Chapter One Notes
Ananda: Wow. This story changes quite a bit later on... Yea, the tye-dyed river! :) I liked the dust bunny-creature. Tho grey *is* evil. (For outside readers who don't know us.. it's a long story, but a ehm, friend of ours went through a period of about a year or so where he wore almost entirely grey. And it was just *wrong*. So grey is still evil.
Laurel: We didn't start out writing this story in chapters--just anecdotes, really. One mini-adventure at a time. But we had to combine the shorter ones here, and a few other places. You'll notice that we started out keeping our entries to a semi-sane length, but quickly got longer and longer (and longer and longer). Oh, well, we got some good storylines out of it. ...Also, there's a pretty obvious parallel to reality here--Daphne's semi-conspicuous attempt to fix up Aubrey and Ianthe is true to my own eighth- and ninth-grade bumblings--though it eventually worked in reality, too. I notice that I made substantially less of a fool of myself in the Applebus world, however, in trying to do so. (::embarrassed smile:: I'm *still* sorry, Sham, for that one wretched bus ride so long ago...) In reality, though, Zinni and 'Nanda were just as much in on the conspiracy as I.Zinnia: I forget my color and how to do this it has been so long.. so.. if you could remind me... I will stop using whosevers color this is. Sorry. [No, you're right. This is the right one.] Oh but anyway the notes. My writing is limited and doesn't always make much sense. It gets better as the chapters go on and I develop writing skills.
Daffodil: *Omigoodness*. I haven't looked at this chapter in *so* long. ha. haha. Fweeje... "Oh my gosh! It can't be! It is! WOW WOW WOW!" I think I've improved a bit since all those years ago. I never intended for this story to become a saga. Or even have the Monkees in it. And look where it is. Judging by the latest chapters and wot I've got planned... let's just say things were a lot more random back then. And happier. I just hope we can get back to that for a bit soon. That would be fun! "not appropriate for Daffies." Fweeje, things have changed... no need to worry about Daffy-appropriate much any more, now it's more Daffy, be appropriate! (Well, I'm not *that* bad, but I'm not quite rated G...) Real life has diverged from the Applebus (in terms of characters)... not sure wot'll happen. But you're not that far into the story yet! Crud, I'm scaring you away! Wait, come back... (never mind me. I'm just finally doing the chapter notes I've neglected to do for over a year. ha.)