Letter 23 – Part A Background.

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Hello from Allan and Anne.
            This story was supposed to be just a shorter one concerning the idea Shandra had for a party called A Ripper Stripper Party. But during the writing process, the story quickly grew to become the longest story in Volume One. Because of this, we have decided to divide it into three parts published over three weeks.
            When we came to write the background we decided to divide our background story into three parts as well. In this first part I am going to tell you an interesting account of how we wrote the complete story in a very short time period and then next week Shandra will be telling you where she came up with the idea for this story. In our final background for this story, Susan will look at some of the special acts.

            So now how did we go about writing this story? As I have said already, Shandra came up with the idea which she will tell you more about next week. Since this letter was supposed to have been written in New Zealand by Shanti we decided that Anne should take on the project as Shandra was involved in a couple of other stories already.
            From the start, Anne struggled with this and after a couple of weeks, she had nothing more than a page or so to show for her efforts. Then the whole project stalled as Anne moved on to begin working on other letters and stories. For a while, we even went as far as considering dropping the idea altogether.

            Now it was getting close to Christmas so Anne and I were planning a holiday away camping at a beach near Whakatane which was well known as an unofficial nudist beach. When Susan heard about our plans she asked if she and her boyfriend could come with us. Then when Shandra wanted to join us too we had a problem with her parents. They didn’t really want her going away camping but Anne paid them a visit and somehow convinced them to let Shandra go. (I don’t know why but for some reason Shandra’s parents have a lot of respect for Anne. They must think of her as an angel or something.)
            Then a new problem arose when Shandra’s sister, Reshma, asked if she could come too. Of course, it was just our luck that Anne had done to good a job and Shandra’s parents thought Reshma going was a great idea. Going to a beach well known as a nudist beach and a 16-year-old girl wanting to come with us, I think you can see what our problem was.
            Well, Shandra finally decides to take her sister aside and explain just what this camping holiday was going to be like. We hoped she would quietly decide to pull out but as you know things don't always go according to plan. Reshma was at first a bit surprised when she learnt what this beach was a nude beach but then she asked if she needed to go nude too. When Shandra said no she didn’t and then Reshma surprised us all by saying she was OK with that and she still wanted to come. (This real conversation has actually inspired some other conversations in the Letters stories.)

            We selected our camp at a site near the far end of the beach where it was a bit more private. We quickly set up three tents, one for Anne and I, one for Susan and her boyfriend Brian and the third for Shandra and her sister.  (See Brian's Page for more on this nude camp and writing Letter 23 and Letter 36.)
            After the camp was set up it was down to the beach for a quick swim before we began preparations for dinner. We all decided to go nude and not even bothering to take anything except a couple of towels we were ready to set off down the track when Reshma emerged from her tent. She was wearing a one-piece swimsuit and I think a bit surprised to see all of us naked. I don't know why as she had been warned we would be going nude most of the time. But she came with us, anyway and went swimming still wearing her one-piece.
            That was the last time we saw her in that swimsuit. Next morning Reshma was wearing a T-shirt and shorts. It was obvious she wore not much underneath. When we went swimming she quickly slipped off these clothes and join us topless wearing only Shandra’s bikini bottom. Later that afternoon she went without even the bikini bottom, naked like us. For most of the rest of our holiday, she was remained like that, only putting on clothing when it got cooler in the evenings.

            The first evening while we were sitting around the fire, Anne told us how much trouble she was having writing and she asked if we could help her. A plan was quickly made to work on this project while we were camping. Over the next eight days, the story took shape in the form of a pile of hand written pages.
            Very quickly the problem turned from trying to think what to write to trying to select the best of a number of great story ideas. Six people brainstorming, six people coming up with great ideas and improving each other’s ideas. Here is the result, The Ripper Stripper Party.
            Some ideas that were left over were kept and became the base for the second Ripper Stripper Party.
                        (See Letter 36 Ripper Stripper Party 2.)

            Kia Kaka - Kia Kaha.
                  Be safe - Be strong.
                        Anne, Allan, Shandra and Susan.

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