stupid voices

[norcumi]

So... WoW.

Kharisa and Hep both hit 85.... um... awhile ago? Cataclysm does tons for me, you can tell. sigh. Mel is moving up, and hit 82, and Pru is heading towards the big eight-oh!

I will admit, due to totally self-inflicted not-really-there-and-I-know-it-not-like-it-matters issues, I've been taking breaks from my Ysera crew, since I feel like I should be doing THINGS like GUILD LEVELS yaye! or whatall, and - well - no? Not only do I not need the push to be Doing All These THINGS that are VERY IMPORTANT (like getting mad guild rep and killing/herbing/skinning everything that moves), but as the random capitalization hopefully indicates, that's not what it's supposed to be all about.

Maybe I'm one of the oft lamented Wrath-babies, Lich-whiners, whatever Trade is calling them today. I had fun in Wrath content. Cata... not so much.

So those breaks in the Ysera crew have led to time spent haunting Exodar, where I started with Xarian, since I wanted to see how the new leveling experience was, especially with mad farming skillz. As you might choose to see - pretty damn well. I like the new areas, the quest flow, and STV - well, I'll leave a spoiler-free comment that I dig the area and recommend it for folks. I've heard good things about Badlands, but haven't toured through there yet.

Part of the challenge for me with Xarian was can I do it alone - not in the guild sense (that kind of just happened on its own), but in regards to alts. No death knight romping around, sending gold and items and mats, no leather/metal crafter in the background supplying sparklies - and I am gratified to say I haven't felt a pinch anywhere. And having proven that, I started to poke around with a nelfy mage since - well, I can, and I'm running out of slots on Ysera, and why not?

Been ages since I played a mage, and I forgot how often I blink into trees/structures/the slight hill two feet in front of me. And this led to the obvious conclusion that Ellinn is perhaps not so much a klutz as a shy former house servant who apparently had a talent for magery, and when the highborne came back and were looking, well....

She's fun, and I kinda wish I had her on an RP realm, since she's going out and doin' things timidly, killing critters only to stop and hyperventilate to her water elemental, and screaming madly when recruited to fly/direct a dragon (ah, Darkshore). Fine, it's all in my head, but still. I'm amused.

And then I decided to try, yet again, to get my head around worgen. I'll leave the overall anti-wogen grumble for another time (Cata yet again failed me). That, and I wanted to see what a higher level inscriptionist could do, so since I already knew hunters can do mad leveling....

And then my wogen hit Darkshore, where said mage was located, and I amused myself thinking what the hell she'd do upon meeting her first worgen in the wild (Blink right into a tree, of course, at which point Kius would be slightly hurt and rather concerned).

Then in my head, they made friends. They started flirting. And then it hit me with a bucket load of amusement to title smaller sized stories after obedience training commands, which means I want to tie in Xarian with at least the "who she is" ficlet titled "The Bitch" and dammit, there's got to be SOME sort of greater continuity and "Wolf Pack" is just... so damned cliched-!

But it's kinda nice to have voices of any kind.

Comments

[lynati-1.livejournal.com]

my brain done explodeded again recently.

...does this mean there's going to be fic from you? *ears perk*

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

Ooo. I hope in the good sense, not the goo everywhere sense.

And someday, hopefully. Right now I've got Pru poking a pointy and likely poisoned stick in my direction, since she's getting stuff done and the voices are like that, so - I do wish I'd have it for Friday, but that's unlikely. The stuff with Kius and Ellinn is percolating but looks to be settling in for the long haul (my alts are mailing shoulder armor and glyphs to each other and i'm cooing over it - HELP!) and I'm gonna just sit down and do "The Bitch" one afternoon just to see where it goes. Then when you're here I want to pick your brain in regards to guild fic. So... maybe? ;)

Or maybe we can do an Iron Author afternoon, or something deranged. Two writers sit down, bull at each other, write for half an hour, and the winner (no i've no idea how to determine that what do you want from me!?!) gets to choose... some... thing.... yeah.

Look! A distraction!

[justicevoles.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're not so much with the enjoyment of Cata, glad you're finding something to do in-game.

(Lyn's never on anymore, makes me sad cheese)

Since all I ever really do is pvp and don't have anybody above 74, Cata hasn't really changed much for me, except that there are now furry people on my team, and some of the green people I kill are smaller and have bigger ears.

Did you catch that Dear_Gnome community they spotlighted a week or so back? Seems like a decent place, have a lot of posts that remind me of your ones, where you talk about asshats and awesome folks you encounter in-game.

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

(Lyn's never on anymore, makes me sad cheese)

I hear you. I'm hoping for the opportunity to poke at her sometime. ;)

Nobody above 74: fair enough. Best way I've figured to put it is that while I DO like the old world flying, it's just nothing else added to the world, it just... sits there and provides farming opportunities when I'm trying for more depth in my life instead. :-/ I was hoping more of the expansion would encourage that, and that might have been unrealistic.

Ooo, no I had not heard about this Dear_gnome thing. I'll have to investigate!

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I think the werewolf/mage flirtation series has promise. Strip it of its WoW origins and you could go sell it on Amazon. ;)

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I - Huh. That... had not occurred to me. It's been so long since I've been puttering around with straight up fantasy it never even crossed my mind. Um. You have interesting ideas; I need to see where this is going since I'm not sure I could strip out all the relevant WoW elements without rewriting (er, in my head at least) much of it.... Ack, and of course my fondness for urban fantasy is kicking in and I've got to wonder how the scenario would translate into that - you have very interesting ideas!

By the by, if you don't mind me asking: How do you find the time to do all the stuff that you do? You produce a lot of writing, run a household, and are clearly involved in a lot of activities; how do you do it?! Awesome time management? Self discipline? I hope you don't mind me asking, but after watching you for a few weeks I keep finding myself in awe.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

You seem to enjoy writing, so I figured I'd just drop the notion in your head. I think you'd do great writing your own fiction; I'd read it, I think you've got a thing for snappy dialogue and characterization and I'm curious to see what you'd do with longer work/work of your own.

Where do I find time, hmm. I'm not sure how to answer that question. I think the most obvious answer is that I make a lot of to-do lists, and when I get my free chunk of time, I sit down and go through them, one item after another, until I'm done or the time is up. I might take a ten minute snack break or whatever, but I don't mess around. I have scheduled mess-around times (usually at night when I'm winding down for bed) so I just remind myself that playing games or surfing can wait until then.

The other obvious answer is that I love what I do, so sitting down to work isn't a hardship. Given the choice between powering through novel edits or working on a drawing that just won't come together and being back in a cubicle trying to stay awake through yet another product review meeting, I know what I'd rather be doing. :)

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I'm just compelled to write. ;) Thank you for the kind words, though, in all seriousness. I've found historically longer works peter out for me; I have a lot of difficulty maintaining momentum on anything more than a series of shorter stories, and even then the longer ones don't maintain structural integrity very well. I suppose knowing the problem is a good step towards fixing it, at least.

Interestingly, while I've been perusing your Micah series along with your journal, self-publishing anything I've got hadn't occurred to me, and now it's sitting there and Looking At Me strangely, so while I'm not sure what to do with it you succeeded at planting the notion.

And thank you for the answer as to time management; I found it both useful and informative! (.... while that looks less than sincere, I really do mean it.... so thank you again!)

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Most of my life I wanted to write books... and I was so frustrated throughout high school and college that I didn't have an idea big enough or compelling enough to write into a novel. I have files full of dead barely-started novels, one or two scenes long. Some of them were things I thought were pretty interesting, others were things I thought OUGHT to be interesting (including one very ambitious hard science fiction novel about humanity when the sun was about to go nova or something, inspired by my high school astronomy class; there was not much hard science in it, though, and a lot of OMG THE SUN IS EXPLODING WHERE ARE ALL MY FRIENDS type stuff). None of them got finished.

I think it was my last year in college that I finally got socked with a novel-sized idea that I felt compelled to carry all the way to the end, and after that it got easier and easier to find novel-sized ideas I cared enough about to write. So don't be too upset if you haven't fallen in love with a novel yet. I bet there's one waiting for you. :)


The business stuff can wait, certainly. But these days there's no reason not to earn pocket money if you're a competent storyteller, and I think you've got the chops and you seem to enjoy practicing, so I am investing in my future entertainment by encouraging you. It is purely selfish! >.>

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

^_^ Aw, thank you!