and they're off...

[leoniedelt]

903 words today, just now. Will probably write more before bed.

My first S&S fic, omgyay!

Did physical descriptions sort of a combination of Lumley&McCallum and Warner&Harker. Tried not to voerstate Steel's height as McCallum was only 5.8, but Warner is 6'2... Harker is blonde but nowhere as thin as Lumley, that kind of thing.

Tried to keep the dialogue as real as I know they do, serious, fast, hard dialogue...

So, who wants to be my beta? lol

And my poem about madness and fire, adapted from the one posted in my last thread? Here it is:

As i sat atop my bed

I met a man inside my head

He talked of fire and pain and death

And how they'd come and take my breath

He wasn't really in my head

I wasn't really by my bed

But there he was again today

Oh how I wish he'd go away

I hope to use that in different parts of the story. As for a title, i've yet to come up with one that's suitably spooky.

Comments

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

Yep. :)

Something she beta'ed for me, which um.. was funny :)

And maybe we'll hear if it won the Big Finish contest, because, er, have they announced the winners yet, ffs? Last i heard, they still hadnt.

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

*is confused* Contest?

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

Yep, they held a contest starting 6 December, ended 31 January this year, to write an entry into a Short Trips book. 2500 words.

i think the link in my left sidebar still works...

My entries were Fivey, of course.

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

The way they say "any of the Big Finish companions (Erimem, Evelyn, Hex, Charley and C'rizz – but not Lucie, please)" makes me laugh. I know they're probably removing Lucie from the options because BF are doing their thing with BBC7 and whatever it is they're doing with Lucie's storyline, but it sounds like they don't like her and would prefer not to hear about her :o) I've heard that the stories with Eight and Lucie are not really up to standard (I've yet to hear them and make up my own mind) so it makes me laugh that it sounds like the BF people don't actually like her!

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

Should i be embarrassed that I dont even know who Lucie is? I havent been keeping up with anyone's audios but Fivey's. Probably dumb of me as I suspect Eight's are good, but i got put off Eight when i read Banquo Legacy, and i lost all interest in Fitz, Sam, have no idea who Hex or Compassion are, and just dont find myself remotely interested.

I love Paul McGann's voice though, and as a person, he's really brilliant. I'll take his Leftenant Bush to his Who any day though. :D

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

Nah, I didn't know what was going on when I first heard of her either. She's a companion of Eight's after he and Charley and C'rizz have gone their (as yet undefined) separate ways. (If you don't know them either, Charley's a self-styled Edwardian adventuress - who gets rather irritating after her first two series - and C'rizz is an exoskeletal reptilian species whose mental health is becoming questionable *grins*) Basically, the Charley and C'rizz storyline was a little too involved for new listeners to just casually pick up an audio and know what was going on, so BF thought this would discourage them from hopping on board. So BF collaborated with BBC7 to make some new stories, set a little way in Eight's future, that (I think) are given away free with DWM and broadcast on BBC7.
I like McGann as the Doctor (he was the best thing about the movie, really) and as an audio!Doctor he does quite well. He has over-exposition problems for the first series or so (but then that's true for most early BF Who) but that just means he gets to ramble on a bit more :o) A fair few of his stories I would call duds, though, so if you want to branch away from Fivey, I can give you informed recommendations :o)

Eight's books are weighted down by Sam. I'm thinking of asking my Who dealer to skip ahead to Fitz in the books he's lending me cos I haven't read any of him yet and I really want to. (Not all book people are bad though - I really like Benny Summerfield.) I also have no idea who Compassion is, but you cannot lump Hex in with book companions. No, no, no. I won't let you. Hex is fantastic. He's an audio companion of Seven's - a Liverpudlian nurse from 2021, says "oh my god" an awful lot at first but gets some better lines further on, and features in some of the best stories I've listened to recently.

As for other audio companions - you'll know about Erimem, but there's also Frobisher and Evelyn. Both with Six, Frobisher's a four foot penguin-shaped mesomorph (it's a shame he only has two audios, and one of them's a DWM special), and Evelyn's a history lecturer in her mid-fifties. She and Six have a wonderful dynamic. Again, I have recommendations if you want them :o)

Blimey, I've rambled on. Well, I'm quite opinionated when it comes to audios - they're a major part of fandom to me :o) *shuts up now*

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

Wow. while you were writing that, i was putting together a rubbish attempt at a banner.

If anyone can do better than I did, i will happily email you the originals....

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Images are not my thing. But that's pretty :o) What's the shiny thing next to the boat?

[leoniedelt.livejournal.com]

I've no idea, i'm sure i'll find out when i've heard the audio - it just came out yesterday or today...

It looks dreadful. I'm hoping someone will offer to redesign it for me. Still, it is my own work, even if it looks amateurish...

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

It's a bit fuzzy, and looks kinda like both sides of a cd cover, but the pictures are pretty.
Sleepy now. No more talk. Night.