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[Sagacious Rage]

My concern with the sequel is that it will be more linear like ME and ME2. The thing about DA:O that really inspired me to write was the sheer scope of the thing. To go from seven origins to one? And will the romances play more like the ones on ME? I don't know. I mean, I know I'm going to buy it and play it and probably enjoy it but will it be the same rich source of inspiration as the original? I guess I'll have to wait and see.

[SurelyForth]

Sagacious Rage wrote...

My concern with the sequel is that it will be more linear like ME and ME2. The thing about DA:O that really inspired me to write was the sheer scope of the thing. To go from seven origins to one? And will the romances play more like the ones on ME? I don't know. I mean, I know I'm going to buy it and play it and probably enjoy it but will it be the same rich source of inspiration as the original? I guess I'll have to wait and see.

That's my concern; I hate the idea of being so boxed in. I just hope that Hawke is awesome. 

In other news, the chapter I was ~5,000 words into just looked at me and said "I'm nothing more than an excuse for you to write happy smut for a change" and, despite wanting to get indignant, I had to just agree and put it to pasture. 

[LupusYondergirl]

There was a lot more you could do to shape your character, even in a single origin, than in ME. In ME you were ultimately a career military officer and limited in that regard. You could be more towards paragon or renegade, but when it came down to it you had to be the sort of person who would succeed in a formal military organization.



With, say, the dalish elf origin you could play it as someone who was open to learning about new cultures, someone very hostile to humans, or anywhere in between. Most of the origins gave a lot of flexibility in terms of how you could portray that character, it wasn't simply the customization of the race and class. So, I'm hoping they'll continue that. Being a generic fantasy "hero" is a lot less restrictive than a military one in a more modern setting, IMO.



(hope hope hope)

[Miri1984]

SurelyForth wrote...

Sagacious Rage wrote...

My concern with the sequel is that it will be more linear like ME and ME2. The thing about DA:O that really inspired me to write was the sheer scope of the thing. To go from seven origins to one? And will the romances play more like the ones on ME? I don't know. I mean, I know I'm going to buy it and play it and probably enjoy it but will it be the same rich source of inspiration as the original? I guess I'll have to wait and see.

That's my concern; I hate the idea of being so boxed in. I just hope that Hawke is awesome. 

In other news, the chapter I was ~5,000 words into just looked at me and said "I'm nothing more than an excuse for you to write happy smut for a change" and, despite wanting to get indignant, I had to just agree and put it to pasture. 

*scrambles after the happy smut* No, give it BACK.

[LupusYondergirl]

SurelyForth wrote...

In other news, the chapter I was ~5,000 words into just looked at me and said "I'm nothing more than an excuse for you to write happy smut for a change" and, despite wanting to get indignant, I had to just agree and put it to pasture. 

So... this is a bad thing?  I thought happy smut was one of those things almost everyone loved, like oxygen and water.

[Sagacious Rage]

SurelyForth wrote...

Sagacious Rage wrote...

My concern with the sequel is that it will be more linear like ME and ME2. The thing about DA:O that really inspired me to write was the sheer scope of the thing. To go from seven origins to one? And will the romances play more like the ones on ME? I don't know. I mean, I know I'm going to buy it and play it and probably enjoy it but will it be the same rich source of inspiration as the original? I guess I'll have to wait and see.

That's my concern; I hate the idea of being so boxed in. I just hope that Hawke is awesome. 

In other news, the chapter I was ~5,000 words into just looked at me and said "I'm nothing more than an excuse for you to write happy smut for a change" and, despite wanting to get indignant, I had to just agree and put it to pasture. 

OMG POST IT ANYWAY AU ONE SHOT WHATEVER DON'T THROW AWAY HAPPY SMUT!!!!

I'm a big believer in happy smut. I.E. Cailan Theirin: An Erotic Life

[SurelyForth]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

SurelyForth wrote...

In other news, the chapter I was ~5,000 words into just looked at me and said "I'm nothing more than an excuse for you to write happy smut for a change" and, despite wanting to get indignant, I had to just agree and put it to pasture. 

So... this is a bad thing?  I thought happy smut was one of those things almost everyone loved, like oxygen and water.

It's not a bad thing, it's just something that a) doesn't fit in with my story at this point and I'm not terribly good at. Plus, if I did leave it in, I'd somehow feel obligated to muck around with it until it was a little uncomfortable, which undermines the whole point of happy smut in the first place. 

[Miri1984]

Ok. Save it for later. But I want to read it. Happy Smut is My Friend.

[SurelyForth]

Miri1984 wrote...

Ok. Save it for later. But I want to read it. Happy Smut is My Friend.

I have plans to write a story that's like 75% Happy Smut and I've already found a way to make it a little weird/off-putting.  By the time I get around to it, it will be like 5% Happy, 20% Smut and 75% Poor Alistair. 

[nos_astra]

It's a curse, I tell you. Almost every single ongoing story seems to be losing me somewhere along chapter 20, either the story seems to switch the focus on something else or gets abandoned. I am a lousy reader, an unfaithful follower, a deserter and a nagger of the worst kind. Shoot me! (Anyone else with such "refined" tastes in fanfiction?)

And I'm so not trying to subtly tickle information out of someone. NO, I don't.

I really should get going with my own story, but I'm still trying to knit the plot ready (plot needs to be finished or I won't even bother) and I'm so wary of how many original characters I'm using. Two new companions (one of them AU-Tabris) for one main character, Cousland, two minor characters, Leliana + two minor characters (one of them AU-Caron), Fergus, Nathaniel, Varel, maybe Fiona. And I haven't even come around to sketch the final antagonist. Too many OCs? I don't know.

I also wanted to stay away from romance for the most part but somehow romance keeps sneaking its way in and I'm busy beating it down. *sigh* And with the revelations about DA2 and Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall ... *groans* that's what you get when you're writing an adventure playing outside of Ferelden for the most part. How am I supposed to add easter eggs for the new hero? How much did the Blight destroy the lands? What do the Western Hills or the region around Kirkwall look like 10 years down the line?

And my brain is filled with two other plot nugs. And I still don't know what language I'm going to write in.
My brain is going to explode! (Yours too if you went through this little wall of text.)

Modifié par klarabella, 09 juillet 2010 - 08:55 .

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

klarabella wrote...
 And with the revelations about DA2 and Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall ... *groans* that's what you get when you're writing an adventure playing outside of Ferelden for the most part.

Yep yep. A game outside of Ferelden was bound to happen eventually, but I get all sad thinking about holes being blasted through my own story, heh.

[Sialater]

Mine... probably won't be effected since it takes place between Origins and Awakening.



I'm glad we're getting a new hero. I don't have to face a game with Moira without her boys.

[nos_astra]

Sialater wrote...
I'm glad we're getting a new hero. I don't have to face a game with Moira without her boys.

They never loved her!

[soignee]

klarabella wrote...

It's a curse, I tell you. Almost every single ongoing story seems to be losing me somewhere along chapter 20, either the story seems to switch the focus on something else or gets abandoned. I am a lousy reader, an unfaithful follower, a deserter and a nagger of the worst kind. Shoot me! (Anyone else with such "refined" tastes in fanfiction?)

And I'm so not trying to subtly tickle information out of someone. NO, I don't.

noes you got me paranoid I'm driving off readcers now! I got 22 chapters up D:

With regards to how DA2 effects our little universes, I don't care. The sequel is set in Annnnnnnnnnntttiiiiiiiiva and barely references anything else, so... (Antivan politics in my head is like dwarf politics, so I'm going to have fun with that.)

[Gilgamesh1138]

Um klara has me paranoid too! I am way past chapter 20. ROFL!

[nos_astra]

What? Hell NO! I am no indication of anything, I'm just a big weirdo who wants different stuff than anybody else. Literally! The fics I lost interest in are insanely popular, so please don't be worried!

Ooooh, why do I post such things here of all places? *inserts foot in mouth*

Modifié par klarabella, 09 juillet 2010 - 02:04 .

[SurelyForth]

klarabella wrote...

What? Hell NO! I am no indication of anything, I'm just a big weirdo who wants different stuff than anybody else. Literally! The fics I lost interest in are insanely popular, so please don't be worried!

Ooooh, why do I post such things here of all places? *inserts foot in mouth*

I'm paranoid, too (and not just because of your post) and it made me actually write out a little overview of Undertow and how I see it working (or not working, depending on what one wants to happen). Even if I don't post it anywhere, it made my qualms from last night about the happy smut seem all the more justified.

[Gilgamesh1138]

LOL, don't worry klarabella *hugs*. You didn't put your foot in your mouth.

[soignee]

hah we all go through self-doubt about it, especially when it starts approaching the HOLY BALLS WHAT THIS IS A LOT OF WORDS terrritory.

My biggest flailings is ARE YOU READING THIS ARE YOU because I write so much a chapter and fret that people skim over it. The last one reached 10,000 words, but that might be FF.net taking into considering linebreaks/etc too.

I can't write anyway else. In some regards I wish I could break it down and post like, a 2000 word chapter every 5 days instead of publishing a 8000-10k monster every two to three weeks. Selfishly I think it'll get me more reviews (lol) due to more things to comment on, but I literally cannot work in a linearly fashion and go back and forth over the plot. Each chapter is a mini story arch and has a theme, in a way, that I plan with post it notes and maps... And my Tom Tom is off the scale, heh.

The reviews I get are lovely and long and pick up on details though, so I should stop complaining. And people really seem to like Missa which makes me happy, so I need to stop fretting and feeling needy. People read it! Hurrah!


*in which soignee overthinks things all the time. Again*

Modifié par soignee, 09 juillet 2010 - 02:32 .

[nos_astra]

soignee wrote...
The reviews I get are lovely and long and pick up on details though, so I should stop complaining. And people really seem to like Missa which makes me happy, so I need to stop fretting and feeling needy. People read it! Hurrah!

Perfect moment to say, I like two of your one-shots (Amell, Aeducan). That's my kind of story, something short that leads you astray and leaves you all .

Modifié par klarabella, 09 juillet 2010 - 03:02 .

[Gilgamesh1138]

@soignee, I love Missa. And I do apologize. I haven't had the time to read and get my Missa fix, so I am humbly sorry. I haven't had time to write my own or finish my latest fanart, let alone read some of my favorites. I hate real life sometimes.

[Sialater]

klarabella wrote...

Sialater wrote...
I'm glad we're getting a new hero. I don't have to face a game with Moira without her boys.

They never loved her!

Wait, what?

[nos_astra]

Sialater wrote...

klarabella wrote...

Sialater wrote...
I'm glad we're getting a new hero. I don't have to face a game with Moira without her boys.

They never loved her!

Wait, what?

It's a failed inside joke, David Gaider once wrote Alistair never loved you when people complained about his romance (?), I can't remember. I swear, in my head it was actually funny ... kind of.

Modifié par klarabella, 09 juillet 2010 - 03:16 .

[soignee]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

@soignee, I love Missa. And I do apologize. I haven't had the time to read and get my Missa fix, so I am humbly sorry. I haven't had time to write my own or finish my latest fanart, let alone read some of my favorites. I hate real life sometimes.

ah it's all good! I'm spoiled, in all honesty. I'm the indulged writer equivilent of a pampered mistess who is ruthlessly enabled by my audience and fed the review equivilent of peeled grapes. The art drawn for me alone keeps me humbled and happy, I just still fret like an idiot, because... Well, you know how it is. *flings hand to forehead* OH, THE DISPAIR! It is hard being a fanfic writer, let me tell you internets, heh.

And @ klarabella- thanks! The Amell  story is one of my favourite things I've written recently, I wrote it for a 'Lust' prompt. I love the Sin theme so much I'm writing more. I have one for Gluttony in the works staring Missa, and an Envy with my Cousland.

I love ****ing with readers, frankly, and abusing that trust, and am fond of The Big Reveal as a plot device, probably due to my diet of Agatha Christie novels. Gender/power issues fascinate me and I write about them a lot, which is my my protagonists are mostly women, and this seven deadly sins theme is perfect as women--- well, we're the original sin, OBVIOUSLY.

[Sialater]

klarabella wrote...

Sialater wrote...

klarabella wrote...

Sialater wrote...
I'm glad we're getting a new hero. I don't have to face a game with Moira without her boys.

They never loved her!

Wait, what?

It's a failed inside joke, David Gaider once wrote Alistair never loved you when people complained about his romance (?), I can't remember. I swear, in my head it was actually funny ... kind of.

~Whew~ Don't do that to me.  Poor Moira.  She has enough abandonment issues.