Help! The ideas are coming!
Aug. 29th, 2009 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charameiIn deference to my resolution to start explaining my journal entries to People Who Are Not Me, I shall attempt to explain: for the past few months, I've been doing my dissertation.
One of the particular annoyances of being stuck writing a dissertation, and thus barred from fiction (it makes me feel guilty), is that my imagination has gone into overdrive looking for other things to do. Mostly, it's been worldbuilding.
In some cases, this is good: I've sorted out one of my biggest bugbears about Saril, although it does mean that the entire series has to be replotted from scratch.
In other cases... well, see, I have two new ideas for Doctor Who series. Long, long series.
#1: Stone Age 'Time Lords'. Possibly closer to a series of vignettes or short stories, moving slowly forwards in time up until Rassilon.
Reason: Recently, I've become simply fascinated with the idea of Cave Lords: what were their predators like? How long were their lives? What were the particular environmental perils that led to the respiratory bypass and sub-zero temperature survival? When did the Untempered Schism open? Was it the only rift? etc, etc.
#2: Some sort of soap centred on a couple of random clerks on Gallifrey, possibly the ones who have to sort out the messes the Doctor leaves behind.
Reason: There just isn't enough domestic Gallifrey stuff, largely due to fandom's reluctance to touch the Doctor's backstory (and with good reason). Gallifrey the series is wonderful, but it's all at such a high level - we know almost nothing about those plebeian classes that Spandrell was so concerned with.
#3: Both. #1 turns into #2.
The thing is, worldbuilding Gallifrey is one of my favourite things to do when bored; it's a peculiar position we're in, knowing loads about the people but next to nothing about their society, and it's brilliant fun to play with. As is probably evident, I'm currently toying around with Cave Lords a lot: they'd be a lovely challenge to write about, fundamentally similar to and yet absolutely different from the Time Lords they will become...
I think, once I've finishedmy dissertation First Steps (oooh, look, domestic Gallifrey fic again...!), I'll give Cave Lords a go. Of course, I'm not sure they're technically Doctor Who any more...
One of the particular annoyances of being stuck writing a dissertation, and thus barred from fiction (it makes me feel guilty), is that my imagination has gone into overdrive looking for other things to do. Mostly, it's been worldbuilding.
In some cases, this is good: I've sorted out one of my biggest bugbears about Saril, although it does mean that the entire series has to be replotted from scratch.
In other cases... well, see, I have two new ideas for Doctor Who series. Long, long series.
#1: Stone Age 'Time Lords'. Possibly closer to a series of vignettes or short stories, moving slowly forwards in time up until Rassilon.
Reason: Recently, I've become simply fascinated with the idea of Cave Lords: what were their predators like? How long were their lives? What were the particular environmental perils that led to the respiratory bypass and sub-zero temperature survival? When did the Untempered Schism open? Was it the only rift? etc, etc.
#2: Some sort of soap centred on a couple of random clerks on Gallifrey, possibly the ones who have to sort out the messes the Doctor leaves behind.
Reason: There just isn't enough domestic Gallifrey stuff, largely due to fandom's reluctance to touch the Doctor's backstory (and with good reason). Gallifrey the series is wonderful, but it's all at such a high level - we know almost nothing about those plebeian classes that Spandrell was so concerned with.
#3: Both. #1 turns into #2.
The thing is, worldbuilding Gallifrey is one of my favourite things to do when bored; it's a peculiar position we're in, knowing loads about the people but next to nothing about their society, and it's brilliant fun to play with. As is probably evident, I'm currently toying around with Cave Lords a lot: they'd be a lovely challenge to write about, fundamentally similar to and yet absolutely different from the Time Lords they will become...
I think, once I've finished