Jae Onasi

Hey all, I don't have the game even installed anymore, so I'm going to move myself out of the interest group--nothing to do with anyone here, I'm just not interested in playing the game at this time. If I return to the guild on Landroval, I'll rejoin.

Happy birthday, LOTRO!

Congrats!!

Scratching my head on the fixes for the midsummer event since it ended supposedly at 3am today...before the patch....

The Rohan housing stuff sounds really cool!

You get a quick travel map to the wedding instance. You can’t exit to the area around Minas Tirith, however. It’s worth doing the wedding quest line (it’s short) on your main toons—one of the rewards is a trait point, so well worth the little bit of time. The call backs to LOTR and LOTRO are fun. I’m going to do it on my alts just for that alone. FibroJedi has a great write up on the event and all the various little daily quests you can do. It ends the 20th so if you want to get the reward for completing the dailies 5 times, you’ll need to get started ASAP.

Keep me on, please, too.

My toons on Brandywine are in a kinship I was in before joining RoH--I haven't left that one, and all my high level toons are there. At the time I restarted, server transfers weren't even available, but even now those are gawdawfully expensive.  I'm happy to run around with a RoH group on Landroval, too.

All three for me, please. Thanks!

Good luck with all your appointments!

1 hour ago, Morgani said:

It's midnight for me. I managed 1674 words over the day. Wrote myself into a crappy scene. Hoping to fix it tomorrow after some sleep.

We all write "sh!tty first drafts" as Anne Lamott hilariously notes in her book Bird by Bird. But that's ok, because now you have a first draft, and yesterday you didn't have one!

Pep talk from Anne Lamott, one of my favorite authors on writing. https://nanowrimo.org/pep-talk-from-anne-lamott

Edit: My name on the nanowrimo site, not surprisingly, is Jae Onasi.

I'm going to revise about 50k words of my novel so I can get the second draft done. I need to finish this puppy and find an agent.

@witchbolts I LOVE the idea of a write-in!

Tagging @Laysa who's also participating in Nanowrimo this month (not sure if non-club members can see this, however.

I’ve known for some time about Peter’s Evil Overlord List of things one should never do as an Evil Overlord. I think I learned about it from a friend on LucasForums about 10 years back. Now and then I revisit it when I’m having a crappy day and need a good laugh.

A couple days ago I also ran across the The Not So Grand List of Overused Fantasy Clichés. I fell over laughing. I figured a lot of us probably write fantasy/sci-Fi since we obviously enjoy playing games in the fantasy genre. 
 

The fantasy list was inspired by the Grand List of Over-used Sci Fi Storylines. 
Click the section links to get to the entries themselves.
 

Don’t drink anything before reading these unless you like spewing on your monitor. 

Enjoy. 

2 hours ago, Stormtree said:

I just signed up. I was getting a lot of 404 errors. But let's see if I can send through some friend invitations there. I've never participated in NaNoWriMo as it just didn't seem like something "for me". I have small goals this years.

They switched to a new site recently--that might be the source of the errors.

I need to revise about 50k words of the novel I just finished, so I’m going to do that this year instead of writing. The characters in my novel are itching to go on another adventure, so I might work on an outline for the next book, too.

I haven’t won yet, but it seems just about every November in the last 5 years, I’ve been hit with some nasty Real Life stuff (like cross country moves and kid in the hospital level stuff) that wiped out the goal. Saying a little prayer that this November will be a little more calm.

17 minutes ago, witchbolts said:

Congrats on finishing your second novel @Jae Onasi! That's a major achievement! I also know the feeling of starting a fanfic and realizing it is a waaaay bigger project that you first expected! I have an ongoing Harry Potter fanfic that I write for some of my closest friends and it is currently just over 100k words! 

 

 

That's sort of how it went with my Jolee Bindo fanfic--the fanfic group I was in would poke me if I went longer than a few days between entries and ask "When are you posting again? We want to know what comes next!". That was always fun to see. Of course, I routinely left them on cliffhangers.

There's a gal in the Atlanta Nanowrimo branch who works at the library branch closest to me--she was excited to hear about the idea, too. Small world!

23 hours ago, Helios said:

I've been out of writing practice for a very very long time now... I used to write a lot of poetry as a teen, I might try my hand at some of that again. And with NaNoWriMo coming up, I've been thinking I might also give that another go. I've completed it once before, but unfortunately my computer died and I only had a few scattered chapters of it saved on a USB, which killed my drive to attempt it ever again 

I feel your pain! After losing a major project on a dead laptop, I've always emailed myself copies of major works. Now I save them on a portable hard drive as well as either Google Docs or my email, because I'm just that paranoid about losing something as big as a novel.

I just finished my second novel, "The Gryffoniers." My first novel was accidental. It was a KOTOR fanfic that was supposed to be only 30-ish pages long. Around page 50, I realized I'd only gotten about a third of the way through my plot. The story ended up about 200 pages long. It's complete newbie writer trash, and I learned a lot and loved every minute of writing it. I made every mistake possible. I'm ok with that.  The second novel is written much better, especially after having the first 2/3rds or so workshopped in a writing group. Sadly, since I moved, I haven't found another writer group close enough to me to join. I might start one myself at the local library.

Name generator for just about everything you could want--names (real and fantasy), places, pop culture, magic items, vehicles, diseases, even meteors.

https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/

Master list of facial expressions for when you need something besides "S/he looked at...." https://www.bryndonovan.com/2015/04/05/master-list-of-facial-expressions/

I like some of the other master lists (especially colors and physical descriptions), too.

Huge color list: https://kathysteinemann.com/Musings/colors/

Power thesaurus is my new go-to thesaurus besides my huge paperback one sitting on my desk. I like it because it can sort by parts of speech and links antonyms, definitions and examples as well. https://www.powerthesaurus.org/

Non-verbal body language http://bodylanguageproject.com/nonverbal-dictionary/

It gives you the body language and then the emotion, so that if your character crosses her legs, for instance, you can take a look at the entry for "leg crossing" and see what kind of leg cross and even the direction of the feet you want your character to take in order to convey the emotion better. It might take a little bit of reading on the Body Language Project site to learn some of the terminology.

Some free worksheets and other useful items: https://allfreelancewriting.com/novel-planning-tools-and-worksheets/

Software: Dramatica Pro--I picked this up after Nanowrimo a few years ago. http://www.write-bros.com/dramatica-pro.html

It's more of a theorycrafting approach to story telling, and since I discovered it midway through writing my novel, it didn't have as much utility for me as it might have if I'd used it from the beginning. However, the idea spinner has gotten me out of some spots where I was just stuck and didn't know where to go next. There's also a screen-writing version.

I use Scrivener for word processing and organizing my novel. There's often a special during and right after Nanowrimo. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

If you want a free software package and don't mind that the program isn't being updated anymore, the owner is now giving away the license key and maintaining the site. http://www.writewaypro.com/

I used this one in the past and enjoyed it, but Scrivener offers some more options that I wanted. Writeway is easier to learn, but if you can game, you can handle the tech on either program just fine.

*Looks in bookmarks, realizes there are a bazillion more interesting sites....*

This is a good start.

I'd like to be more active in game and see the guild grow, but I'm working on a major revision of my novel to get it ready to send out to agents, so my time is zip to devote to more gaming.

13 minutes ago, Esva said:

Keep the picture on your desktop as a cheet sheet for your character sheet so you dont have to open the forums to get to it

Ooh that could be a cool idea!

I’m not a guy. 

I like the idea of the sheet and it looks great. It’s clear you put a lot of thought and work into it. As a KOTOR fangirl I love the concept.

However,  some of the text is visually difficult to read with the aurebesh translation below every word. Several of us have eye diseases that affect our abilities to read smaller print. As much as I like having the fun translation, I would recommend dropping it in favor of improving readability. Maybe you can keep it somewhere in the title, but having it below every word is too much visually and takes up a lot of room. That’s not a big deal on a desktop, but it is for some of us who use our character sheets on a phone or iPad. 

What do the “A:3” and “N:3” and other abbreviations in that middle column mean?

Picky grammar stuff: 

While you don’t have plurals except for “points” in this particular sheet, I’ve seen this elsewhere often—make sure not to use apostrophes to create plurals. That’s  grammatically incorrect (and drives me up a wall wherever I see it, nothing personal there). For example, the plural of cat is cats, not cat’s. The plural of blaster is blasters, not blaster’s. See this link for more info: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/apostrophe_introduction.html

There should be no colon between basic and first aid. It’s simply “basic first aid,” not “basic: first aid.” The colon arguably doesn’t need to be used in force throw, either. I’d change that to just “Force throw” since that’s the name of the skill in our particular skill list.

I’m happy to assist on grammar and spelling if you’d like. 

For @Junlar and @Madhatter5510, I love the Star Wars feel of the sheet, but I wouldn’t want to make it a requirement for everyone to use because of the vision and phone use issues. It’s rendering too small on my phone to be able to even read, and if I enlarge it, I have to scroll a lot to see the info. It looks great on my desktop, however. 

Thank you for the post!

On 8/22/2019 at 4:58 PM, Turmon said:

I would love to join but i work nights, Do you guys typically play on Thursday nights? Anything going on for the weekend?

Kitty runs the group Thursday nights starting at 6:30pm Eastern. She's not running a group on weekends, but that doesn't mean you couldn't find a group of folks who would form another group and get a weekend game going.

5 hours ago, MoistKumquat said:

Well, it sounds like you need you a world class bard!  Are Changelings a race that is allowed?

Since changelings are a race in WGE and that's on the list of her approved sourcebooks, it should be ok. It can always be changed if needed if @Kitty Chelle decides that it wouldn't work for her.

1 hour ago, MoistKumquat said:

I would definitely love to join you!  I'm just not sure what y'all need character wise to roll

I think Kitty told us to play what we wanted--she's a great DM who knows how to work around whatever we throw at her. We currently have 2 druids (1 dream, 1 land), a warlock (if I'm remembering that correctly, @Darth Gumby ), a sorceress, and I'd love to say I remember what class Xyain's character Resseris is, but I can't at the moment.