Hey Maha, how are you?

---------- Post added 12-24-2014 at 06:42 PM ----------

Hmm, well, like I mentioned I have a slow one (well they're all slow, due to main and all the partners' hiatuses) with 5 main-like characters.
It's set in my own thought up fantasy setting, a continent of sorts, where there's magic and things. Something is stolen from temple where my character, priestess, lives and due to bad timing, my other character, also a woman, is thought to be the thief. The second encounters my partners drow/dark elf who seemingly will help her escape the chasing party but turns on her, trying to get her loot to return nobly to priestess (for his own personal reasons, not riches). She discovers that and in the end, uses him to make her escape.

The priestess and drow team up in searching party for the thief, still firmly believing it's that woman, and after horrible accident with rope bridge are saved by a knight, who instantly says to fall in love with priestess. Due to losing priestesses' guard captain - he remains on other side of ravine - he joins the party (but receives cold shoulder from priestess in all romantic talks).

Meanwhile, another man is washed up ashore nearby the 'thief'. They don't get much interaction, but he sees her exiting a house in small village and correctly assumes she has robbed it (the owner is dead before her arrival and owes her so she decides to 'take her payment'). Fight ensues, she tries to frame the guy for what has happened in the house and escapes. The framing job falls through, though.

Of course, that's just the very basic summary of story, there's a lot more. Here there is some inkling of the classical triangle or at least heavy third wheel in shape of the knight, but that's only if he is who he says and his feelings are true. I don't play him so I have no idea.

Later, I will enter with another character, the actual thief who has reasons of her own. >_>

WOw! That is captivating!
Thief and heist is another type of story I love.
How long has that been going on?

Sometimes I think it is best to co-write with people. Because it ensures good balance and wild unlimited personalities mixture.

Uh lol, for nearly a year now. ;>_> We've got like 3 pages of posts done and a lot of long breaks inbetween.

And yes, the personalities are a LOT different in all 5 of them, I love it.

... Sounds kinda slow. x.x
The character mixture sounds rich and interesting.
Mine is bland. x.x cause I am such perfectionist, all my characters would be polish up to the point that is boring.

But the thing is, PERFECT character is the one is flaws, strange quirks and all that. :)

And yeah it is slow, but worth it. And when we both have time, we make a bunch of posts in the same week, haha.

My so call 'perfect' characters are boring. :/
Like my witch. not romance seeking. that is fine. But she is also quiet, VERY quiet, cannot communicate well. It is HARD to describe her intention and what she wants. challenging, and that makes her 'boring', because she is just so quiet to the point of non existence. I need way more description to make it work, BUT it would seem like I am rooting for the witch. XD lol.

Bad thing about cowriting. Timing. *sighs*

Hahaha, I have character like that, who I just can't get good RP for because she's just that quiet and uncooperative. >_>
But it depends how you write, you don't have to express thoughts directly through her mouth. There's also body language, note of glances, soft sighs and just directly telling reader how she feels.

Yes, those description of body language, all those minute details. So, it is just SEEMS like I am picking favourites, specially doing more description for the witch. Up to 5 sentence to describe an action, where as others just have one simple sentence for the same action.
See the unfairness? XD Another analogy, it is just like I am using zoom out lense when writing about other characters but zoom iiiiiin lense when writing about the witch. XD unfair.

Then try to zoom in a bit more onto other characters, too. :) Well, just a suggestion.

Well then, the whole story would be like to LoTR... after two pages, I fall asleep. XD

Uh, I am not fan of LoTR myself, but I write in descriptive way. I just can't otherwise.
Although I'm learning to write in 1st person and to switch from one char to another and then it gives emotional color without being lengthy well.

1st person is totally not up my alley. The story have just to be SO GOOD! to make me read 1st person.
Through my reading life, 99.999% of books I read are 3rd person.

I try to minimise my long winded description. Because It is just not attractive to read. I tend to break it up with either shorter sentence or dialogues. So that it won't look like a textbook. XD

*struts into the thread*

Yeah, it's pretty hard to get right, haha.
I generally know only few books tha ae written in 1st person and most of them are pretty crazy haha.

I don't think I have trouble writing in 1st person... I just treat myself like writing diary. XD
That is WHY I don't like reading 1st person, it is just SO CLOSE to me. :<
I like to stay a distance away to understand it.

I am okay with manga to use first person, because the visual helps in differentiating which I is which person. XD

First person tends to drive me nuts.

Well, it's hard to find one that's well written, I agree.

star's temporarily taking a break from making her statue wintery avi to wave at you fine folks 'waves'

---------- Post added 12-24-2014 at 02:33 PM ----------

star got a Magic bullet from her sister.

I love my Magic Bullet.

Originally Posted by Kirin Rosenbaum

I love my Magic Bullet.

got any recepies i can use 'tilts head' i'll be going shopping at SOME point..

I usually make my own chicken salad when I have leftover rotisserie chicken.

Originally Posted by Kirin Rosenbaum

I usually make my own chicken salad when I have leftover rotisserie chicken.

oh that sounds god.. i might buy some microwavable chicken just so i CAN make chicken saled how exactly would i do that.. do you know a site with reciepe's on it?

What magic bullet?

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.

Merry Very Christmas~ <33