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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67350 on: January 13, 2015, 05:55:20 am »

Ahahaha. If only I could have perfected her... Unfortunately, that would require actually cheating (a la Gameshark) rather than just using RNG manipulation. So I couldn't do it. T_T
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67351 on: January 13, 2015, 08:04:17 am »

How the frak do you write romantic scenes without it being a cringe-inducing wreckage? :l
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67352 on: January 13, 2015, 08:09:54 am »

Very carefully
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67353 on: January 13, 2015, 08:14:47 am »

-_- I wish I understood these things.
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« Reply #67354 on: January 13, 2015, 08:15:15 am »

How the frak do you write romantic scenes without it being a cringe-inducing wreckage? :l
Lot's of editing? Or you could always cut to the aftermath, leave it up to the imagination of the reader? (this does not work for Romance novels, they end up being very short otherwise...)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67355 on: January 13, 2015, 08:16:50 am »

How the frak do you write romantic scenes without it being a cringe-inducing wreckage? :l
Lot's of editing? Or you could always cut to the aftermath, leave it up to the imagination of the reader? (this does not work for Romance novels, they end up being very short otherwise...)

Well, not really talking about writing full porn, but more of the tender/romantic/idk/thing moments that make you go "aww how sweet" or something.
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« Reply #67356 on: January 13, 2015, 08:24:00 am »

Oh, then, lots of editing. At least that's how I write. Abject crap at first until multiple revisions polish it out into something you can read without your eyes bleeding. You can also track down the sappiest real life couple you can find, and use them as subject matter experts. Although real people tend to be more cringe-worthy than sweet.
Alternative, have one character sneak in to they others house and watch them sleep. Current market research suggests that "chicks dig this".
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« Reply #67357 on: January 13, 2015, 08:42:00 am »

You can also track down the sappiest real life couple you can find, and use them as subject matter experts.

Yep, I'm sure I won't be arrested doing this.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67358 on: January 13, 2015, 08:56:27 am »

If the Noob game turns out to be out of room, then I think Gates of Rundum is recruiting iirc. They're having a magic user shortage.

Yep. Right now we've got... Your Shaman character which you haven't touched in a long time and thus everyone is confused as to whether you're still playing or not and Scapheap's Mage which is in the same situation as yours. Mind you Tiruin is joining us with a Nun character so we're not that bad off as far as magic power is concerned. But we could definitely use some more, especially in the coming missions where someone with a fire or wind tome would be extra helpful due to the type of enemies we're facing.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67359 on: January 13, 2015, 08:58:28 am »

If the Noob game turns out to be out of room, then I think Gates of Rundum is recruiting iirc. They're having a magic user shortage.

Yep. Right now we've got... Your Shaman character which you haven't touched in a long time and thus everyone is confused as to whether you're still playing or not and Scapheap's Mage which is in the same situation as yours. Mind you Tiruin is joining us with a Nun character so we're not that bad off as far as magic power is concerned. But we could definitely use some more, especially in the coming missions where someone with a fire or wind tome would be extra helpful due to the type of enemies we're facing.
O_o people are confused about that? But I withdrew from the game more than half a year ago?!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67360 on: January 13, 2015, 09:00:06 am »

Well, not really talking about writing full porn, but more of the tender/romantic/idk/thing moments that make you go "aww how sweet" or something.
The searchable word you're looking for is WAFF.

Step one is going out and finding (several dozen) representative examples of the scene(s) you're trying to write. There's freakish bucketloads of written WAFF fiction online, so you've got plenty of material* even though only something like one out of every hundred or so doesn't make you want to gouge your eyes out.

Step two is plagiarizing the everloving monkeyhump out of them. Steal word choice, steal sentence structure, steal thematic elements, steal goddamn everything (except the actual work). Identify and compare shared elements and then take absolutely all of them.

There is no step three.

E: *Speaking of which, have something I vaguely remember being terribly fuzzy. Link! Last I read any was somewhere back in the single digits 2000s, but whatev'. Was good low-burn stuff.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67361 on: January 13, 2015, 09:03:01 am »

How the frak do you write romantic scenes without it being a cringe-inducing wreckage? :l
Lot's of editing? Or you could always cut to the aftermath, leave it up to the imagination of the reader? (this does not work for Romance novels, they end up being very short otherwise...)

Well, not really talking about writing full porn, but more of the tender/romantic/idk/thing moments that make you go "aww how sweet" or something.
Just write a really gory, over-the-top, exciting battle scene and then have the two survivors (who happen to be long-lost lovers or some such bullshit) throw down their weapons, tug off their helmets and begin passionately making out atop a huge mound of their dead and dying foes.
Instant classic, and no need for those subtle romantic moments. Pfft. 
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« Reply #67362 on: January 13, 2015, 09:27:05 am »

Start by writing a friendship scene.

Then just have a single moment just sort of collapse on them.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67363 on: January 13, 2015, 09:30:10 am »

"You've got blood on your visor.

Here, let me get that for you..."

LATER:

"Well, I didn't see that coming."
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #67364 on: January 13, 2015, 09:33:58 am »

*mumbles something topical about honor, winking at people that get the reference*

*quiet reminder anything more than oblique references to the work in question probably violates the forum ToS*
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