Doctor Who and Maybe You
May 12, 2020 11:42 PM Subscribe
Big Finish Productions, producers of Doctor Who audio plays and audiobooks since 1999 (including New Series content since 2015, definitely not thanks to the murder of an obstructive BBC higher-up by a dimension-hopping Master because people need to know about the Doctor's hubris dammit) has announced the Fifth Annual Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity (previously), your chance to write a forty-minute Doctor Who audiobook and make your mark on the franchise's canon (Such As It IsTM). Entries are due by 30 June 2020. Rules are on the page; additional rules are here (of particular note are character usage limitations and the entry format: a roughly 500-word summary and a roughly 500-word beginning). Previous winners, all downloadable for free, are below the fold.
Previous winners:
2016: Forever Fallen: We all know what tends to happen when a Doctor Who baddie is defeated: fates ranging from the humiliating to the fatal and beyond. But what happens when they just... keep on living?
2017: Landbound: The seventh season of the classic series remains unlike any other: the first and only Tardisless season. But how would writers handle such a situation today?
2018: The Last Day at Work: On the day of his retirement, Constable Bernard Whittam's life has, on reflection, been perfectly nice and ordinary... except for exactly one thing.
2019: The Best-Laid Plans: Look through spacetime long enough and you'll find a way to buy anything. Dracksil Forg's business, for example, is ideas. Of any kind - now LITERALLY any. But when he decides to relax his ethical code and start selling to dictators and warlords, he finally starts to regret his 100% money-back guarantee. To save his reputation, he's going to have to deal with the unifying factor in every last complaint in his rapidly-growing pile. He'll need to do some serious idea-having about this Doctor person.
Previous winners:
2016: Forever Fallen: We all know what tends to happen when a Doctor Who baddie is defeated: fates ranging from the humiliating to the fatal and beyond. But what happens when they just... keep on living?
2017: Landbound: The seventh season of the classic series remains unlike any other: the first and only Tardisless season. But how would writers handle such a situation today?
2018: The Last Day at Work: On the day of his retirement, Constable Bernard Whittam's life has, on reflection, been perfectly nice and ordinary... except for exactly one thing.
2019: The Best-Laid Plans: Look through spacetime long enough and you'll find a way to buy anything. Dracksil Forg's business, for example, is ideas. Of any kind - now LITERALLY any. But when he decides to relax his ethical code and start selling to dictators and warlords, he finally starts to regret his 100% money-back guarantee. To save his reputation, he's going to have to deal with the unifying factor in every last complaint in his rapidly-growing pile. He'll need to do some serious idea-having about this Doctor person.
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