notes expanded

NAs and continuity
Continuity in the following sense: the main characters reflect on past adventures, often the reason behind their mood, attitude, behaviour and actions. There is a connection between novels and each character is contiguous having a life that develops and reflects over the course of the New Adventures.

NAs as novel
What does the literary form mean for all the regular Doctor Who questions? What is the nature of the character of the Doctor and companions? or with boring things like canon and continuity (traditional sense)? Even for those ideas that binds Doctor Who as legend and myth, within its own history or culture (if only extending into fandom)? Or that odd undefined thing which I can only name as Doctor Whoness?

This is not just about the space to do things - to go on Virgin's mantra of deeper and bolder, but more to do with the form allowing to do things like continuity (as above) and internal lives. Can we call this the novelness of Doctor Who?

So this could just mean the traditional ideas about the literary form, not just the stories are bigger but that just the idea of word and sentence having value. There is here a Modernist method of abstraction from visual forms on a television screen to a life of words.

A question to ask our authors: Did they write what they visualised?

NA writers as authors and fans
Fans who write or writers who are fans? Both.

This must be like the films of writers and directors who grew up with Star Wars making their stories. Though film has a long history of this. French New Wave directors came out from Cahiers du Cinema such as Godard and Truffaut. They developed their own language of cinema.

The Cahiers du Cinema critics had championed auteur theory and I assume that's how they made films, but they also made films with a vast knowledge and love of cinema. I can imagine they are not too different from the NA fan/writers. The biographies of the New Wave directors might be worth following up on for points of difference/similarity with the NA writers.

Knowledge, theory, love? Perhaps that is how the New Adventures developed its new language? Whereas the new series developed its language after a combination of time passing (16 years) and because contemporary times demands a new language. What is this new language thing, see this post.