I bounced some ideas off Alex, and his eyes didn't completely glaze over, so I guess I'm on the right track - or, at least, not the completely wrong one.

I'm trying to create some (ha!) internal consistencies re: time travel for the Time Agents to be lumped with follow - not that the Whoniverse has ever worried about such consistency, but I want a couple of boundaries in place, else I'll regret it in the long run. Besides, if there aren't rules, how can they be broken, later on? Heh.

Expanding on the Blinovitch Limitation Effect was great fun. I've come up with a few twists on the idea which are, I hope, somewhat plausible - in so far as such things can be.

And I created cute, mostly-harmless time-eating "canaries" (more like large, furry slugs), 'cos I've had enough of Vortisaurs, Reapers and creepy-freaking-statues. So what if they were probably created by the Daleks. No-one's really sure, you see... Heh.

I don't really expect to get anything substantial done until the weekend. But the ideas for the second eps are firming up, as are a few notions of what's to happen further down the line.

The placeholder names will continue to read like Seinfeld episodes - "In which things get better, for a certain value of better." - until further notice.

Churned out about 3,500 words which isn't much but what really matters is that the huge mess of scattered bits of information has been retrieved from various sources - my paper journal, my memory and assorted bits of paper - organized and recorded in a much more sensible fashion, so now I can actually make use of those ideas without spending twenty minutes trying to find/remember them.

Characters, backstory and setting are now done-enough to make with the actual plotting. Naturally, I can feel myself getting the fanficcer's equivalent of drymouth at the very idea.

Although, as my husband has mentioned, if nothing else, I've got material for a dynamite tabletop RPG - just add players!

Rather to my surprise, I find myself with more ideas to play with than I have time in which to play with them. This hasn't happened for quite a while, I assure you.

Podcast
- Brainstorm ideas for individual segments and episode themes (I've got a lot. The challenge will be getting 'em all to quiet down long enough to be written down)
- Sort out the tech (probably not all that difficult, just time-consuming. Will probably set up a subdomain of skaro.com for hosting, since I've got unlimited bandwidth through the host)
- Wheedle folks into contributing. Remote recording will be challenging, but not impossible, by any means.
- Think of a name for the bloody thing that is neither dull nor patronizing.

Still-unnamed Time Agency Audio Fanscript of Dooooom
- Finish outlining the last two characters
- Outline the Big Events which immediately precede the first story. Mostly done in my head already, phew.
- Brainstorm the episode story ideas (whimper) and summarize.
- (oh gods) Sketch out the overall season arc. Thank god I'm planning a short season.
- Writewritewritewrite until my fingers bleed. Treatments, then script.
- Declare that I'm crap, throw everything out, start over.
- Decide if I want to record the bloody thing as a fan project, or what. (no, I will not be buying large drinks for certain BFA people at certain conventions. That doesn't work outside the movies, anyways. ;))

The Locusts of Time
- If I can't get my bloody cast together for a read-through soon, I'm in trouble.
- I'm already in trouble as it seems one of my leads is working the local Renn Faire and that could sink plans to have footage in the can by mid-August. Must decide if I'm going to re-cast, or shoot something else to provide footage for the Final Cut Pro class - assuming I can afford to take it, this fall.
- GAH (translation: I will not think about this right now, because I'm not thinking clearly. Further bulletins after further cogitation has occurred)

I think, if nothing else, I've got the bones for a great one-shot tabletop RPG with the Time Agent stuff. I forgot how much I like doing character-crunchy things and world-building. I just wish creating actual plot wasn't like trying to perform dental surgery on myself. With stone tools. Without anesthetic.

I think I can manage all of this, simultaneously. I just can't take anything else on board, right now (cue: revival of the screenplay that wouldn't die)

Did some more world-setting stuff for the unnamed Time Agency foolishness, today. Y'know, scrawled down a bit more about the setting, did some character outlining, dumped a couple of plot notes onto paper before they slipped my mind.

And then I determined the main characters' Myers Briggs types.

*blink*

I don't know if I should be amused or ashamed.

It's something I always mean to do for the characters in the LARPs I write and run, but never get around to - or decide that it's unnecessary information overload and the player already has enough to deal with.

This only reinforces the feeling that what I'm really doing is writing an RPG. Still, there are worse things to spend one's time on...

I might... maybe... possibly have the premise for a series of stories.

I'm going to spend the weekend world-building (since I can't get into the sewing room) and see what I have at the end of it.

Again, not that I can do anything useful (ie, moneyearning) with it, but it might be fun. And fun is valuable too, in its own way.

I think the biggest challenge will be stopping John Hart from hogging any limelight. ;)

Employed the Douglas Adams method of writing and took a shower whilst contemplating next steps.

Realized that the character Arthur was too aptly named, as he spent far too much time going "What?" and "I don't understand" although he doesn't ask about tea.

Took an axe to Arthur which, in turn, has fixed a lot of the Lucie doing nothing aside from standing around and being smart-assed issue I'd been having. Hooray!

This weekend goes down as a success!

Oh, Christ. I'm realizing just how long it's been since I've written an honest-to-god televideo script.

Fifteen years, or so.

I've, er, forgotten quite a bit.

But, fuckit. I'll do what I can and worry about fixing infrastructure errors when the first draft is done.

Thank god for CeltX.

Silly fanscript idea is making noises like it definitely wants to be an Eight/Lucie story, but I'm trying really hard to not to get wedded to any ideas before the story is really done.

The usual final-third issues (which have killed 85% of my past ideas in development) are making manifest.

My husband is too tired - and not sufficiently into Who - to wield the pointed stick.

brewsternorth? I don't suppose you have Skype?