#idea file

Idea File: Study, Study, Study

So you’re sitting here at the ass-end of August, and you’re wondering where to find work.

Magazines, my writerly friend. Turn to magazines.

I love magazine work. Since I started my college days in the journalism department, I’ve loved creating articles. Maybe you love article writing, too.

But the ideas — they don’t always come to you right off, do they?

Spending nearly four years as a senior…

I answered B and R here. :)

F. What stories are you planning for the future? 

Gosh.

That’s the big question, isn’t it? :D

I would like to finish up The Other Commander Shepard. Preferably this year. I think I just need to get over a certain paralyzing perfectionism.

I plan to continue writing short things for Nim Amell, and I plan to start a DA2 and DAI game in her continuity and write for the accompanying Hawke and Inquisitor. I don’t know if any of these will be plotty / multichapter fics, but I’m not going to rule that out if I get a good idea.

I honestly have so many partly-written things, I’d like to finish up some of those and get them out. There’s Julian Shepard stuff, there’s Trespasser stuff with Simon and Rory, there are probably a few other things I’ve forgotten...

The advertisement was called, “The Force.”

And was created by Donny Deutsch Advertising Inc for Volkswagen.

Fun note, this commercial was the first commercial Volkswagen had aired on the Superbowl in over 10 years (circa 2011).

Simon doesn’t require much encouragement. The dynamic is more like:

Dorian: How about we...

Simon: Sure!

This changes a bit once Simon joins Dorian in Tevinter, when he comes to require a bit more encouragement to undertake typically Tevinter things -- attending some parties, theatrical performances, public duels, and the like. 

Actually, Simon is not generally that bit on theater in general, so Dorian does have to talk him into going to some Orlesian plays.

But Simon also has to talk Dorian into enjoying other things. Particularly snowball fights, sledding, and anything else involving cold. (Also, more in the TMI zone, fur rugs in front of a roaring fire, although that becomes a fairly easy sell.)

For other OCs... the Inquisition team spends a night or two camping with a Dalish clan in the Exalted Plains, and Branwen has to drag Solas into participating in campfire singing and storytelling, as he’d prefer to remain aloof. This is a little awkward for both of them.

Protagonist: OBNOXIOUS TIEFLING CLERIC FROM A POORLY RUN ORPHANAGE WHO RAN AFOUL OF THE GOBLIN MOB

Sidekick: DRAMATIC HALF-ELF DRUID FROM A DYSFUNCTIONAL MARRIAGE WHO REFUSES TO ADMIT THEY'RE PAST THEIR PRIME

Love Interest:  PLAIN-SPEAKING DWARF PALADIN FROM A YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTE WHO FOREVER PICKING FIGHTS TO 'WIN BACK HONOUR'

Side Character 1:  FUNNY HUMAN BARD FROM A YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTE WHO WAS BEATEN AND IMPRISONED FOR THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

Side Character 2:  HELPFUL DWARF MONK FROM A FOGGY PENINSULA WHO WAS PETRIFIED FOR OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS

Side Character 3:  PRETTY CHILL DRAGONBORN PALADIN FROM BLACK OAK WHO DOESN'T HAVE A REFLECTION

Primary Antagonist:  CRITICAL GNOME CLERIC FROM THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN HYGIENE

Sub-Antagonist:   PLAYFUL HALF-ORC DRUID FROM THE LIZARD INFESTED MARSHLANDS WHO ALWAYS WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST

Oh, what a spicy round of memories that would surely be!

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