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author: sorry I’m jumping on this bandwagon and writing a fic with the same premise as all these other fics

me, has read 500 fics like this one and is prepared to read 500 more: please never apologize for giving the people (me) what they (also me) want

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may all your favorite fanfic writers never lose their hyperfixation and love for your blorbos so they keep writing fanfics about your blorbos forever

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Every month this year I've posted a Writers Bingo with writing-related tasks to do. I try to include a variety of tasks so there's always something I want to work on, and it's a great little boost of yay me :) during writing when I can check things off. I've posted the other ones on my bluesky @ ashheardwrites but I'll post the last few months here as well.

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I need this sharpener……

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Get. Onto. Your. Representatives.

(And romance fans / writers? THIS MEANS YOU.)

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when ur reading fanfic and one character was cooking and the other comes up to them and they start making out and everyones like starting to take their shirts off and the author STILL hasnt mentioned anyone turning off the stove

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J2/Wincest Kinktober Fling 😈💖🥰

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weird yet cute marriage proposals

"You're my biggest pain in the ass. Would you please annoy me for the rest of our lives?"

"I'm tired of pretending I don't want to share my food with you forever. Marry me?"

"I promise to always kill the spiders if you promise to always make my doctor's appointments. Deal?"

"We're both weirdos. Why not make it official and be weird together forever?"

"Okay, totally weird idea. How about marriage?"

"Will you be my emergency contact, life partner, and snack sharer for life?"

"Can I keep you forever, like you're keeping my favorite hoodie that you'll never give back to me?"

"We could annoy so many people in our lives by marrying each other. Wouldn't that be fun?"

"What would you rather, you marrying me or me marrying you?"

"I want to annoy you until we're old and gray. Say yes?"

"We're both a little weird and we have a bad track record when it comes to relationships. Maybe we're doing every potential partner a favour by taking us off the market."

"Would you marry me? Totally platonically, if you want. Or romantically. If that's what you're into."

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do not let up the pressure

https://yellat.money/

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im crying fandom niches are so fucking small

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Writing Thoughts from Alexander Pennington

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The 4 Realities of Writing for a Historical Fandom

The example I use for this is Bridgerton but it's applicable for any fandom where the canon era is in the past.

When you write canon-era fic for a historical fandom, there are 4 things to keep in mind:

The Canon

Actual History

Your Plot

Readers' Expectations

The Canon

Unless you're going against canon, the way the original media depicts the era it's set in is your best guide to writing for that era (and the easiest to research). Bridgerton's laudable racial integration and inaccurate but still beautiful dresses have little to do with actual Regency Era England, but for the most part, the show is correct about the ton and its social mores.

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Actual History

Knowing what actually happened in the original media's canon era gives you a deeper understanding of that era and helps you write a better fic. I was fortunate to have gone through a Regency Era phase long before Bridgerton started, so I already had resource books about the era at hand. (I highly recommend What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox-Hunting to Whist -- the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England by Daniel Pool and An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray, both available at Amazon.)

Wikipedia is also invaluable, especially if you're on a tight budget -- start with the name of the era you're researching and have fun falling down the rabbit hole. Bookmark any pages that are appropriate and you'll end up with your own personalized wiki.

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Your Plot

Most of the time, your story's plot will be the deciding factor in what you chose to include or ignore, but sometimes changing the plot even slightly in favor of historical accuracy can improve it. Your leads aren't married yet but need to have a private conversation? Put a chaperone in the room, thus forcing your leads to either say what need to say in an oblique way or find another creative solution to their sudden lack of privacy.

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Readers' Expectations

There are times when you may need to sacrifice accuracy in order to make your story more appealing or better understood. One example of this comes from Bridgerton itself. Before Queen Victoria wore a white gown in her 1840 wedding, white wedding gowns were not the norm. Daphne's 1813 wedding gown in S1 could have been one of several other colors but because modern audiences expect to see a Western bride in white, that's the color the costume designer gave her.

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Ideally, all four would work together but in many cases, that simply cannot happen, so you must decide which of the four you're going to sacrifice, and that decision will likely be made several times over the course of writing your fic.

Most of all, have fun. If something simply isn't working for you, change it. Knowing the history, the canon, and the expectations gives you options, it's up to you to decide what works best.

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YOU’RE STILL A WRITER IF:

you don’t write every day or every week

you haven’t been able to write in a few months

this is your first story or your hundredth 

you never finish a book 

you are completely unpublished

All you gotta do is write!

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