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Write Your Own Persuasion Story

Underfiction turns Persuasion into interactive literary prose. Choose an authored first page, enter beside the canon cast, and decide what the next scene does without being confined to prepared choices.

Jane Austen’s world is already in motion. The characters keep their histories and tensions; your decisions create the unwritten version of Persuasion.

A scene, written for you
It is autumn, and the family estate has been let. Your father — Sir Walter, a baronet with a fine mirror in every room and an account-book he declines to open — has spent his way out of his own house, and the lawyers' remedy is a tenant: Admiral Croft, lately of the war, a weather-browned, kindly man who walks the grounds as if they were a quarterdeck and makes no apology for it. Mrs. Croft walks them at his side — a weathered, sensible woman who has crossed the Atlantic four times in ships her husband commanded, and treats dry land as the lesser element. The family remove to Bath is decided.

You direct; the engine follows. Try a line like “Continue from this choice. Preserve the characters and period, but let my decision change what follows.”

The first page of Persuasion is written. Take the pen and change what follows.

Begin this story

Frequently asked questions

Is this a retelling of Persuasion?

No. The world and canon characters are the foundation, not a fixed plot. You can redirect a familiar scene, form new relationships, reveal a secret earlier, or take the story somewhere the original never went.

Do I choose from prepared options?

No. Write any action, dialogue, thought, or direction to the narrator. The next passage is generated as continuous prose around your decision.

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