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[drosophila]

@DustyTulip:

 

It's a challenge in which people write a lot of words. A lot of words, like 50k.

 

I can't, my perfectionism would make me implode.

 

 

50k?

 

@.@

 

 

Yeah, I'd just bend the rules and go for... a fifth of that? 

[Ajna]

I was thinking of maybe:

 

1. Working on my rivalmance.

2. Working on a post-Tresspasser fic that is set ~200 years in a future where my Lavellan did join Solas to help out with his plan. 

 

How about you, hahren?

 

I would read number two!

[FernRain]

Funnily enough I googled 'nano writing' and it brought up an article on why not to do it .

 

I think it would be good habit practice, but for me most of the effort is in the editing (so much editing, I mean seriously like 20:1 ratio). And if I've got nothing interesting to say I don't usually write it, which is sort of a pitfall in itself because my writing is very to the point, 'no time for dallying' . My mother says she has to really take her time when reading stuff I've written because I pack a lot into it (events, not purple prose). I guess that's what I get for reading too many wiki articles ..

[Cee]

Right. I'm hoping for that too.

 

-- activate Fenris mode --

Dunno, major self-esteem drop this week, everything I write is so boring when I come back to it. How do I become interesting? 

-- deactivate Fenris mode --

 

Go you! Embrace every new sentence! I want more of the sweetest Dalish couple in existence. 

 

You summed up how I've been feeling, exactly. Not self-esteem for me but just everything that is weighing on me having an effect. I feel like I'm writing like building with plain wooden planks when I want something more polished and smooth.

 

I was trying the post-Trespasser siblings scene again but I may switch gears. Nothing quite fully wants to come and it just feels like treading mud.

[DustyTulip]

http://nanowrimo.org/Happens every November. I've never completed one, so it would be nice to.

 

Oh... that actually sounds interesting. I am writing something at the moment  (not DA related) and using my flat mate to kick my butt into action. (I have to submit her a chapter every 2 weeks...).  This could help. Hmmm.

 

50k?

 

@.@

 

Actually, I was just looking at the website and can you make groups and stuff on there? It looks like it could be fun to have a Blanket Fort group for kicks and we all poke each other to write some craziness.

 

But 50k sounds like a lot. Like, you need one hell of an idea to type that much about it I would think.

Oh Blanket Fort group! It is a shame my thing is not DA related. If I name one of the characters Solas, would I qualify?     

I am only joking, but you should totally make a group if the system allows you to!

 

Yeah, I'd just bend the rules and go for... a fifth of that? 

 

1/5th would be already an awesome achievement, as far as I am concerned! 

[MayriyaNoori]

Totally off topic, but a sweet song I found for feelz.

 

[drosophila]

You summed up how I've been feeling, exactly. Not self-esteem for me but just everything that is weighing on me having an effect. I feel like I'm writing like building with plain wooden planks when I want something more polished and smooth.

 

I was trying the post-Trespasser siblings scene again but I may switch gears. Nothing quite fully wants to come and it just feels like treading mud.

 

Yep, that's what I mean. When I first come up with an idea and type it up it looks like:

 

***SHINY WINTER PALACE IN HALAMSHIRAL. DON'T YOU JUST WANT TO GO IN?***

 

When I go back to it, it looks like:

 

Kirkwall Darktown

 

But you know, you could switch gears to my favorite couple of all times 

[dawnstone]

I say don't worry about what it's supposed to be.

 

I wonder if I'm in the minority, but I don't care if things start silly and then deepen and become more serious. It doesn't seem unnatural to me, even when I'm reading other people's stuff. For example, when I was reading MayriyaNoori's fic and stuff got darker and more serious at one point, I actually enjoyed it, it felt surprising and refreshing. 

 

Being repetitive - if you're finding that you're writing the same thing over and over, I say write it out the way you first thought of it first. Then once you have that down, look it over and think of a few things to change. A different setting? The role each character is playing in a scene? For example when Sable ended her fluff piece (I say ended FOR NOW, we demand more of it!) and Solas did something we're very used to seeing Lavellan do. I thought it was clever and fun. So this way repetition turns into variations on a theme, and IMO it's never as repetitive to the reader as it is for you. You've gone over it 1000 times in your head, they've read it only once. 

 

 

 

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Oh, please indulge my healing fetish!

You're absolutely right. The most important thing is just getting something down. Everyone here is so talented! I love that this thread has its own little creative enclave with such a variety of storytellers and artists.

 

Spoiler

And I will try to do something fun with the healing sexytimes, then. Solas gets to be the injured party this time, I think. muahaha.

[drosophila]

1/5th would be already an awesome achievement, as far as I am concerned! 

 

Well, you have to push yourself a little even if you're doing things at your own pace. 

[Mlady]

Sounds like you have bugged banter.  Neither piece was ever meant to be heard in the game.

 

I'm still trying to figure out where the new Solas banter came from after patch 10. It never even shows up in the subtitles. I wonder if it was just randomly added so people wouldn't grind through the Hinterlands?

[Moondreamer01]

I did nano last year, or at least try, and it ended up NOT being the right thing for me. The self-pressure of needing to write 2k words a day kicked in the worse of my self-doubts and I almost made myself sick with stress and the dread that I was no good.

 

So... no nano for me again.

[drosophila]

You're absolutely right. The most important thing is just getting something down. Everyone here is so talented! I love that this thread has its own little creative enclave with such a variety of storytellers and artists.

 

Spoiler

And I will try to do something fun with the healing sexytimes, then. Solas gets to be the injured party this time, I think. muahaha.

 

Yes, people here are awesome and still intimidate me a lot 

 

Spoiler

Healing sexytimes with healer Lavellan? Are you Cole? Did you just read my mind and come up with the exact kind of thing I find super hot?

[Uirebhiril]

You know, I don't really disagree with anything you're saying about his state of mind. But it requires some mental pretzling for me to interpret his walk the way you did. He's her friend, not her doctor. Being self-protective doesn't preclude being a little kinder to someone who's in a lot of pain. I mean look - how many of our Lavellans would have treated him that way, if the situation were reversed?

 

I very much saw his initial walk towards the Inquisitor as someone who is two years removed from the person before them and either believing he can hold himself aloof from a friend/lover or is steeling himself to do just that. His expression changes just enough past that point, and to me it shows that he is not so unaffected by their friendship/love as he might have wanted to be. The posturing lasts only so long.

 

Solas being cold and uninterested in the gremlin that he loves or has a friendly relationship with was one of my fears before Trespasser, and while there were shades of that there it more or less crumbled when he was faced with the actual person. That or I am completely kidding myself and seeing his facial expressions between friend and lover Inquisitors is totally in my mind.  

[Cee]

*looks at word count on DA-related fic doc* Hmm....20k over 39 pages.

[Ellawynn]

You know, I don't really disagree with anything you're saying about his state of mind. But it requires some mental pretzling for me to interpret his walk the way you did. He's her friend, not her doctor. Being self-protective doesn't preclude being a little kinder to someone who's in a lot of pain. I mean look - how many of our Lavellans would have treated him that way, if the situation were reversed?

I actually feel like that's exactly how my Lavellan would've treated him, if she knew she could stop his pain and save him. My Lavellan's a cool little cucumber. Almost always went for the stoic response. I mean, she might've been a bit quicker to react but she wouldn't have... I dunno, embraced him, or sobbed over his pain or something.

 

...Really, trying to think about how that scene in Trespasser would've gone if things were switched is interesting. I don't think my Lavellan would've been nearly as honest or intimate as Solas got. She'd have tried to distance herself a lot more.

[drosophila]

*looks at word count on DA-related fic doc* Hmm....20k over 39 pages.

 

How do you people write so fast? Seriously, I'm asking for suggestions. It's one of the things I'd like to improve on right now. 

[Cee]

How do you people write so fast? Seriously, I'm asking for suggestions. It's one of the things I'd like to improve on right now. 

 

I don't. That's all of the ones I've written since March/April and a few stray notes I haven't deleted. I think I'm up to 14 on AO3, so that's them. I have them all in one document since I didn't think I'd be writing much of it.

[MayriyaNoori]

How do you people write so fast? Seriously, I'm asking for suggestions. It's one of the things I'd like to improve on right now. 

You could add a two year old to your background.

 

Serious things. I find myself speed typing to get down a thought before the inevitable gotta step away from the computer pops up. Or just doing anything around the house really. I guess this could translate to one of those "Give yourself only 5-10 minutes to get it done" and see what  comes out exercises.

 

This probably only works for those who respond well to the pressure of time.

[Moondreamer01]

How do you people write so fast? Seriously, I'm asking for suggestions. It's one of the things I'd like to improve on right now. 

I don't know if it might help you (I'm a slow writer myself, but I heard good things about the method).

 

http://thisblogisapl...-words-day.html

 

She later expanded it into a book, but the blog post gives the gist of the method.

[Cee]

I don't know if it might help you (I'm a slow writer myself, but I heard good things about the method).

 

http://thisblogisapl...-words-day.html

 

She later expanded it into a book, but the blog post gives the gist of the method.

 

You know, I have this book. Someone recommended it to me and it was on sale at the time for $1. I should finish reading it.

 

I just tried to poke at my current scene again and I am just not pleased.

[midnight tea]

You could add a two year old to your background.

 

Serious things. I find myself speed typing to get down a thought before the inevitable gotta step away from the computer pops up. Or just doing anything around the house really. I guess this could translate to one of those "Give yourself only 5-10 minutes to get it done" and see what  comes out exercises.

 

This probably only works for those who respond well to the pressure of time.

 

That's... definitely not me xD In fact, my relationship with time is one that probably looks a lot like that of ancient elves... which is to say that it's entirely inapplicable to modern, mortal pace of life 

[roselavellan]

I don't think you're the only one. I mean, I get why people think he's more attractive now, and I'll admit to being slightly distracted by those thighs in that armour.

 

But I agree, Trespasser Solas makes me more sad than anything else. Also, I don't know how I like the idea that increased sexiness is visual shorthand for 'more morally ambiguous/close to the villain end of the spectrum'.

 

Most of all, it's difficult to forget the way he strides up to you while you're on the ground writhing from the pain in your hand. I've seen some say they found that cool walk sexy. I found it really chilling. He just seems so remote from the Inquisitor in that moment. And again, I get why some find that more attractive. I find it disturbing and depressing.

 

Sorry for quoting this from pages back, but I'm just catching up now. I kinda agree with you. I personally don't find moral ambiguity sexy at all, but I think maybe a lot of people are attracted by the new powerful and confident Solas - power is attractive. I find Solas both attractive (but I always find him attractive!) and disturbing in the scene, but I would definitely have been happier without the disturbing aspect.

 

What disturbs me is that he looks fully committed to his plan, he's no longer vacillating between Lavellan and his plan. It causes him great pain, but he still walks away. I admit I got really angry when he said "I will never forget you".

 

Having thought about the scene, though, I think it's designed to make you feel both anxious and hopeful. This is a cliffhanger, after all. This is perhaps the Inquisitor's crisis point, you've lost your Anchor and your mentor/rival/lover has left to destroy the world... but I think Bioware wouldn't have shown us hope where there was none. He still loves you, still cares about a friendly Inquisitor, Bioware made the effort to make it obvious. He's headed to a dark place at the moment, but there's hope that you can pull him back from that place, and DA4 will be glorious for it.

[Shari'El]

I HATE RL PENCILS

LEARN FROM THE MECHANICAL PENCIL AND STAY SHARP.

Or at least come with a sharpener build in.

 

Maybe I should start writing instead, "word" doesn't run out ink/lead >_>

 

@Sable, I hope you are planning on continuing that fic, because if you don't... well, you know what would happen 

I'll forget about it after a day or two but until then I'll be sad.

[Mlady]

Sorry for quoting this from pages back, but I'm just catching up now. I kinda agree with you. I personally don't find moral ambiguity sexy at all, but I think maybe a lot of people are attracted by the new powerful and confident Solas - power is attractive. I find Solas both attractive (but I always find him attractive!) and disturbing in the scene, but I would definitely have been happier without the disturbing aspect.

 

What disturbs me is that he looks fully committed to his plan, he's no longer vacillating between Lavellan and his plan. It causes him great pain, but he still walks away. I admit I got really angry when he said "I will never forget you".

 

Having thought about the scene, though, I think it's designed to make you feel both anxious and hopeful. This is a cliffhanger, after all. This is perhaps the Inquisitor's crisis point, you've lost your Anchor and your mentor/rival/lover has left to destroy the world... but I think Bioware wouldn't have shown us hope where there was none. He still loves you, still cares about a friendly Inquisitor, Bioware made the effort to make it obvious. He's headed to a dark place at the moment, but there's hope that you can pull him back from that place, and DA4 will be glorious for it.

 

The biggest hint for a Lavellan is the ending with the dream. I think it is him and he's secretly watching her, maybe a part of him wanting to give it all up like last time, and making sure she's alright and not hurting or being harmed.

[MayriyaNoori]

That's... definitely not me xD In fact, my relationship with time is one that probably looks a lot like that of ancient elves... which is to say that it's entirely inapplicable to modern, mortal pace of life 

I guess that makes time my friend. Or else I turn into a Sloth Demon and nothing gets done.