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Hello from Shandra.
Of course, we all knew it had to come. Like Lizamoa told Amita and Mandara they would, back in Letter 26, Joseph and Lizamoa did get to play the game strip with Shanti and Mike. One small difference for this game is that they had the other two New Zealand couples join them so there were eight players instead of the usual six they had played with before. You might also want to read the first two "Strip" stories from Letter 13 for New Zealand and Letter 18 for India.
Of course, we all knew it had to come. Like Lizamoa told Amita and Mandara they would, back in Letter 26, Joseph and Lizamoa did get to play the game strip with Shanti and Mike. One small difference for this game is that they had the other two New Zealand couples join them so there were eight players instead of the usual six they had played with before. You might also want to read the first two "Strip" stories from Letter 13 for New Zealand and Letter 18 for India.
I like the way Joseph tells us about how the idea to play "Strip" came up. He said that Shanti made the suggestion and everyone else thought it was a good idea. But Susan had a different view of it.
"Look at that guy!" she exclaimed. "Does he have a big ego or what? He thinks the only reason Shanti wanted to play was to show off to him."
"Look at that guy!" she exclaimed. "Does he have a big ego or what? He thinks the only reason Shanti wanted to play was to show off to him."
Before he starts telling us about the game Joseph tells us about the preparations for the evening. He is surprised how everyone gets involved and helps with the cooking and setting things up for dinner. He admits he is not sure what to do. Then he made the mistake of going into the kitchen and Shanti saw him and gave him a couple of jobs to do. He is totally surprised that she would do that for a guest.
This was actually Susan’s idea, as she really has a thing about Indian males, how they leave all the domestic duties to the women.
“Those Indian guys really need sorting out,” she told us one day.
“But why pick on poor Joseph?” I asked her. “He is just a character in the story.”
“Doesn’t matter! He needs sorting out too.”
So following her advice I wrote this bit into the story. At the time I wasn’t too happy with it. Personally, I thought her attitude was a bit unfair. But then Allan had a go at it and now I think it works well by giving us another view of the character of Joseph.
And notice in the story that Joseph didn’t get any sympathy from his wife either. She just said, “You are just suffering from culture shock. Get over it.”
Joseph did say he accepted things the way they were in New Zealand and he did just join in with what was going on. I believe this was a big step for someone like him since it was going against everything he had been brought up in India.
This was actually Susan’s idea, as she really has a thing about Indian males, how they leave all the domestic duties to the women.
“Those Indian guys really need sorting out,” she told us one day.
“But why pick on poor Joseph?” I asked her. “He is just a character in the story.”
“Doesn’t matter! He needs sorting out too.”
So following her advice I wrote this bit into the story. At the time I wasn’t too happy with it. Personally, I thought her attitude was a bit unfair. But then Allan had a go at it and now I think it works well by giving us another view of the character of Joseph.
And notice in the story that Joseph didn’t get any sympathy from his wife either. She just said, “You are just suffering from culture shock. Get over it.”
Joseph did say he accepted things the way they were in New Zealand and he did just join in with what was going on. I believe this was a big step for someone like him since it was going against everything he had been brought up in India.
The other part of this story which I like is the way Joseph goes around the table giving us a short description of each of the players. This is good because it sets things up by beginning to build these players from just names into people we begin to know. Like Brian told us we were becoming aware that the characters in our stories should appear as real people so we were now beginning to develop these people as we continued writing about them. It was also at about this time that we began to produce a list of all the people in the stories with a bit of background information about them to help us when we were writing. A version of this list now appears as a page on this website. (See the page at the top "The Cast of Letters.")
Joseph then goes on to give a few of the highlights of the game. There is not much detail here but I don’t think we really needed another detailed description of playing the game again. What was of most interest to him was the girls taking off their bras and panties. What was important to us about this story is it took the step from being topless to complete nudity which now opens up the next few sexy adventures. So that is how I wrote this story, we just want to know they played “Strip”, they all got naked, and then we move on to the next stories.
Joseph then goes on to give a few of the highlights of the game. There is not much detail here but I don’t think we really needed another detailed description of playing the game again. What was of most interest to him was the girls taking off their bras and panties. What was important to us about this story is it took the step from being topless to complete nudity which now opens up the next few sexy adventures. So that is how I wrote this story, we just want to know they played “Strip”, they all got naked, and then we move on to the next stories.
Kia Kaka - Kia Kaha.
Be safe - Be strong.
Shandra.
Be safe - Be strong.
Shandra.
This a very informative post Shandra. I do see how your characters are developing but do you realise something else? I my mind i am also becoming enlightened of the personality of Susan and yourself Shandra.
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