Just really in a good mood today
Mar. 18th, 2026 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverI'm usually in a good mood -- I'm definitely an optimist -- but today, I'm just really happy.
The main reason that I'm happy, and that I've been happy for the past couple of days, is that story I just posted, "Dead in the Water". Not only am I feeling accomplished, but I actually really like it and how it came out. It's the first adventure that I've written since... (looks through AO3) ... Omg, since "Sandcastles", which is the story that ends with the conflict that this story resolves! That was four years ago. I haven't written a "go somewhere, get in trouble, save the day" adventure in four years!
I have in these four years written a couple of interesting things that I've been proud of -- Sylvia's and Donna's post-"The Giggle" reconciliation, the TARDIS's manipulation of the 60th/series 14, pushing Lindy Pepper-Bean (and Hoochy, for that matter) off a cliff, and getting Just This Once Tiff that cup of coffee by Fourteen's pond -- but still, everything I've been writing has felt, well, boring and unimaginative. Sure, it's adorable seeing the Doctor upgrade Donna's biodamper as a seventeenth-anniversary-of-the-day-we-met present, but that's about all it is -- adorable.
But this one! It's an adventure. It has clues planted earlier that David and Will use later on. It has some jokes and fanservice. It also is quite a bit more mature than normal DW episodes, and at least one shocking scene (well, surprising... we-e-ell, unexpected anyway). And it has character development and introspection.
I'm really proud of this one. I really like it.
Now, don't go read it, because it's DW AU and has nothing to do with the TV show.
My husband and I actually talked about this, that I don't seem to write adventures for DW itself very often. I definitely want to. The problem is that the way I designed David, he can take a lot of punishment that the Doctor and his companions cannot, and so any adventure that requires someone getting hurt, it has to be David.
Anyway, all I've been doing the past couple of days (when I'm not playing Against the Storm -- got caught back up in that because I don't feel like playing Baldur's Gate III, because I'm mad at Astarion; I spent hours trying to get the party to level 5 and when they did, he was short ONE experience point) is rereading my favorite sections of the story, which is not something I normally do. Yes, I reread my works a lot, but not usually right away. It takes weeks or months for me to revisit something I've just posted, but not this time.
Anyway, I really do love this story. I hope that it's not just new-car smell and that it won't turn into a lemon in a month.
P.S. I just looked back at the list of the stories that I am proud of and thought, "Wow, I really did enjoy RTD's return, didn't I?" I haven't been that inspired by the show since 2016.
The main reason that I'm happy, and that I've been happy for the past couple of days, is that story I just posted, "Dead in the Water". Not only am I feeling accomplished, but I actually really like it and how it came out. It's the first adventure that I've written since... (looks through AO3) ... Omg, since "Sandcastles", which is the story that ends with the conflict that this story resolves! That was four years ago. I haven't written a "go somewhere, get in trouble, save the day" adventure in four years!
I have in these four years written a couple of interesting things that I've been proud of -- Sylvia's and Donna's post-"The Giggle" reconciliation, the TARDIS's manipulation of the 60th/series 14, pushing Lindy Pepper-Bean (and Hoochy, for that matter) off a cliff, and getting Just This Once Tiff that cup of coffee by Fourteen's pond -- but still, everything I've been writing has felt, well, boring and unimaginative. Sure, it's adorable seeing the Doctor upgrade Donna's biodamper as a seventeenth-anniversary-of-the-day-we-met present, but that's about all it is -- adorable.
But this one! It's an adventure. It has clues planted earlier that David and Will use later on. It has some jokes and fanservice. It also is quite a bit more mature than normal DW episodes, and at least one shocking scene (well, surprising... we-e-ell, unexpected anyway). And it has character development and introspection.
I'm really proud of this one. I really like it.
Now, don't go read it, because it's DW AU and has nothing to do with the TV show.
My husband and I actually talked about this, that I don't seem to write adventures for DW itself very often. I definitely want to. The problem is that the way I designed David, he can take a lot of punishment that the Doctor and his companions cannot, and so any adventure that requires someone getting hurt, it has to be David.
Anyway, all I've been doing the past couple of days (when I'm not playing Against the Storm -- got caught back up in that because I don't feel like playing Baldur's Gate III, because I'm mad at Astarion; I spent hours trying to get the party to level 5 and when they did, he was short ONE experience point) is rereading my favorite sections of the story, which is not something I normally do. Yes, I reread my works a lot, but not usually right away. It takes weeks or months for me to revisit something I've just posted, but not this time.
Anyway, I really do love this story. I hope that it's not just new-car smell and that it won't turn into a lemon in a month.
P.S. I just looked back at the list of the stories that I am proud of and thought, "Wow, I really did enjoy RTD's return, didn't I?" I haven't been that inspired by the show since 2016.
