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[Raonar]

Good night! Although it's 9 o clock in the morning right now over here.

[sabreene]

Maria13 wrote...

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Sialater wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

soignee wrote...

I need internets to write. I NEED IT.

Seconded.

Thirded.

Fourthed.
I'm constantly checking the wiki for lore references, other sites for general historical references, etc etc.  I'd be lost without the internet.

Fifthed...

Hubby reading the other day: Oh I see you like mentioning all the different pieces of armour

Things reasearched: Bedding ceremonies, armour, absinthe, body language, whether there were windows on ships (there were), types of ship, bows, stages of pregnancy and birth (I'm childless so what do I know?), medieval underwear (unknown but bras were only invented in 20th century)...

Oh yah and Andraste was an Icean goddess of war invoked by Boudicca...

I'm addicted to research. I have to research just about everything I write, even from little things like, why did pirates wear earrings? Unfortunately I can totally distract myself and spend hours (and hours, and hours) researching subjects since one leads into another (new information = shiny!). So I try to look everything up before I start the actual writing. Then I have to close down most my browsers and definitely all email/boards/etc, or I will never start writing. I also can only listen to music before I write, to get in the right frame of mind, but can't listen to anything during. Seems that while I multi-task quite well at work, I fail at it while writing.

I do need the internet everyday. I'm one of those people who needs internet even while on vacation. Sun and sand and outside? Umm... just wait until I get my web fix, k?

@Gil, I have so much respect for what you do!

[Maria13]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

My job is talking to cancer patients. While rewarding on one level...very very difficult on another. Many people are frightened, or sick, or they are about to lose everything due to meds and copays for treatment. Or they have lost their insurance and are about to lose everything because they can't work or got fired...yeah.. and breast cancer awareness month is next month and we are swamped with calls. I am soooo brain dead right now, and I want to write and get Anders his Pounce. I dont' think it is going to happen tonight. *sigh* or can I do Soignee's FFFFFFfffffffff

You know where I stand on your job Gil,<3 I think what you do is absolutely fabulous and so helpful, but it must be terribly hard and draining.  All your callers owe you.  Yeah, bc awareness month in October, must pull out some of my Tee shirts.

As for my job, I'm a lawyer in a the public sector and my boss is an animal, everything has to be her way or the highway, I wonder why I bothered to study at all...  Tough call at work next week.

PS Gill feel free to mail here or pm me if it gets too much, I'm sure many of us here would be happy to hang out...

Modifié par Maria13, 25 septembre 2010 - 09:40 .

[TanithAeyrs]

*HUGS* Gil. Stressful job is rotten, know where you're coming from. It's really hard when you feel so bad for the people calling and you are trying to be kind and compassionate when all you feel is emotionally drained. Writing does help, and when you don't have time for it, things are even harder. I don't think I could do your job, but I understand the emotional toll it takes, even as a vet, I deal with people in emotional distress because their beloved companion is sick/dying/in pain. Sometimes you cry with them, sometimes you want to pound your head against the wall, and sometimes all you want is to get away, escape into your writing or chat with friends (BSN is really a wonderful escape). Hope things settle down for you soon.

[Miri1984]

*hugs* for you Gil. We miss you. And I must also add my respect to what you do for a living, you have such a big heart.

[Gilgamesh1138]

Aw, you guys make me humbled, and blush. Thanks guys! That helps so much.



And I am wearing my own t-shirt Maria! I need to get you one, love and send it to you. You would love it. Chocolate brown, pink letters..."Fight Like a Girl."



Get those mammograms ladies, if you're of an age. If you need free ones here in the US PM me and I will get you the number to my work.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Gil, I have this one:

Modifié par Shadow of Light Dragon, 26 septembre 2010 - 01:33 .

[Gilgamesh1138]

Oh I like that one! Mine is for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and isn't that pretty or exciting! I need to get that one! Thanks Shadow! *hugs*  Where do I get that one Shadow?

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 26 septembre 2010 - 02:30 .

[Maria13]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

Aw, you guys make me humbled, and blush. Thanks guys! That helps so much.

And I am wearing my own t-shirt Maria! I need to get you one, love and send it to you. You would love it. Chocolate brown, pink letters..."Fight Like a Girl."

Get those mammograms ladies, if you're of an age. If you need free ones here in the US PM me and I will get you the number to my work.

Gil that sounds awesome, I have a bit of a collection of BC Tees myself (and badges).

And ladies, Gil is right, have those mammos and go to your GP with any lumps or puckering, just to be safe...

                                                                                             


                                                                    

[Firky]

Just popping in to say hi, fanfictioners, because you guys are the nicest online community I know.

Sheesh. I have to write a 4 page article on Civilization V multiplayer and I've been trying to set up a match via Steam chat but now everyone thinks I'm a weirdo. One person said yes so I asked them their Steam download region (because, stupidly, you can't play unless you are set to the same region) and they freaked out. Then I asked another person "Are you up for a quick one?" and they blocked me. Quick GAME. I should have said "quick GAME". Oh my God. I'm an idiot. But I'm not a weirdo, right? Right?

Anyway, I'm so busy writing for money that my creativity has been totally sapped. I know some of you guys write as a day job too, or are at uni writing lots of stuff. How do feel like writing for fun after hours? It's a really serious question. Being a High School music teacher for 6 years killed music I did for fun. Totally killed it.

PS Mariah, I'm back onto Dark Ritual tonight. I was enjoying it.

Modifié par Firky, 26 septembre 2010 - 10:32 .

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Gil: You get it at Jinx.com. They have a lot of nifty gamer shirts.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

*laugh* Firky that's awesome. I didn't think Civ players were so paranoid! But it is the internets.



Can't answer your writing question as I've never done it professionally...uni writing I barely saw as homework. I do sometimes worry that if I did land a paid job writing I might end up where you did as a music teacher, though. Might be one of the reasons I haven't tried especially hard to get into the industry. :/

[Sialater]

I dropped out of grad school because I only wanted to write what I wanted to write not what I was forced to.



Gil: I have no idea how y'all do your job. You're wonderful to do it. Hope you get the chance to write again, soon.

[nefand]

Firky wrote...

Anyway, I'm so busy writing for money that my creativity has been totally sapped. I know some of you guys write as a day job too, or are at uni writing lots of stuff. How do feel like writing for fun after hours? It's a really serious question. Being a High School music teacher for 6 years killed music I did for fun. Totally killed it.

Oh, to actually be paid to write fun stuff day in and day out?  'Tis my personal dream.  I was thinking last night if I could somehow turn reading other people's work and helping them identify the logical flaws in their storyline, and then help them bulletproof the story, into a decent paying gig I might just have died and gone to heaven.

That would pretty much be the RL equivalent of using my powers of critical analysis for good instead of evil, IMO.

As it is I'm stuck with a rack 'o hats at work... the only things I get to read are on stastical analysis, XML definitions, stored procedures and user complaints, and the only things I get to write are perl scripts and how-to documentation.  Granted, a well-written piece of computer code is a lot like a great poem, but still... it's not the same.

I tend to daydream anyway, so why not get paid to daydream and then turn it into witty dialogue and stories?  Absolutely.  Where do I sign up.

My Fiance is like you though, he utterly has the capacity to be a fantastic chef but won't even try a catering business on the side because he says it'll kill the fun of cooking if he does it as a job.  I'll ask him if he has Civi V when he wakes up, he's usually down for some multiplayer anything, btw.  Assuming you're still in need of people.  My forum handle also happens to be my steam handle.

[Gilgamesh1138]

Aw thanks Sia! And Shadow! I bookmarked the page, thanks!



I do worry that if I got a job writing I would come to hate it as much as a I love it now, which would not be good. But I would love to give it a try, if it was writing something I found for for fun, say like video games? I have daydreamed what it would be like. I know that at times it would be drudgery, or like work more than fun, but what job isn't? The saying goes, do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life...*sigh* I wish I could.

[LupusYondergirl]

I think it would depend on if that's your only hobby or not. I think I could write for a living since I have other ways to relax and escape. I probably sew as much as I write, and when I was doing that for money I took to writing as a way of destressing. I can imagine it working both ways.



I suppose I could also consider playing video games a hobby, but I really need to do something creative once in a while or I go batty. Not as much there with games.

[Gilgamesh1138]

@Lupus True! I would probably just keep painting and drawing more as my hobby if I were writing for a living. Like I said, would love the opportunity.

[Sialater]

I would love to write professionally. But only as a novelist. Not as a reporter, not as a technical writer, but writing on my own intellectual property and about my imaginary friends.

[Gilgamesh1138]

Same here Sia. No journalism or tech writing. It would have to have a creative element.

[Miri1984]

I wrote surveillance reports for a living for two years and it did a lot for my writing, but I didn't write anything creative while I was doing it. Mind you I've only really started writing creatively again since Dragon Age came along - before that I was in a fifteen year stretch of writers block. I don't think it had anything to do with the surveillance reports.

[Gilgamesh1138]

ROFL you too Miri? I had a 15 year writers block too!

[Sarah1281]

Wow, fifteen years is a REALLY long time to take off.

[TanithAeyrs]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

ROFL you too Miri? I had a 15 year writers block too!

LOL, me too.  Wrote some in college and pretty much stopped in vet school.  Probably only wrote 10-15 pages that didn't involve case histories in the next 15+  years - now I can't stop.

[Firky]

Writing about videogames is good, generally, because you get to talk about something you love and connect with gamers. And you learn HEAPS about the games industry. If you want to do it and can string some words together, just pitch some articles somewhere. You'd be surprised how much in demand reliable "games journos" are. But there are also a lot of downsides, notably having to review gigantic games in a couple of days and connecting with the not so nice gamers. I go really hot and cold on it. Thanks for the discussion. It is killing my desire to be creative at the moment, but where do I want to go? Writing for me and for fun? Writing about games for money and for fun but also the bad stuff. Sigh.



Also, in follow up to last night, I found someone to play Civ V against and got smashed. It was very, very fun and I learned a couple of important lessons. I'll be making an idiot out of myself again on Steam chat tonight, I'm sure.

[jackkel dragon]

@Firky: You still looking for that "quick one?"