Hello on Wednesday! What kind of a writing day has it been so far today -- or if today hasn't gotten going yet, how did you fare yesterday?
- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or research
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment
Wednesday Discussion: Have you ever written about a culture or used a vernacular not your own in your fic? How difficult is it to make it accurate, and how do you go about checking accuracy if that is a goal?
- I thought about my fic once or twice
- I wrote
- I did some planning and/or research
- I edited
- I've sent my fic off to my beta
- I posted today!
- I'm taking a break
- I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment
Wednesday Discussion: Have you ever written about a culture or used a vernacular not your own in your fic? How difficult is it to make it accurate, and how do you go about checking accuracy if that is a goal?
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Date: Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 14:03 (UTC)One of my fics features a people group that is not the same culture or main language of the rest of my characters. It takes a lot of extra research to make sure what I am writing fits, because I want to be accurate, even when in one sense it's really all just "made up." I base my culture on one that really exists with which I am familiar and even know some of the language, so that helps a lot with accuracy and reduces the load of research, but it still takes extra work to be consistent. It's worth it, though, if I can make a different culture come alive in a story!