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Hello From Anne.
The return story from New Zealand completes the theme about Joseph and Lizamoa moving to New Zealand. It is, as the title suggests, about Lizamoa and how she settles into life in a different country. Where this story is important is that it links to future stories by giving us theme ideas and background.
As always, we were looking for something a bit different, a new way of doing a story. We did this by having each of the New Zealand characters add something about Liz. The purpose of this story was to show how Lizamoa settled into her new adopted country and open the way for future stories about her.
I had not been very happy with this story. The idea sounded good, but the finished story didn't seem so good, and I was almost ready to dump it. (Maybe I still should have done that.) The other writers convinced me to try to rescue it. During a re-work, I managed to inject some humour into it, but again, there was still the problem of not much sex. Well, that was until Susan decided there should be and added that piece done by Lizamoa herself. It was a surprise that she did that, but it works rather well, so I left it in. Finally, Susan added the little touch at the end by Joseph. My original intention was not to include anything by him.
So that was the story. As I said above, maybe it shouldn't have made it to publishing, maybe it should have been deleted. Anyway, it is in now, so I suppose it can stay there.
As always, we were looking for something a bit different, a new way of doing a story. We did this by having each of the New Zealand characters add something about Liz. The purpose of this story was to show how Lizamoa settled into her new adopted country and open the way for future stories about her.
I had not been very happy with this story. The idea sounded good, but the finished story didn't seem so good, and I was almost ready to dump it. (Maybe I still should have done that.) The other writers convinced me to try to rescue it. During a re-work, I managed to inject some humour into it, but again, there was still the problem of not much sex. Well, that was until Susan decided there should be and added that piece done by Lizamoa herself. It was a surprise that she did that, but it works rather well, so I left it in. Finally, Susan added the little touch at the end by Joseph. My original intention was not to include anything by him.
So that was the story. As I said above, maybe it shouldn't have made it to publishing, maybe it should have been deleted. Anyway, it is in now, so I suppose it can stay there.
This is the last of this short series before we get to the beginning of Katrina’s story next week. This will be a very long story stretching through a number of parts and a number of sections. It will finally come to its big conclusion when they are all in Australia on the Great Barrier Reef. Reshma has added a special page and will collect all these parts to make one complete story, so you might like to check that out too.
Kia Kaka - Kia Kaha.
Be safe - Be strong.
Anne and Susan.
Be safe - Be strong.
Anne and Susan.
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