I'm all for awesome betas and wish there were more easy to find resource for specific issues (like OHAI I"m a Catholic who is an expert on The Vatican! Ask me how not to screw up papal related fic!).
Like you I wrote SPN taking place in NO and worried about how I did it, not having anyone knowledgeable to guide me. I think what saved me was that not many people bothered to read my big bang and the NO bit was brief and at the end. Still, I will take trying and failing over not trying any day of the week. I'd rather season my fic with different races and cultures and genders and disabilities and risk getting them wrong than write safe all white WASPy stories that don't reflect the world I live in.
In short, I'd rather be wrong and real than contribute to yet another decade of white male dominance where everyone is too scared about political correctness to attempt to show the world as they know it really is.
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Like you I wrote SPN taking place in NO and worried about how I did it, not having anyone knowledgeable to guide me. I think what saved me was that not many people bothered to read my big bang and the NO bit was brief and at the end. Still, I will take trying and failing over not trying any day of the week. I'd rather season my fic with different races and cultures and genders and disabilities and risk getting them wrong than write safe all white WASPy stories that don't reflect the world I live in.
In short, I'd rather be wrong and real than contribute to yet another decade of white male dominance where everyone is too scared about political correctness to attempt to show the world as they know it really is.