Friday 18 October 2013

Letter/Story 70 Part A Background.


                Part A   -   Learning About Letters.
                                                                               Posted by Shandra
Hi, Shandra and Reshma here.
        This week we begin a story which eventually turned into the largest story in the entire letters series. We have divided it into a number of sections so we could fit them closer the rest of the letters. Of course, some of these sections, such as this first one, had to be sub-divided into parts again for posting on-line.  

Purpose and Theme.
         The idea behind this story is to take a younger single woman through the various stages from first hearing about the special weekends to becoming involved herself, then finally losing her virginity and fully participating in the sexy adventures. It is a long drawn-out story but I believe it will be worth it in the end.
        The second purpose of this story is to provide a strong link between the stories of Vol 4 where the New Zealanders are still in India to the stories of Vol 7 where they all meet again at the resort in Australia on the Great Barrier Reef. Through Vols 5 & 6 the letters became more of a loose collection of stories without much of a theme or direction. We needed something to keep the series on track and drive it forward to the holiday resort. Katrina’s Story is one way we did this. 

 Katrina.
        As the title suggests, the story is written by a girl called Katrina. She works for Sarvesh and Amita in their house as some kind of a maid/servant. As she explains in her story she accidentally comes across the sexy side through a series of events which will eventually lead to the point where Sarvesh asks her if she can help them on their special weekends.
       Since Sarvesh didn’t want to involve any other staff, Katrina asked her friend Elizabeth to help. Both girls knew it would involve adult activities such as nudity but they were both interested in making the extra money, so they agreed to help.
       This is where we leave the story this week just before Katrina’s first special weekend.  

Katrina and I.
       When I began writing this story the intention was it would be a replacement for the story by Hansini Letter/Story 66 so you will notice that they are similar in some ways. Of course, later, we decided to keep both stories and develop both characters in different ways.
       In some ways, Katrina's route into Letters is similar to mine. Although I was there at the beginning, I wrote that first letter, I was not involved in the sexual side until a lot later. That is what happened with Katrina as well. Her personality is similar to mine too, a bit shy, a gentle nature, but able to be cheeky and sexy when she wants too.
       You will notice that in the early letters Lizamoa has the role of being the 'darling' of the series, the girl everyone loves, but this attention moves to Katrina with Lizamoa slipping into the background a bit more. This is why we did some stories about Lizamoa over the last few weeks because we knew she was going to fade a bit once we get to the Nude Resort in Vol 7.   

Special Page.
        We have created a page entitled “Katrina’s Story” and as we publish each section of Katrina's Story, we will add it to this page as well. That way you will eventually be able to read the entire story in one place. This page is going to be Reshma's project. She will, of course, make some minor changes as she moulds the separate posts back into a single story. 
        There could be some differences where one version gets an update while the other doesn't but we will try to keep them the same as much as we can.

The Office Conversation.
Hi, Reshma here.
        I was getting this story ready to upload but I wasn't happy with the office scene. This conversation is an important turning point in the Katrina Story. Before this she is just a maid/servant, after this, she begins moving towards becoming an active member of the Indian Team. For such an important part the conversation appeared stiff and unrealistic. I mentioned this to Anne and she said to talk with Allan. Allan and I sat down together and had a go at improving it. I hope you like the result. Anne and Shandra both did.
       We wanted to get Katrina thinking she was about to be fired by Sarvesh, to first show her worry, then how she resigned herself to the fact she was losing her job. We then wanted to show her confusion when it became obvious this wasn't happening as she expected. We also worked on some of what he said as well, so you could say it became complete rebuild of this conversation. 
        We then went on to change little bits throughout the story until finally, we decided it was good enough for publishing.

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