Originally Posted by
TouchyAndalou
Application for writing position - touchyandalou
Skills relevant to position: Writing, typing and spelling.
Sample prose (contains spoilers): House Frey faction introduction
House Frey is a young house, like, I don't know, 40 years old or something. The point is that they've definitely been around less than all the other big houses, who I guess were descended from the Andals or whatever. Maybe the Frey's used to be another house back in the day and something went wrong and they became the Freys? I don't know, I'm just speculating. I guess George R.R. Martin never got around to explaining that, or I don't remember it at least. Anyway! They're run by Walder Frey, who has something like a thousand children. Again, I don't know the exact number. He also has loads of grandchildren, which was the fashion at the time. He's very old (90?) although that means that his house can't be just 40 years old, can it? Gah! Ok, let's say he's 90 and his house is 140 years old. Ok. So anyway, as well as having a lot of children the Freys also have a lot of money, and own two fine looking castles connected by a bridge, positioned by a strategic river, which they get to say who can and cannot cross. So they're kind of a big deal.
That may all sound really great, but the problem with the Freys is that they're just the worst. Like, totally. Ugh, you have no idea just how bad they are! They start off as friend's of the Tullys, and I don't want to spoil it for you, but god, they're just awful, I hate them so much.
So yeah, go ahead and choose this faction to play, it'll be fun! Strategically, you'll be doing lots of fighting and exploring and probably even some diplomacy. There is much potential for expansion: you've got the Starks to the north, the Arryns to the right, the Tullys and Lannisters below you and some other guys to the left, probably the Ironborn. And because of all the Frey children you'll have like a million generals you can send out and it won't matter if you suck at the game and get half of them killed because there's always plenty more!
So yeah, do I get the job?