The BSN writers club

I've decided to scrap an older story and instead use ideas from it for a newer one, Halo: Onslaught, the arrival of the end. The link: www.fanfiction.net/s/12531947/1/Halo-Onslaught

Oh, here it is. I wonder why my eyes and the search function didn't find it.

The thread was hiding from you.

How to Write Child Characters helped with my writing today.

Research or nothing.

I remember once researching... geez, what was it... Must've been some crazy stuff, like a SPIE rig or something of the sort. I do happen to write that fancy Clancy style stuff. When I actually do. Which is funny. I've only ever read one book by Clancy, and that was a translation. Rainbow Six... is a great title. Actually I read more Forsyth than Clancy. He seems to do the same genre to me.

Have written 1500 words today. Wanting to knock out a chapter today, but likely will not finish until tomorrow at around 3000+

Although I did google "how many words is a chapter" and wondered what you guys thought. The internet says 5k

Yeah, which is why I stick to medieval history when doing research.

I wonder what Arlathvhen looked like?

The problem is with DA is that its very anachronistic.  Which is one of the reasons its actually so well written imo, it feels familiar, yet different.  But at times it does really throw off the reader.  At times it seems that the DA world is almost a perfect mirror for our world at the turn of the first millenium.  A lot of the thing that is happening in the Dragon Age also was happening in the tenth century IRL.  BUT then a lot of the terminiology, societal norms, and technology comes from today.  In the DA book with Cole it mentions 'sewers' I thought this was very weird so I looked it up, and if I remember correctly sewers weren't really a thing in Europe till the Nineteenth century.  

As far as it goes my books will also be a bit anachornistic, but not THAT much.  I hope.  The trouble is I am unsure if I should go for a mesh of different eras, or focus on the thirty years war as the main inspiration fo my novels...but then I do not know if that is considered 'medeval' or 'Renissance'. 

so what do you guys tell yourself when a little voice says to you in your head that the only person who's going to enjoy your writing is you? Not that it's bad writing, just that, as it's you who's written it, it is the most likely to be entertaining to you and no one else.

I was writing when I was 15. A romance about a Veterinarian lady who moved to a small town to practice and fell in love with a grumpy guy that was important in some way, can't remember now. My mother embarrassed me into stopping it. I turned to Sailor moon fanfiction after that, but never finished a story. Finished a couple one shots of Inu Yasha fan fiction at 17. Then stopped writing a really long time. I graduated, became a workaholic mixed with college, series of time consuming boyfriends. So there was this 9 year gap where I didn't write a single word. Now I'm all over Dragon Age. Although I pitched a polyamorous romance novel to the husband and he told me I was being racist with my Romani protaganist so I killed my original fiction and turned back to fan fiction again. 

I don't know if I'm a writer, but I am driven to help these characters find a voice. Otherwise they're not alive and that makes me sad.

I think about that a lot. When I'm writing essays or even RP posts. What I do is just brush it aside and just leave it to the reader.