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[Efvie]

hot_heart wrote...

Ugh, just not feeling this current chapter. Put it down to lack of creativity, I guess, but I cannot see a way to make Miranda's role in the Priority: Earth bit at the end of ME3 particularly interesting.

Her team go in, kill some guys and make it to a forward base; with losses, I figure. I can try and pretty up the language all I want (but not too much, given that it's Miranda), but it doesn't really give me a reason for it to be there except for 'cool action'.

Maybe I should just apologise to my readers and skip over it as originally planned...but I don't like to back away from a challenge. Argh.

Well… as you know, I opted to leave Miranda off-planet partly because I didn’t really see her with a ground role, and given how the relationship between my Shepard and she was, it seemed natural that she would have a worst case scenario role instead.

Which is a long way of saying that if you don’t feel her down there (ahah), then you should either gloss over it, or figure out some other way that she can help

[hot_heart]

Thanks.

Your way was good, and works for your story. Problem is, I had originally planned to gloss over the battle, but it would appear some readers want to see more of the new ex-Cerberus characters I introduced or want another big action chapter in the vein of 17 and 18. And I do hate to disappoint ...any more than necessary.

Perhaps I shouldn't have skipped over some of that before the Earth bit and, that way, tied up the Phoenix Project/Erin loose ends. Grr.

[Seracen]

hot_heart wrote...

Thanks.

Your way was good, and works for your story. Problem is, I had originally planned to gloss over the battle, but it would appear some readers want to see more of the new ex-Cerberus characters I introduced or want another big action chapter in the vein of 17 and 18. And I do hate to disappoint ...any more than necessary.

Perhaps I shouldn't have skipped over some of that before the Earth bit and, that way, tied up the Phoenix Project/Erin loose ends. Grr.

How far ahead of your posts are you?  Personally, I "reappropriated" my last chapters, when I realized my initial conclusion either: a) didn't make sense, or was too over-the-top.

As such, an assault on the galactic core instead became a defense of the Citadel, which worked out better anyways.

Barring that, you could also go for one action scene (I assume with Shepard and Co), then have one of those intercom discussions that pretty much tell what the other team is doing, if not showing it.  An advantage of this would be that the resulting scene would mirror the end of ME2's Suicide Run.

In all honesty, this is a variation on the "jump cut" I discussed earlier.  After several fanfics, I have become all too well-versed at cutting content that just wouldn't work (or I didn't have the energy to write).


EDIT: BTW, it's great that you want to cater to your fans.  However, I would add that you shouldn't feel forced to write something you have no passion for.

This is something I stressed with my ME3 ending rewrite.  There were plenty of interesting requests and ideas that got left on the cutting room floor, for the purposes of writing integrity, quality, and plain fun (my own included).

Modifié par Seracen, 10 février 2014 - 10:51 .

[hot_heart]

Unfortunately, I have given myself no 'buffer' chapter. I'd have to go back and rewrite the previous one, which admittedly, I kinda skimped on anyway due to lack of enthusiasm.

I'm increasingly feeling that I should just go with my original plan and move onto the actual final chapter (of which you've already seen the first part, and helped greatly). Not many people seem to be reviewing nowadays anyway, so I've not got a clear picture of what everyone wants. Hell, I've been rereading the action-heavy chapters that everyone liked and thinking, "This is OK, I guess..." Maybe everyone's done with Mass Effect for the timebeing.

I could always make 'the battle' a one-shot if there's some sort of outcry, even though I sense deep-down that come the end I'll be done with this story and move on to pastures new. Kinda sad really, but I suppose I have to let go...

I think I'll give things another bash for this week and if nothing clicks, I'll abort.

Thanks to everyone for listening to me mope!

[MrStoob]

Got my 'awkward chapter' out of the way and posted. Worked out better than before so that's something anyway, it wasn't an easy thing to write. While it wasn't a magic 'everyone's happy now' wand, I can get back to a bit of fluff and silliness. That said, I've included some references for some reworked future parts in an incomplete 'let's see where this goes' kind of a way (Zaeed's back on the scene after I was thinking about Robin Sach's anniversary the other day), so let's hope that works out lol. I just love making trouble for myself.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

I just finished hacking out an awkward chapter. Throw three piles of grief in the way of my protag, seeds of doubt in the heads of squad mates, kill a character, nearly kill another, and now figure out a way to resolve everything. I need to edit it before posting... edit a lot. I finished it at 3:30 am. I had to sit and talk with them: "Okay, gang, how do you want to do this? There's no turning back." They knew what to do. Well, I can get back to some more fun stuff now.

[Seracen]

Wow, between myself, hot_heart, MrStoob, and sH0tgUn jUliA, it seems to be the season for those awkward chapters that aren't the most fun to write.

Best of luck to you guys!  I still don't know if my approach was good, but it was time for me to wrap the story up.  Any more time spent on writing new content was just going to result in subpar work.

Editing is still taking its time, as it always does.  I've actually generated a fair bit of "newish" content on editing alone.  On the bright side, there's plenty of fodder to reappropriate on future works, which is one of the few redeeming facets of having such content on the cutting toom floor.

At any rate, I've read bits and pieces of all of your works, and I find you each to have a unique and engaging style.  That's true of many in this thread, and why I've had to boycott ME fanfic for so long.  It was too damn compelling a read!  I couldn't help but be inspired.  Seriously, I am so glad I found no use for certain characters, as I was starting to question their genesis.

We all have lofty goals in our writing, but each person approaches stories differently.  Don't lose heart, the story is your vision, after all.  So long as you can maintain that, you can be proud, whatever the results.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Here's the introduction to my part of the story. This is pure narrative or rather "editorial commentary."

Introduction to "The Lost Asari"

I thought it would be fun to write the intro from an Asari viewpoint, and of course the author is guilty of everything she's accusing everyone else of doing. The intro seems to be more of a rant about how misrepresented Asari have been in the human media. Hey, don't you think Asari have their versions of FOX News? Dates are in Asari years based on a calendar reset from the discovery of the Citadel.

[Ignis Mors]

Yay! Just put up another chapter in my KotOR fic. Now I have another fic over a hundred thousand published words! Also, QOTD what is the longest chapter you've ever written? For me, I have one around ten thousand words.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Before I knew anything, I wrote one that was 16,000 words and later split it.

[fluffywalrus]

Ignis Mors wrote...

Yay! Just put up another chapter in my KotOR fic. Now I have another fic over a hundred thousand published words! Also, QOTD what is the longest chapter you've ever written? For me, I have one around ten thousand words.

Are we includng one shots here? If so, 22,593 in an unpublished one, and 16,741 in a published one.
Otherwise, if it's just a regular multi-chapter fic, I'm pretty sure my biggest is Feathers chapter 31 at 14,664 words, though one of my non-ME chapters is close too, at 14,004 words.

I write big chapters. But, at the same time, I don't write a lot of chapters, so I think it balances out. I tend to look for a mini arc to complete in each chapter, and if I can't do that, I set 2 or 3 goals to accomplish. That usually gives me enough real estate in the chapter to get comfortable in.

[BronzTrooper]

The longest published chapter I ever wrote was... over 4,500 words, I think. I don't like typing out huge chapters because they require time I usually don't have. Unpublished, I'm not really sure. Maybe over 5,000 words? I'd have to check to make sure.

[hot_heart]

I don't think I've managed a chapter far north of 8k+

Had a bit of a brainwave on my latest chapter (or brain fart, if this sounds stupid). I know I want to include the Phoenix Project guys now under Miranda's command (I get the Jack parallels that way, too).

It just depends how viable it is for her to, at one point, split the team for a big flanking manoeuvre using the London underground. That's a new one, right?

Obviously, the tension would be over the infiltrating team even being able to get through and how long it would take them while Miranda's unit 'hold the line'. What do you reckon? Good idea? Bad idea?

[Seracen]

I generally cut myself off after a few pages per chapter (in the word processor).

I think my largest one was around 10 pages, single spaced (never really did a word count).

By the by, I finally looked at my page count while editing my current story. My jaw dropped, I somehow managed to pump out 415 freaking pages! I will say that it's probably the most I've ever written on one consecutive story.

When I did the math, per my margins and such, the average sci-f novel would come in around 150 pages. Looking back on it, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that I was burnt out and ready for it all to be over, haha!


@ hot_heart: sounds interesting enough.  There's a whole lot of creep factor that you could toy with, should you decide to go claustrophobic with it.

Modifié par Seracen, 12 février 2014 - 05:35 .

[hot_heart]

Seracen wrote...
@ hot_heart: sounds interesting enough.  There's a whole lot of creep factor that you could toy with, should you decide to go claustrophobic with it.

Thanks. Here's where I'm torn though. Original idea is for Miranda to stay topside, worrying she's sent the rest of the team to their deaths (comms stop working underground) and not being able to hold out with her own unit, but switching them round is tempting.

[Seracen]

hot_heart wrote...

Seracen wrote...
@ hot_heart: sounds interesting enough.  There's a whole lot of creep factor that you could toy with, should you decide to go claustrophobic with it.

Thanks. Here's where I'm torn though. Original idea is for Miranda to stay topside, worrying she's sent the rest of the team to their deaths (comms stop working underground) and not being able to hold out with her own unit, but switching them round is tempting.

I'll PM you with some details, as I don't want to flood this forum (I tend to get verbose, if nobody noticed, lol), but I think this is good approach.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Chapter length also has to do with one's writing style. I tend to write in a direct style. So I'm having to look for when things close. What is starting to blow my mind is that I'm not at the end of this thing. I'm sizing it like a paperback for fun, and I'm at 445 pages. I've got at least another four chapters of my own to write, so that's another 10,000 words or 40 pages. Then I have to insert two sub plots written by two other people, and figure out how and when to shift viewpoints. One is absolutely critical, the other not quite as much. Edit, revise, proofread, get it proofread, and publish.

On letter size paper at 450 words/page I'm at 245 pages at the moment. My longest chapter in this is about 5600 words, and it was necessary. 12 pages letter size or 22 pages book size.

[fluffywalrus]

Seracen wrote...

By the by, I finally looked at my page count while editing my current story. My jaw dropped, I somehow managed to pump out 415 freaking pages! I will say that it's probably the most I've ever written on one consecutive story.

When I did the math, per my margins and such, the average sci-f novel would come in around 150 pages. Looking back on it, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that I was burnt out and ready for it all to be over, haha!

Haha, it's kind of funny, right? I mean, people can ask, hey, what have you been up to lately? And you can legit reply "Eh, wrote a book. A damn big one."

It's an accomplishment

(warning, tired rant incoming)

One thing that gets me, though, in the fanfiction community at least, is the unending thirst for more. It's like...I've been at this less than 2 years, I've put out close to a million words of stories, and I still get people pounding my inbox telling me to hurry up and update. This happens mostly through PMs, but some anons take to my review page to tell me their innermost desires. It's crazy! Like, one month, this past december, I tossed out an 87k word story. Last june I pushed out one that was 76k. When I started, I pushed out a 133k word story out in 4 months, and a 330K+ word story that's currently unfinished in the following 6 months. I released a collection of short stories nearing 100k last August. And there's even more material in between.

And, like...I have school. I have work. I volunteer. I make it clear that my schedule's tight, and people just rail on me for not releasing something new for their favourite story each week. It's kind of disheartening. Like, yeah, I could take 3 hours this coming friday night to write...I could. But I'd be missing out on the volunteer work I was offered that could pad my CV for grad school. I have a reading week coming up with no school, and I've taken work off, but I'm visiting family because I haven't seen them in a while, some in over 3 years.

I make it clear there are no timetables. I include in authors notes if there is a known update and when, but on my profile page, I've basically said "I'm busy, i have precious little time to write, and you'll get new stuff when I can actually sit down and write it. I'm not a genie." Like, I'll laugh if someone send a review saying they were worried the story was on hiatus if I've just updated for the first time in two weeks, but I like to think those statements are tongue in cheek. I've had people telling me to stop posting new stories and get back to writing the old ones, despite the fact that I've given authors notes in bold saying that the new stuff I've been posting lately was written a long time ago when I had excess time to write, and had just been sittingaround. And that i just decided to post it to give people something to read. Maybe i should include in the nxt author note that i actually haven't sat down to write anything longer than 3.5k words since late this past december. And before that, it was early november. it's frustrating.

And still, people PM me. Usually about 5 or 6 a week, but sometimes more. I used to be flattered at the start, but now I'm just kind of pissed off. Not enough to scare me away from the stories I love, I'm not that spiteful, but it's still enough to get me kind of angry. Well, maybe the one I got this evening pushed me over the edge enough to write this, but still. It's been annoying. maybe if they were at least NICE...

Anyone have to deal with stuff like this in the past? Any tips for keeping sane?

Modifié par fluffywalrus, 13 février 2014 - 01:31 .

[Seracen]

fluffywalrus wrote...

Haha, it's kind of funny, right? I mean, people can ask, hey, what have you been up to lately? And you can legit reply "Eh, wrote a book. A damn big one."

It's an accomplishment

(warning, tired rant incoming)

One thing that gets me, though, in the fanfiction community at least, is the unending thirst for more. It's like...I've been at this less than 2 years, I've put out close to a million words of stories, and I still get people pounding my inbox telling me to hurry up and update. This happens mostly through PMs, but some anons take to my review page to tell me their innermost desires. It's crazy! Like, one month, this past december, I tossed out an 87k word story. Last june I pushed out one that was 76k. When I started, I pushed out a 133k word story out in 4 months, and a 330K+ word story that's currently unfinished in the following 6 months. I released a collection of short stories nearing 100k last August. And there's even more material in between.

[snip]

And still, people PM me. Usually about 5 or 6 a week, but sometimes more. I used to be flattered at the start, but now I'm just kind of pissed off. Not enough to scare me away from the stories I love, I'm not that spiteful, but it's still enough to get me kind of angry. Well, maybe the one I got this evening pushed me over the edge enough to write this, but still. It's been annoying. maybe if they were at least NICE...

Anyone have to deal with stuff like this in the past? Any tips for keeping sane?

Yeah, I got a bit of this when I started out.  I won't even mention the messages I got from my unfinished work.  FF.net still hasn't seen fit to e-mail me a password reset on my original account though, so Lord knows what I haven't read from that inbox!

Honestly, I don't let it get to me.  It's a smaller version of the "cult of personality".  People have no filter when on the internet.  Crazy fans don't constitute the whole of an actor/rocker/ballplayer's fanbase.

Sort of like people at ballgames who pick fights with players.  They are stupid, and should be penalized, but that shouldn't constitute the image of that city as a whole.  Likewise, it always perturbs me when people use examples from the dregs of the internet as a litmus for the youth culture in general.  Some kid spewing epithets on Facebook about LoL doesn't represent ME as a gamer.

It's hard to filter out the crazy sometimes, but don't make it about those people.  Make it about the fun you have with writing.  Make it about the GOOD relationships and reactions that you garner through your writing.  Hell, I straight up stop reading comments once they stop being respectful.

However, I will say, there was a particular bad bit of hatemail I got once.  I actually took the time to reply, stating how that person might have gotten me to listen to his criticisms, if he had just been civil.  However, as he was being a jerk, not only would he not get what he wanted, I had nothing to apologize to him about either.  Suffice it to say, he never replied.

As for why people act that way in the first place: it's easy to demand more and lose patience.  I usually try to put it in perspective.  After all, I am always chomping at the bit for the next great story, the next great book, the next great game, or the next great movie/tv series.

It's part of the reason why I filter what I consume by whether or not it's finished (such as with anime).  It's why I can play a game, then lose all interest until the sequel comes out, because anything else will cause me to react like a crazy person who is trolling the creators.

But the people that harass authors don't have that filter.  It doesn't mean they don't like your work, just the opposite in fact.  It does, however, mean they are being idiots, and therefore unworthy of stressing out about.

My method may not work for you, but again, be proud of your own work.  Take pleasure in the process and the reaction of the respectful fans, and leave the rest by the wayside.


PS: As a fan of the writing of many of the folks in this thread, I personally would be VERY perturbed if the actions of some fool was responsible for ANY cessation OR degradation in your works.   I enjoy them too damn much, so keep up the great work!

Modifié par Seracen, 13 février 2014 - 01:51 .

[Ignis Mors]

fluffywalrus wrote...

Seracen wrote...

By the by, I finally looked at my page count while editing my current story. My jaw dropped, I somehow managed to pump out 415 freaking pages! I will say that it's probably the most I've ever written on one consecutive story.

When I did the math, per my margins and such, the average sci-f novel would come in around 150 pages. Looking back on it, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that I was burnt out and ready for it all to be over, haha!

Haha, it's kind of funny, right? I mean, people can ask, hey, what have you been up to lately? And you can legit reply "Eh, wrote a book. A damn big one."

It's an accomplishment

(warning, tired rant incoming)

One thing that gets me, though, in the fanfiction community at least, is the unending thirst for more. It's like...I've been at this less than 2 years, I've put out close to a million words of stories, and I still get people pounding my inbox telling me to hurry up and update. This happens mostly through PMs, but some anons take to my review page to tell me their innermost desires. It's crazy! Like, one month, this past december, I tossed out an 87k word story. Last june I pushed out one that was 76k. When I started, I pushed out a 133k word story out in 4 months, and a 330K+ word story that's currently unfinished in the following 6 months. I released a collection of short stories nearing 100k last August. And there's even more material in between.

And, like...I have school. I have work. I volunteer. I make it clear that my schedule's tight, and people just rail on me for not releasing something new for their favourite story each week. It's kind of disheartening. Like, yeah, I could take 3 hours this coming friday night to write...I could. But I'd be missing out on the volunteer work I was offered that could pad my CV for grad school. I have a reading week coming up with no school, and I've taken work off, but I'm visiting family because I haven't seen them in a while, some in over 3 years.

I make it clear there are no timetables. I include in authors notes if there is a known update and when, but on my profile page, I've basically said "I'm busy, i have precious little time to write, and you'll get new stuff when I can actually sit down and write it. I'm not a genie." Like, I'll laugh if someone send a review saying they were worried the story was on hiatus if I've just updated for the first time in two weeks, but I like to think those statements are tongue in cheek. I've had people telling me to stop posting new stories and get back to writing the old ones, despite the fact that I've given authors notes in bold saying that the new stuff I've been posting lately was written a long time ago when I had excess time to write, and had just been sittingaround. And that i just decided to post it to give people something to read. Maybe i should include in the nxt author note that i actually haven't sat down to write anything longer than 3.5k words since late this past december. And before that, it was early november. it's frustrating.

And still, people PM me. Usually about 5 or 6 a week, but sometimes more. I used to be flattered at the start, but now I'm just kind of pissed off. Not enough to scare me away from the stories I love, I'm not that spiteful, but it's still enough to get me kind of angry. Well, maybe the one I got this evening pushed me over the edge enough to write this, but still. It's been annoying. maybe if they were at least NICE...

Anyone have to deal with stuff like this in the past? Any tips for keeping sane?

I would rather have that as my problem, than getting one review per chapter with luck.  I don't know why, but it seems that all but like, one of the people who reads any of my stories review frequently. And, they don't overlap on fics.
Anyways, QOTD. Why did you guys start writing fanfiction? For me, it was because I hated ME3 from beginning to end, and I couldn't get the idea for Meus Mundus out of my mind. 

[YurigirlzCrush]

fluffywalrus wrote...

Seracen wrote...

By the by, I finally looked at my page count while editing my current story. My jaw dropped, I somehow managed to pump out 415 freaking pages! I will say that it's probably the most I've ever written on one consecutive story.

When I did the math, per my margins and such, the average sci-f novel would come in around 150 pages. Looking back on it, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that I was burnt out and ready for it all to be over, haha!

Haha, it's kind of funny, right? I mean, people can ask, hey, what have you been up to lately? And you can legit reply "Eh, wrote a book. A damn big one."

It's an accomplishment

(warning, tired rant incoming)

One thing that gets me, though, in the fanfiction community at least, is the unending thirst for more. It's like...I've been at this less than 2 years, I've put out close to a million words of stories, and I still get people pounding my inbox telling me to hurry up and update. This happens mostly through PMs, but some anons take to my review page to tell me their innermost desires. It's crazy! Like, one month, this past december, I tossed out an 87k word story. Last june I pushed out one that was 76k. When I started, I pushed out a 133k word story out in 4 months, and a 330K+ word story that's currently unfinished in the following 6 months. I released a collection of short stories nearing 100k last August. And there's even more material in between.

And, like...I have school. I have work. I volunteer. I make it clear that my schedule's tight, and people just rail on me for not releasing something new for their favourite story each week. It's kind of disheartening. Like, yeah, I could take 3 hours this coming friday night to write...I could. But I'd be missing out on the volunteer work I was offered that could pad my CV for grad school. I have a reading week coming up with no school, and I've taken work off, but I'm visiting family because I haven't seen them in a while, some in over 3 years.

I make it clear there are no timetables. I include in authors notes if there is a known update and when, but on my profile page, I've basically said "I'm busy, i have precious little time to write, and you'll get new stuff when I can actually sit down and write it. I'm not a genie." Like, I'll laugh if someone send a review saying they were worried the story was on hiatus if I've just updated for the first time in two weeks, but I like to think those statements are tongue in cheek. I've had people telling me to stop posting new stories and get back to writing the old ones, despite the fact that I've given authors notes in bold saying that the new stuff I've been posting lately was written a long time ago when I had excess time to write, and had just been sittingaround. And that i just decided to post it to give people something to read. Maybe i should include in the nxt author note that i actually haven't sat down to write anything longer than 3.5k words since late this past december. And before that, it was early november. it's frustrating.

And still, people PM me. Usually about 5 or 6 a week, but sometimes more. I used to be flattered at the start, but now I'm just kind of pissed off. Not enough to scare me away from the stories I love, I'm not that spiteful, but it's still enough to get me kind of angry. Well, maybe the one I got this evening pushed me over the edge enough to write this, but still. It's been annoying. maybe if they were at least NICE...

Anyone have to deal with stuff like this in the past? Any tips for keeping sane?

I have a tip! ignore those peeps and pay attention to my pms clamoring for more instead! *grins*

and before anyone else accuses me of contributing to the problem for poor fluffy, I never send those sorts of pms. that's the point of my suggestion! *smiles* I just pester the poor girl with inane questions and random comments instead. because I'm not a numbskull who things fanfic writers just have all the time in the world to write whenever their readers want more. *sigh*

still, I guess at least the demands for more show people like your work! just read that into it and ignore any idiocy, impoliteness or insanity. or if it will help, I will totes send a private message every week to rudely demand that you update only when convenient, complete with obscure threats if you like! *winks*

[Seracen]

Ignis Mors wrote...

I would rather have that as my problem, than getting one review per chapter with luck.  I don't know why, but it seems that all but like, one of the people who reads any of my stories review frequently. And, they don't overlap on fics.
Anyways, QOTD. Why did you guys start writing fanfiction? For me, it was because I hated ME3 from beginning to end, and I couldn't get the idea for Meus Mundus out of my mind. 

I first started writing fanfic because I didn't like the way certain stories progressed.

Do not know when my first true "fanfic" was.  I remember writing an alternate ending to "The Great Gatsby" for a school project.  I also remember doing something similar with an anime that really went nowhere by the end.

Then I played Final Fantasy 7, again, as a kid (and well after the hype, as I'd never gotten a console until PS2 was halfway into it's cycle).

So of course, I was unhappy with the way Aeris died, etc etc.  So last year of high school, first year of college, I start writing.  Ever since then, I'd touched on projects that I liked, here and there.

Nothing grabbed me, however, like the ME universe.  Then with that ending in ME3...well, I suppose it was inevitable that I write my own additions to the lore.

**********

I totally picture YurigirlzCrush's messages consisting " hey fluffywalrus! [POKE!!!!]."

So, for myself...

Hey fluffywalrus!!! [Poke]! :P  

EDIT: just noticed your non-ME works.  Glee is rife with ravenous fanbase, and a lot of them younger, so I can see how you'd get a few crazies.  Pay them no mind and keep up the great writing!

PS: that FF.net avatar is TOO CUTE!!!!

Modifié par Seracen, 13 février 2014 - 05:18 .

[Obsidian Gryphon]

fluffywalrus wrote...

And still, people PM me. Usually about 5 or 6 a week, but sometimes more. I used to be flattered at the start, but now I'm just kind of pissed off. Not enough to scare me away from the stories I love, I'm not that spiteful, but it's still enough to get me kind of angry. Well, maybe the one I got this evening pushed me over the edge enough to write this, but still. It's been annoying. maybe if they were at least NICE...

Anyone have to deal with stuff like this in the past? Any tips for keeping sane?

I noticed that you're writing fanfics for very popular tv shows, I think. I don't watch those but I read some news articles about them. So it isn't surprising you'll get a lot of PMs and requests. I've no credible advice though but only that you should be prepared for more going your way.

Here's something I'd like to share. It's an interesting clip I found on YT.

Ivan Torrent - The Light Crusaders. Set to time lapse video of Earth taken from the International Space Station

[BronzTrooper]

Ignis Mors wrote...

Anyways, QOTD. Why did you guys start writing fanfiction? For me, it was because I hated ME3 from beginning to end, and I couldn't get the idea for Meus Mundus out of my mind. 

Hmm... I really don't remember.  I guess it was because I wanted to show how my Sheps would, or should, have reacted to certain events in ME3 and it kind of snowballed from there.

[MrStoob]

Ignis Mors wrote...
Anyways, QOTD. Why did you guys start writing fanfiction? For me, it was because I hated ME3 from beginning to end, and I couldn't get the idea for Meus Mundus out of my mind. 

I was pondering this the other day.  I seem to remember I wanted to tell Liara's story, how she could go from ME1 bookish naive Liara to ME2 stand-offish angry Liara to ME3 kick-ass asari biotic goddess.  That, and I had a pretty well realised Shep to play with for the LI stuff.  And because all creatives are show offs and want to be heard! :innocent: