Oncoming Storms - 171.2 - Mun
How many of your prompts have been based solely on canon events and how many solely on stuff you've made up? Why is there a skew (or isn't there if there isn't)?
I think I've rarely set any of my prompts to the exact canon events of Donna's time on the show. Maybe every now and then I'll reference something, like the piece I did with Wilf and Sylvia chatting about Donna. I'd set that right before Partners in Crime, maybe a day or so before Donna gets back from Adipose Industries and has her talk with Wilf up on the hill about what's going on with her.
It's more fun for me to explore the in between times, when things might not have been as dangerous or were equally as dangerous. There's a lot of time that passes between certain episodes before Turn Left (from which there is no negotiating room for any other adventures then considering what happens), and I like to explore those gaps. I have an idea of where each prompt falls in relation to the episodes, and admittedly, I do bounce around the timeline a bit depending on my mood or whatever strikes my fancy to suit the purposes of the prompt.
Granted, I could explore Donna's mindset while she's going through events in canon, but that's not fun for me. I don't feel like I'm stretching my legs properly when I'm just writing some introspective thing like that. I'd rather write introspection after the fact, after events have had time to sink in and settle like the aftertaste of a particularly bad drink or something. I like seeing a character trying to move on (or struggling to move on) but is still reeling from what has happened before the start of the piece.
So yeah, huge skew there. I can see myself potentially writing Donna hanging out on Midnight while the Doctor's off getting traumatised, though. (I'll have to remember that for the future.) We'll see.
Muse: Donna Noble
Word count: 300
I think I've rarely set any of my prompts to the exact canon events of Donna's time on the show. Maybe every now and then I'll reference something, like the piece I did with Wilf and Sylvia chatting about Donna. I'd set that right before Partners in Crime, maybe a day or so before Donna gets back from Adipose Industries and has her talk with Wilf up on the hill about what's going on with her.
It's more fun for me to explore the in between times, when things might not have been as dangerous or were equally as dangerous. There's a lot of time that passes between certain episodes before Turn Left (from which there is no negotiating room for any other adventures then considering what happens), and I like to explore those gaps. I have an idea of where each prompt falls in relation to the episodes, and admittedly, I do bounce around the timeline a bit depending on my mood or whatever strikes my fancy to suit the purposes of the prompt.
Granted, I could explore Donna's mindset while she's going through events in canon, but that's not fun for me. I don't feel like I'm stretching my legs properly when I'm just writing some introspective thing like that. I'd rather write introspection after the fact, after events have had time to sink in and settle like the aftertaste of a particularly bad drink or something. I like seeing a character trying to move on (or struggling to move on) but is still reeling from what has happened before the start of the piece.
So yeah, huge skew there. I can see myself potentially writing Donna hanging out on Midnight while the Doctor's off getting traumatised, though. (I'll have to remember that for the future.) We'll see.
Muse: Donna Noble
Word count: 300