I am writing a fanfiction story loosely based on the film/play Amadeus. Because I knew that I probably couldn't achieve the level of detailed research I wanted to in the period of time I had to write the story, I ended up setting it in an invented country (none of the countries mentioned in the story are real, but there are unmistakable parallels ( Read more... )

My MCs are young cadets at an Austrian military boarding school some time in the late 19th century, and I have some ridiculously basic and probably embarrassingly obvious questions to ask ( Read more... )

I'm studying English Language and one of my coursework pieces is a piece of original writing. I'm trying to write a story about two kids - mid-teens - who try and run away when the war starts. To make life easier on myself, since I'm not a historian, I've stated my vague time as WWII and location as Austria - approximately. The location can be ( Read more... )

My character is an (occasional) student at the University of Vienna, who gets wounded in a duel. Due to chronological constraints of the canon, the date has to be about 20 years after 1618 - for the time being I've set it for 1638 ( Read more... )