FIC: Moments Between Moments (Dragon Age)

[bjewelled]

Title: Moments Between Moments (Vignette Series)

Author: Jewels

Fandom: Dragon Age

Disclaimer: Bioware's. !Mine.

Summary: Selected scenes from a relationship between apostates. Anders/f!Hawke. A collection of vignettes.

Word Count: 18,063

Notes:
Honestly, the only part of this I really intended to write was related to one of the specialisation trees

Comments

[sharpwords]

Erf. Since reading this, I've been stuck with mixed emotions

[bjewelled]

re: #1, 3 and 4. Aww, sorry. Now I feel bad. I really wouldn't feel jealous. I'd be more impressed with myself if I actually managed to finish stuff more often, instead of starting and stopping after a few thousand words. Which is possibly why this disjointed (and slightly out of order) thing got finished rather than anything else. :)

re: #2. Apparently we share a braincell. I call dibs mondays through wednesdays.

Glad you enjoyed it, though. I toyed with posting it or not posting it for about a fortnight. Peoples Hawkes are so individual to them then I couldn't decide whether anyone would want to read it. Then decided: sod it. This one I wrote for me. Also, writing in a sex scene is a bit of a departure for me (not the first time I've written one in, but the first time it hasn't wound up on the cutting room floor as utterly unnecessary). :3

I think I need an Anders icon to sigh over.

[sharpwords]

I have approximately 10,000 words of Dragon Age Origins fic sitting on my hard drive because, well, although I'm not a ficcer, all my thoughts/ideas/feelings over that game had to come out somewhere. And it got me writing! (And some of it wasn't even that dreadful!)

Maybe I should do the same for DA2 - it's good to exercise my fiction muscles. Definitely staying private though. (And I'm hideously squeamish about showing sex scenes to anyone, even though I once wrote a whole NaNovel /way/ more explicit than your sex scene (which was pitched just right imho).)

[sharpwords]

Make that approximately 100,000 words (which is a number that scares me enough that I clearly can't post it).

[bjewelled]

I think writing fic is a brilliant way to exercise your writing muscles (hell, it's the ONLY way I exercise mine, and I've fumbled through somehow even if I've never really gotten much attention for it in the thirteen or so years since I started, I know that just the action of doing it has made me better even if no one gives a toss but me). And if you're that embarrassed about it, there's always the option of creating an account that no one knows about.

Which I may have possibly done at some point. *coughs* Been hideously embarrassed about putting in sex scenes for years. And since I write pretty much gen-fic (plotty rather than romance based) it's never been an issue. Never really needed to put it in, and always been slightly embarrassed about the idea of my mother reading it. I've recently started to tell myself though that it's none of her business what I write, so I shouldn't care about anyone but myself.

Working on putting it into practice, though. ;)

[sharpwords]

Hah, I have the same issue - I think about my Dad reading my sex scenes, and I cringe!

I don't want to publish my fic though. It's really for private consumption, even if that is a bit odd.. :) Hmmm. I should get writing again though, definitely. I keep coming up with interesting original ideas and then do nothing with them.

[bjewelled]

Nah, not that odd. Just depends what you want to get out of it. I suppose I publish stuff, even though I never really get much of a response to most of it, and even though fic writing is a dirty thing to a lot of people (including my mother, who thinks its a very childish thing to do, and not proper writing at all - something I vigorously disagree with her on) because that's the logical end point of what I'm doing. Like... I'm telling a story, and if I'm only telling myself the story, then it feels like it's not finished even if I were to complete it and let it sit on my hard drive. Like, pushing it out into the wild is to admit that my story's all grown up and I can't control it anymore.

I'd be lying if I said getting people to leave comments wasn't nice, but I've written too many things that never hear a peep from anyone to believe that I do it only for the reviews. I couldn't tell you why I do it, though. :3

So, nah, keeping it to yourself isn't odd. Although you're a horrid tease for making me wonder what you've written now. :D