The BSN writers club

I think this is a good idea to discuss writing and learning tips. I'm writing RP at the moment and I'm in dire need for tips.

Yes.

Really when you are thinking about designing a character for roleplaying the same laws tend to apply for creating an individual character fresh from scratch for your own work. It is one of the reasons why I like the CRPG genre because it gives me the chance to practice, actually practice, chracterizations. So even when I am relaxing and having fun I can still practice for what I hope is an ultimate career.

Pretty much with each new BioWare release since...well I guess since I got my hands on DA O what I have tried to do...actually hell with Mass Effect even. Give my character an attempted arc. And an arc is about the change of one state to becoming something else. So for example Cassandra Ryder was a bit of a daddy's girl and relied on him for protection and guidance. She had no real delusions of greatness, didn't want to be anything even resembling a pathfinder, didn't want to lead, more of a follower, and then WAM she gets into her position. My canon Trevelyan was a bit of a loner, didn't really want to lead, despised politics, hated the chantry. Yet through the course of the game she found a new family, and learned the world was a lot more complicated.

So, the trick of any RPG and its game systems and dialogue...be it pen and paper, on the forum, or something like Mass Effect, is how well do the game systems support your intended arc? How well do the events of the game support your arc? Maybe instead of growing from scared kid to complete person Cassandra became jaded by the experience?

I don't aspire to write novels. I prefer to write fanfics. Thus far, I've finished two. A sageuk (Korean historical drama) and a MET fic. I'm presently working on a sequel from the MET fic and a DAI origins fic.

Actually its more some sentences for two different stories. One of them I managed to get out two paragraphs.

Oh really, what's it about? 

 I always suck at editing. I never notice mistakes in chapters until after I posted it. 

At long last, I've found the writers' corner. Hey everyone!

I've been writing MEA one-shots before MEA came out. Finally pulled myself together to write my MEA fanfic, Project: Andromeda, a few days post-release, it's a work-in-progress.

It'll be wonderful if everyone here can just flick through it, and shoot feedback my way. Link's in my profile.

Forgive me if I sound terse or tense, but reviews are scarce, and far and few in between chapters. I'm frustrated, really, can't really figure out if I'm doing okay.

Until I found this thread. Thanks, colfoley.

I get what you mean. I've been ff.net-registered since 2006, yet only posted my first true fanfic this year. Never really got around to finishing my other "projects."

I'm up for suggestions whenever I can actually push them out. Expect me to be quiet for 99 percent of the time, since I haven't updated my fic in over two and a half years. Despite actually having written four or so chapters since.

I've had a few things published, but my favorite obsession for some time now has been fanfic. Specifically my ongoing DA:I series (link is below in my sig).

I'm currently nearly done the first draft of the second long-novel-length entry in it, so I'll be launching into editing the beast soon. Anyway, if anyone's inclined to check any of it out (they're not all novel-length!), I welcome feedback.

My biggest issue is just getting ass in chair and actually do the writing. I have an outline and a large part of a book in my head.

One of my professors said his best trick for writing was "ass to chair".  

I've written about 800 pages of a marathon Fantasy epic. I originally started it because I was so annoyed with Jordan's slow pace of story progression in WoT. I was like: I'll show you how it should be done! I planned it as a trilogy of three 800 page volumes. But looking at my current progress, it now looks more like 10-12 1200-page volumes, so I'll probably die before it's finished.

Then I've written close to 200 pages of a SF novel. Since Ian Banks is dead, I have this itch to write Culture novels. I'd love to get that opportunity, and if I ever get successfully published (I can always dream), I'll try to talk to people about it. This is not a Culture novel though. The technology level is somewhat more modest.

...And I've written about 50 pages of a crime/thriller story. I'm not entirely happy with most of it so it has to be extensively rewritten if I continue.

But mainly, I work long hours in my 'real' job, and am usually quite tired when I get home. I've kinda realized that to be more productive I would have to quit my job. And that is not going to happen anytime soon, I think.


But right now, just because of this thread, I think I'll work a bit on the SF novel.

I quite like to write. I get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Unfortunately, I also become so invested in my characters that I have a really hard time killing off anyone of them. I'm not exactly G.R. Martin, if you get what I mean.