Life, Ideas and the end of term
Another non-fic post. Bad me! Have been being slowly driven mental trying to write this short story for my creative writing assignment. Read back over it today and realised how utterly depressing/hopeless it was, even if the prose was quite nice. I'll admit that I wrote it when I was feeling rather down myself, and it really showed through. Sent it to my mum and my lecturer to get some feedback - my mum was actually much more helpful and more constructively critical, which actually doesn't surprise me. Anyway, it's now gone through three major rewrites, plus considerably more minor changes, and the track changes features means that at least half of it is now colour purple. And I'm stuck for a title. Nevertheless, I'm currently reasonably pleased with it. It's possibly still a bit more 'tell' than it should be, but not half so bad as the original draft was.
Walking down to the Spar a couple of hours ago, listening to the 'Vampires in Venice' track off Doctor Who S5, I was struck by another plot bunny. I was thinking to myself 'this would be good music for the Time Lords to escape the Time Lock again. I wonder what happens to the Master in there. He probably takes over after killing Rassilon. He probably helps them escape it. Or runs the planet in it. I wonder how I would work in D/M. An imprint of the Doctor? Weird echo? AHAH! THE VALEYARD!' This regardless of the fact that I have never even seen the Valeyard. Unfortunately, it is an idea to be relegated alongside the post-WoM dark!Doctor/Master fic idea still lurking in the back of my mind, a little behind the 'Master survives the Time War instead' and 'Persuasion style D/M' AUs that are, regardless of the likelihood of ever being written, at least plotted out to some degree of detail.
Had my last lecture of the term today - an unfortunate drag - and will be going out to Oceana tonight with my flatmates, as we're all going home either tomorrow or Friday. Am also supposed to be going Christmas shopping tomorrow afternoon, so I'll have to attempt to avoid a slightly less awful hangover than the last time I went out, which relegated me to bed for an entire day O.O At least this time there is no punch. Punch is evil.
Ahem! Anyway, there goes my random update that no-one likely reads, but at least it has done the job of distracting me for a little while, which was actually the main point of it. More Entanglement written, still need to finish the next chapter of Golden, but every day I inch minutely closer to my goals.
Walking down to the Spar a couple of hours ago, listening to the 'Vampires in Venice' track off Doctor Who S5, I was struck by another plot bunny. I was thinking to myself 'this would be good music for the Time Lords to escape the Time Lock again. I wonder what happens to the Master in there. He probably takes over after killing Rassilon. He probably helps them escape it. Or runs the planet in it. I wonder how I would work in D/M. An imprint of the Doctor? Weird echo? AHAH! THE VALEYARD!' This regardless of the fact that I have never even seen the Valeyard. Unfortunately, it is an idea to be relegated alongside the post-WoM dark!Doctor/Master fic idea still lurking in the back of my mind, a little behind the 'Master survives the Time War instead' and 'Persuasion style D/M' AUs that are, regardless of the likelihood of ever being written, at least plotted out to some degree of detail.
Had my last lecture of the term today - an unfortunate drag - and will be going out to Oceana tonight with my flatmates, as we're all going home either tomorrow or Friday. Am also supposed to be going Christmas shopping tomorrow afternoon, so I'll have to attempt to avoid a slightly less awful hangover than the last time I went out, which relegated me to bed for an entire day O.O At least this time there is no punch. Punch is evil.
Ahem! Anyway, there goes my random update that no-one likely reads, but at least it has done the job of distracting me for a little while, which was actually the main point of it. More Entanglement written, still need to finish the next chapter of Golden, but every day I inch minutely closer to my goals.