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November 29th, 2011 at 12:04AM

tricialew asked: I just got my Doctor Who–The Brilliant Book 2012. The first thing I did was search the table of contents for all of the Neil Gaimany Goodness. It is all lovely! I remember an interview with Christopher Eccleston as he began his Doctor days and he said he'd be happy if he captured the 8-12 year old fans. He did better than that as did the writers. Did you have a target age group in mind when writing for Doctor Who or has it evolved beyond even needing to think of such things?

When I wrote my Doctor Who episode, I wanted to write the kind of story that would work if you were eight and work if you were sixty, even if it worked in different ways.

And that seemed important: that it be an episode for someone who had never see Doctor Who before and was watching it on a sofa with a parent reassuringly close, and that it would also be for someone like me who had grown up with Doctor Who, who remembered William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton when they were first broadcast.

Glad you liked The Brilliant Book. I love that I got to write my own little slice of Corsair fan-fiction in there, and it’s now sort-of true.