Angelic Paranoia

I signed up to unsent-letters-exchange this year. Last year I picked up a pinch hit and enjoyed it, so this year I signed up. But was thinking that I didn't really need to get a story. And then I ended up getting a great Jo Grant story.

Until I See You Again (3234 words) by AstroGirl
Fandom: Doctor Who, Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005), Sarah Jane Adventures
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Doctor & Jo Grant, Jo Grant/Cliff Jones
Characters: Jo Grant, Fourteenth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Friendship, Aging, Reconnecting with old friends, Mentions of Doctor/River
Summary: Jo writes letters. Eventually, the Doctor responds.

I wrote some SJA. For which I re-watched some. It being on the iPlayer now makes it much easier than getting out the DVDs. In fact I re-watched a whole series before I stopped myself - I could have quite easily re-watched the whole thing.

Alien Tales (1097 words) by paranoidangel
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luke Smith, Clyde Langer
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Aliens
Summary: A selection of texts between Luke and Clyde after he starts at Oxford.

It was a good thing to get my writing again - the last thing I wrote I finished in November. And since then I've signed up for intoabar which I haven't written for since 2013. I only let myself sign up because I've mostly written my unconventionalcourtship fic which is going to be due about the same time. And I'm a bit busy at the moment out dancing most weekends between now and the deadline. I want to say I've thought about which fandoms to put down, but it's going to be Pike meeting someone from Doctor Who or SJA, so that could be a character I know well or not...

My Unconventional Courtship fic took a while because I couldn't decide whether it should end happily ever after (or at least okay for now) or everyone dies. I looked back at previous Unconventional Courtship fics to see how many ended happily.

I've written 9 of them and:

• 3 are happy
• 2 are happy but angsty before we get there
• 2 are unhappy
• 2 where the relationship doesn't change during the fic

So in summary, anything I write is likely to be angsty.

I wrote a fic two(!) years ago where Harry turns up at Sarah's in the present, using the Big Finish canon where the Doctor dropped him off a few decades in the future. Someone in the comments asked for more and I thought I'd like to write more. And came up with some more. I am finally writing some more. At least I have a first draft for chapter two and a vague idea for what could be chapter two or a sequel depending on how it comes out. But I've missed writing Sarah and Harry.

On a related note, I had a problem with my bandwidth getting out of control, which I solved by making my fic archive private. At some point I should really sort that out since there were definitely some non-bot visitors. I was too stressed to do anything at the time and now I keep forgetting/can't quite muster up the enthusiasm.

Mirrored from my blog.

Although I wrote it two months ago. The original posting date was 24th March and that was after I'd mustered up the energy to work out the formatting.

Anyway, back in early March unsent-letters-exchange was happening. There were some interesting things being nominated and some interesting things people were asking for. But I was having a week with not enough sleep. And genfreeformexchange announced their dates and I wasn't sure about doing two that overlapped. But I definitely wanted to do the latter since I said last year that was the one exchanged I definitely wanted to do this year.

But the last day of sign ups was a Saturday when I had no plans, so I thought I'd wait until then and see how I felt once I was less tired. So that was when my smoke alarm decided 4am on Saturday morning was a good time to let me know it had a low battery. There's nothing like a beeping smoke alarm to really wake you up. Consequently I spent most of Saturday napping, re-watching the gay pirates and generally not having the energy to do anything.

The day after I felt a whole lot better. I was going out, but before I went I had some time to look at my RSS feeds and in the pinch hit list spotted the request I most wanted to see fic for. So I picked it up and somehow wrote it really quickly. I want to do unsent-letters-exchange next year, because an exchange that means not having to write description is my kind of thing (and I also like reading epistolary fic too).

After all of that backstory, here is the fic I wrote:
Messages From Ace's Phone (1239 words) by paranoidangel
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Tegan Jovanka & Ace McShane
Characters: Tegan Jovanka, Ace McShane
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Texting, Voicemail, Aliens, UNIT
Summary: It's Tuesday. A normal day. If a normal day includes aliens and worrying about friends.

Mirrored from my blog.