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

Comments

[red_eris]

I feel you on that meltdown! When I finished Complications (33 chapters) I was just....lost...for a bit. It's a wild feeling. I'm excited for you to finish such a big, wonderful story, though, and proud of you.

That modern-day Alistair thing sounds intriguing. Is that OUR modern world, or a modern Thedas?

You already know that I love your work and love working with you, either as the writer or the beta. My work would be less without you.

Alistair in our world - Teagan, too

[dafan7711]

Alistair doesn't know what to think at first, and the lady he meets thinks he's a cosplayer, but then Teagan calls her cell phone asking to talk to Alistair, who doesn't know what a cell phone is - and had no idea Dagna and his uncle knew about these portals already and Teagan's been living part-time in London, but Alistair ended up in the States. And his LI has no idea who this rando rich guy is or how he got her number. Ahem, *magic*??

Re: Alistair in our world - Teagan, too

[red_eris]

Oh my Goodness!! That's wild!

Re: Love it!

[dafan7711]

Thanks so much! I look forward to sharing Karl and Dorian's latest.