Unexpected headway with "Adventures"

[wiseheart]

The 5th story arc is almost complete. Actually, this is the most original arc of all - a lot of the earlier stuff is rewriting of either the pilot episode or of some original ACD story. Well, this one is my version of The Speckled Band, of course, but I feel that for the first time I actually managed to come up with a truly original twist; one that brings the whole thing closer to the Whoniverse for a change.

I really should cut back on the canon rewriting stuff drastically. Perhaps that's why the casual reader isn't interested in my stories. Plus, it stunts my creativity a great deal, since I respect canon too much, in most cases. Clearly, I can't do it with "Sleeping Dragons", as that is sort of a fix-it, or with the "Birthright" series (Andromeda, in case anyone is interested), for the same reason. But I should give it some serious effort otherwise. Even if it means more painful writing, for the language part of it.

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The truth is, I actually love doing canon rewrites. It allows me to fix for myself what I don't like in canon. Unfortunately, it also seems to magically draw in two diagonally opposite sorts of idiots: the one who cries plagiarism as soon as they discover a similar-sounding line of dialogue and the canon nazi that clearly doesn't know what the big, honking AU label means.