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[Cee]

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

 

We wouldn't want to see that side of you.

http://rtradke.devia...Sloth-372357845

[drosophila]

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.

 

I've been kind of doing that. I come up with things while doing the experiments (the virgins inspire me ) then type them up in small chunks in between. 

 

But the thing is: I would come up with a few lines of dialogue in my head, then when it's time to type it, it doesn't sound coherent anymore. Before I know it, I'v been staring at and tweaking the same sentence for the entirety of the 10 minute pause. 

 

That doesn't really happen when I'm typing posts here. So IMO it's psychology. 

 

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.

 

Thanks! Will check it out!

[Moondreamer01]

We wouldn't want to see that side of you.

http://rtradke.devia...Sloth-372357845

Whelp! That's certainly disturbing O_o

[Kadan]

@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. It took me six months with my 17K story.

Yeah I can see how 2500+ words a day can be intimidating.

 

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.

 

You have over 12K in just 7 chapters, your 1/4th of the way there!

 

I can't believe in 7 chapters I'm almost half way there? Kind of scary actually. Though I have no pressure to meet any deadlines but my self imposed ones.

 

I may attempt it, but can't be certain with school still taking a big chunk of my time. Besides I'm not sure I want to share it outside this thread, and the fanfic sites.

[Cee]

Whelp! That's certainly disturbing O_o

 

[Moondreamer01]

I can't see the image

[roselavellan]

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.

 

I agree, I think Bioware took great pains to let us know how much he loves her.

[Cee]

I can't see the image

 

Changed the link.

 

[Kadan]

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 wish I knew. I just hand wrote 4 notebook pages front to back and still haven't finished the idea that I had. It's in the notebook because it's around Halmshiral/winter place and I haven't even left Haven yet with posted chapters. I think I spent an hour and a half on it? But its mostly dialogue. I'd have to spend at least that much time and nearly three more pages to get descriptions and settings added.

[Cee]

Cool. Today someone posted a horribly violent image to Facebook. I'm still not completely over yesterday's disturbing nightmare.

I really, really want to go to sleep for a bit because my head is a very happening place for germ activity right now.

And assorted other things are being annoying and making me feel like I have the writing skills of a log.

 

I'm going to spend some time with my outline later, since I'm not going to be traveling to my mom's like this. I think, and hope, that if I get the outline together for her return post-Corypheus and then write that, the third part won't be as difficult.

 

 

Bonus cute sloth: http://i.imgur.com/h260oaC.jpg

 

Sloth demons would be much more effective if they looked like this.

[Moondreamer01]

Changed the link.

 

Hmmm, might be me then? I'm still not seeing it yet I can see other images. I'm not at my usual computer though.

[Mlady]

I agree, I think Bioware took great pains to let us know how much he loves her.

 

Yes I agree. They did not have to add that ending if it was meant to be final between them. I am still bugged out how much warmer the friendship ending is, but I guess with someone you love so much it could change all you've worked for, you would have to harden yourself in fear of your love overcoming your plans.

 

One thing about Solas that still makes me say "what... how did you manage that?" is that for a guy who only woke up a year before DAI, his knowledge of the past millennia is so extreme, he sounds as if he lived through it. He never once slips up on any knowledge he retained. Memory of an Elephant right there.

[S.W.]

I wrote 75k for an incomplete fanfic when I was about 17, as a way of getting over my first breakup, over the space of one summer once (it was about 30 chapters long, probably needed another 25k or so). I remember writing an entire 12k chapter in one day when I was trapped at my gran's house with no internet. Writing that much is do-able. That exercise taught me that normal human beings can produce whole novels, it's just another skill you can learn.

 

Since then I've written infrequently and my speed has slowed dramatically down. I think it's partially down to the fact that I never plan when I write (bad idea), so I often spend half my time trying to figure out what comes next.

 

I also find writing in some styles easier than others. I'm close to finishing the second chapter of Fear & Trembling now. It's done in two sections, and I spent the whole week agonizing over the first part, playing with sentence structures and trying to keep it concise, yet managed to bang out almost all of the second part last night in less than an hour, at around four in the morning (honestly 3am-4am seems to be my most productive writing time, I wrote a couple of Mass Effect oneshots around that time over summer).

[Janic99]

I want to ask a question from you all... I am so curious.. I want to know about your Lavellans. First (I know some asked these but I have more) for those who have time to write them up. I would love to read them:  Age, Class and specialization (why those ones, was there a reason), Personality, what do you think they mostly adored about Solas like what were the facinating things for YOUR lavellan about him. Also I would like to know their relationship with clan lavellan, if they lived or died and how they reacted to that. How is their backround? And lastly.. if you could choose your own thing to say to Solas in trespasser what would they say? I will post mine later if someone is interested :3

[Sable Rhapsody]

One thing about Solas that still makes me say "what... how did you manage that?" is that for a guy who only woke up a year before DAI, his knowledge of the past millennia is so extreme, he sounds as if he lived through it. He never once slips up on any knowledge he retained. Memory of an Elephant right there.

 

He wasn't awake, but he was in "dark and dreaming sleep" so he probably witnessed a bunch of stuff in the Fade even if he was taking a nap.  At least for the history between Arlathan and modern Thedas, I think he's actually telling the truth when he says he learned it all in the Fade.

 

Cool. Today someone posted a horribly violent image to Facebook. I'm still not completely over yesterday's disturbing nightmare.

I really, really want to go to sleep for a bit because my head is a very happening place for germ activity right now.

And assorted other things are being annoying and making me feel like I have the writing skills of a log.

 

I'm going to spend some time with my outline later, since I'm not going to be traveling to my mom's like this. I think, and hope, that if I get the outline together for her return post-Corypheus and then write that, the third part won't be as difficult.

 

 

Bonus cute sloth: http://i.imgur.com/h260oaC.jpg

 

Sloth demons would be much more effective if they looked like this.

 

 

Here, have another cuddle puddle.  You're the one in the middle who's getting all the cuddles.

 

[Mlady]

I want to ask a question from you all... I am so curious.. I want to know about your Lavellans. First (I know some asked these but I have more) for those who have time to write them up. I would love to read them:  Age, Class and specialization (why those ones, was there a reason), Personality, what do you think they mostly adored about Solas like what were the facinating things for YOUR lavellan about him. Also I would like to know their relationship with clan lavellan, if they lived or died and how they reacted to that. How is their backround? And lastly.. if you could choose your own thing to say to Solas in trespasser what would they say? I will post mine later if someone is interested :3

 

Mine was Ellie. She was a feisty red-headed assassin archer in her late 20's who was so involved with learning about humans, she was never a true Dalish like the others.

 

She liked Humans, Dwarves, Qunari and never called anyone shem or child of the stone.

 

She was curious about her lost past though so Solas' intrigued her, but she sensed a sadness and loneliness in him and as she tried to form a friendship with the solem man, her feelings grew beyond that and soon she was in love with him.

 

By Trespasser she had already found out he was Fen'Harel before he told her, and she was angry he never trusted her with the truth. She always had Fen'Harel statues guard her village (she told Morrigan and Solas this in the temple of Mythal) and never feared him like so many close-minded Dalish and yet he still judged her.

 

She vowed to redeem him as she watched him give up on them, and then when she would see him in her dreams, she knew she was close to changing his heart.

 

 

He wasn't awake, but he was in "dark and dreaming sleep" so he probably witnessed a bunch of stuff in the Fade even if he was taking a nap.  At least for the history between Arlathan and modern Thedas, I think he's actually telling the truth when he says he learned it all in the Fade.

 

Yeah I always wondered if he was honest about that. Some people think he lied about everything, but I don't think he ever lied. He never lied about his name, no one asked if he was an ancient god and he did see stuff in the Fade, so he actually never lied, just used his words carefully.

[Janic99]

Mine was Ellie. She was a feisty red-headed assassin archer in her late 20's who was so involved with learning about humans, she was never a true Dalish like the others.

 

She liked Humans, Dwarves, Qunari and never called anyone shem or child of the stone.

 

She was curious about her lost past though so Solas' intrigued her, but she sensed a sadness and loneliness in him and as she tried to form a friendship with the solem man, her feelings grew beyond that and soon she was in love with him.

 

By Trespasser she had already found out he was Fen'Harel before he todl her, and she was angry he never trusted her with the truth. She always had Fen'Harel statues guard her village (she told Morrigan and Solas this in the temple of Mythal) and never feared him like so many close-minded Dalish and yet he still judged her.

 

She vowed to redeem him as she watched him give up on them, and then when she would see him in her dreams, she knew she was close to changing his heart.

Hmm I like her. She has an attitude I would approve a lot. I also like how you thought of how she started falling for Solas later on and not at first sight though she felt very intrigued by him. I like that.
 

[Julilla]

 

edit: and you guys are all married and stuff and I'm like "At least you have distractions!! Real-person distractions!! From Solas helllll" 

 Crusher, no wai! Just because I'm married doesn't mean I'm not in Solavellan hell like all the time. You might think I would be immune or something, but no. It's so bad, my husband feeds it with Solavellan pins from Pinterest (he has like a thousand followers on Pinterest, he's such a Pinterest ho!)! He shows me all Solas stuff he finds on the internet. He also knows that I am obsessive and focused and that he should not interfere. 

 

Having a loving, wonderful spouse does not mean that you would not be in the hellspiral. The hellspiral is a real thing, and it is open to everyone regardless of gender/sexual orientation/marital status/blood type. It caused me profound social embarrassment (which story I might tell someday, lol). It's equal opportunity pain. You are not alone!

[S.W.]

Yes I agree. They did not have to add that ending if it was meant to be final between them. I am still bugged out how much warmer the friendship ending is, but I guess with someone you love so much it could change all you've worked for, you would have to harden yourself in fear of your love overcoming your plans.
 
One thing about Solas that still makes me say "what... how did you manage that?" is that for a guy who only woke up a year before DAI, his knowledge of the past millennia is so extreme, he sounds as if he lived through it. He never once slips up on any knowledge he retained. Memory of an Elephant right there.

 
He was lucid dreaming for almost all of it, I imagine, so probably was partially aware of some of the major historical developments that had occurred because they'd be reflected in the fade. 
 
 

My Max will do anything to protect Chole. I get a real Homoura/Madoka vibe from the way I play her, sometimes.


I actually like David.

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I find him to actually be pretty sympathic. It's clear he has PTSD and he really does care for the safety of the Blackwell students. But he's also hit Chole in the past, and will hit her in the presant if a certain set of choices are made at one point. I like that nearly every character we've been given is so much more complex than they first seem.

But I'll still have Max prioritse Chole over everyone bar Kate (precious cinnamon roll). Chole apologising for the way she acted in episode 4 while they visisted Kate in hospital was very sweet.

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That sounds identical to my second Max, who was 100% defend Chloe at all times, would die the ship (exception: Kate, because she's Kate, and Chloe later apologises about her behaviour there anyway).

I agree with you about David, out of the three or four shady characters (David, Frank, Nathan, and Jefferson) he's definitely the most sympathetic to me. He's trying really hard to make things work for his family and for Blackwell, and it's implied he knew something shady was definitely going on at Blackwell too - if anything, he's on our side, even if he's immediately suspicious of you.

Hitting Chloe was awful though and I nearly screamed at my screen when he first did that, ugh. I almost struggled to warm to David for that reason.

 

anyone doing nano this year? anyone thinking of doing some da fic for nano ?

I've wanted to do nano since I was fifteen but it's always clashed with either mock exams (back at school), or essay deadlines (early December for the past three years), and this is the first year since I was fifteen that November is a relatively clear month for me, so I actually might consider it.

Almost definitely would do DA fanfic. I know Sable's already done a way better job with the grad school au fluff but I might have a stab at that with a less in-character Solas.

[roselavellan]

Yes I agree. They did not have to add that ending if it was meant to be final between them. I am still bugged out how much warmer the friendship ending is, but I guess with someone you love so much it could change all you've worked for, you would have to harden yourself in fear of your love overcoming your plans.

 

One thing about Solas that still makes me say "what... how did you manage that?" is that for a guy who only woke up a year before DAI, his knowledge of the past millennia is so extreme, he sounds as if he lived through it. He never once slips up on any knowledge he retained. Memory of an Elephant right there.

 

 

He wasn't awake, but he was in "dark and dreaming sleep" so he probably witnessed a bunch of stuff in the Fade even if he was taking a nap.  At least for the history between Arlathan and modern Thedas, I think he's actually telling the truth when he says he learned it all in the Fade.

 

 

Yes, I think most of the things he says he witnessed in the Fade, he actually did - with the exception of the noble courts  I do think he also has an exceptional mind, one of the things that attracted my Lavellan to him in the first place  

[drosophila]

I want to ask a question from you all... I am so curious.. I want to know about your Lavellans. First (I know some asked these but I have more) for those who have time to write them up. I would love to read them:  Age, Class and specialization (why those ones, was there a reason), Personality, what do you think they mostly adored about Solas like what were the facinating things for YOUR lavellan about him. Also I would like to know their relationship with clan lavellan, if they lived or died and how they reacted to that. How is their backround? And lastly.. if you could choose your own thing to say to Solas in trespasser what would they say? I will post mine later if someone is interested :3

 

Yes, of course you should write about your Lavellan as well!

 

Always happy to talk about my gal.

 

Spoiler

 

Sophia Lavellan

 

Age: 28 at start of game

 

Class and spec: Rift mage

 

Personality: A snarky troll who gives 0 f*cks about anything and anyone, including herself. At least in the beginning of the story. Clever. Damaged. Trust issues. 

 

What do you think they mostly adored about Solas like what were the facinating things for YOUR lavellan about him:

 

1. The Game. Trying to figure him out and outplay him. The poor thing, she really thinks she'll be able to dominate him eventually. 

2. They share the burden of having f*cked up royally at some point, although in different ways. They really bond over it with time, and the bond remains really strong even after the break up. I HC a lot of friendship scenes between them after the break up, actually. 

 

Also I would like to know their relationship with clan lavellan, if they lived or died and how they reacted to that.

 

She's been exiled for 10 years and grown apart from them by the time DAI starts. I think they eventually died in my PT, but she was so estranged at that point, it almost felt like a relief that she was free from her duty to them. 

 

And lastly.. if you could choose your own thing to say to Solas in trespasser what would they say?

 

Taken from the Tresspasser scene I've half-finished:

 

“For all your talk, Solas, you took me as one would take a servant. A slave. You never offered me your love as an equal. But one day you will.”

 

[MayriyaNoori]

Yeah I can see how 2500+ words a day can be intimidating.

 

 

You have over 12K in just 7 chapters, your 1/4th of the way there!

 

I can't believe in 7 chapters I'm almost half way there? Kind of scary actually. Though I have no pressure to meet any deadlines but my self imposed ones.

 

I may attempt it, but can't be certain with school still taking a big chunk of my time. Besides I'm not sure I want to share it outside this thread, and the fanfic sites.

I hadn't thought about that.

 

And I am getting into this whole spewing out words stuff. It's fun. But I don't really have any ideas aside from my Zevellan silly and recapping things from the actual game.

[drosophila]

 Crusher, no wai! Just because I'm married doesn't mean I'm not in Solavellan hell like all the time. You might think I would be immune or something, but no. It's so bad, my husband feeds it with Solavellan pins from Pinterest (he has like a thousand followers on Pinterest, he's such a Pinterest ho!)! He shows me all Solas stuff he finds on the internet. He also knows that I am obsessive and focused and that he should not interfere. 

 

Having a loving, wonderful spouse does not mean that you would not be in the hellspiral. The hellspiral is a real thing, and it is open to everyone regardless of gender/sexual orientation/marital status/blood type. It caused me profound social embarrassment (which story I might tell someday, lol). It's equal opportunity pain. You are not alone!

 

Yes! I'm married to a great guy, and I hellspiral all the time. It has much more to do with how deeply you experience a story, how attached you are to the characters, and how you feel for them. 

[Shari'El]

 

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That sounds identical to my second Max, who was 100% defend Chloe at all times, would die the ship (exception: Kate, because she's Kate, and Chloe later apologises about her behaviour there anyway).

I agree with you about David, out of the three or four shady characters (David, Frank, Nathan, and Jefferson) he's definitely the most sympathetic to me. He's trying really hard to make things work for his family and for Blackwell, and it's implied he knew something shady was definitely going on at Blackwell too - if anything, he's on our side, even if he's immediately suspicious of you.

Hitting Chloe was awful though and I nearly screamed at my screen when he first did that, ugh. I almost struggled to warm to David for that reason.

 

Don't forget about

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Ray Wells (the principal), I don't know for certain he's bad, but he is shady (to me at least).

[Sable Rhapsody]

I want to ask a question from you all... I am so curious.. I want to know about your Lavellans. First (I know some asked these but I have more) for those who have time to write them up. I would love to read them:  Age, Class and specialization (why those ones, was there a reason), Personality, what do you think they mostly adored about Solas like what were the facinating things for YOUR lavellan about him. Also I would like to know their relationship with clan lavellan, if they lived or died and how they reacted to that. How is their backround? And lastly.. if you could choose your own thing to say to Solas in trespasser what would they say? I will post mine later if someone is interested :3

LOL, I can blab about my Lavellan forever. I'm one of those people who has a hard time writing anything that's not for my own Lavellan. Modern AU is an exception, since that's pure fluff.

 

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Name: Clariel Lavellan
Age: 23 as of DA:I, 26 as of Trespasser
Class: Archer rogue, artificer specialization. She used to have June's vallaslin, and the artificer really fit the god of the craft.
What she liked about Solas: Their shared Ravenclaw traits They both love to ask questions and learn, and for her the fact that Solas was so knowledgeable but still so curious really drew her in. She definitely fell for him quickly.  The funny thing is, as my Lavellan brought Solas's softer and more sympathetic traits, he also brought out the edge in her.  Having known him and loved him made her a better Inquisitor, and now a much more formidable opponent to the Dread Wolf.
Relationship with Clan Lavellan: Warm but complicated. The clan's still alive, and Clariel still considers herself Dalish even after everything that's happened. Her immediate family is very loving and supportive. But she can't help but feel awkward and distant with the rest of the clan after everything she's experienced. It's a more extreme version of what happens sometimes after university; you go back to where you grew up, and everything feels unfamiliar. Not because they've changed, but because you've changed.

Trespasser: "I will never forget you, ma sa'lath. Even if you forget yourself."

 

Yes! I'm married to a great guy, and I hellspiral all the time. It has much more to do with how deeply you experience a story, how attached you are to the characters, and how you feel for them.

 

My long-term boyfriend doesn't get the hellspiral, but he's fairly tolerant of it.  He only occasionally makes fun of me He doesn't really play video games for the feelz; he's much bigger on the mechanics.  So WoW, Hearthstone, Civilization, etc.