What Have I Gotten Myself Into? (Need some help, my dear F-List!)

[nyxelestia]

I recently started writing the prologue for my paperlegends fic. I'm not even halfway done and it's already touching up to 5,000 words. I don't think I'll have any trouble making the 30,000 minimum word requirement (the question is whether or not I can freaking finish it on time). On the bright side, I can definitely say I'm already 1/6 done with my Merlin bigbang fic.

It's a modern!AU, with Prince of Wales!Arthur and PM's son!Merlin. Prologue takes place just after Hunith has become Prime Minister, when the boys are about 10-11 years old. So much fun to write! ^+^ That said, this is a lot of heavy British culture and politics and I'm an American. You can see the difficulties that lie ahead. :|

Any of you Brits (or anyone else very familiar with British politics and culture) out there willing to put up with me incessantly asking questions about the most inane things (i.e. tea, food, drinks, schools, ect.) for the sake of accuracy? Anyone feeling like getting barraged by an annoying and frizzled out me?

Please and thank you!

Comments

[nyxelestia.livejournal.com]

I'm not, not by a longshot - my original draft had it set at Buckingham palace! But then I started getting mixed messages about just how close/distant the monarch and the PM are, and are supposed to be, so I thought a public venue might be more plausible. But you and someone else both said palaces could work, so I'm totally putting it back at Buckingham, or moving it to Windsor (or Camelot, if Windsor palace, as the same suggests, is more closely related to the current royal family rather than British royalty in general as Buckingham palace's name suggests...?)

[planejane.livejournal.com]

I think you could use any of them. Given this is your fiction, I think you can plausibly determine with your story the closeness of the monarchy and the PM, regardless of the current RL situation.

[nyxelestia.livejournal.com]

I know, but I would like to be a realistic as possible. :)