Before the Stories.
Posted by Shandra.Hi Shandra here:-
First off this letter opens with the usual opening remarks, this time mainly talking about their babies. Now Shanti has come home with her baby she could settle down to complete her letter.
These opening remarks in this letter are classic Anne. She managed to put in so much of herself, her thoughts, her attitudes, the way she speaks and not forgetting how she feelings about some of her relations too. When we mentioned it to Anne she denied it saying it is just the way Shanti in the story would act. But of course, we know different don't we?
The original version of this Letter was actually planned to cover the Crocodile Hunting story and Story Night in one, shorter letter but as we began writing it became clear this wasn’t going to happen. The decision was made to split it into two stories having the hunting story in the first letter and Story Night in the second. Since Shanti was due to have a baby we then came up with the idea of her dropping the letter and rushing off to have her baby and then returning to complete the story later. As Kim explained last week we popped a short letter in, a reply from Joseph to give the impression of some time passing between her two letters. This is how it remains today.
Now for the purpose of on-line publishing, we further divided Story Night into three sections. I will be your guide for this opening section – Part A, then Anne will tell you about the first stories they talked about in Part B. Finally Susan will complete the stories and round off the Letter in Part C.
In the end, this Letter has involved the whole team of writers. It was originally written by Anne with a lot of input from Susan, Allan, and I. Then recently as we were preparing it for publishing on-line Kim, Ayaka and Rajah became involved as well.
So who wrote this story? All seven of us did. Ha Ha.
The really big scene in this section begins when one of the servants, a girl called Katrina, is delivering drinks. She was the servant who caught Mike standing up on the diving board totally nude a few days before. (See the end of Letter 52 Part B) There is a brief exchange between them where Mike says ‘sorry’ for the other night and she says she is Ok about it now. But then she adds something which I think is rather bold for a servant. She says, “I think you are a handsome man.”
Well after Katrina had gone, Lizamoa quickly picks up on this and begins teasing Mike. We wanted this to be funny and maybe just a bit naughty with one of the men giving her a feel-up and perhaps slapping her bare bottom but then Susan became involved and it quickly turned into a hot little sex session.
Recently our new writing team of Kim and Ayaka had a go at it too. They have a different way of doing conversations. They role play them. To see how effective this works you might like to go back and compare the first two conversations of Letter 48 Part A. The first one was written by Allan and the second one was written by Kim and Ayaka. See the difference.
Now back in this letter Kim and Ayaka also added that little bit where Lizamoa acts like she is a little girl and calls her husband “Daddy Joseph” and Mike “Uncle Mike.” The first time they used this was in Letter 52 Part B when they were at the club. Since it worked so well there they decided to try it again here. When Anne saw the completed version she loved it.
Now just to add a bit of mystery when Amita and Sarvesh went to get the drinks she returns to get Mike. He went off with her. Why did they need him? Find out next week.