Check-in: 25 and 26 May 2011

[charamei]

Sorry, everyone: I got back later than expected last night and didn't get much of a chance to post.

How's it going? Are you on track to meet your month's goals?

Discussion time:

[Background — a six piece pie style colour split in two shades of blue. Foreground — an excited-looking leopard cub.

Top text: Decide to write British character.

Bottom text: 'Allo 'allo darling apples and pears wotcher Bobby time for tea, guv'nor! ]

(Courtesy of the Writer Leopard.)

Writing for canons that are not set in your native country or culture can be a challenge. What's your favourite way of working around the issue? Does it bother you when fanfic writers (or pros, come to that) have obviously not done the research?

Comments

[bay_alexison]

Haven't gotten much writing done at all the past few days due to busy with a million things. I was able to edit and post a story of mine Monday night and send a work to my beta eariler today. Got some plot bunny ideas forming in my head also, so I'm going to try to set some time for writing tomorrow.

Today's discussion I can't say much because the fandoms I have been reading/writing stories of are more or less made up worlds with hints of this country's culture here and there. If I were under that situation, I would research the country's culture as much as possible.