Memishness

[jjpor]

Well, this meme, contracted from kerravonsen, kind of amuses me:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Well, go on, then...

Comments

[clocketpatch]

Er... I think that I almost understand this. okay. I want to hear about Morbius' Grand Day Out.

[clocketpatch]

Oh right, forgot, my favourite part was when Morbius was chased by that giant werewolf slug when all he wanted was a cone of ice cream (vanilla, not strawberry ripple like the stall had). Poor chap, is it any wonder he turned to the dark side? But then he managed to joke in the face of all that danger. I found the way in which you paralleled his personality with the Doctor most unsettling.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Looking back, I wonder if having Morbius lock the ice cream man in his own freezer while advising him to "cool it" wasn't a bit much, but I'm certainly very glad that you found it amusing. I've come to think that Morbius is a much-maligned figure in Who canon. He just wanted to change things on stuffy old Gallifrey, just like the Doctor. He didn't care who stood in his way, he just did his own thing, just like the Doctor. He did it all with a smile and with time for things like ice cream, cups of tea and wry jokes to his henchthings/cultists/companions, just like the Doctor. And, regrettably, he ended up blowing up a few planets and wiping out a few species along the way, just like...you get the picture. And don't worry, the giant werewolf slug will return in the three or four sequels I have planned...

[clocketpatch]

Oh good, because that slug was definitely the highlight. I loved his his cackle (you do have a gift for transcribing cackling phonetically)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

It's a gift. And a curse...

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Tell me about ''The Importance of Being the Doctor''. I really loved the terribly, terribly awesome Four/Romana/Oscar banter, not to mention the paralells between Victorian England and Gallifrey, especially the socio-sexual mores. There was also Four reading ''The Lovecats'' as poetry: that was just pure gold, man.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I soon realised that trying to make every single line Wilde uttered an actual real-life quotation of his was a bit insanely ambitious even for me. As it was, he only used the one about having nothing to declare but his genius four or five times in the course of the story. I thought that if anyone called me on it, I'd pretend it was a deliberate running joke. That's worked for me before. ;D

At the time, I really wasn't sure about the six thousand word, multi-participant opium/absinthe/devil-worshipping/sex scene either, but when I wrote it it was three in the morning, and I had been to the pub, and I kind of posted it in a fit of inebriated bravado (not the first time I've done that either). I'm quite pleased with it now, though. XD

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

My god, the opium/absinthe/devil-worshipping sex scene was a thing of infinite beauty! I'm glad I'm not the only one writes stuff in fits of inebriated bravado, too.XD

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Some of my best ideas come to me at four o'clock on a Sunday morning...I'm not sure whether involving Edward VII, Cecil Rhodes and the Marquis of Queensbury in the said scene wasn't going a bit far, but it seemed right, and it reads right, and that's the main thing, right?

*Seriously, the inebriated bravado thing is a fictionalised account of an actual episode in my Whoficcing career - I'll leave it to you to decide which one*

[clocketpatch]

I didn't know you had it in you until I read that scene. I mean, I should've known after reading the Romana/Duggan fic, but one can never really be prepared for these sorts of things.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I know; it took me completely by surprise!

[thisbluespirit]

I really liked 'Tea For Two'. I wouldn't have thought there was that much mileage to extend the naked!Ten/Three/cake genre into custard creams, but you managed it. My favourite part was when everyone got pretty well sandwiched in the Master's biscuit factory - but the surprise appearance from Two (should have seen that coming from the title) and the Kandyman put the icing on the whole thing.

(I was going to congratulate you on that fabulously indepth, moving and romantic Rose/Ten epic you wrote, but I decided that was a bit too evil of me. ;-D).

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you didn't pick my one hundred and fifty-thousand word, sixty-chapter Army of Ghosts/Doomsday fix-it, because while it has indeed been favourited and reviewed more than anything I've ever posted on the Teaspoon (with especial praise going to the scene where Ten leaves Romana and Martha to get exterminated by the Dalek Emperor because he's just remembered he promised to run Rose to Asda in the TARDIS, while laughing at the very idea that he ever cared about either of them), I don't think it's my best work. I think I stinted a bit on the sex scenes (I mean I didn't even bother writing one that also included Captain Jack) and the domestic situations between Ten and Rose. And thirteen chapters was nowhere near long enough to do justice to the heartaching emotional resonance of Little Johnny Smith's first Xmas...

Bitter? Me??

However, you asked about Tea for Two. I'll confess that when I wrote that one, I found myself increasingly scraping the bottom of the Three/Ten/Cake barrel. People didn't seem to respond to my attempts to pit the semi-clothed Ten and Three combination against such things as toasted muffin monsters, strawberry jelly monsters, jaffa cake monsters and indeed Muller's Fruit Corner monsters. In fact, the only person to review the last mentioned effort told me to "Pull the other one", and "don't you think you've flogged this dead horse enough?" Not the sort of incisive critical analysis I'm used to from the Teaspoon. So, when I was dipping my custard creams into my cup of tea one Sunday afternoon while watching the Invasion on DVD, it all seemed to fall into place: Biscuits! Tea! Two! UNIT! In fact, that's exactly what I wrote down on the back of the biscuit packet to help me remember my moment of genius later on. The rest, as they say, is history.

And I've always wanted to something with the Kandyman; it seemed logical to me that, having managed to repair his ruined robotic body and build a working time machine using nothing more than dried up pieces of bubblegum scraped from the underside of Helen A's desk, that he would seek his terrible, yet sweet, revenge. And teaming him up with Delgado!Master was possibly the single greatest fanfic idea I've ever had...

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I can go to bed highly amused, now.XD

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

XD

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. I'm very, very amused!

Also slightly scared by how you obviously know the Ten/Rose oeuvre far better than me... What have you been reading? ;-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Er...

*whistles innocently while shifting eyes shiftily from side to side*

I like to maintain a passing familiarity with the cutting edge of the genre, certainly. Otherwise, how would I be able to produce masterpieces like "A Rose by Any Other Name"? Incidentally, it was originally going to be called "Eternal Love", but I thought that was a bit, well, purple, if descriptive...