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camrogers ([personal profile] camrogers) wrote2010-01-21 04:36 pm

Write for Dr Who

Opportunity for New Writers

For a very limited period, Big Finish is pleased to invite prospective writers to pitch ideas for a one-off, 25-minute Fifth Doctor and Nyssa audio adventure, which we hope will make up one of four single-episode stories comprising a future
 
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I'd take a swing at this but I think my Dr Who knowledge atrophied sometime around Grade 10.  Unfortunately.  Because I think this could be fun.

[identity profile] greylock.livejournal.com 2010-01-21 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
I'd take a swing at this but I think my Dr Who knowledge atrophied sometime around Grade 10. Unfortunately. Because I think this could be fun.

What's to know?
The Doctor is a hero, bouncing around time and space in the TARDIS, Nyssa is a vaguely telepathic, sympathetic bio-chemist from the destroyed technological paradise of Trakan, and they have adventures.

Continuity really isn't an issue, and the characters are defined more by the supporting mythos than the actual characters.

(That said, the Big Finish stories are usually pretty solid).

(Obviously, I haven't a single idea or I'd be up for this).

[identity profile] patchworkkid.livejournal.com 2010-01-21 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Feb 1 is a pretty tight deadline. It's also the (self-imposed, agent-promised and certain-to-be-missed)deadline for my actual book. I dont see how I could.

[identity profile] greylock.livejournal.com 2010-01-21 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Feb 1 is a pretty tight deadline.

Well, there is that too.
But IIRC they only want a 500 word breakdown and a single scene.

But you mount a good argument.

[identity profile] patchworkkid.livejournal.com 2010-01-21 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
500 word and a breakdown? Hmm... I missed that part. I'll mull it over.

[identity profile] greylock.livejournal.com 2010-01-21 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure that it's what it said in the pdf.