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impulsereaderGrandmere is dying to hear about one of Sherlock and John’s adventures. Which ACD story should be adapted for her benefit? Come on – throw me your favourite – Silver Blaze, Yellow Face and Speckled Band are the only stories off the table as I’m trying/planning to use or have already used those.
I’m still not sure what Mycroft is building – or assembling – he has the MJN crew bringing in one element and Sandy Arbuthnot flying in another – there may very well be other components as well... This leads one of the opening scenes in the Much Ado season to feature a dogfight bringing down Sandy’s plane and a group of armed men hijacking Gertie! Luckily, John and Not Anthea look harmless and are taken along as hostages. It does not take them long to return control to Martin (who displays a slightly startling willingness to be Captain even when doing so requires him to be kidnapped at gunpoint. “No, being Captain means taking the bad with the good, Douglas.”).
What is Mycroft building/assembling? Maybe he’s let one of you in on it? He doesn’t seem inclined currently to tell me.
Mycroft refers to the clan as ‘a blizzard of Holmeses’. Do we like that or can you lot come up with something better? I know djarum99 is good at this – a charm of hummingbirds - *happy sigh*.
Do John and Sherlock exchange gifts? If yes, what would you like to see them give each other? Two holidays here, mind…is anyone interested in any other possible gift exchanges?
What do you think might be in the bottle (sealed with lead) which Sherlock pocketed in the attic?
The boys are scheduled for a final fitting of their costumes. I think this requires another canon character (anyone but Donovan *glares at Sally*) to drop by the flat coincidentally while Sherlock is trying on dresses. Who would you like it to be? What else is going on in November at Baker Street? What are we talking about while the fitting is going on? Is there a case on? Maybe we can even put in another ACD adaptation here…go wild!
I’m still not sure what Mycroft is building – or assembling – he has the MJN crew bringing in one element and Sandy Arbuthnot flying in another – there may very well be other components as well... This leads one of the opening scenes in the Much Ado season to feature a dogfight bringing down Sandy’s plane and a group of armed men hijacking Gertie! Luckily, John and Not Anthea look harmless and are taken along as hostages. It does not take them long to return control to Martin (who displays a slightly startling willingness to be Captain even when doing so requires him to be kidnapped at gunpoint. “No, being Captain means taking the bad with the good, Douglas.”).
What is Mycroft building/assembling? Maybe he’s let one of you in on it? He doesn’t seem inclined currently to tell me.
Mycroft refers to the clan as ‘a blizzard of Holmeses’. Do we like that or can you lot come up with something better? I know djarum99 is good at this – a charm of hummingbirds - *happy sigh*.
Do John and Sherlock exchange gifts? If yes, what would you like to see them give each other? Two holidays here, mind…is anyone interested in any other possible gift exchanges?
What do you think might be in the bottle (sealed with lead) which Sherlock pocketed in the attic?
The boys are scheduled for a final fitting of their costumes. I think this requires another canon character (anyone but Donovan *glares at Sally*) to drop by the flat coincidentally while Sherlock is trying on dresses. Who would you like it to be? What else is going on in November at Baker Street? What are we talking about while the fitting is going on? Is there a case on? Maybe we can even put in another ACD adaptation here…go wild!
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Re: Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-10 11:31 pm (UTC)Thank you very much for both loling as well as being concerned at the same time - I was feeling that way myself once I realized how much longer this story was going to be than anything else I had written. I actually totally freaked out about it in a journal post.
I'm feeling pretty good about it just now - I'm approaching 25k words on the first section and have a good grasp of what I have left to fit in. It actually was very very lucky that I wrote the beginning and then the end. If I hadn't this probably would have taken a turn toward the tragic. I think I'll be able to finish and post the first holiday section within the next couple of weeks.
The interludes are definitely limited to twelve at most and I'll post as I finish them, once I know what each of them is and what order they go in, and I'm doing pretty well on this. I have one long one complete and a total of around 5k words. Some of these will probably be short - a definite nod to your concern.
I assure you I'm prompting pretty carefully, and there's no way all of the responses are going to make their way into the story. The attic was the exception - everyone's wonderful suggestions are fantastic to read but they're mostly to see what sparks and make me think thinky thoughts - take your model of the house - I'll fit it in as an aside, but it's not fitting my vision for Mycroft's gadget so it will not in fact become Mycroft's gadget.
I'm also not going to post or pimp any of this anywhere other than my journal until the entire thing is complete. If I do manage to epically fail there's no need to disappoint any more people than I have to.