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For all those who need advice etc

I'm trying to write a character A/character B romance. The characters are enemies/rivals (with B being the antogonist in the fighting).

I'm asking, which would you prefer to read -

1. 'B is down on his luck, meets A who is successful, is humbled by this and also realised his attraction to A, arc of redemption through romancing A ensues'

2. 'B is successful, meets A who is less so but who is completely unimpressed by B's success. This enrages B, but is also a catalyst for B to get closer to A and realise how he fucked up before, romance and redemption ensues'

3. A secret, more complex third plot

Plot 2 definitely interests me more than Plot 1.

Thank you! I started out writing out plot 1 and but started thinking plot 2 was really the way to go, good to be validated!

I'd definitely be more interested in Plot 2.

Thank you!

Is there a website that can help me leave Americanisms out of my fic set in England? I am absolutely going to have it edited by someone who knows that but I’d like to do my best before I actually hand it over to them.

https://theportablewife.com/living-abroad/moving-to-london/british-vs-american-words-slang/

https://www.spellzone.com/blog/sixty_american_english_words_and_their_british_english_counterparts.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English_(A%E2%80%93L)

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This is awesome. Thanks so much!

I'm afraid you probably need a Britpicker if you want a thorough job. I know from my own opposite experience (trying to Ameripick my own work) that there can be quite a lot of surprising differences beyond the obvious like pavement/sidewalk.

I'm sorry, I would volunteer my own services but my life is batshit crazy right now.

I guess not really writing advice per se, more of a 'regionalism' question. What the HECK is 'criss cross applesauce' and where does it stem from??

From context I am assuming it means sitting crosslegged, but I have now read it in like... a dozen different Steddie fics and I am so perplexed.

Yeah, it means to sit cross-legged on the floor. I dunno where it comes from, but it’s usually used with little kids to get them to sit on the floor and pay attention.

I'm pretty sure it came into wide-spread use when people started going 'hey, sitting Indian style' is racist. So people came up with a different way to say 'sitting cross-legged'. So people sit 'criss cross'. As far as I know the applesauce is just to rhyme?

AYRT Which I guess makes sense verbally if you're saying it to kindergardeners, but it's so jarring to read 'he sat criss cross applesauce' in the middle of a fic lol. Pulls me out worse than a typo or bad punctuation.

AYRT tbh I've only ever seen it when it's referring to kids in kindergarten/grade one... so, yeah. I agree, unless the fic is dealing with small kids it would be super weird.

I don't know what the context is in the fics you're reading, but I've never heard it in relation to sitting. It was part of this thing you would say while touching someone's back in a particular pattern to make them shiver. There was more to it, something about spiders. It was all the rage in my 6th grade class ca. 1991. Up there with "light as a feather, stiff as a board."

Most of the fics the sentences were like, "He moved over to the floor and sat cross cross applesauce on the carpet." and I am over here like ??? and trying not to laugh because it's just so childish sounding lol!

I’m guessing you may be reading fic written by children.

Sorry more a vent really. I only get an hour a week to write and recently it's been getting harder and harder to justify because there's just so much to do at home. Last week I ended up doing laundry instead. I know I need to be an adult and just suck it up but it's really upsetting me :(

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