Post Fractures Depression

[miri1984]

I am inventing a new disorder. PFD. I have post-Fractures depression. I love Anders and Neria too much. Why did I end it? *wibble*  I mean - I have two shiny other fics to write, but I miss my Fractures...

This happened with all my others as well. But Fractures was my longest yet. Writing fics is so much like having relationships, you love them, you hate them, you wish they would die... What does everyone else think? 

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[twist_shimmy]

I am never okay when a long story ends. Evie and Alistair from Two Pups and a Bastard still want to come out and play, and Adhara and Sten are just WAITING for DA2 so Strangers With Cookies can have a sequel.

The first long fic I ever wrote was set in the Oblivion universe, and when I get bored and need a warm-up I STILL fall back on those characters for short scenes. It's been years.

I joke that it's like parents watching their first kid go off to university. WE DON'T WANT TO LET GOOOOO.

[miri1984]

I didn't feel so bad when Beginnings finished, because I knew there was another one in the works and I'd already written Consequences, so the whole Miranda/Alistair story was already finished IYKWIM. But I haven't gone to Neria and Anders' calling yet. I wibble just to think about it. I was going to get them out of it, but I'm beginning to realise that's not possible, much as I hate the idea. *clings to Neria*

*clings a bit harder and a bit more provocatively to Anders*

[miri1984]

Oh, and Evie and Alistair OR Adhara and Sten - would SO devour a sequel from either of them ;)

[twist_shimmy]

Evie and Alistair don't get a sequel. >.< Ever. As cute as Cailan and Bryce were, I can't do it.

Adhara and Sten probably will, depending upon what I learn about Seheron/Par Vollen from DA2.

[miri1984]

I'd be happy with that!

[zute]

I know the feeling! I got it at the end of all my longer tales. I always tell myself I can write a sequel, but then I rarely do it.

[zute]

Or even worse... I sometimes actually cry when I'm writing. I mean really... I am tougher than that!

[miri1984]

ME TOO.

[amhran_comhrac]

I have totally done that. I admit it.

[nithu]

Pfft! I'm from Yorkshire and we're hard as nails! I will admit to getting something in my eye occasionally ;)

[scarylady]

Huh, you've got nowt on a Lancashire lass. I'll 'ave yer out. School gates, quarter to four.

[nithu]

Sorry, my mam comes to meet me at half-three :P

[scarylady]

Ha! Walked 'ome by her mam! *points and laughs* That's how 'ard Yorkshire folk is.

I'm cock o' t' walk, I am.

*giggle*

Wow, how many years does it take us back?

[nithu]

Wow, how many years does it take us back?

Many more than I'd care to admit to! 'Cock o' the walk' - that's not an expression you hear much any more :) Now I'm really starting to feel my age :(

[scarylady]

Oops sorry *pets nithu* If it makes you feel any better I'm about to get older. 'Nother birthday in a couple of weeks.

[nithu]

I just had one. It's definitely time to start counting backwards!

[twist_shimmy]

Oh, I've cried while writing and it makes me SO ANGRY. XD

[amhran_comhrac]

There are no words for the level of steaming hot mess I will reach when AOA ends. Seriously. It was supposed to end ages ago and I kept tacking on new plot lines to drag it out. Now I know where it will end, I won't let myself add any more plots, but... ugh, I don't want to put them away, you know?

[miri1984]

God, I'm a wobbling mess over AOA ending.

[amhran_comhrac]

Imagine how I feel. I'm thrilled by how many threads of the final arc are already set into place, though, since NO ONE has caught it yet.

[twist_shimmy]

I'm always terrified about dragging a story on for the sake of not letting go and ruining it in the process (note: I don't think this is what is happening with AOA). I've seen that happen to authors and it always makes me crazy sad.

Granted, my betas would also TELL me, I think. But the paranoia is still there.

[amhran_comhrac]

I have no betas to keep me in check. I totally work without a net. Makes it more exciting. (IE I don't have the patience to wait for someone else to post new chapters...)

[twist_shimmy]

That's why I usually start posting once there's a buffer going for chapters. (The desired buffer is ten or fifteen.)

Though that's still waiting, but at least it's all in the beginning. That makes it better. (It's not better at all.)

[darkrose]

I strongly suspect that part of my bad habit of starting epics that I never finish is because I'm terrified of what will happen when I do finish something.

Unfortunately, the more likely reason is that I'm a fundamentally lazy life form with a shorter attention span than most cats.

[miri1984]

*strokes your fur*

It doesn't kill you, finishing a fic. But it IS sad. I've wept a few big sobby tears today, I don't mind admitting.

[soignee]

....annnnd that's why the ballad of Missa Brosca is unfinished for me.

[twist_shimmy]

It took me years to start finishing projects I started. In fact, the first huge storyline I finished was a fanfic.

My novel is just hovering there, three chapters from the end. Hating at me. But fanfic? Oh, I can finish that. I finish those like a pro, now. (Baby steps. One day I'll be a Real Boy Author and finish my original work!)

[prisoner_24601]

I am sort of amazed that people who can write the long multi chapter stuff. When I've tried in the past, I never had the stamina to finish. That's awesome that you can see it through to the end.

[niniane]

I'm rather amazed at the ability of people to write super long stuff, too. I'm really more of a novella writer. After about 50K words of the same character, I get irritated with him/her and want to try something else. ;) I can only do longer works by adding a bunch of different characters and plot lines.

[miri1984]

I never EVER get tired of Anders ;).

[amhran_comhrac]

This. ^

[scarylady]

I am determined not to go through this. Determined.

T&S will have to end without actually finishing, in a way. It's politics and they go on. And on. For centuries. I absolutely cannot afford to be thinking 'hmm, the impact three generations on will be x, maybe I should write it'.

[ladydamodred]

It helps when you kill the characters. *eyeballs OPT*

But I feel your pain. *hugs* We're sort of going through that right now with the end of a fill on the kmeme. We're doing a shorter epilogue, but, man, gonna miss these particular charaters when we finally put them to bed. And I think I might be a little bit of a mess when Mistakes ends. That story is in my head like no other I've done and I'm not quite sure what's going to happen when I reach the last chapter.

[lemontwisted]

So much love for a place to call home. So much. I'll miss it too. *sniffles*

[scarylady]

Am I missing something good? Gief link.

[ladydamodred]

Yes, ma'am.

A Place to Call Home - http://dragonage-kink.livejournal.com/2508.html?thread=4191180#t4191180

It'll be going on ff.net eventually. Gotta go through and tweak some stuff first.

[scarylady]

Oops, didn't mean that to come out so demanding :S

Long fill, I see. Will you be putting it up here, too? If so, I'll wait and enjoy it with proper formatting.

[ladydamodred]

lol, I didn't think you were being demanding at all. ^_^ That'll remind me to use a smiley face next time.

As for posting it here, hmmm. That is a thought. *coughs* If I can figure out how to post things with proper cuts and stuff, I think maybe I will. I am such a noob at this.

[scarylady]

We are pro-smut around these parts *peers shiftily as her own Secret Service tag* so go for it!

You just higlight the part of the text you want to go behind the cut and click on the wiggly line thingie icon. I suspect that instruction could have been worded more helpfully than it was :S

[ladydamodred]

*chuckles* Given that I often also give directions by referring to "thingies," I think I'll be able to manage. I'll take a closer look when I go to post in hopefully a few days, and then if I need help, I'll appeal to the kind-hearted folks around here.

[zute]

I think my Lucy story ending is going to kill me. It's just been so much fun to write. Really, when I started it I thought it might be 10 or less chapters. But people kept egging me on.