"The Locusts of Time" - Progress Report

[fangrrl_squees]

Lessons learned today:

- So what if someone has done it before? As long as you're not engaging in plagiarism, get on with it and have some fun.
- Sometimes, the characters insist on standing around and talking. Just frakkin' write it already, and worry about fixing it after you finish the first draft.
- I'm going to fan-writer hell for at least three reasons: the name of the antagonists, the manner of how the plot unfolds and how the Doctor saves the day.

But! The first draft is done. There are many things wrong with it, of course, but it's got a beginning, a middle and an end. That'll keep me going through the revision process.

Crikey. All this to produce footage for a class I might or might not take in the autumn...

And now I'm going to pour myself a small cold celebratory something. My first completed, if not finished, script in *mumblemumble* years!

PS - final page count: 30 (edit: 29, I just cut out a superfluous character and fixed a major problem w/Lucie in the process). Estimated running time 15 - 17 minutes, which is a bit longer than anticipated, but not by much.

Comments

[tamago.livejournal.com]

If you pad it out with some corridor running, you could have a whole old school episode! ;-)

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ironically enough, I just realized that I need to AXE one of the four characters, in order to save the Doctor's companion from just taking up the scenery, so I think I'm about to LOSE two pages.

But yeah, enough running up and down corridors...

(I did, I must admit, indulge in one fanwanky corridor moment. But it does, later, serve the plot!)