Alt.drwho.creative

On May 24, 1993, alt.drwho.creative was spun off from the Usenet discussion group rec.arts.drwho. 
The creation of the group was suggested by Happy Halibut VI (Richard Salter) and set up by Dave Williams. The stated purpose of the group was "for stories and any other bits of creative stuff people may come up with in connection to the TV series 'Doctor Who.'"
The group had an active community through most of the nineties, but membership eventually dropped as online fannish activity in general moved away from Usenet. The Doctor Who revival in 2005 did little to arrest the slide, as the new fans the revival created didn't congregate on Usenet. The group still exists, but the community has moved on, although people still occasionally post new works for old times' sake.
The Panatropic Archive, now defunct, archived works from adwc.
==Trends==
* The Internet Adventures, a long-running series written Round Robin style, with each chapter by a different author. Named on the model of the New Adventures, the series of authorized spin-off novels that bridged the gap from the end of the TV series in 1989 to the 1996 telemovie, the IAs continued the Doctor's adventures after the telemovie. Spin-offs written in the same style included the Missing Internet Adventures (like the Missing Adventures spin-off novels, set earlier during the series), Companion Internet Adventures (companions having adventures after parting company with the Doctor), and Crossover Internet Adventures (for instance, a crossover with the James Bond movies that leant into the fan theory that Bond was a Time Lord), as well as one attempt at a "Whoniverse Internet Adventure" with entirely original characters.
* This Time Round, a shared universe centered on "the pub outside continuity" where characters and sometimes authors went to hang out between stories. The initiating work, "A Quiet Night Out" by Tyler Dion, was posted on 23 January 1998. Subreality Café was an acknowledged inspiration, though it developed its own character (and in-jokes, including an elaborate story structure surrounding Adric and Nyssa of Traken that this aside is too narrow to contain). A website created at ttrarchive.com to collect the stories in this universe is still active.
* adwc's annual awards, the Adrics, were presented from 1998 to 2005. They were voted on by the community and included categories for works (divided by Longform/Shortform/Drabble and Dramatic/Comedic), characters (with separate categories for canonical characters and original characters), etc.
* Drabbles were in vogue when the group started (Drabble Who? was published the same year), and were a popular form for most of its history, even getting their own category in the annual awards.
==Inspiration, and Some Hopes==
From Happy Halibut VI (Richard Salter):
==Excerpt from the Original Proposed Charter==
From David Williams:
==References==
==External links==
* TTR Archive.com - Archive of This Time Round stories
* Doctor Who Internet Adventures wiki at Wikia FANDOM
*Round-Robin FAQ
*Formatting FAQ
*Archive Submission Primer
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