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[Sialater]

Heck, the entire plot of The Rescue (other than the one where Alistair needs to be rescued) is a plot bunny. Zevran sorta ran away with the tale.

[maxernst]

Maybe it's a rogue thing to steal the show. Leliana is running off with Morrigan's Daughter (the story, not the girl!).

[LupusYondergirl]

AOA was supposed to end somewhere around chapter 45.

I'm working on chapter 81 right now.

Plot bunnies? They ARE my plot at this point. I just let Maggie and Anders drag me around Thedas doing whatever they feel like.

[tallon1982]

-hides the blood of bunnies- Oh that's what those were...plot bunnies...I was killing them for their fur and lucky feet. Anyway more brownies have been made minus the blood of bunnies not that there was any in the first batch lol.



Basically I just couldn't write my fanfic with all the crap that was going on in the real world. Now that I have that somewhat under control I've been writing slowly to get my story done so I can do something else...like a Mass Effect fanfic bwahahahahaha

[Raonar]

I myself am often plagued by plot bunnies but I know they'll never really make it into the story itself, though they'll probably get summarized by other characters during dialogs or flashbacks. I DID, on the other hand, toy with the idea of writing one-shots set into the "Crown of Thorns" universe but I haven't decided on whether or not that will actually happen.



Mostly there are quite a few characters in that tale and I was thinking it might be easier to explore interactions and whatnot by writing such extras while keeping the tale itself firmly grounded and seasoned with just enough bunny trails of its own.



I'll probably only start on them once I get past the Orzammar plot line though, if I do it even then.

[Sialater]

I guess the point we're all making is that plot bunnies, while annoying when they only lead down a rabbit hole, can in fact, be a blessing in disguise.

[Sarah1281]

Yeah, how many times have we seen or written great stories that were only supposed to have been a one-shot? Those are plot bunnies refusing to be silenced, right there.

[LupusYondergirl]

Now that I think about it, they may be a very good thing. I mean, when your characters are so distinct and fleshed out that they start demanding to do things contrary to what you want that can only be a sign that you're doing something right in terms of creating believable and well rounded people in your fic.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 13 novembre 2010 - 06:42 .

[Sialater]

Maria Caliban wrote...

Also, as anyone else addicted to reviews?

No.  I can quit any time.  


Quit looking at me like that.

[Sarah1281]

Being in the DA fandom has certainly helped lessen my need for them.

[Sialater]

Howso, Sarah?

[LupusYondergirl]

I think because the larger fandoms get more reviews. (Harry Potter, some of the anime, etc). There are stories with thousands of reviews there. Even one-shots can get dozens or more.   I don't think there's a single story in the DA section of ffnet with 1000 reviews yet.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 13 novembre 2010 - 10:38 .

[Sialater]

But you'd think that would make it more addictive, not less....

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I think because the larger fandoms get more reviews. (Harry Potter, some of the anime, etc). There are stories with thousands of reviews there. Even one-shots can get dozens or more.   I don't think there's a single story in the DA section of ffnet with 1000 reviews yet.

Exactly. I have a HP story with 6779 reviews, a Naruto one with 4118, and another HP one with 1200. As far as one-shots go, I have a HP one with 167, a Naruto one with 130, another HP one with 125, and another Naruto one with 107 as well as several one-shots that have dozens. The Harry Potter and Naruto fandoms are so much bigger and so even if I think some of my best work is in this fandom (and I've written the most for it) it will just never get the kind of attention something that took an hour to do in class from a bigger fandom will.

Edit: And it's less addicting because it has to be. It's kind of embarrassing how much I used to freak out that nobody was reading my stuff back when I first got into the DA fandom. And Lupus, if you keep going with your 800+ story, you'll hit it soon enough.

Modifié par Sarah1281, 13 novembre 2010 - 10:52 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Not for someone who used to write in one of those fandoms, I suspect. If I was used to numbers like that getting a dozen reviews a chapter or whatever would be pretty disappointing.

Edit to add... or, exactly what Sarah just said in far more detail.

Edit edit: I might...given how many reviews my average chapter gets, and where I think the story will end, it's pretty close if I will or not by the time I'm done.  Unless I end up with another random marathon reviewer before then.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 13 novembre 2010 - 10:58 .

[Sarah1281]

Well, when I finish my stupid essay on John C. Calhoun and sectionalism, I absolutely intend to read your fic and do just that but with the fact that I'll have to read Never Boring first, the rate you update, and the fact that your story is more than 400K long, you may finish writing it before I get through it.

[LupusYondergirl]

Believe me, I'm a student too so I know just how it gets. I've been updating slower lately, school is kicking my ass this semester. I was going crazy lately, a chapter every other day. Now I'm lucky to get a chapter a week done.



I just did a six page paper on how Dune follows the archetype of the Alger hero for this past Thursday (I still can't believe I got away with that...), and I've half done with one on Death of a Salesman due Tuesday. Plus my honors thesis, which I'm hoping to have at least a complete rough draft of done by the end of Thanksgiving weekend for my adviser to review. But by December I will finally be a college graduate!

Only took me a dozen years...

[Sialater]

Heh, guess I should count myself lucky I only write for ME and DA.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Yeah. Before DA I wrote for the Ultima fandom (and I started writing for it on a different site, where reviews were via people who took the time to write an email), and then the Drakan fandom (which didn't exist on FF.Net until I requested the category, which they wouldn't unless I had a completed story to contribute, which I had ). Both were relatively small fanbases, and the games were not new releases.

So I started writing for DA:O not expecting a high number of reviews and ended up being...somewhat surprised. Low expectations and all.

Modifié par Shadow of Light Dragon, 14 novembre 2010 - 02:34 .

[inquartata02]

I was in the same boat as Shadow when it came to reviews. I used to write in the Star Trek fandom, where reviews were nowhere near what I've seen in DA, so getting one or more reviews per chapter was pretty surprising. *sings* Lowered expectations!

(If no one else recognizes that line, I will be feeling very, very old, and I know I'm not old.)

Also, Lupus, I think I've sent one review your way when I should've sent several when I did my marathon read-through of Never Boring and AOA. In my defense, it was either late night or early morning and my giggling was already waking up a very confused husband of mine. Mostly, he had no idea what I was laughing at, but, being half-asleep, he never got any of the jokes when I was trying to explain them. Poor guy. Anyway, I think you will break 1,000. That'll be awesome.

Speaking of reviews, you guys ever get one where you aren't sure if the person was actually reading the story? I just got one like that. Very confusing. 

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Wow, I would have thought the Star Trek fanbase to be large! They have books, series, movies, games, the whole she-bang. Curious.

Speaking of reviews, you guys ever get one where you aren't sure if the person was actually reading the story? I just got one like that. Very confusing.

I don't think so. You're stealing other people's reviews, hrm? For shame.

[LupusYondergirl]

lowered expectations! hehehe... I remember those.

And no worries about reviews. I don't leave as many as I should, either. I do a lot of my fic reading on my phone and leaving a review on that thing is a freaking nightmare.

I've gotten some confusing reviews. Not where I wonder if they read my story, but where I wonder if it's really the story they want to read... if that makes any sense. Mostly people who were very much in favor of pairing Maggie with a different love interest or seeing a love triangle.

But I go AU in that I ignore the "everyone lusts for the Warden" facet of the game. I just can't see a character like Alistair or Nathaniel ever being romantically interested in a character like Maggie. So maybe because that's what would have happened in game with anyone that had a potential romance, that's what they expect from the fic. Not sure.

[Sarah1281]

Speaking of reviews, you guys ever get one where you aren't sure if the person was actually reading the story? I just got one like that. Very confusing.

Sometimes, particularly when people read my list of pet peeves on my profile (I have a HUGE list of pet peeves and people regularly tell me they've read it. Why, I have no idea. I wouldn't) and then send me a review saying "You said said you didn't like X in stories and you're a hypocrite because you put X in your story." In addition to the fact that I don't see why having it WOULD make me a hypocrite since it's just something that annoys me, it's generally either 1) Not there so I don't know what they were reading (seriously, the amount of people criticizing me for being a hypocrite because I said I don't like time travel romances given the mental age difference and then in one story a time travel character looked forward to seeing his wife again but did not pursue a romance with her when she was TEN is ridiculous) or 2) a parody making fun of it and they didn't notice.

Sad but true: There are people who don't bother to see what the genre of a story is before reading it and then they don't realize that it's a parody until you point it out. I, on the other hand, always check to see what genre something is. If I'm not in the mood for tragedy (which is often) then I'm not going to read a tragedy. If I'm not in the mood for humor, I'm not going to be reading that. If they can't figure out what genre something is based on the story summary, perhaps they really should check the genre.

Edit: 

Mostly people who were very much in favor of pairing Maggie with a different love interest or seeing a love triangle. 

That seems really stupid. The only time I mention I don't like a pairing in a story is if it's in the context of 'Wow, I hate X/Y but I'm really enjoying your story despite my bias' which is actually a compliment and not somethign I do often because if you don't like such a big part of the story, there's not much reason to read it and unless the author is asking for advice or a poll, you really can't control what they do.

Modifié par Sarah1281, 14 novembre 2010 - 04:15 .

[LupusYondergirl]

Yeah, I get a lot of "I didn't like Awakenings/don't normally like Anders but..." reviews, and that's cool. I'm always happy when someone is willing to read my story despite that and enjoys it anyways.

I just don't understand the other sort. They don't happen so much on AOA anymore, but I was still getting them on blue skies until recently (probably people who haven't read the other ones and don't realize I've already written five years beyond the archdemon for her).