(hands RJA a copy of Dante's Inferno) Well, it worked for D.L. Witherspoon and sage_theory. Well, sort of worked for sage_theory.
Or steal the plot from "Watership Down". No, that probably wouldn't work.
Actually, you could steal the plot from "Conrad's Fate", which I just finished reading this lunchtime. Well, not the actual plot, but one of the plot-ingredients could work quite well for Doctor Who -- there's a "probability fault" (a thinness between probable alternate worlds) which someone is exploiting to try to get rich by "pulling the probabilities" to make their investments prosper, without realizing that their continuing to do so could wipe out the universe! That sounds like a suitably Doctorish problem to try to solve, especially as the side-effects cause chaos as things keep on altering slightly, which some people notice and some people don't... and also make it more difficult to track down and stop the perpetrator.
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Or steal the plot from "Watership Down". No, that probably wouldn't work.
Actually, you could steal the plot from "Conrad's Fate", which I just finished reading this lunchtime. Well, not the actual plot, but one of the plot-ingredients could work quite well for Doctor Who -- there's a "probability fault" (a thinness between probable alternate worlds) which someone is exploiting to try to get rich by "pulling the probabilities" to make their investments prosper, without realizing that their continuing to do so could wipe out the universe! That sounds like a suitably Doctorish problem to try to solve, especially as the side-effects cause chaos as things keep on altering slightly, which some people notice and some people don't... and also make it more difficult to track down and stop the perpetrator.