wants to read a chapter that an author didn't want to write (look up the history of the final Harry Potter book sometime).

Anyhoo, I can totally understand feeling how you do about any of the relationships or plots, considering how ME3 panned out.  And as long as your reasoning is sound, and you are enjoying it, you are totally entitled to present your story however you damn well please!

Be proud of it!   I do hope you continue to update, b/c I intend to read your stuff along with some of the other amazing talents around here, once I finish writing mine!

[AustereLemur799]

Seracen wrote...
It boils down to what you have fun writing.  I don't include Jacob or James in my stories, b/c I don't find them interesting.  Nothing against people who do, but I won't do them justice.  I figure, rather not deal with it, than deal with it poorly.

That's why I didn't bother with certain choices and romances being developed in my ME3 multipath epic.  Nobody wants to read a chapter that an author didn't want to write (look up the history of the final Harry Potter book sometime).

Anyhoo, I can totally understand feeling how you do about any of the relationships or plots, considering how ME3 panned out.  And as long as your reasoning is sound, and you are enjoying it, you are totally entitled to present your story however you damn well please!

Be proud of it!   I do hope you continue to update, b/c I intend to read your stuff along with some of the other amazing talents around here, once I finish writing mine!

Thanks for the kind words.

But what happens if you generally don't enjoy publishing? In my case, publishing turns me into an absolute wreck - to the point where I actually throw-up.

But it's all catch-22. If I'm not getting ahead; I feel crap. I took like 8 months to publish my latest, and I grew complacent - thinking I couldn't do any worse because I was already behind.

I don't know if I somehow need to set myself up to be bad, so that I can only be better than I'd originally planned.

I'm a pessimistic person by nature.

Anyways; please don't bother reading my fic. It's a waste of time. There's so many others on here that I really, really want to read.

I feel really ashamed to admit that if others are successful, it makes me feel crap, Don't get me wrong; I'm really pleased and proud of everyone - I thoroughly enjoy everyone's stories. I'm just incapable of reviewing: A, because I'm not qualified to pass judgment and: B, because I can't actually contribute anything remotely useful.

I really wish I wasn't so lame. I'm really holding back a lot personal stuff that has conrtributed to my writing - I desperately don't want to alienate anyone, even though that's already happened.

Sometimes being 'different' isn't a good thing.

I don't pretend that my writing is anything good. I really started writing because I wanted to escape from reality. That's still the case...

[MrStoob]

AustereLemur799 wrote...
Anyways; please don't bother reading my fic. It's a waste of time. 

...

I don't pretend that my writing is anything good.

<_<
Sorry, but no.

I'm a guilty party when it comes to brainspewing on this forum, I pop on with a 'woe is me' for a period of writers' block or a story's sticking point or whatever, so it's never a problem as far as I'm concerned when people just need to 'vent'.  This is an ideal place for that.

I only know you through this forum and I have not read your work (I'm crap when it comes to reading anyone elses stuff TBH), but... those statements up there are not good for you.  You said yourself, that sometimes you like to write stuff just for fun, and enjoy reading it back, so it cannot be all bad eh?  If you feel that you are doing better writing like that, take what you can from it and apply what you learn to your other fics?

Regardles, chin up, my friend!  Write for yourself first, audience second.

[AustereLemur799]

^ Yeah, sorry about all the self-deprecation. I'm not trying to be annoying ; I'm just in a bad place right now and I always seem to end up taking it out on here (sorry! ).

To be honest, I wish I'd never started writing in the first place. It's done more harm than good and it just makes me stressed-out - it's a curse . And yet, it's one of those addictions that you can't help but feed and nurture.

I can't see any light at the end of the tunnel though. I know deep down that I'll never finish my fic; I'm notoriously bad at seeing projects through to the end. On that note, I think I'm just a waste of space.

I dunno. Never make promises you can't keep.

[MrStoob]

AustereLemur799 wrote...

^ Yeah, sorry about all the self-deprecation. I'm not trying to be annoying ; I'm just in a bad place right now and I always seem to end up taking it out on here (sorry! ).

To be honest, I wish I'd never started writing in the first place. It's done more harm than good and it just makes me stressed-out - it's a curse . And yet, it's one of those addictions that you can't help but feed and nurture.

I can't see any light at the end of the tunnel though. I know deep down that I'll never finish my fic; I'm notoriously bad at seeing projects through to the end. On that note, I think I'm just a waste of space.

I dunno. Never make promises you can't keep.

I know, it's difficult to get out of a 'bad place'.

Hard to know what to say to be supportive and actually help, but maybe just pare back to treating it like 'one chapter at a time', and try now to worry about the larger picture, sticking to the type/style that you are most comfortable with, the stuff you've enjoyed writing in the past?

I know I always end up talking about 'me' in these things but... One of the things I've now realised I've been unhappy with in my fic was a lack of frivolity/fluff.  The setting was pretty dark, building up to some event that no-one was going to be happy about, Liara/Shep in a bad place, etc, etc.  Now I've got through that part and there is room for fun, my writing has become a happier place again.  Just a thought that, pin-pointing what you're not happy with might help?

[Seracen]

MrStoob wrote...

AustereLemur799 wrote...

^ Yeah, sorry about all the self-deprecation. I'm not trying to be annoying ; I'm just in a bad place right now and I always seem to end up taking it out on here (sorry! ).

To be honest, I wish I'd never started writing in the first place. It's done more harm than good and it just makes me stressed-out - it's a curse . And yet, it's one of those addictions that you can't help but feed and nurture.

I can't see any light at the end of the tunnel though. I know deep down that I'll never finish my fic; I'm notoriously bad at seeing projects through to the end. On that note, I think I'm just a waste of space.

I dunno. Never make promises you can't keep.

I know, it's difficult to get out of a 'bad place'.

Hard to know what to say to be supportive and actually help, but maybe just pare back to treating it like 'one chapter at a time', and try now to worry about the larger picture, sticking to the type/style that you are most comfortable with, the stuff you've enjoyed writing in the past?

I know I always end up talking about 'me' in these things but... One of the things I've now realised I've been unhappy with in my fic was a lack of frivolity/fluff.  The setting was pretty dark, building up to some event that no-one was going to be happy about, Liara/Shep in a bad place, etc, etc.  Now I've got through that part and there is room for fun, my writing has become a happier place again.  Just a thought that, pin-pointing what you're not happy with might help?

I agree with Stoob, don't obsess overmuch about it.  I use my writing, and this forum, to vent as much as for writing for its own sake.

If you don't enjoy the act of publishing, just focus on doing what you enjoy (which I assume is the actual writing).

TBH, I hate publishing, b/c it's so cumbersome.  This is why it took so long for me to ever create a deviant art account.  Posting there is so much more annoying than posting at ff.net

Furthermore, it still screws up my formatting.  As such, the "authorized" copy of my story is the PDF I uploaded to deviant art.  However, PDF's aren't the format that gets reviews.  Also, it's more daunting to look at a 300 page pdf, vs a few chapters here and there.

I think that's part of why I am almost 50 chapters into my story, and haven't posted more than 8.  But you know what?  All things in their own time.

For example: a few years back, I was truly disgusted by my backlog of games.  I mean, I still have PS1 games I haven't played.  So I started beating an RPG a week (the old ones...100+ hours and such).  Failing that, I'd beat 3 adventure games a week.

I remember my dad coming over during my summer break, asking me what I was doing.

"Gotta play these damn games," I sighed.

"Sounds like you aren't having much fun," he said, "sounds more like work to me."

Then I realized...why am I doing this to myself?  I wasn't actually enjoying what I was doing.  So I resolved myself to taking my time.  If I don't catch up my backlog for 40 years...so be it.  But I'll partake and enjoy it on my own terms.

It's easy to sit here and say you should take it easy, but I know how hard that can be.  I wasn't planning on airing it here, but I expect to be disowned by portions of my family pretty soon (or at the very least, shunned for a good year).

Why?  Well, I expect to get some bad grades, which means I can't continue in a program I didn't want to be in anyways, but was expected of me.

So good and bad: good that I finally have an excuse to do what I wanted, bad b/c of family shenanigans.

That's only the tip of the iceberg, but yeah...

So certainly, I use my writing as escapism.  And you know what?  I WASN'T having fun writing the last month or so, so I gave it a break.  I just kept going through the motions, writing outlines and tweaking old chapters.

Then something hit me a week ago.  I had a breakthrough with at least one of my family (to a certain extent, it's not good, but it isn't horrible), I managed to get advice from trusted friends as well.

And finally, something inspired me.  After I had finally finished the last of my drudging through the outlines, I became excited again for writing my story.

Hopefully, that sort of breakthrough will happen for you one day.

In the meanwhile, please don't put yourself down, don't borrow trouble (plenty gets thrown at us anyway).  Authors by nature straddle the lines of ego and self-deprecation.

Be confident in your own abilities.  And in the interim, there's no shortage of amazing people in this forum that I for one consider myself blessed to have met.

/endrant (apologies) 

Modifié par Seracen, 03 juillet 2013 - 10:55 .

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...

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/endrant (apologies) 

Aw, and you were doing so well... hehe.

[Seracen]

MrStoob wrote...

Seracen wrote...

*snip*
/endrant (apologies) 

Aw, and you were doing so well... hehe.

Meh, I always feel wrong when I get too preachy, haha! 

Also, as much as I like this board, I know it's tough to look at a wall of text.  I half-jokingly appropriated an entire page almost 100 pages back (just a lot of replies really); but I don't want to have this devolve into the Seracen channel.

At least, not unless I'm getting paid for it! 

Speaking of the Seracen Channel...Youtube's new layout...it sucks...so bad.  Seriously Google, you have a good thing, why you gotta mess with something that wasn't broken?

[MrStoob]

Seracen wrote...
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Speaking of the Seracen Channel...Youtube's new layout...it sucks...so bad.  Seriously Google, you have a good thing, why you gotta mess with something that wasn't broken?

No doubt it benefits the advertisers in some way.  Cynical?  Moi?


Anyway, I was doing some scene jotting and it occured to me: Williams/Hackett.  I'm just throwing it out there... lol.

Modifié par MrStoob, 04 juillet 2013 - 10:26 .

[hot_heart]

AustereLemur799, your writing is perfectly fine and actually of a very high standard in general terms. Stop this nonsense!

The research, and attention to character and detail is all presented wonderfully. And you've built on the established ME1 story to great effect. Plus, you know how to construct passages of conversation and scene-setting without going overboard; that's a tricky thing to balance.