Part A - Meeting Lizamoa.
Posted by Shandra
Hi ShandraI was involved in Anne’s story back in Letter 61 I had helped write about how Hansini had first found out about the Letters Series and how she and her husband became involved. That letter was supposed to have been sent by Joseph and so since they left for New Zealand straight after that they could only tell us part of Hansini’s story. We needed to write the other half, a task which was given to me.
When we came to write Hansini’s story, I was wondering where I should start and how I would do this. We began with the idea that Amita had asked Hansini to write her story before she had a chance to read any of the others, it was obvious that this her story was going to have to overlap Joseph’s earlier one. While reading that other story again I was looking for ways I could tell this same story but from Hansini’s viewpoint instead of Joseph’s.
Here is the result. Is there too much-repeated material? I hope not but maybe there is. Part A really covers most of what has already been covered to some extent in other stories but I hope from a fresh viewpoint and from a new character in the Letters Series.
Next week in Part B Hansini will continue with her story to cover events we have not seen before. Keep in mind that all through this period we are building towards the big story of this volume where Katrina the young servant-girl begins writing her series of stories. A lot of what we cover in these stories is setting the scene for Katrina to build on.
I am becoming more and more aware of the planning and storylines that run behind these stories. It is clever how you are useing one story here to set the scene for future unpublished stories.
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