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Tec ([personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales) wrote in [community profile] heavyartillery2019-12-04 09:17 am
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[WIP Wednesday] 2019-12-04

It's that time again, nerds! Welcome to
WIP WEDNESDAY!



Feel free to share bits of what you're working on, ask for feedback or advice from your fandom fellows, gush about a project you're starting, whatever! Let's keep this good good HBOWar content train chugging along!
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The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[personal profile] muccamukk 2019-12-04 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Because apparently I can't just write like a normal person, I'm doing one of the [personal profile] looselipssinkships memorial prompts as an alternating POV, non-linear thing, so there's sections from Andy's PoV in Melbourne and sections from Eddie's on Guadalcanal when they met. Which I have massively under researched. And am feeling very unsure about. But I think the fic potentially is a lot stronger with them. But I'm trying to keep them short so no one noticed that I've done zero Guadalcanal research and don't care.

Anyway, more of a whine than a request for advice.
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Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[personal profile] lt_aldo_raine 2019-12-04 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I’ve come across the same issue regarding my desire to just write and forego the research. Being familiar with your work, though, I’m sure no one will notice if your research isn’t 100% there because your characters steal the show every time. You’ll deliver on Andy and Eddie, and no one’s going to care about the minute historical accuracy.

Really looking forward to this fic!
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Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[personal profile] muccamukk 2019-12-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha, well with the Europe stuff I'm resting on a REALLY high baseline of background research. Or not like, I research this for a living, but a reasonable impression of knowing what the fuck's going on. I just haven't had time to lay that in for the Pacific stuff.

Anyway. It'll be fine.
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Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales 2019-12-04 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I know how much you enjoy your research, and I agree that it makes me feel more confident about a period piece when I have a breadth of knowledge at my disposal to ensure really granular accuracy, but I feel like the general approach to fanfiction overall is that historical accuracy is sort of a nice bonus that can be cool to see rather than an absolute necessity that's going to impact the success of the story in any meaningful way.

TL;DR It's gonna be totally great and turn out just fine, friend~ You're a fantastic author and I, for one, can't wait to read your weird non-linear Andy/Eddie Colonel Kink fill.
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Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[personal profile] muccamukk 2019-12-04 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I think one of my hang ups, and the reason I often bounce off setting change AUs, is that I really feel like circumstances shape behaviour, and if I know more about the place and time, including details, but often more the feel of it, or what people like that thought, then it feels more real to me. I always like the Ursula Le Guin quote:
As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.

Which could be more self serious than it is, if you don't consider it's Le Guin.

Anyway. There's only one bed. They fuck. It'll work out.
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Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[personal profile] slightlytookish 2019-12-04 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I love non-linear and alternating POV fics.

Hmm, I guess that while I do love research and historical accuracy, I don't know how much is REALLY needed for fic. It's great when it's there but unless there's some wildly wrong fact like suddenly Eddie and Andy are fighting in Antarctica, I probably won't notice. I'm usually too focused on the characters to notice if a fic says that a battle lasted two days when it really lasted three, or whatever.

Either way I am so looking forward to your fic!
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Re: The Pacific - Andy/Eddie timeline fuckery

[personal profile] muccamukk 2019-12-04 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It's mostly a matter of grounding, for me. It's easier for me to get into a character if I know where they're coming from, and details often help with that. Not so much how long a battle lasted, but how something tasted or felt, what people were saying.

Anyway, forward.
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