who else writes ‘Doctor Who’ fan fiction?

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Actually, that has given me a little more confidence as Matt Smith as the Doctor, if he's that enthused about it all.

Sadly, I saw on Neil Gaiman's blog the other day that his Doctor Who episode has been moved to Series 6, so a longer wait for it. Grr.

Yay dorkiness! That certainly makes me a bit more inclined to love this man.

He, Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat are visiting New York on 14 April for a screening of The Eleventh Hour, followed by a Q&A. Details on the BBC America Facebook page. It's first come, first served, so get in quick!

There's a longer quote that is even better:

I had the part six months prior to shooting anything on camera – and for much of that time it was all a big secret – so I had to find a way of channelling my energy and excitement, my lust, as it were, for creating this persona.

I was thinking, ‘Who in the world has a brain and a silliness which is close to the Doctor?’ and then I saw that photograph of Albert Einstein poking his tongue out and it just clicked.

I found this book of quotes by Einstein – which I recommend as a life choice, he was such an insightful man – and I started writing short stories about Einstein and the Doctor, where the Doctor was getting irritated with the great man’s buffoonery. He’d be saying, ‘Come on, Albert, keep up!’ and I think that, more than anything, was my way in to the part

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/03/30/doctor-who-new-star-matt-smith-reveals-he-got-inspiration-for-his-role-from-albert-einstein-115875-22149381/

Interestingly, Matt got his degree in Drama and Creative Writing.

Okay, now I have to know where he's posted it...

I'll be doubly intrigued if it's slash....

Yes....

The Doctor leaned in close, his eyes locked with Einstein's. The brogue throb of the Tardis was the only sound.

"Doctor," said Albert with a tinge of lusty anxiousness, "what are you doing?"

The Doctor took Albert's face in his hands and kissed him on the lips, a brief tickle of moustache. "Something I should have done a long time ago, Albert," said The Doctor.

Oh, gross. I just puked on my laptop!

That's pretty damn adorable. Perhaps I can forgive him for being a mere child.

If any of you have livejournal, I did stumble across a "Sense and Sensibility" crossover with "Doctor Who." I didn't keep track of where, so I can't provide a link.

Matt says his stories are "probably quite crap" (then apologises for using "the cr word" on early-evening television).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42uKMqDl5ng

I was reading the Doctor Who Magazine article where this fact was first revealed and it gets even better: upon first meeting the interviewer, he says he needs to check whether he's really from DWM or whether he's a tabloid spy, so he hits him with a barrage of Doctor Who trivia questions.

What makes this extra-wonderful is that he phrases them like this: "In which episode did I go to Victorian Scotland and fight a werewolf?" Not "When did the Doctor...": he says "When did I..."

Matt Smith is amazing.