This happens to me every now and then (actually, more often than not ( Read more... )

With the Completion and posting of Chapter 4 of The Planet on its Side and Chapter 2 of Shawn Spencer Saves the World I'm up to 38,588 words.  It's 1 a.m. and I just realized I've not yet posted The Planet on its side 3 and 4 to livejournal.  Tomorrow I promise.

That's not so many words before I have to write an own universe piece.

Prairie

I remember a quote from an author I admire (but whose name I have forgotten or confounded with several others, so a citation would be appreciated), that when one is learning to write well, the first million words are practice.  Now I'm actually guessing that I may well have written a million words already, but not seriously and not with the ( Read more... )

Title:  The Planet on its Side
Author:  Prairie Dawn
Characters:  Ten, Alex (OC) buncha guest OCs
Time Period:  For Ten, after Voyage of the Damned, for Alex, after The Elephant in the Room
Rating:  K+
Disclaimer:  Doctor Who and the universe he inhabits, not mine.  Alex and Tempest, mine.
Genre/Warnings:  After School Special, Person versus Nature, ( Read more... )

Title: The Planet on its Side
Author: Prairie Dawn
Characters: Ten, Alex Caron, a buncha other people
Timeline: After Voyage of the Damned (DW), after The Elephant in the Room (Alex series)
Summary: Another installment of the Doctor Who as written by Judy Blume thing, in which Alex and the Doctor go on a field trip to a planet with an 80 degree ( Read more... )

Title: Catching Donna ( Read more... )

Title:  The Elephant in the Room
Timeline:  After Voyage of the Damned, after Quagmire in the Alex sequence
Characters:  Ten, Alex
Rating:  K+
Category:  Angst, character development
Disclaimer:  The Doctor--not mine.  Alex Caron--mine
Summary:  Alex would just as soon the Doctor have continued to neglect her education, thank you very much.
Author's notes ( Read more... )

I just got bitten by a michener.  (Michener...a story, often ridiculously long, in which the setting is as important, sometimes more important, than the characters.  I just wanted a nice little romp on a weird planet with an 80 degree axial tilt for the Doctor and Alex (Sue)...and I have just fallen in love with the place.   Just how much ( Read more... )

Title:  Two Can Play That Game
Author:  prairiedawntoo
Rating:  T (for adult themes)
Disclaimers:  I don't own Doctor Who or any of its characters.  I am a very bad person.
Warnings:  Blasphemy, major blasphemy.  I am so going to hell for this one.
Spoilers:  Sort of for Journey's End
Characters:  Ten, Donna

"What are you reading?"  The Doctor asked.  He ( Read more... )

Title:  Misstep
Author: Prairiedawntoo
Disclaimer:  BBC owns Doctor Who, I'm not making money and all that.
Genre:  gen, Fourth Doctor spackle
Characters:  Romana
Author's note:  You didn't really think she would regenerate just because she wanted to look different, did you?  I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this.

Misstep

Romana lay on her ( Read more... )