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ell my heart s not really in this story secondly i am 90 positive that i will soon have a contract for a paid writing assignment it ll be a short story of equivalent length to the blizzard contest requirement nobody gets rich from writing short stories but in the current economic climate any additional spending money is welcome the 10 of doubt is only because i haven t received a contract to sign yet but communication with the editor points to a yes earlier last week a friend of mine was talking about a work for hire writing job i did several months ago like the blizzard contest i give up all rights to the story i create but unlike the blizzard contest i get paid and i m not obligated to write the story until i sign on the dotted line my friend was urging me to talk with the editor again to see if i could get picked up for another contract which means more work after i sent that e mail i got a positive response and the story bibles for two different properties with the possibility of writing stories for them both and that brings me to my contest entry for me the blizzard contest is a hope to be recognized as a writer in a way that will eventually lead to a job i do like warcraft so this thinking isn t entirely mercenary of me but the fact remains that i am in a fortunate enough position where i can be paid to write fiction and time spent writing for the contest is time i m not writing for potential pay writing is not my day job but i would like to make a career out of it someday and each story i write should be furthering that dream what will bring me closer to being a paid novelist the blizzard contest or pursuing other short stories thus far there has been no correlation between winning the contest and writing novels richard knaak and christie golden came into the business of writing books for blizzard through other media tie in work aaron rosenberg who wrote the tides of darkness warcraft book is a fellow writer in the same universe my last work for hire job was in in fact you can get the ebook collection containing both our stories here i m doing professional level work with the contest deadline coming so soon i have to look at my schedule and i see nanowrimo is coming up next month and one of my top concerns is finishing the outline for my novel before november 1st hits and then all of november will be eaten by the book assuming the work for hire contract comes through i ll probably be due a story in december and i m also rewriting a short story for a book anthology i ve been invited to submit to that has a deadline in january this is not counting the second and third tier projects sitting on my hard drive beckoning me or the fact that something unexpected may come up and i ll have another opportunity to do a short on request it s so much easier to write knowing a story is pre sold but the thing is i hate to give up even though i can rationalize this is the best use of my time and i know some of my writing peers would agree with me it still feels like giving up i had a really good opening to my entry for this year too maybe i ll try to salvage it and turn it into an original story later posted by hana at 7 34 pm 0 comments labels writing friday september 2 2011 paladin the lament of flash of light flash of light used to be my bread and butter spell this blog is flash of moonfire because flash of light was such a key part of my repetoire as a holy paladin ever since i first hit 70 and started healing karazhan but when cataclysm hit i had trouble figuring out where i d put it on my bars the tilda numbers 1 6 and f1 f6 are the keys i bind things to with occasional ctrl or shift combinations flash of light used to be number 2 since i hit it so often then it moved to f2 to be a little more out of the way since i didn t use it that often now well it s still on my bars but it s not bound to anything that s probably bad but its usefulness has become so far out of sight and out of mind that i have trouble thinking of moments where someone died because i didn t use it the thing is it doesn t heal that much for the mana cost making it an expensive proposition for what you get out of it and it still has a cast time unless there s an infusion of light proc making it s usefulness while moving limited i ve been doing arena the majority of season 9 and since the start of season 10 i ve seen other holy paladins run themselves dry casting flash of light too many times while i m still at 90 or more mana whereas when i need an emergency heal and holy shock and word of glory are on cooldown i hit divine favor for that 20 haste and crit and chug out a speedy divine light or two perhaps combined with aura mastery to ensure no interruption i figure if i m going to spend the mana i m going to get the most health i can for it i m sure there s room for a flash of light in there again it d be instant with an infusion of light proc but as a cast time spell i just wouldn t use it an iol enhanced divine light goes by so fast that 90 of the time it s too fast for my opponents to interrupt gladiator level i am not so ymmv then this week i did some firelands raiding with the second 10 man team in my guild as a fill in healer i know these fights on my druid but for those i ve always been dps or a tank i had little to no experience healing them so i was surprised by how much faith the raid leader had in me suggesting we two heal several fights considering that my paladin had only the firelands cape and a bizarre mix of bwd troll dungeon and pvp gear i thought that perhaps as i was doing pve raiding i would find a use for flash of light a reason to keybind it again but i didn t it s not that there were no wipes that were my fault being rather scrubbish for the duties i was assigned but they weren t because i didn t get a quick heal off i m quick with my lay on hands and i m not afraid to use it if i think a tank s gonna die wipes were more due to missing the smouldering devastation cue on beth talic i m not usually on the web let alone as a healer being in the wrong place on alysrazor until recently i always tanked that fight so i had no concept of where the caster adds spawned and lost a dps and a tank because of range issues and there was the occasional for some reason or other i didn t think the tank s health was going to drop that fast so i wasn t ready with a heal but we cleared 6 7 and i two healed alysrazor and rhyolith so at the very least i know i m not bad i was just on a bit of a learning curve and i was the only healer who didn t let someone die to torment on baelroc so i was rather happy about that getting back to flash of light though i still didn t see when to use it i thought maybe baelroc would be the boss torment s a nice stacking debuff that eventually chews through dps the higher it goes but it ended up that i would holy shock word of glory and then roll almost immediately into divine lights to make sure no one dropped my mana was hurting almost every firelands boss inexperience healing the fights combined with not as geared as the rest of the raid so if i needed a save i wanted it to be lay on hands because at least that would give me some mana back i guess i don t use flash of light because i try very hard not to be in the position where flash of light would be appealing to me namely where someone s going to die and that little sliver of health would make it worth the cost of using it in pvp i use holy shock and word of glory as much as possible if i use cast time spells i m either using them under an iol proc making them very fast and hard to interrupt i aura mastery to make them uninterruptable or i prepare to cancel the cast if the possibility of getting interrupted exists and then cast again after the interrupt is wasted it s rare i do unprotected casts in arena and if i do it s because my partner is probably going to die in the next couple of seconds if i don t and all my cooldowns have been burned in pve there are multiple healers and the the damage intake doesn t seem to warrant it tanks get hit too hard for flash of light to make much of a difference and if they re dps or another healer there is typically enough time between damage bursts to allow hots or a holy light to save them posted by hana at 6 31 pm 6 comments labels arena holy paladin pvp raiding sunday august 28 2011 human decency i like to think that most people even in a game are decent to each other if not actually friendly it takes some effort to be a jerk after all and usually people particularly in pugs just want to do their business and be done with it but yesterday i came across an unusual bad specimen that i had to write this to wash my mind of it i joined a pug on my resto druid alt my third druid and it was for hellfire ramparts we did the first couple pulls across the bridge and all was well the third and fourth pulls were more chaotic it looked to me like a couple of the dps pulled but the tank soon had everything under control and i didn t get blasted in the face by caster mobs like i expected the mage even commented that he was happy to find a healer who would heal his pet for me pets are last priority but i do heal them if i am sure it will not result in another party member dying then the tank paused and asked the dps to stop pulling he has been away from the game for several months and is getting back into the habit the mage is ballsy enough to say no to the tank s face saying that the tank is too slow and pulls again the tank replies that he s not going to taunt mobs off the mage if he pulls them and he doesn t as i have done from time to time out of sympathy for much put upon tanks since it is most often the green and the rusty among them that get this treatment i offered to not heal the mage so that there is a real consequence to the dps for having a mob on them the tank is grateful for the support the mage dies and i rez him figuring he s learned his lesson he hasn t and so we go down the corrider to the first boss with the mage berating the tank saying that it doesn t matter that he s been gone for months he s wasting other people s time by pulling so slowly and all the while continuing to pull unfortunately the mage is a pretty good player so even though he pulls mobs and the tank does not taunt off him and i don t heal him he continues to live the tank snaps back at the mage and also apologizes to the rest of the group he says he s not normally this snippy but after getting so many awful people in pugs it s starting to hurt i comfort the tank and the atmosphere in the group is so bad the other dps start yelling at the mage to shut up the tank really isn t pulling that slowly he s not chain pulling but he s not 10 seconds between pulls like the mage claims after a pull in which the mage nearly dies the tank whispers me that the mage tried to have me vote kicked for not healing him i laugh it off though i m a little surprised that he didn t try vote kicking the tank first considering he s who the mage has been venting at perhaps he doesn t want to wait in the queue for a new tank right before the boss the mage says if the tank is rusty he ll tell him how to tank and rattles off a warrior rotation the tank is a paladin no one says anything but the mage must have caught his error because he then spews out a bunch of random prot paladin abilities and proclaims that he has now taught the tank how to do his job moving on we kill the boss and it is no problem the tank doesn t chain pull but he knows how to hold aggro the rest of the party continues defending the tank the hunter even saying that the tank is pulling faster than others he s seen so he doesn t know what the mage is complaining about the death knight tells the mage to stop qqing after the next pull the mage runs ahead i have bad feeling about this when the mage comes back with two enemies in tow nobody hits them but the mage ice blocks sending them on us and we re forced to pick them up the mage runs away for the next batch i know his game now if we re too slow for him he s going to force us to speed up by bringing us enemies to fight we try kicking him repeatedly but we re never out of combat long enough to activate the vote kick he s not giving us enough breathing room finally he runs down with six mobs after him and he can t save himself unfortunately it s a bad situation for us with the ranged mobs not being on the tank and i get killed second when i try to heal the rest of the party soon falls i grumble in chat that at least now we ll be out of combat long enough to vote kick him the mage declares that he got what he wanted and he won t care if we kick him we of course kick him as soon as the timer lets us the rest of the instance was fantastic the tank was easy to heal held all the mobs and only took a couple seconds between pulls checking to make sure everyone was with him which was fine with me i don t see what in the world the mage had to complain about after the last boss was dead the tank thanked us for the run and i told him that i hoped he had better luck with future pugs what we had there was one of the nastiest i ve seen in a while and i hoped he wouldn t think that happened all the time pug tanking is often thankless work but it s a role that needs filling and i hope by encouraging young tanks we ll find more of them out there the thing that bugs me the most i think is that ramparts is a leveling instance people are still learning things trying out new specs figuring out when to use new abilities getting familiar with the pulls not everyone is an old hat who knows every instance inside and out the tank was in the proper instance for getting back into the swing of tanking he was doing nothing wrong if the mage had a problem with that he should have left but in fact did not even when the option was raised posted by hana at 12 25 pm 4 comments labels misc tuesday august 16 2011 2011 blizzard global writing contest well it was bound to happen the 2011 blizzard global writing contest is up i m oddly ambivalent about it this year though reason being that a lot has happened since then in 2009 i was pretty hungry as a writer i didn t get much recognition for my work and getting an honorable mention in the contest was an amazing validation in 2010 i wrote what i thought was a fantastic follow up to my 2009 honorable mention my one beta reader who d read both works thought the second was much better than the first but it ended up that i didn t place at all my feeling is the competition was probably stiffer or perhaps blizzard was just tired of blood elf paladins meanwhile in 2010 i ended up winning a critically acclaimed international writing competition for amateur writers patrick rothfuss is a previous winner and if you ve been reading fantasy fiction at all these past few years his name probably rings a bell even if you haven t read his work since my 2010 win i have sold an additional two short stories the winning story was published in a compilation of 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