Thaidakar the Ghostblood
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"He was a monster from old stories who’d taken a human’s face as its own."
Lines like these that I write remind me why I love writing. The power we hold in our fingertips, in our minds, to be able to make words reality, to impact people... I have not been good about writing lately. Or, in a way, I have been and I haven't. I've been roleplaying a lot. At first, this helped my writing tenfold, but now it's replacing my writing time. While I still write now and then, I haven't been able to actually work on things. It's sapped away my time on here, my time with friends, my time with writing itself and even my time with books (though, that hasn't been a problem with me reading almost literally half of the Great Hunt today... I'll get to that).
Roleplaying does not a writer make, I've found...
Roleplaying on the shard is much, much better for my writing skills. Much better than, urm, Minecraft roleplaying. Dang, I almost want to laugh at myself for saying that. Minecraft roleplaying is storming addicting, as most roleplaying is. It's easier than other roleplaying, I have more visualization and no need to really bother with description.
You see my problem?
While it is quite fun, it has been... not good.
I find myself trapped between a rock and a hard place. There are truly good people on there and my characters there are truly fantastic and I love to play as them. I think, however, I am close to a breaking off point there. Maybe a clean cut would be best... then again,
SpoilerThe Great Hunt (and maybe Dragon Reborn?) minor spoiler.
Spoilerthat's what Thom said in Cairhien during the Great Hunt, look where that got him.
Besides, I tried that before. It hasn't worked well...
I am slowly cutting off characters, but it isn't fast enough... idk.
Well, enough of me rambling about my roleplaying addiction. Now for some fun stuff. I'm almost done with the Great Hunt, I expect to finish it tonight. I might get to skimming the notifications sometime in the future. Though, at this point, I'm a bit scared of the number... ah well.
Even as I'm liking WoT better, I still think Dune is better, fight me. (This has nothing to do with me having a guitar version of Dune playing on my computer. Absolutely nothing.)
This has been another episode of "Roleplaying is as addicting as reading and WoT is actually good."
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Quote"He was a monster from old stories who’d taken a human’s face as its own."
Lines like these that I write remind me why I love writing. The power we hold in our fingertips, in our minds, to be able to make words reality, to impact people... I have not been good about writing lately. Or, in a way, I have been and I haven't. I've been roleplaying a lot. At first, this helped my writing tenfold, but now it's replacing my writing time. While I still write now and then, I haven't been able to actually work on things. It's sapped away my time on here, my time with friends, my time with writing itself and even my time with books (though, that hasn't been a problem with me reading almost literally half of the Great Hunt today... I'll get to that).
Why is this literally me??
Long story short, Haly (@The Halcyon Girl) and I have been roleplaying with each other for over two years (we also have regular interactions like decent human beings but we roleplay a lot), including two roleplays in her different worlds, a roleplay in a shared world, a bit of roleplay here on the Shard (though I quickly dropped out because it was stressing me), and then a roleplay that follows the plot of my book. It's good for plotting and getting good character interaction and making writing less lonely, but it's taken a lot of time away from actually writing. And I've been less descriptive lately. Idk. But this resonates with me very deeply.
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Rp is so storming addicting.
We'll see if WoT becomes better than Dune for me... idk how it'll manage to do it, but we'll see...
Also, I finished Great Hunt last night and I'm reading the Wingfeather short story thing inbetween so I don't over wheel of timed, if ya get what I'm saying. I think it's good to read a book in between the behemoths that make up wot.
