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Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

DA

With Susanne Clarke it'd be easy enough to avoid footnotes but other than that I'd be quite lost, to be honest. Her writing has a bit of an old fashioned feel to it, I guess, so I could try to write in a style that is pointedly modern (even though that would feel unnatural for the canon)? Somehow I doubt that would make the recip happy though.

I suspect that a DNW like that is easier to deal with if you're a better writer than I am.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

JS&MN reads to me like a very specific pastiche of Jane Austen. So, if I matched on that fandom and got that DNW, I’d probably aim to write like an early 20th century English writer. Like, I’d have someone in my mind I was secretly doing a pastiche of —- someone who isn’t Jane Austen or another Regency/Early Victorian writer.

If I got that DNW for Piranesi, I would write from the POV of someone other than the main narrator — just anyone from the regular world who had not had amnesia. Even if the only character get requested was the main narrator, I’d find a way to get at the prompts from an outsider POV, because I don’t know how else to deal with the DNW.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

I think a tight 3rd that didn't use deliberately archaic spellings would be enough to avoid Susanna Clarke pastiche. Like, just spell "sofa" properly and you're good.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Never mind "sofa", it's spelling "show" correctly that'd do it.