New Community Centre & More Writing Meme
Aug. 23rd, 2014 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitThis afternoon we went to the formal opening of the new community centre. The mayor was there and cut a ribbon and we all trooped back inside to drink tea and eat cake. We (three Brownie leaders) are very excited about the new centre. We shall have a bigger hall; there is more than one toilet; there are proper kitchen facilities. No more mould on the walls and lights falling out of the ceiling. And by next summer there will be a grassed area so we can play games outside. It may not make a great deal of difference to the activities we do, but just having the extra space to do them in will be excellent.
In the writing meme I've reached No 4: Something you wrote just for yourself.
It had to be Legacy. At 14,000 words it's the longest thing I've written. Set in the BBC Sherlock 'verse, the premise is that Sherlock and Stanley Hopkins are living together. Stanley, of course, features in some of the ACD stories, and here I've brought him up to date, basing him loosely on Lucas North from Spooks (only without a similar back story). At the start of the story Stanley (an inspector with NSY) has been seconded to MI5 where he has some contact with Mary Watson, who is also now employed by them. The story begins with Stanley bringing Isabel Watson back to 221B, because Mary has been killed and John seriously injured. I used the story to explore the reactions of various characters to a catastrophic event in much greater detail than I would normally write. I'm delighted that a few people liked the story, but essentially it was written purely for myself.
In the writing meme I've reached No 4: Something you wrote just for yourself.
It had to be Legacy. At 14,000 words it's the longest thing I've written. Set in the BBC Sherlock 'verse, the premise is that Sherlock and Stanley Hopkins are living together. Stanley, of course, features in some of the ACD stories, and here I've brought him up to date, basing him loosely on Lucas North from Spooks (only without a similar back story). At the start of the story Stanley (an inspector with NSY) has been seconded to MI5 where he has some contact with Mary Watson, who is also now employed by them. The story begins with Stanley bringing Isabel Watson back to 221B, because Mary has been killed and John seriously injured. I used the story to explore the reactions of various characters to a catastrophic event in much greater detail than I would normally write. I'm delighted that a few people liked the story, but essentially it was written purely for myself.
