#My outline & draft divide the fic into 5 huge parts but their will def be more that five chapters (bc those chaps would be HUGE)

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Well obviously I’m gonna go with p & p au yeehaw

YEEHAW <333

I'm directing my writing attention to this fic now bc I've been talking about it for like six months now and I want people (you) to read it! So for the next couple weeks I want to write as much of it as I can and then hopefully start posting. I'm going chronologically in the story now, which isn't my usual modus operandi but I want to get far enough in to start posting, hopefully regularly, and I've found that when I post an ongoing wip the feedback keeps me motivated to keep writing. I think that's why I was able to wrap my latest multi-chap so quickly, was that feedback loop. Comments save lives, my loves. (And like, I've written the tail end and big hunks in the middle, so there's enough draft and outline that hopefully I can just dig in, go in order, and just...fill in the gaps)

okay THAT being said the last thing I wrote was the "a Turn about the room" scene and it was SO MUCH FUN. the sheer sexual tension of it! the comedy! So, for the audience at home, S suggested that chip wiskers would fit as the operational Caroline Bingley and she was RIGHT, and it's been very fun to reduce him to the 2-bit villian of the first half of s1. and it's been very fun to dunk on him.

and it's been very fun to modify the plot for a present-day au, with The LBD as a sort of guidepost. Like, part one of the new neighbor and the big houses and the leisure time occurs during summer in the Hamptons, and Mr. Bingley (Nate) ghosts it's pretty much the end of the summer. For the next couple days (because last night I took off writing to see Batman - worth it btw), I want to write the Netherfield Ball AKA The White Party, which will have a lot of juicy stuff, like, Lily trying to matchmake her daughter up the ladder of society, the ~Wickham~ character, the Serenate Big Damn Kiss (tm) of the Hamptons episode, and, of course, The Dance.

I have been a little nervous whenever I pick up writing this, because p & p is such a well-known and well-loved story, that I'll miss something, that I won't hit all of the iconic beats, but you know I am just gonna keep reminding myself...this story is In Me. I read the novel for the first time in junior high and I've internalized it ever since, so I just gotta not worry about that and just write the thing, ya know?

Also, I have my reference texts: a B & N Classics edition of the original, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, P & P 2005 pirated and saved on my devices, The LBD on YT, and, from a gift I got from my bestest friend in high school: Pride and Prejudice, the Manga.