Why I like writing Desert Prince (7 Feb. 2003)

This is probably lodged somewhere in DW's cross-post archive but I found it again last week and want to re-archive it for myself.

LJ 7 Feb 2003

 

I know that it seems as if I'm not writing DP because I post so rarely but for a few weeks, I actually have been writing as well as thinking very hard about the story of DP. It's moved in all sorts of directions I never thought it would; it's branched out in a way that I'm starting to suspect only an AU will (and perhaps origfic will be like that? Because what is origfic but AU?).

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Origfic: Regency romance set in Germany

 So I have decided to write a regency romance set in Germany for this year's nanowrimo. Or, because nano is defunct, what I like to call canowrimo (Cambridge novel writing month, and also 'I can!) because my local nano chapter is going as strong as ever, with people turning up practically every Saturday to do some write-inning.

Anyway, yesterday at the write-in I dug around in my files and found a story I started in April 2023. I'd been struggling with setting something in the Napoleonic era after an epic (and epic fail) co-writing a Battle of La Haye Sainte nano and other attempts to insert m/m into the Franzosenzeit / Restauration / vor-Vormärz (there's not a handy moniker for this as there is for the British regency of George, Prince of Wales). 

Here's the start of what I wrote during Camp Nano in April 2023:

( Pairing: Tullius De Vries / Charles Fotherington -- or is it?? )