Finding Errors

 So one of the joys of writing is pushing your limits, and one of my pushiest fan fictions was Tango de Venezuela.https://archiveofourown.org/works/6003346/

The story was set at the end of the nineties. A Mycroft Holmes story set in his twenties when Sherlock was seventeen. It was challenging because it was a dance fic set in a “canon” gap that was never described in the stories. Mycroft takes Sherlock on his first government mission to Venuzuela.

It is challenging for several reasons. First, I have never been to Venuzuela. Second, I don’t speak Spanish that well  especially not South American Spanish. Third, I don’t know how to tango, and this is all about the Tango.

I was inspired to write it because of my love of a particular male/male tango couple. I imagined the flamboyant dancer (Juan Segui,) as Sherlock, but no amount of imagination could make the other dancer John, so I figured that the only man Sherlock trusts enough to hold him in the air one-handed is Mycroft. I wrote the first story, The Tango, about this dance. But it ended with a promise of a later performance. Then I saw this dance and that, as they say, is history.

But as I was reading it again today, I realized that it wasn’t until 2000 that people had cameras on their phones. The woman filming was very rich, so perhaps she had the first Japanese model. Even so...  Her father has a video tape collection, so it’s not all anacronistic but.... perhaps I can get away with it given the Sherlock world is slightly more technologically advanced because he gets 4G reception in the subways when 3D was the highest available at the time.
It is so-teeth clenching to find errors in my work, but I kind of want to know how many things I got wrong. I am mortally afraid that the Spanish makes no sense as I used Google translate, anecdotes, and high school Spanish books to check the grammar.
Then again, taking chances and is a good thing. Cheers.