I am now reading The Secret Pilgrim, which is a novel of separate stories involving characters from Le Carre's Smiley series, I squee a little whenever I hear mention of Peter Guillam. If TTSS is as fabulous as they say, I hope they make the other films in the Karla Trilogy.

My head is full of scenes from my original novel, the one that needs all the research, so I might just try writing and fill in details later, only problem is, the details give me ideas, and it sucks to figure out your premise doesn't work because you didn'tso, yeah, research first.

Now someone asked me if it was okay to just write SHERLOCK without reading ACD, and you could do that, it's just that Mark Gatiss just re-iterated that he and Steven write canon Holmes, so it certianly doesn't hurt, and hey, the stories are fantastic, and most are only a few pages, they were serialized, so a great quick read, a Sherlock Holmes story a day!

I have to check the tent cos it rained last night, grocery shopping *sigh* and I have art to make and fic to write and breakfast for kiddies. Have a great one!

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Date: 2011-08-13 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karadin.livejournal.com
Gatiss and Moff do change Sherlock, and it is in broad strokes, they mean to make Sherlock kindler and gentler (as the saying goes) as they go along, so we see development, they mention very often that few adaptions show Sherlock and John meeting each other. And I agree that canon is also about the time they are in, it's not just gaslight, but I do appreciate that the focus in the new Sherlock is not just on foresics, it's about deduction, I think they do a better job of that than the RDJ Sherlock Holmes film.

Mr.Tweed! I love that. Do you think you'd write Le Carre fic after the film comes out?

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Date: 2011-08-13 06:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tweedisgood.livejournal.com
Ooh, no idea, but interesting idea! I mean, it's British-set (which I love to write), and I used to be a Civil Servant (as did my dad) - not anything to do with security though. Not sure, have to see the film.
There's always book canon anyway :-)

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