Writerly Thoughts

[awanderingbard]

Bad news: The story I've put several K of words into? Turns out, very not historically accurate due to my misremembering/confusing history.

Good news: Potential rewrite actually works better. Characters seem much more cooperative with this scenario.

Bad news: Potential rewrite still not totally historically accurate, but much less inaccurate than previous version.

Good news: Story set in universe with super soldiers and steampunk pseudo-nazis. Probably some wiggle room for inaccuracy.

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Definitely a little wiggle room is allowable! And it's not like canon (I'm assuming Captain America?) was 100% accurate either :)

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Basically, what I'm doing is putting American troops where they wouldn't be during the time period I'm talking about (I think. Despite my research, it's hard to tell exactly where everyone was at any given moment). But, I'm going with the conceit that Captain America and the Howling Commandos existing probably changed things a little, and maybe the Americans got further into Europe earlier than they actually did, due to Steve and the boys clearing the way for them.

It's a much smaller inaccuracy than my previous one of assuming one of the countries involved was netural, when they were actually German-occupied. That's a little too big a change from history for my tastes. :-P

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh there's definitely wiggle room there, I think that'd work fine.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, good! It's always nice to get an outsider perspective on things. :-D