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[doyle]

livii is running a ficathon for post-Doomsday Rose-centric gen. It's a 750 word limit and you'll be feeding my desire for alt!Torchwood adventures, which means it's practically a public service.

I need to write my romanathon entry. Well, I need to finish this data inputting stuff for work that's breaking my brain. But I want to be writing my Romanathon story.

Speaking of ficathons, the way lifeonmartha's going, I foresee Martha Jones being the first character to have a ficathon before she's ever appeared onscreen if I have to run it myself, so help me, I will. ETA: I have no self control.

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Oh! I have a question. Can you explain the desire to write about a character that you haven't met yet?

Because it seems to be common, but I don't understand it at all. Quite a lot of people are loving or hating Martha already and I just... don't get it. We haven't met her yet. It completely baffles me how anything can be said about her that isn't about her looks (which are very nice, but not... character-building). Since you seem to love her already... could you explain how? Because I'm utterly confused, to be honest.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for everyone, obviously, but for me it's the ultimate in filling in the gaps - which is what we do as fanfic writers, when you get down to it. We know what she looks like, that she's 23, contemporary, a medical student, possibly has a sister, and that she somehow ends up travelling with the Doctor, and that's it. I love seeing what directions people take that in and the different places they end up with it. Look at how much fic Ten generated when we had five words to go on.

Since you seem to love her already...

Erm, not really? I'm very enthusiastic about the concept of getting a new companion, as I would be regardless of who s/he was, which doesn't really add up to loving Martha herself (though considering there's only one companion so far I can't stand - Dodo - I'm sure I'll at least like her).

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Ah, I also didn't really read any tenth Doctor fanfic until I'd known him for more than ten seconds. It's definitely a 'personal preference' thing, then (I also can't listen to audio books -- audio only is fine for music, apparently, but I can't listen to stories on tape. Personal quirk.).