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Oct. 19th, 2010 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleOh hey... my brain has had an idea!
I've been pondering what to work on during NaNo month.
Given my recent brush with longfic, I'm not sure I want to tie myself down to one project all month. So I was thinking perhaps of pecking at the squares on my hurt/comfort bingo card.
But then this morning I suddenly remembered I have three sentences of my Torchwood Regency fic started, and if I was looking for a longer project that can generate a decent word count that this might be the project to work on.
I mean, tell me there's not places to go after this:
"Captain Harkness knelt, cobblestones digging into his knees as he held his dead mistress in his arms.
It was late at night, and he could hear the water from the fountain in the square splashing in the background, as his pulse thundered in his ears. Cooper, the housekeeper, stood looking down at them, her eyes wide."
Of course to do it without too much research (I tend to spend too MUCH time researching)I'd have to make it Victorian, but I think with the characters I have in mind, and their inter-relationships, it all doesn't actually change that much with the shift in time period.
Add to it all the fact that it might be fun to write ... and maybe more than 16 people would read it :)
The big decision I have to make is how to set it in Cardiff and still keep some echo of the Hub. I mean, I can put them in some made up townhouse in Cardiff, but that doesn't necessarily give me the Plass/dock/bay/water feel. Thinking out loud here, I think that means that Captain Harkness has to be ex-Navy, and have a controlling interesting in an import firm that owns a large warehouse in the docklands of Cardiff past.
So we'll see... but that's today's thoughts. Sound like a plan?
This entry was originally posted at http://valancy-joy.dreamwidth.org/132646.html
I've been pondering what to work on during NaNo month.
Given my recent brush with longfic, I'm not sure I want to tie myself down to one project all month. So I was thinking perhaps of pecking at the squares on my hurt/comfort bingo card.
But then this morning I suddenly remembered I have three sentences of my Torchwood Regency fic started, and if I was looking for a longer project that can generate a decent word count that this might be the project to work on.
I mean, tell me there's not places to go after this:
"Captain Harkness knelt, cobblestones digging into his knees as he held his dead mistress in his arms.
It was late at night, and he could hear the water from the fountain in the square splashing in the background, as his pulse thundered in his ears. Cooper, the housekeeper, stood looking down at them, her eyes wide."
Of course to do it without too much research (I tend to spend too MUCH time researching)I'd have to make it Victorian, but I think with the characters I have in mind, and their inter-relationships, it all doesn't actually change that much with the shift in time period.
Add to it all the fact that it might be fun to write ... and maybe more than 16 people would read it :)
The big decision I have to make is how to set it in Cardiff and still keep some echo of the Hub. I mean, I can put them in some made up townhouse in Cardiff, but that doesn't necessarily give me the Plass/dock/bay/water feel. Thinking out loud here, I think that means that Captain Harkness has to be ex-Navy, and have a controlling interesting in an import firm that owns a large warehouse in the docklands of Cardiff past.
So we'll see... but that's today's thoughts. Sound like a plan?
This entry was originally posted at http://valancy-joy.dreamwidth.org/132646.html
