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[Maria13]

I like canon because it can act as an anchor, but that doesn't mean that it can't or shouldn't be subject to reinterpretation. And retelling is just reinterpretation.



Like shadow I didn't start writing FF until DAO but I always thought there were some stories inside me, it just took DAO to trigger them I guess...

[Tasmen]

Maria13 wrote...
Like shadow I didn't start writing FF until DAO but I always thought there were some stories inside me, it just took DAO to trigger them I guess...

DAO is like a gateway drug...

Seriously, I've heard of a ton of people not starting fanfic writing until DAO.  I think that is really telling of the game and the rich history that it offers.  

[Gilgamesh1138]

I agree Maria13, I always had something wanting to get out too. And DA:O triggered it. Now I couldn't stop if I tried. Oh and it isn't that I don't like canon, it is a great anchor. But I hate when people use it as a bludgen.

And Tas, love that gateway drug reference! Speaking of drugs...I am going into serious withdrawl folks, heading into Fear and Lothing In Las Vegas territory, no stats on FF.net still! ARGGGGGGH!

Soignee, I see you posted! YAY!  I am off to have fun with Missa and Zev and crabs... OH MY!

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 21 mai 2010 - 07:11 .

[Miri1984]

DAO triggered my fanfic muse. It's out of control now. But I'm not tempted to write for anything else. I suppose my head is just too full.

[Maria13]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

I agree Maria13, I always had something wanting to get out too. And DA:O triggered it. Now I couldn't stop if I tried. Oh and it isn't that I don't like canon, it is a great anchor. But I hate when people use it as a bludgen.

And Tas, love that gateway drug reference! Speaking of drugs...I am going into serious withdrawl folks, heading into Fear and Lothing In Las Vegas territory, no stats on FF.net still! ARGGGGGGH!

Soignee, I see you posted! YAY!  I am off to have fun with Missa and Zev and crabs... OH MY!

Yes, I like the gateway drug metaphor too. 

And FF. net, BLOODY HELL I WANT MY TRAFFIC STATS BACK!!!

[soignee]

Tasmen wrote...

Maria13 wrote...
Like shadow I didn't start writing FF until DAO but I always thought there were some stories inside me, it just took DAO to trigger them I guess...

DAO is like a gateway drug...

Seriously, I've heard of a ton of people not starting fanfic writing until DAO.  I think that is really telling of the game and the rich history that it offers.  

oh hai that's me

[Gilgamesh1138]

Oh hai, is this the DA:O fanfic support group? Me too Soignee. *waves* "Hi my name is Gilgamesh or Erynnar, and it has been less than 24 hours since I posted my last chapter..."

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 21 mai 2010 - 09:29 .

[soignee]

*looks up from styrofoam cup of coffee*



"Hello Gilgamesh!"



*goes back to thinkinig about the last time she published an update*

[Gilgamesh1138]

ROFL! Your last chapter was fantastic Soignee. I was getting a little peeved at the interruptions from work while I was trying to read. :innocent:

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 21 mai 2010 - 10:13 .

[soignee]

huzzah, thanks! I was really nervous about this one, still am really. I don't think a lot happens per se, and it might be a bit too drama llama.

[Gilgamesh1138]

I don't think so! I enjoyed it immensely! But I am nervous about my last chapter. So, I know how you feel. My own worst critic.  And without my stats bars, I am feeling the GoSDs(Goblins of Self Doubt)  bouncing around telling me how much my tale has story fail.

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 21 mai 2010 - 10:58 .

[soignee]

I don't know about stats, they confuse me. Someone explain? You mean checking out if someone from Lithuania is reading your stuff?

[Tasmen]

soignee wrote...

I don't know about stats, they confuse me. Someone explain? You mean checking out if someone from Lithuania is reading your stuff?

Yes the traffic bars on ffnet are busted for a great many people.  So we are going through withdrawls.

[soignee]

Tasmen wrote...

soignee wrote...

I don't know about stats, they confuse me. Someone explain? You mean checking out if someone from Lithuania is reading your stuff?

Yes the traffic bars on ffnet are busted for a great many people.  So we are going through withdrawls.

how do you know if they're busted? I just look at them, look that someone from Thaiand has read it then wander off again.

[Tasmen]

soignee wrote...
how do you know if they're busted? I just look at them, look that someone from Thaiand has read it then wander off again.

Our stats are at zero and have been for the last week.  That is how we know they are busted.  None of our traffic is being registered.

[Miri1984]

Well I'm certainly hitting all your stories, so your stats are DEFINITELY busted. I hope you get your fixes again soon .

[Gilgamesh1138]

Aw, Miri you are a love. Your review made me squee! *GLOMPS Miri*

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Maria13 wrote...

Like shadow I didn't start writing FF until DAO but I always thought there were some stories inside me, it just took DAO to trigger them I guess...

Aaaah, where'd I give that impression? No, I have been writing fanfiction since before I had an internet connection. XD I think I was 12 or 13. My first 'fanfics' were taking people I knew from school and shoving them into a game (sometimes not even RPGs). The stories were all stapled together on A4 lined paper, and I drew pictures too.

(and they were alllll reaaaaaally baaaaaaaaad)

[Gilgamesh1138]

ROFL! I doubt that. I bet there were signs of your current genius talent in those pages! I did fanfic before DA:O too. On lined paper. And it really was all reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllly baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.  I was worse than Shadow, you can tell by the length of my words.

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 22 mai 2010 - 02:10 .

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Damn it, thwarted by the number of letters used XD

[Tasmen]

Gilgamesh1138 wrote...

ROFL! I doubt that. I bet there were signs of your current genius talent in those pages! I did fanfic before DA:O too. On lined paper. And it really was all reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllly baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.  I was worse than Shadow, you can tell by the length of my words.

I wrote a novel as a teenager.  I've got it all typed and in a notebook by my desk atm.  I give you a snippet of it's gloriousness...

"Suddenly I no longer longed to continue.  I stopped and looked around.  All there was around me was forest.  I saw no signs of human life.  The only light was provided by that of the moon.  I began to hear weird music.  It sounded religious or something."

I apparently did a lot of longing to long...

Oh the pain

[Gilgamesh1138]

ROFL I wrote a science fiction one... I am going to have to dig it out, and burn it.

LOL, sorry Shadow! *HUGS*

Modifié par Gilgamesh1138, 22 mai 2010 - 03:21 .

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Tas - Nice XD

I just went to pull out some of my old stuff and yeah...the pain!

My characters/friends were subjected to the following in the space of one story:
1 - being shipwrecked on a small island while en route to California
2 - being captured by talking Bengal tigers (apparently the island was large enough to support over a thousand of them).
3 - one of the characters was crowned 'Tiger King', another 'The Chosen One' and a third was inexplicably selected to die by being strung above a snake pit
4 - the characters all escape the tigers and are very briefly pursued by Daleks before climbing a banana tree to evade them
5 - Then they escape the island by getting back on the boat, which they somehow got working again.

Good times

Edit - Oh, wait, the tigers didn't talk. They had communicators that *allowed* people to understand them. Like Star Trek. Or maybe the Babelfish. Either way, they were very clever kitties.

Modifié par Shadow of Light Dragon, 22 mai 2010 - 03:41 .

[Gilgamesh1138]

Mine was a sci fi that took place on Earth.



1) They have discovered the lost Atlantis (how it remained hidden from the people of Earth who could fly in space to other planets meeting other alien species I didn't feel anyone needed to know apparently. They just did, all right? Geeze!)

2) the ship has aliens speicies that look like giant cats, Harpies from Greek mythology, and Devils.

3) they pop up, disembark and go through this cave where crystaline dragon tries to kill them. And it kills one of the "red shirts."



Okay I am going to stop there, it is like that MST3K movie of Hercules caught in a sandstorm that never ends. DEEP HURTING! And this folks was my idea of the start of a novel when I was 13?



Um, yeah. *gets matches, hands out graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmellows* Smores anyone?

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Hehe...early-year writing attempts as campfire horror stories.



*lights a small fire, pulls up a log, grabs a flashlight and holds it below her face*