Fill: Challenge #14 (Doctor Who, raincheck)

[shivver]

I couldn't come up with anything for the challenge this week. First-person POV is very difficult for me to just write. To me, using it requires a conscious decision for POV, that the story and what I want to accomplish with it needs first-person POV. I can't just write first-person without a good reason. (I did have to write a second-person POV story for a creative writing class and that was difficult but fun, but I will never do that for a fanfic story.)

Anyway, here's a bit from the story I'm currently working on. At this point, the character is telling a fairy tale, and here's the beginning of it.

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Challenge #15

[shivver]

Bullet time! Do you know what that is? In The Matrix, they used a technique called bullet time as a special effect - when a bullet was fired, time was slowed to a crawl as it traveled and the camera moved around to show what was happening during that fraction of a second. Bullet time builds dramatic tension.

Write a scene in bullet time. Choose an event (either original or from an episode or fanfic) lasting no more than five seconds and slow down the time by describing things in minute detail.

An example, of Tom punching Bob in the stomach: “Bob doubled over, curling around the fist, his eyes bulging wide. His legs trembled and gave way; he slumped to his knees, the glass in his hand falling from his limp fingers to smash on the pavement into a thousand glittering fragments.”

That’s all it takes - three seconds stretched out by words, just one paragraph.

Some possible scenes you can do. Note that you can make up the details - it doesn’t have to match what was shown on screen:

• The Doctor getting shot by the Dalek in “The Stolen Earth”
  
• Amy and Rory jumping off the building in “The Daleks Take Manhattan” (the scene itself slows down to help you)
  
• The moment the Doctor disappears and drops the detonator and Luke Rattigan appears and catches the detonator in the teleportation chamber in the Sontaran ship, in “The Poison Sky”
  
• Rose falling from the barrage balloon tether in "The Empty Child"
  

Fill-Challenge 14 (kinda)

[romanajo123]

 )TotD regeneration part- I tired to do what I had to do for class once and switch the POV. You're right, this is hard ! :))


"I will always remember when the Doctor was me."

It's starting.  I can feel it.  And there's...someone in here.  
Amy! She touches my cheek, I do the same.

"Raggedy man, good night" she says softly.

I hear Clara crying, and telling me not to change. Oh, it's coming! The first in a new cycle. I can feel the energy until...it's over. Older now, but something isn't right.  Ah! Maybe the brunette can help me. It's my..

"Kidneys! I've got new kidneys. I don't like the color." 

The brunette looks confused. "Of your kidneys? What's happening?"

The whole place...the ship.  It's off-uh!

"We're probably crashing."

"Into what?" asks Brunette.

"Stay calm. Just one question-do you happen to know how to fly this thing?"