wander_the_dark

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74858986/chapters/234774361

Summary:

Dear Diary,

That's the last time I ever hold a séance behind a gas station in the Appalachian Mountains before midnight.

RIP my dino guy 😔

I do, I do. I do like the tentacles.

I watched media (tv shows/movies (not all are accurate, we know this), documentaries).

I picked up literature written by authors who wrote in the early 1800s. I learned more about the fashion, vocabulary, and trends of the time period.

Does that mean I have written a Regency Era masterpiece?

No... It is far from perfect, but IT IS MINE.

It's not generated through a prompt.

All the mistakes and messy descriptions are mine, and with each story I write, every piece of literature I pick up, I learn.

I have fun.

Here is a sample I've written:

Light fabric of linen and lace ruffled as the door to the modiste opened, stirring the stagnant air and bringing with it the near-intolerable heat of the day. The cramped streets of London had left the cool serenity of spring and, in lieu of it, a stifling summer. Violet Bridgerton, in particular, waved her fan at her face with such ferocity. Eve feared she may take off and fly into the sky like a common swift.

If someone read this, would they think it was written by a Brontë? Nope, and that's okay, I wasn't born in 1802, I don't speak like I was, but if I ever want to let my art resemble that period of time at all, I need to LEARN how to do it from the people who lived it, not type it into chatgpt.

Do the work.