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Doctor Who Serial and Drabble Thoughts
So I'm almost done with season 10 of Classic Doctor Who. The only serial I currently have left is The Green Death, but I'm saving it for after my trip so I can watch it all in one sitting because I know it's Jo Grant's last hurrah. I'll go in depth more about it in my review post, but I was honestly shocked in the massive spikes and dips in quality from stories like Carnival of Monsters to material like Frontier in Space and The Planet of the Daleks. It's especially frustrating because the three middle stories this season are the only classic-style TARDIS journeys that weren't time lord missions that Jo Grant has, and two of them were, uh, not great. (Even though I thought Katy Manning was great in both of them).
I have to figure out how to properly set up a prompt generator using a custom character list, but I wanna start writing 500-word drabbles for Classic Who (and maybe other things?) as a way to flex my writing muscles and actually get stuff finished and published with less of a time commitment. Like, I still want to edit them and have them be good, but I feel like putting a 500 word cap may be a healthier goal than the 2000-word minimum I've operated on for a while. In particular I wanna do a set of drabbles focusing on Jamie McCrimmon and another set of drabbles focusing on Jo Grant, since they each are such specific characters that I love and I feel like would be fun to write for and have fun, existing dynamics I can explore. (And it gives me a productive excuse to rewatch clips from those eras of the show).
Aside from that, I still plan on finishing the Star Wars fic I was writing, especially since I'm really proud of what I have so far, but I think I need to step back from that for a few days at least because fandom stuff hit me in a really big way last night and I'm still not quite back in the right headspace for it.
I have to figure out how to properly set up a prompt generator using a custom character list, but I wanna start writing 500-word drabbles for Classic Who (and maybe other things?) as a way to flex my writing muscles and actually get stuff finished and published with less of a time commitment. Like, I still want to edit them and have them be good, but I feel like putting a 500 word cap may be a healthier goal than the 2000-word minimum I've operated on for a while. In particular I wanna do a set of drabbles focusing on Jamie McCrimmon and another set of drabbles focusing on Jo Grant, since they each are such specific characters that I love and I feel like would be fun to write for and have fun, existing dynamics I can explore. (And it gives me a productive excuse to rewatch clips from those eras of the show).
Aside from that, I still plan on finishing the Star Wars fic I was writing, especially since I'm really proud of what I have so far, but I think I need to step back from that for a few days at least because fandom stuff hit me in a really big way last night and I'm still not quite back in the right headspace for it.