Posted by Susan
So when Hansini and Mootie decided to swap partners with Brian and Mega we needed a writer to cover the second story between Mootie and Mega. At that point, we decided on Mootie as his wife Hansini was already involved in writing. So to add interest, in the first story, Story 76, we added that conversation between Amita and Hansini as to who would do it but we were careful not to say who. Finally, at the start of this letter, Amita reveals the person’s name as Mootie.
Most of this story was written in late 2008 but in 2013 when Rajah began writing his first story he was having trouble getting started as he explained in his background notes for Story 74. We decided that Mootie, being an outdoor man might have the same trouble. Rajah came up with this interesting paragraph about writing being hard work, which we added as the opening to this story.
The first thing I did was develop that conversation between Hansini and Mega which led to partner swapping. The approach I decided on was them discussing playing a game, then talking about Letter 57 where a game was played for sex. In this case, the game never actually took place since there were only two couples anyway, but it was a good way to start a sexy conversation, a way which to me sounded like it may happen. Notice how I allowed the girls to arrange it all with both guys remaining silent, just listening. This is how it often happens here in this house for real too.
While I was doing all this opening stuff, Shandra had already started working on her sex scenes in Story 76, so after reading what she had written I began on my sex scenes. There is nothing too unusual about the sex. It had to be fairly good but not outstanding, it also had to appear to have been written by a guy. One thing I did add, was both admitting they had never had sex with anyone other than their spouses.
Finally, we come to that last bit about the new tourist attraction at the Game Reserve. This was added in a lot later in 2012 when Anne was writing a story from Vol 11 called Shanti’s Retreat. That later story involves the crocodile again. This is the crocodile which Shanti killed back in Letter 54. So even though he has been dead a long time that crocodile still keeps coming back into our stories.