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[avrelia]

I am writing the story for my Tales of the Slayer ficathon assignment. And it’s killing me! It exists nicely in my head, I walk the street with perfect dialogues going on in my brains, cool phrases and so on. Then I am sitting here, fingers on the keyboard – and the words don’t want to come outside.
I also feel that I will write a post with historical and geographical footnotes and illustrations afterwards. Or should I add the illustrations in the text?

I probably should put all that energy into something useful.

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[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I’ve got your e-mail and read through the text. Which left me deeply ashamed of all things I should have noticed myself. I have still miles to go with writing in English, but I am happy that the story seems worth writing.

I tried to get both the Slayer and her Watcher time-appropriate opinions on each other countries, so that’s where their jokes come from. The Masons’ mention is basically unnecessarily, just to give a flavour of time, and I liked the idea that the Watchers’ Council pretended to be a Masonic society.

The curse – often attributed to tsarina Evdokia – is an actual urban legend of Petersburg; and the flood in question did happen – I didn’t have to invent much. ;)

Thank you again, and I’ll send you the next part by weekend, I hope.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Deeply ashamed? You should be so proud! You're writing good fic in a second language! I'm just awed by that achievement.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you, but I am studying English for so long! It’s not cool anymore to get discount, because it is my second language. I am resigned to the fact that I speak with an accent, but I’d love to write better, at least not to make most obvious mistakes.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

It's still fine to get allowances made, trust me. I know a smattering of French and German, that's all; simply can't imagine being fluent enough to write fic in a different language; you're very clever indeed.