Good news, bad news, Torchwood query
Good news: I already have a good chunk of outline springtime_gen fic mapped out. Not starting way past deadline for once. :)
Bad news: It's already 2,350 words, so at this rate it's unlikely to come in at less than 8K words again. Maybe I should stop throwing in every random detail that occurs to me.
Also, a question for Torchwood fans: I was reorganising some files and was reminded of Catching Wild Geese, a semi-serious fic written pre-S2 about the team's abortive Saxon-inspired trip to the Himalayas. I was fiddling with it to see if could be adapted to fit current canon -- the original version has Jack there when they get back, but Kiss Kiss Bang Bang suggests a gap of maybe a few months before he turns up.(*) That's doable, with some work. The tricky bit is that I really need them to have been in Tibet, but unfortunately the mission report that appeared on the BBC tie-in website (that's a link to a copy, scroll down a bit) says they were on K2, which is a long way away.
So how much would you say people consider that canon, or care about whether it is or not? How well known would that version be? I do prefer to avoid contradicting the Official Version of events where possible, even if it's not technically canon (for certain values of canon), but for this fic to work anywhere other than Tibet requires a very unconvincing handwave.
(*) Come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure what (or who) he was doing all that time, since destroying the Paradox Machine rewound time back to the day after they were sent. Was it a result there being leeway at either end of the TARDIS lock, and they arrived back from Utopia a few months later than they left from Cardiff?
Bad news: It's already 2,350 words, so at this rate it's unlikely to come in at less than 8K words again. Maybe I should stop throwing in every random detail that occurs to me.
Also, a question for Torchwood fans: I was reorganising some files and was reminded of Catching Wild Geese, a semi-serious fic written pre-S2 about the team's abortive Saxon-inspired trip to the Himalayas. I was fiddling with it to see if could be adapted to fit current canon -- the original version has Jack there when they get back, but Kiss Kiss Bang Bang suggests a gap of maybe a few months before he turns up.(*) That's doable, with some work. The tricky bit is that I really need them to have been in Tibet, but unfortunately the mission report that appeared on the BBC tie-in website (that's a link to a copy, scroll down a bit) says they were on K2, which is a long way away.
So how much would you say people consider that canon, or care about whether it is or not? How well known would that version be? I do prefer to avoid contradicting the Official Version of events where possible, even if it's not technically canon (for certain values of canon), but for this fic to work anywhere other than Tibet requires a very unconvincing handwave.
(*) Come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure what (or who) he was doing all that time, since destroying the Paradox Machine rewound time back to the day after they were sent. Was it a result there being leeway at either end of the TARDIS lock, and they arrived back from Utopia a few months later than they left from Cardiff?