Posted by Anne.
As far back as 2009, as soon as we realised that there was a relationship building between Katrina and David, we knew there was going to be a wedding. A number of times I have sat down to write this story but in each case, things didn’t go so well. As more and more new ideas and stories were added, it didn’t seem a high priority so I left it.
Now, we need this story. On two earlier occasions where weddings were mentioned we just rushed over them and moved on. This time it had to be a good one since we’ve been building towards this wedding through these last few volumes.
Susan called a meeting to discuss how this would go. First, it was broadly fixed that I would manage the wedding section of stories and Susan would manage the nude weekend that would follow later in a new volume. The rest of the team would be involved in both these projects by writing smaller sections as we developed and wrote the main story.
For example – in this section, I wrote the first half as an opening section and then the real Brian and his wife Julie wrote the section about the landscaping feature at Sarvesh’s house. Susan and Allan added to this by writing the conversation when Sarvesh comes home and finds Shanti, stripped down to her bikini top, in the mud helping.
Susan has also written about Mike and Amita going to meet David’s family. She added the part where Amita arrives back driving one of the vans. The story hints at some sexual attraction between Amita and Brian where she is checking him out, hot and sweaty without a shirt. Don't you believe anyone who tells you us girls don't notice fit, hunky guys, sweaty without their shirts!
So this story gives us an overview of the wedding. It’s become a complexed story with many parts moving forward at the same time so we’ve broken them into sections told by various characters while Shanti’s background holds it all together. In the story, this is explained by Shanti being given the job of recording everything that was going on.
Ayaka came up with the idea of providing a summary, almost index of how these sections will be laid out. This could be helpful so I used it as part of my opening.
Now last March, Ayaka got married and just last Saturday, her younger sister Asami, did too. You can see getting married and weddings are on our minds at the moment. So are the naughty parties that follow them a few days later, once family has left. So many of the themes and ideas used here, came from these real events, being modified for the setting of our stories.
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