Writing progress: Outtakes 03 and "Adventures" ep 06

[wiseheart]

I've made some unexpected progress with the Outtakes series - for those who don't follow the various installments of "Beautiful Minds", it's a series of loosely connected AU-vignettes to Sherlock's season 3, set in the Iceman!verse, in which Tosh features instead of Mary Morstan.

Inspiration just hit like a brick wall last week, and now I'm seven pages into Outtakes 03, which is a somewhat eclectic mix of "His Last Vow", the original ACD story "Charles Augustus Milverton" and what my twisted mind comes up with. Since I hate what the Moftiss did in Series 3, especially concerning character development, I find great, evil delight in righting all the wrongs for myself. *g*

Also, the second Interlude to "Adventures" goes on steadily. Writing Wholock is fun, and I never thought I'd enjoy writing Molly Hooper, but I actually do. Well; my version of her. I've just spent an entire chapter on describing her flat, which was an interesting exercise. It's based on the actual, rather odd flat of a male friend, but full of what I consider Molly-ish things. A bit contradictional, but fun nonetheless. As this story features a version of Mary Morstan based on the lead character of "The Mistress of Spices", it's even funnier to write.

Speaking of which, I just realise that I've come up with three rather different versions of Mary, even if I don't count the part in which she's replaced by Tosh. John Watson should be thankful for the variety of wives I've given him. At least none of them is a murderer who almost killed his best friends. EVen though two of them *are* 'played' by Amanda.

Comments

[sammydragoncat]

I am so looking forward to reading all your variations on Mary.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, you have seen them all already. One is the very ACD-canon version in the Miss Marple x-over, although I tried to make her a bit less timid and more up-to-the-century. The other one is also fairly canonical, from "Sherlock and the Illustrious Client." The third one is the Wholock version, 'played' by Ayeshwaria Rai. And the fourth one is, well, Tosh. ;)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

It is a lot of fun to see all your different versions of Mary - and great to know that you are making such good progress.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I just with I had more time to write. Doing this in the odd free hour between lessons is not very productive.