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[red_eris]

Hello, all. We're beginning to have a bit of a collection of us coming over from Tumblr, and I thought it might be nice to have a place where people know each other to ease the transition while we watch Tumblr eat itself, and keep track of each other and each other's projects. I haven't the foggiest what I'm doing, but we'll figure it out as we go.

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[red_eris]

So since my goal here is for people to continue to have the social interactions that are such valuable fuel for writers, I'll go first and do a little roundup of my current projects. Insofar as I'm spending much time writing at all.

My most recent piece, Greyhair, about Geralt the Witcher accidentally acquiring a cat, was gratifyingly well-received, both online and by the target audience, which was my kids. Though they did complain that it was too short. I've got two Witcher fics in progress, even though I don't know what I'm doing or what the hell my goals are even. One is a short smut piece that's mostly done, but the other is a wholeass story, at least seven chapters I'd estimate, of which I have about 2/3 of one. So like...why. Plus at least two more solid concepts for other longish Witcher stories. The series really just leaves so many good possibilities, technically speaking.

But I really feel guilty about my continued lack of progress on Little Fox, which I promised myself a long time ago I would absolutely finish. I've got to finish it, to prove to myself I can. But I'm like...halfway done and haven't touched it in months. I plotted the whole thing and lemme tell you it's good stuff but somehow plotting it all out took the discovery out of it? Sigh. I even replayed the whole game looking for inspiration, and didn't get it. The game and my story are just...too divergent.

Anyway, that's plenty to start with.

WIP Wednesday and Write it Wednesday

[dafan7711]

Welcome to Work in Progress (WIP) Wednesday and Write it Wednesday! It's 5 p.m. Central time and I haven't posted excerpts yet, but I hope to share at least one later today. Thanks to RedEris for encouraging me to check out Dreamwidth! In this post, I'm following her lead on sharing about current writing projects. Mine are Dragon Age and Mass Effect:

I'm perhaps best known for The Amatus and the Altus on AO3, a Dragon Age: Inquisition romance staring Dorian Pavus with Inquisitor Karl Trevelyan, and Scout Lace Harding with Karl's brother Leo, heir to the Bann of Ostwick. Chapters 34 and 35 should finish the story! I had hoped to post by December 4 (yesterday), but postponed that for Dragon4ge Day prep and dealing with the havoc a certain hellsite is making atm.

My eternal thanks to my various beta readers, including T., S.B., red_eris , raymurata , and myrddinderwydd .

Out of the Wilds is a posted short story of what chapter 34 might have been, before I added several more characters and completely changed the plot progression of the final battle. ;)

Warrior Dove is a story I put on the back burner many moons ago and wish I had at least started posting earlier. It stars the adult grandchildren of King Alistair and Inquisitor Margie Trevelyan and would be part of my Beyond Circle, Beyond Order series. I hope to finish it eventually.

I have some other short stories in need of further brainstorming or total revision, including Alistair stepping through a weather-controlled portal into the modern day, and Alim Surana coming to Skyhold with his boyfriend Zevran. Zev and Alim's first short story, To Hold: Zevran and Alim, is on AO3.

I also want to get back to these two Mass Effect romances ASAP:

There's No Shepard Without Vakarian: An ME3 Shakarian romance from the viewpoints of James Vega, Kimberly Shepard, and Garrus Vakarian.

We'll Fly Again: Alone and lonely after the committee inquiry into the Normandy's destruction, Flight Lieutenant Jeff "Joker" Moreau is shocked to learn his lover may live again. A rogue black ops group plans to bring Marcus Shepard back to life, and Jeff is going to make sure whoever—or whatever—wakes up in that lab isn’t a mindless tool of Cerberus.

Those are the stories I think about the most right now.

When I finish The Amatus and the Altus (I hope this month), I might have a meltdown. It's been such a big part of my writing, blogging, gaming, and video posts . . . I started posting chapters on April 23, 2017, and was working on it well before that. I created Karl on the PS3 on July 29, 2016, and recreated him on Xbox One one May 17, 2017 - but didn't finish that playthrough until November 18, 2018. In my initial brainstorming, Karl and Leo's personalities were practically swapped. Now, I can't imagine them any other way.

I'm D, I'm a writer, and I'm here for you, dear reader, wherever you are in your writing journey. <3