Earlier this week, I submitted my entry for Big Finish’s Doctor Who short story competition. The closing date is tomorrow, January 31, and I don’t know how long it’ll be until I hear who beat me (such confidence, I know).
I ditched the original short story I tried writing for the competition, as I realised that it was really a Tenth-Doctor-and-Rose story that I was trying to shoehorn into an earlier incarnation to fit into BF’s licensing restrictions. And it was very obvious — there’s a tangible difference in style between the Doctor’s relationship with Rose and that of previous companions. So, after many failed rewrites, I put that story to one side. Maybe it’ll resurface one day, in some form.
The first draft of the story I ended up submitting was written some seven years ago. Thanks to the internet, it’s possible to read it as it was then if you dig around (on this site and elsewhere). I’m not going to link to it just yet, for superstitious reasons more than anything: I think the new version, which has been substantially rewritten, is a big improvement. To highlight that earlier, inferior draft wouldn’t feel right.
As soon as I get confirmation that somebody better has won, I’ll publish the new version here.
Update: The tale I submitted, Requiem for a Songbird, is now online.
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