Ever worried your fic isn’t California enough, because you don’t live there, or have never visited? Why not write as if Beacon Hills is actually your hometown?
Write a Teen Wolf story as if it is set in your hometown - use your local legends, wildlife, scenery, climate, accents and dialects, food, stores, monsters of the week, clothing styles, ethnicities, and culture.
🏠no min or max word count
🏠Any Teen Wolf ship welcome. Gen Fics also appreciated!
🏠Must include the state/province/country you’re writing about!
🏠Any pairings or gen scenes welcome!
🏠does not have to be linked to a fic
🏠Must include the state/province/country your art takes place in!
🏠Submit and Ask box are both open
🏠Early Bird Submissions: Starting Friday, May 4
🏠Standard Submissions: May 12 throughÂ
I’m unlikely to participate, but here are a couple of questions that others might have, too:
What if the writer is not from the US? Even if their hometown has a distinct dialect/accent, that wouldn’t be translatable to English…
Can the hometown be fictional? (To illustrate what I mean: I originally come from a very rural area with a plethora of local myths - which would be a perfect setting for a story - but naming the actual village would feel far too personal. So could a writer make up a fictional place and have it be situated in their region, for anonymity’s sake?)
@janeypro​ had some great questions. Note: This response is sectioned out for ease of reading, not to seem like a lecture. Your questions are valid and I thank you for the opportunity to address them.
1. Writers from outside the US are free to write in whatever language they please. English will get you more readers, but is not a prerequisite for joining the collection.
2.Using dialects and accents is a suggestion on how to make the story reflect your hometown, and is also not mandatory. Mod @poignantlyarrogant​ will be publishing her story twice, once in southern english and once in standard, for those who may have difficulty reading the southern grammar and dialect.Â
3. You are seriously underestimating the ability of apostrophes, different grammar structures, slang, honorifics, and modes of address to convey the distinct speech patterns of a region. Do whatever you can, however you want, and it will absolutely be interesting.
4. If something isn’t translatable to English, don’t translate it. use context clues in the writing to help us understand the sentiment, and maybe leave a note at the bottom if you want to explain. No biggie.
5. We are not asking for the name of your hometown as some sort of elaborate phishing scheme. Mod @poignantlyarrogant​ will be writing about a town called Beacon Hills, as if it was situated in the part of rural Alabama her family is from. “Rural Alabama” is as much information as we expect from participants. We will not be checking to see if you came up with a fictional town.Â
6. This is supposed to be fun, comfortable, and engaging. If you live in Texas now, but spent a semester in Prague for school, you can write about Prague. you can write about Prague even if you’ve never been, no one is stopping you.Â
7. This fic fest is just about seeing teen wolf and the character’s interactions from new perspectives. Have fun, write about what you want to write about, and be kind to one another.Â