Anesor

Pen Name: . Anesor Story Link: . Chapter 4: Sacrifices Review Link: . TBD Type of Fic: . FlashFic Rating: . Adult Fandom: . Games > A-F > Dragon Age Origins Pairing: . fem Hawke/Anders Warnings: . Angst, M/F, WIP, ChallengeFIC, UST Chapter 4 of Unresolved Tangles. Anders keeps falling for Hawke, but the spirit of Justice doesn't care about Anders' lusts, and is willing to destroy any obstacle to mage freedom... even if it's Dera Hawke.

Belated thanks for reviews for Griffin's Walk http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600088240, which starts with the Grey Wardens Cousland and Alistair having to deal with the mage who she had inducted into the Wardens, and was very bad in DA2. Starting here with reviews for Chapter 6. BronxWench's review: Yes, even if Alistair has refused the throne, once revealed and he has helped kill the arch-demon, he never can go back to being a nobody again. Even if he pledges to not contest the throne, if her rule falls many will be happy to go back to the Therin bloodline, so the nobles will want him to breed. After all, he's proven himself far more than his half brother had. pittwitch's review: Thank you. That's really a major goal with these prompts, isn't it? Some words are easier than others though. aren't they?

Pen Name: . Anesor Story Link: . http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600088240&chapter=6 Review Replies: . http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/49307-review-replies-griffins-walk/ Type of Fic: . FlashFic Rating: . Adult Fandom: . Games > A-F > Dragon Age Origins Pairing: . Cousland/Alistair Warnings: . Angst, M/F, WIP, ChallengeFIC, NoSex Chapter 6 of Griffin's Walk, where the uproar in Thedas causes new problems for the heroes of the Blight. Cousland has been warned by the Teyrn of something unpleasant, but how often does a little sister listen?

Pen Name: . Anesor Story Link: . http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600088302&chapter=3 Type of Fic: . FlashFic Rating: . Adult Fandom: . Games > A-F > Dragon Age Origins Pairing: . Hawke/Anders Warnings: . Angst, M/F, UST, WIP, ChallengeFIC, NoSex Act 1 vengeance on a betrayer is a little derailed...

Brief description of what I'm looking for from prospective beta:I'm looking for second opinion on story. I'm fairly solid on grammar and spelling and have help with that. I want reality checks on story/world. What works, and what doesn't work. After this many years of fanfic, I've had the world and backstory there as training wheels so I could concentrate on plot and character. But now I need to balance it all. Say what fandom this is for, or if it's an original story.Original Story Let the prospective beta readers know what type of story this will be (in general). This is mostly coming of age story of a slave's escape, gaining personal power and then being part of the barbarian forces fighting the evil empire and what she specifically escaped from. There is violence/rape but it's not explicit. Nor are there are real pairings, there are relationships but it's not romance or erotic. (I am hoping to expand the world more in a second story) State whether you'd like to read examples of the prospective beta reader's works before you agree on anything. This is a good idea, since if a person is going to be critiquing your work, wouldn't you like to know whether they really do know what they're talking about?I would like to read/link to something of the like, but some people are great critics without writing on their own. I'm hoping to work with someone at a similar experience level. I would like someone who has free time for communications even if they have delays in comments.. RL happens but I don't want to wait for a couple of weeks or a month before I hear they had a baby, are tied up with their dog having fleas, or something else. Waiting is easier if you know how long. I'm quite willing to trade if the reader writes in/close to a genre I'm comfortable with. Here's the start in it's current draft: The slave barracks weren't nightime quiet yet, but I wanted to hold my breath as I waited. Travel between the holdings of a depotiera of the Dargal phratry had not been pleasant, yet we arrived today at her mine. Here were none of the minor comforts of her city mansion, not for punished house slaves.

Well, now. This makes for a really, really slow tag, since I was tagged about 28 months ago. Better late than never, I hope. I don't think my answers are necessarily as interesting as most of the above. Here they are anyway... Tomoe's ♥♥ FanFiction Writer's Meme ♥♥ 1. How about a brief introduction of yourself? Former software dev until hit by downsizing and health issues. Was avid consumer of many books and certain games. for decades, dabbling in several creative areas. 2. Fabulous! And what got you into fanfiction to begin with? Read a few early Trek zines but decided texts higher priority. Fast forward to a period where a friend told me about online fanfiction when book budget was very lean and I was playing a year old CRPG. At the end I was outraged by the ending, where tropes weren't subverted but used like a bludgeon on their paying customers for dev convenience instead of playing by the rules of that universe. If they can't abide by the universe rules, or the rules they make themselves, they're pretty lazy writers. So I wrote a sequel to fix many of the dangling plotholes, reweaving in dropped characters and events, letting many characters have places to shine. 3. I see, so what kind of fanfiction do you like to write? Usually most of mine are on the long side and/or connected to side stories, so I can feature more than one set of leads. Genre for a story can vary from adventure/redemption, to a farce wedding with nasty political undertones, to eldritch elder god swallow the city. Character studies and parody are free of charge. I usually try for realistic fantasy with grit, drama, angst, and a little romance, in strong rotating first person. 4. Do you tend to write the same pairings/characters? Or are you a fandom whore? Usually the same pairings from only a couple fandoms; remember I usually start writing when I'm angry with how the professionals messed up. Any others are shorter pieces. 5. What is your more popular fanfic and why do you think people like it so? My most popular fanfic is what I call riddles that are answered by all the sidekick characters in a CRPG. The point was to help me get into the heads of these sometimes flat characters and be able to present them well. 6. Forget other people, what is the fanfic you've written you're most proud of? Well, I really want to say my current projects, even if I have too many pots on the stove right now. But really it's my first novel length, that I finished during NaNo 07 and I managed to post despite serious inhibitions. 7. Do you find writing easy? Hard? What are the most difficult aspects of writing you struggle with? Sometimes easy, sometimes hard. I love when a short challenge comes together in a couple of hours. Hard is block and RL. Harder than block is trying to revise to submission standards without feeling lost/untrained. 8. Write a few sentences of so of your favorite pairing or character. “I thought we were at least friends, Anders.” Her voice was a small whisper. That made him look up and meet her eyes; he could not deny her this much. Touching her cheek, he held every other muscle in place with more willpower than he ever had as a mere human. “I'm sorry, Hawke. It wasn't intentional.” She swayed into his touch, her eyes wide and pleading. It was still too dangerous, but he brushed fingers down to the tip of her chin, barely resisting touching her lips. “Nothing has changed.” My dear one, he wanted to say. “How about if I meet everyone at the Hanged Man tonight? ” Hawke's mouth closed before her lips compressed. Her voice sounded forced. “That's good. You wouldn't believe some of the things Isabela tries to con us into doing after a few drinks. You can make sure someone is sober enough to tell her no. You're good at that.” He deserved that, even if he only wanted Hawke to have a better life, one without him and the inevitability of the Templars and his execution. 9. Are there any fanfiction trends/clichés you can't stand or are just sick of? making canon characters useless/idiots 10. Are you guilty of any of the fanfiction trends/clichés you now hate? Or any other ones? Well, I wrote a crosssover once, but retained enough sanity to not post it, made easier by a hard drive meltdown. 11. What was the first fandom you wrote for? Do you still like/participate in it? I read or reread NWN stories once in a while, and I still have the last novel for that cast that I wrote for NaNo '09 that I want to finish. 12. Name your OTPs or most frequently written pairings/characters and explain what it is about them you love to write. Casavir-Lon-Bishop as the three of them balance each other rather well, and overload of BAMF. AND Hawke-Anders as repeating the same actions and expecting different results is insanity and I don't think the healer is gone. He needs an anchor and she needs family. 13. What would you call your writing "style"? realistic fantasy, TANSTAAFL, Mr Heinlein. 14. Do you read other people's fanfic? If so, what do you find yourself reading the most? Yes, almost exclusively fandoms I'm writing in. 15. Name one thing you'd LOVE to write, but have been too afraid or shy to do. Maybe STOS, because destroying Vulcan is lazy drama and disrespectful to all who wrote and filmed watched before. 16. Do you have trouble taking criticism? Or worse yet, do you have the dreaded bloated ego? I love detailed and useful criticism, but don't get it often. I'm more likely to get depressed and crash from harsh and undetailed comments. (then again the one review that said something was too kinky boggled me) 17. When you write, is there anything that helps? Music? Quiet room? Repairing toaster ovens? I prefer instrumental music to fit the mood, but I get far too many interruptions for more than a few hours a week. 18. What inspires you? A mental scene, visual or with dialogue... solving a plot problem/puzzle... NaNo 19. Lastly, how would you sum up your fanfiction experiences and yourself as a writer? Bemused and not quite sure how it happened as I went several decades without the slightest wish to write. I want some feedback far more than I expected once. Fanfic has a several decades long tradition of being training wheels for SF/F 20. Tag some friends, because they'll have you for it. Have me? For dinner? Halve me for annoying them? (sorry, don't really believe in tagging)

Those are good forms. But I admit I discover much of my characters as I go. Even in OCs for a fanfic they are developed reacting to canon characters or new events. I can fill much of these that are relevant after they've had a tale and they've grown bit by bit. But the work or two that I tried to make characters ahead of time, they were all flat and boring. They had no spark. Creating characters for my writing style (whatever that is) doesn't work like a detailed job application or entry form for a new doctor practice. I can use these for a little fill in, but not before I have a good feel for the core character.

Actually several game systems are better for teaching character creation with weaknesses and flaws as well as story hooks for the gamemaster/author to exploit. If your game group is more mature you can get some very rich characters, good training to the future author. Of course some games or editions of older games let characters have no weaknesses. The White Wolf and Champion systems are good at that kind of balance. Scifi games usually have to live with unpopular actions, limited resources and healing. And Call of Cuthulu creates characters who might start as Sues, but slide into anti-Sue and madness. I partly moved to writing because the game group wanted to be Stus after years of original characters. It made world and plot creation a waste of time and effort. More of the same as canon seems to be what Sues want not something new.

That is one of the biggest problems with Sues, that they are not realistic, The details of the setting are ignored and other things stuffed in, like the one famous Sue who clothed herself in American goth boutiques and chain stores in a HP story. Or very commonly, a complete unfamiliarity how people got/get around without cars and trains. Simple fact checking would take about 15 seconds online, because people still do endurance rides on horses as competition or drive buggies through the countryside in places. I don't know how many times a read had come to a screeching halt because I'm going WTF when I reach something that's not a simple typo but a serious lack of understanding by the writer, If they have a beta, too, I really don't know why their artistic vision requires that they keep a travel detail when it's not a part of their story and it makes them look really bad. Lack of believability kills a reader's enjoyment. I think you are probably right when the Sue lovers get upset at more realistic depictions. They confuse realistic competence with Sue 'perfection.' That is actually a little sad that they believe that women cannot be accomplished and three dimensional What it says about their expectations and society's, is troubling as well. A recent review was upset that my lead still had to follow orders even after the mission ended, that she couldn't do everything she wanted because she was the lead. I haven't been accused of Sue very often, almost never, though my leads hit a few traits their Sue purity scores are good.. A strong competent lead will do that in fanfic, especially if they fit the standard for the universe. Magic in a Harlequin romance is special, but in a high fantasy or a CRPG is normal. Yeah I ran my various leads through a Sue purity test, just to be sure. The problem is the ones who write the worst Sues are convinced that they aren't.

Pen Name: . Anesor Story Link: . http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600088240&chapter=3 Type of Fic: . FlashFic Rating: . Adult Fandom: . Games > A-F > Dragon Age Origins Warnings: . Angst, M/F,UST,Violence, WIP, ChallengeFIC A message from the queen is not their biggest problem. (Oops, thought I posted this last night)