Where I have been for two years.

[Victoria Victrix]

Arcana, you have incurred the displeasure of my Umbrella Cockatoo, who was having a blissful shoulder-cuddle until you made me laugh so hard she was Disturbed.  No worries, she'll forgive you for an almond.

usenet alleged downloads seem to run about 90/5/5--90% of the time they'll download malware, 5% of the time they'll download something that generally turns out to be a review of a book or the scanned cover of a book, and the remaining 5% they'll download a book...but it might not be the book you wanted. 

The notes from the packers were confined to some tiny little places like a bead seller (and they sent me Free Things!  I sent back signed books), times when I've bought a book of my own off a used-book seller, and bird food.  Larger places, like Amazon, I'm not at all concerned about.  The packers there have to work so fast they don't have time to breathe, much less notice who the box is going to.

[Paragon Avenger]

Books?  Why read a book about the stuff you can kill, when you can just kill the stuff.

[Paragon Avenger]

Yo VV,
do you ever have your characters "talk" to you, like:

Developer 13: PA, booby, I heard that you're writing another story.
Me: That is correct.
Developer 13: I hope you remember who helped you get your start.
Me: I just, one day, decided that I should try this Fan Fiction stuff.
Developer 13: Look, I ain't saying who said what, baby, what am I talking about?
Me: What are you talking about?
Developer 13: Do I have to spell it out for you.  Put me in that story, already.
Me: I don't know.
Developer 13: You're such a kidder.  Listen, either I'm in that story or you're going to wish you had.
Me: What do you mean?
Developer 13: Have I ever told you how JavaScript was created?  It's a six hour story.
Me: Don't you threaten me!
Developer 13: I don't want it to come to that.  Think it over.
Developer 13 walks away.
Me: No wonder I deleted that guy.

(Developer 13 was one of my toons in City of Heroes that I deleted before he hit level 30.)

[Twisted Toon]

Yo VV,
do you ever have your characters "talk" to you, like:

Developer 13: PA, booby, I heard that you're writing another story.
Me: That is correct.
Developer 13: I hope you remember who helped you get your start.
Me: I just, one day, decided that I should try this Fan Fiction stuff.
Developer 13: Look, I ain't saying who said what, baby, what am I talking about?
Me: What are you talking about?
Developer 13: Do I have to spell it out for you.  Put me in that story, already.
Me: I don't know.
Developer 13: You're such a kidder.  Listen, either I'm in that story or you're going to wish you had.
Me: What do you mean?
Developer 13: Have I ever told you how JavaScript was created?  It's a six hour story.
Me: Don't you threaten me!
Developer 13: I don't want it to come to that.  Think it over.
Developer 13 walks away.
Me: No wonder I deleted that guy.

(Developer 13 was one of my toons in City of Heroes that I deleted before he hit level 30.)

In PnP RPGS, I have had discussions with my characters ( sometimes, three way conversations when I play 2 characters ) about what should be done during some situations.

[Fireheart]

I don't have characters Talk to me, but I've had (new) characters show up, hovering over the bed and refusing to let me sleep unless I Write them (at least a little).

Be Well!
Fireheart

[Victoria Victrix]

I've had characters waltz in, demand a bigger part, and then a book of their own, yes.

[Twisted Toon]

I've had characters waltz in, demand a bigger part, and then a book of their own, yes.

Were any of those characters Elspeth or Skif? 

[Victoria Victrix]

Were any of those characters Elspeth or Skif? 

The three that spring to mind are Skif, Firesong and Lord Peter Almsley.

[Twisted Toon]

The three that spring to mind are Skif, Firesong and Lord Peter Almsley.

Of course, Firesong would be one of them. He rarely doesn't get his way either, as I recall.

[srmalloy]

I am enjoying Titan Paragon Chat, the only sad thing is my hours are erratic and usually LONG after the rest of you have gone to bed.  But it is glorious just to be able to fly around zones again.

What's been happening with me is that I'll zip around some zones, look up places I remember, feel a little depressed at how empty it is, scrounge up some CoH videos on YouTube, and then wind up morose about how all of this is in the past, cut down by some middle management decision chasing the almighty bottom line.

If I could just hang onto the feeling of freedom that Super Speed, Flight, and Super Jump give me after the experience of lumbering around in another MMO where the devs have built in limits on how you can move around so that they can design the zones to put where you want to go fifty feet away from you, but force you to go a mile out of your way to get there... All the things that the CoH devs did to remove impediments to getting around; eight and a half years of that spoiled me.

[Goddangit]

[Paragon Avenger]

Hey Mercedes,
I was watching some interview show where the host was talking to authors.
Here are a couple "rapid-fire" questions, see if you can answer them.

Where do you write, and why?
Are you an architech or a gardner when it comes to writing?

[Victoria Victrix]

Hey Mercedes,
I was watching some interview show where the host was talking to authors.
Here are a couple "rapid-fire" questions, see if you can answer them.

Where do you write, and why?
Are you an architech or a gardner when it comes to writing?

I write in my office, in a zero-gravity chair.  This allows me to get away from the household and completely out of sight, and allows me to ignore my bad back and concentrate on writing.

I'm an architect.  I work from an outline.

[Paragon Avenger]

I write in my office, in a zero-gravity chair.  This allows me to get away from the household and completely out of sight, and allows me to ignore my bad back and concentrate on writing.

I'm an architect.  I work from an outline.

Thank you for your reply.
My fan-fiction is defenately a garden, a weed choked over-grown jumble.
I like to write right in front of the computer.  I use an email program with spell-checking and grammar-checking turned-on, but a few typos slip through.  Like Super Fire Dragon, he was actually a typo, yep.

[Paragon Avenger]

Thank you for your reply.
My fan-fiction is defenately a garden, a weed choked over-grown jumble.
I like to write right in front of the computer.  I use an email program with spell-checking and grammar-checking turned-on, but a few typos slip through.  Like Super Fire Dragon, he was actually a typo, yep.

Super Fire Dragon was a typo?  I don't think so.

[Paragon Avenger]

SFD: Yo VV, do you ever talk to your characters?
VV: Yes, sometimes.
SFD: and are you generally respectful towards them.
VV: Well, I guess so.
SFD: Good, cause I want to change authors.  How would you like to write about a wise-cracking four-foot tall golden dragon?
VV: No thank you.
SFD: Come on, babe

They all laughed.