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[LupusYondergirl]

Origin to Ostagar- it would take at least as long as Jowan needs to escape, get caught, get intercepted by Loghain in Denerim, and get sent to Redcliffe, since Eamon is already sick by the time you get to Lothering.

So at least a few weeks there, if not longer.

(I know there's a definite time lapse with Gorim getting married, but the mage origin is the one I'm most familiar with off the top of my head.)

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Sarah1281 wrote...

If Orzammar to the Circle Tower is two weeks (according to Dagna) and a round trip from Redcliffe to the Circle Tower is two days then it stands to reason that the trip from Redcliffe to Orzammar would either be a day less than two weeks or a day more.

You also have to take terrain into account with Orzammar to the CT. Frostbacks and all. Mountain trails are twisty and turny. Granted we have no idea how far up the entrance doors are, but it's far enough that there's snow.

[Sagacious Rage]

My muses have been like on hamster wheels lately. I finished a chapter of my original project AND an update of my epic fanfic. I've got a lot of crap I'm doing IRL too as I'm moving from East Coast to West Coast and I really don't know how I managed to do it. But it's pretty awesome to update twice in one month.

[Sarah1281]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

If Orzammar to the Circle Tower is two weeks (according to Dagna) and a round trip from Redcliffe to the Circle Tower is two days then it stands to reason that the trip from Redcliffe to Orzammar would either be a day less than two weeks or a day more.

You also have to take terrain into account with Orzammar to the CT. Frostbacks and all. Mountain trails are twisty and turny. Granted we have no idea how far up the entrance doors are, but it's far enough that there's snow.

That should be taken into account if you're looking at how long it would take to get from places that are similarly as far apart as Orzammar and Redcliffe but I don't see how that would at all come into play on this matter since the roads would be mostly the same until you either save or lose a day getting to Redcliffe depending on if you have to pass through the Circle to get to Redcliffe from Orzammar or pass through Redcliffe to get to the Circle.

[DreGregoire]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

And yet Redcliffe to Denerim can be done in just two days. Never could figure that one out. The map is wildly out of scale, it seems.

Unrelated, but... Without spoiling, I'm very torn now. Do I let my characters have one day where nothing horrid happens, or throw some darkspawn/angry templars/werewolves/flying zombie andraste etc at them? I kind of want to give them one happy day, but part of me is evil and says "no joy for you! monsters attack!"

(I'm suddenly really digging the idea of flying zombie andraste)

It would be interesting to see how different your characters will behave when their world isn't crashing down around them. Do they jump at every shadow? Get drunk? Read? The reader will never know if you don't show them. so.... that's a vote for yes one day where nothing horrid happens.

[jenncgf]

Miri1984 wrote...

DreGregoire wrote...

Miri1984 wrote...

Aaarrgh. The toddler has stopped me from writing for two days solid. I've finally put her at the kitchen sink with a heap of cups and a running tap in the vain hope that I'll be able to start a chapter. Floods in the kitchen be damned.

If this is what she's doing BEFORE new bub arrives I have no hope for when he does.

Does that toddler ever nap? LOL oh right... that's probably when you catch up on everything else.

Nap? There are toddlers who NAP? This must be some sort of new model I haven't heard about before.. can I trade mine in?

Seriously, she used to, but she doesn't sleep at night if we let her during the day now, so NO NAPS. Means I've been playing my dwarf commoner for a month now and have only just finished Kocari Wilds .

Miri, I can sympathize.  Mine are 5, 3, and 1.  So no simultaneous napping, (none at all for the 5 year old, heh), and the three-year-old's "naps" consist of me going in there every 5 minutes and saying, "GET BACK INTO BED!" as she looks at me with those little baggy eyes.    And the 5 year old is all "Will you play with meeeeee?"  

Crazy kids.

[jenncgf]

Lupus, flying zombie Andraste FTW!

[jenncgf]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

If Orzammar to the Circle Tower is two weeks (according to Dagna) and a round trip from Redcliffe to the Circle Tower is two days then it stands to reason that the trip from Redcliffe to Orzammar would either be a day less than two weeks or a day more.

You also have to take terrain into account with Orzammar to the CT. Frostbacks and all. Mountain trails are twisty and turny. Granted we have no idea how far up the entrance doors are, but it's far enough that there's snow.

Not to mention that the "one day to get to the Circle Tower from Redcliffe" involves taking a boat across the lake, if I remember the quote correctly.  So you can't look at roads for that particular distance.

Modifié par jenncgf, 28 juillet 2010 - 01:34 .

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

I've often wondered how people manage to write multiple stories at the same time. As well as the whole (theoretical) idea of one story = concentrating on one project = more updates + earlier conclusion, having to change mindsets for the different tales and remembering what's going on for each sounds potentially messy. Like canned spaghetti. Which tastes awful, IMO, but I digress.

Yet I now find myself with multiple story ideas, each one clamouring plaintively for attention like so many kittens at a pet shop, each staring up with their dewy eyes and pettable fur. I want to take them all home and smother them with attention so I can hear their happy purs. Sure, they may make a mess as they mature, but they're just so damn cute when they're little.

And I can't ignore them! I say, "Don't look at me like that, fanfic ideas!" but they just continue to lurk in my brain and blink hopefully.

I am currently cuddling two of them. One is the offspring of a more mature animal I adore, the other is a cub who has yet to be let outside. While I am trying to give my beloved cat the attention it deserves, the newcomer is...well...a kitten, and kittens are hard to resist. So attention is being lavished upon it, to my guilty pleasure.

And yet a *third and fourth*  tiny critter is mewling to be picked up and loved, and while I have not petted them yet I keep thinking about it.

(It just occured to me that all those people out there who are allergic to cats may find it hard to sympathise with this scenario, so change them to puppies, ponies, ferraris or whatever.)

Cutesy animals aside, what do you guys do when you want to work on multiple (potentially long) projects but don't know if you'll see through to decent conclusions? Do you write them anyway and abandon them (which may disappoint readers)? Write them but not put them online (which gets it out of your system but seems a waste)? Kick them until they shut up and leave you alone?

[Miri1984]

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

I've often wondered how people manage to write multiple stories at the same time. As well as the whole (theoretical) idea of one story = concentrating on one project = more updates + earlier conclusion, having to change mindsets for the different tales and remembering what's going on for each sounds potentially messy. Like canned spaghetti. Which tastes awful, IMO, but I digress.

Yet I now find myself with multiple story ideas, each one clamouring plaintively for attention like so many kittens at a pet shop, each staring up with their dewy eyes and pettable fur. I want to take them all home and smother them with attention so I can hear their happy purs. Sure, they may make a mess as they mature, but they're just so damn cute when they're little.

And I can't ignore them! I say, "Don't look at me like that, fanfic ideas!" but they just continue to lurk in my brain and blink hopefully.

I am currently cuddling two of them. One is the offspring of a more mature animal I adore, the other is a cub who has yet to be let outside. While I am trying to give my beloved cat the attention it deserves, the newcomer is...well...a kitten, and kittens are hard to resist. So attention is being lavished upon it, to my guilty pleasure.

And yet a *third and fourth*  tiny critter is mewling to be picked up and loved, and while I have not petted them yet I keep thinking about it.

(It just occured to me that all those people out there who are allergic to cats may find it hard to sympathise with this scenario, so change them to puppies, ponies, ferraris or whatever.)

Cutesy animals aside, what do you guys do when you want to work on multiple (potentially long) projects but don't know if you'll see through to decent conclusions? Do you write them anyway and abandon them (which may disappoint readers)? Write them but not put them online (which gets it out of your system but seems a waste)? Kick them until they shut up and leave you alone?

I had this exact same problem - and am now writing two fics at the same time which I vowed never to do because I always wanted to be focused on one. HOWEVER, I found that the longer I didn't start writing the second fic (Shades of Grey) I was getting resentful of the first (Fractures). Now I'm loving writing both - it's actually refreshing switching from one to the other, especially since they're very different in tone. It's slowed down my output, but that was slowing down any way, so I suppose it's ok. I was going to write the second fic and not post it, but I was so proud of the first chapter that I couldn't resist. I probably should have kept it in the background and then posted it after I'd finished Fractures, but I'm so addicted to instant feedback gratification that I couldn't.

Hell, if I ever end up writing that non-fanfic thing I'm going to be sorely disappointed at the lack of immediate stat gratification. Maybe by that stage everyone will be plugged into some sort of electronic all controlling brain and I'll be able to wire myself into my readers. Mmm. 

[Sandtigress]

I gave in....I have three things going right now....



One is nearly done though, and one is a series of short letters. My muse shut down on my longer story and demanded these two. I'm hoping that appeasing that allows my longer, more serious fic to get going again. I still have ideas for it, they just won't go.

[LupusYondergirl]

I've been working on a prequel story for my current warden, since I started her fic in the expansion. It's just reading as so trashy, With the bits of backstory in her current fic it reads like a long kmeme so far. Mage does Ferelden or something. Not sure what to do with it as a result.

[SurelyForth]

I'm slowly giving in on seriously working on a second, much lighter, story because my main is emotionally draining and sometimes it's exhausting to come home from work and have *depressing* staring me in the face. I've started writing bits when I just can't write Undertow and I feel like I should be writing something, but I might actually take a few days a week away from one to work on the other.

So far, from what little I've done, I have no problem handling the different tones. If anything, I can stop worrying about my mood making me unproductive because now I have something to work on when I'm feeling upbeat, and something to tend to when I'm not.  

[Sarah1281]

Cutesy animals aside, what do you guys do when you want to work on multiple (potentially long) projects but don't know if you'll see through to decent conclusions? Do you write them anyway and abandon them (which may disappoint readers)? Write them but not put them online (which gets it out of your system but seems a waste)? Kick them until they shut up and leave you alone?

I'm often working on multiple stories (plus random one-shots) but they're not from the same fandom so it's easy to keep them seperate. After finishing a lengthy story I'm usually more-or-less burned out of a fandom anyway so I'll just switch to something new for a few months.



Since I do, tragically, have a life I really couldn't manage more than two stories that I need to update in a timely manner at once and so sometimes if it's been awhile since I started then I really wish it were just freaking over but not enough to stop it (although for my first complete story I was literally counting down the last five chapters until I could be done).

[Maria13]

I'm finishing one, shorter fic, as I write this on my main fic my muse is currently troubling me on two different sections and there is one other idea for an AU story at the back of my head.

What with all this and RL, I'm done for.

Modifié par Maria13, 29 juillet 2010 - 10:03 .

[Raonar]

Yes, RL appears to have us all embroiled in something. I've onyl been able to write a few pages this whole week.



sigh

[Corker]

I'm working with a buffer at the moment. I've only posted just under half of what I have written. That gives me room to take breaks, have interruptions and do other things without altering my posting schedule. It also gives me some time to go back and do revisions.



I'm not especially pleased with the thing I've got going now; it's more way-too-extensive backstory for another project. If I thought it had more potential, I would probably not post any of it until it was finished. I found myself revising and polishing 'Birthright' more than I thought I would; I'd kind of hate to lose that ability because earlier chapters had already been released into the wild.

[jenncgf]

I write one-shots. They fix my 'gotta write this idea DOWN' urges and I don't worry about not-completing my longer story. I do have a long story idea that is niggling at me, but so far I've been able to stave it off by writing down ideas for it/outline type stuff.



I figure if I write down a one-shot that ends up becoming part of a larger story, I can always incorporate at least that idea into the larger work, using a different perspective.

[Raonar]

I have already practically planned out the SECOND half of my story and it's swarming my brain. Hard to focus on anything else. And I CAN't write it down, since it would take like... 100 pages.



sigh



I'll just grind through the current chapters and just be very, very well prepared for when I do reach that part.

[LupusYondergirl]

I've actually written an absurd amount this week (and made a new dress, but that's neither here nor there, just proof I do more than sit at my computer.)

I think it's because my story is winding down and everything seems to be happening faster.

[LupusYondergirl]

Hey, here's a question someone might be able to answer. I've had no luck so far.



What is the spouse of a Bann called? Would they also be a Bann since it's a unisex term, or would it be Lord/Lady or something along that line?

[jenncgf]

I don't know for sure, but the wiki seems to think that any noblewoman can be "Lady whomever". And in the HN origin, they refer to Bann Loren's wife as Lady Landra, so that's an acceptable term, even if it's not the official one.

[Sandtigress]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Hey, here's a question someone might be able to answer. I've had no luck so far.

What is the spouse of a Bann called? Would they also be a Bann since it's a unisex term, or would it be Lord/Lady or something along that line?

Ha, Sarah asked the same question in reference to my letters, since I made mention of Eleanor considering Bann Teagan as a potential suitor.

Alfstanna is Bann Alfstanna, but she seems to hold her lands in her own right i.e. not through a husband.  So women can be Banns, but as has already been said, the wife of Bann Loren is Lady what's her name.  So I guess I would just go with "Lady" too.

[SurelyForth]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Hey, here's a question someone might be able to answer. I've had no luck so far.

What is the spouse of a Bann called? Would they also be a Bann since it's a unisex term, or would it be Lord/Lady or something along that line?

Bann Loren's wife is introduced to the HN as Lady Landra (but Bann Teagan also flips over to Lord Teagan after you go to the Landsmeet and return to Redcliffe). So Lord/Lady is applicable to both a Bann and their spouse, but I don't think anyplace in the game specifies that Bann also works for the spouse. 

Wow, mega ninja'd.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 29 juillet 2010 - 04:24 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Perfect, thank you!

And now back to writing smut...